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by dijit 240 days ago
> which can watch movies

I have to say, the sheer fucking irony of this statement made me do a double-take.

I might be showing my age a bit, but I'm still remembering when web-browsing was considered a "light" activity (without extensions like Web Java), and watching a video was "very computationally expensive".

I guess some shift happened in the early 2010's where video playback was hardware accelerated more frequently; and complicated javascript started taking off as Google unveiled v8.

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As much as the tech bro billionare class salivate over the idea of bringing an "everything app" to the market, we already have those. They're called browsers.
This might be one of the reasons why things like chatgpt (OpenAI) etc. are releasing atlas etc.

This is their attempt of everything app, where the whole internet would be behind the UI of their chatbot and it would go through an LLM before being changed by it and then it would pass to us.

Your single comment explains a lot really and this is something that I agree. Everything App is the browser/internet, combining it with things like wasm, you can even run whole iso files in browser wasm itself (Its fresh on my mind because I shared it to somebody on HN right now but try out copy.sh/v86 [1])

[1]: https://copy.sh/v86/