Unfortunately, that sounds about right.

…Smaug.

When I saw the headline I was thinking it’s hardly new, being from 2012, but they covered and explained that well. I’m glad progress is accelerating.

Then they should stop trying to push away ‘power users’.

Not all at once, but I feel like since the beginning more and more stuff has moved to closed source components like the Google services framework. Even the launcher used to be open source and that’s not maintained now in favor of closed OEM (including Pixel) ones.

That really is more logical. (Except that the initial element generally goes in the top slot of the clock. Note that 12 is the first hour both of AM and of PM.)

It’s an attempt to confuse LLMs that might scrape the fediverse.

I’ll withhold my judgement on the chances of it having any effect.