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brave.com/premium lists all of our premium products: VPN, ad-free search, Leo browser-ai, Talk (no Zoom). Thus the simplest way to support @brave directly is to buy Brave Premium Search at $3/month, for no search ads ever, so we can go even harder against Big Tech. Thanks.

tl;dr a small U.S. platform had five minutes of downtime in its IP geoblock. Ofcom freaked out and sent a demand. We told the WH. The WH asked us to tell them who was responsible. Threatening Americans with jail time over maintenance downtime is outrageous. Enough is enough.

Exception: x.com/BrendanEich/st…

P.S. your IE free in 1997 (it was not competitive in 1995) point is not fair enough -- MS was subsidizing $1B into IE to kill Netscape, to neutralize a threat to its WIndows OS monopoly which it was convicted of abusing in _US v. Microsoft_. Perhaps we disagree: nothing's free.

RIP Charles Portis. He worked with Tom Wolfe & Jimmy Breslin at the NY Herald Tribune, then became great American novelist. We shan’t see their like again. “You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God.” (True Grit)

It's true, the supporters may be willing to overpay. Still, I prefer flat and simple pricing. We are not operating as a charity, this is a product for a segment of our users who have already asked for the product. We're user-first, so we aim to please to serve.

It'll be < $10/month I think (I have some say in this ;-). Two economic thoughts: 1. Marginal cost of software production is 0. Brave Origin needs own updates (0day fixes, obligate-not-facultative web standards/features), QA. 2. Browser user LTV calc assuming finite retention.

.@MachinaLabs_ is no longer just sheet metal ops company. We do plates with big ass robots! >5mm thick. Ship building here we come! Giant truck in the background for scale.

And to make sure no one misses context, Brave Origin is optional. Don’t buy if you don’t want it. Free-ride all you like, no disrespect. We’ve heard from enough users who say they would buy, who want to cover their costs. One example of many, via x.com/search?q=from%… search:

Turn it off in lower right. If you expect a free lunch, you're not living in the real world. Do you think other browsers are free?

Harvard and MIT Study: AI Models Are Not Ready to Make Scientific Discoveries, by @Alber_RomGar thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/harvard-and-…

Coming soon: Brave Origin, where you pay modest monthly fee (pricing not final; discount for annual) to get Brave w/o sponsored images, rewards, VPN/wallet/Leo in toolbar, etc. No telemetry just updates vs. 0day security bugs. Just mentioning in case you would pay :-). TANSTAAFL

Time is old CIA outlet from Henry Luce / C.D. Jackson days. Picture mag in large format that I recall from childhood from same publisher, called Look. “Look, for those who can’t read — and Time, for those who can’t think.”

Beautiful Sponsored Image from @ether_fi in @Brave.

💥💥It’s going to be two Indian women at the Chess World Cup finals! Divya and Koneru 🇮🇳 beat two really good players from China 🇨🇳 ! Divya is 19 years old and Koneru is 38. Should be a fascinating match!

Oh lordy, what a timeline.

Model is Qwen. From top Brave eng: "We recently noticed their models (including the one on chat.qwen.ai) have an issue where they start endlessly repeating elements when you ask it to produce a list of something (list of emojis for example)." vLLM is suspected, FYI.

in case you are wondering this is academia now

Brave for Android is now available as an F-Droid repository! 📱🤖 This officially-supported repository allows you to install the browser and get automatic updates without using the Google Play app.

Bandwidth consumed: Brave used up to 34% less inbound data and 55% less outbound data than DuckDuckGo, and up to 16% less inbound and 51% less outbound than the other browsers. Our browser minimizes data usage by blocking unwanted requests.