Wildmimic

I really dodged the bullet by upgrading my aging 2600X with an 5950X and filling the memory banks to 64GB on my AM4 platform half a year ago, I really hope that the current price level entices a few new players to enter the market.

Ask yourself: are you ready that if push comes to shove, that your life is derailed for years by lawsuits, lawyer meetings, court orders, cops raiding your home, and financial hardship because of all this? if the answer is no, you have to make sure this is not traceable back to you. I admire your aspirations, but don’t ruin your life over it.

Edit: and that is not even taking into account what might happen if you lose in court, with the very real possibility of loss of freedom and/or life-destroying fines.

Sure, why not? Making my local LLM web aware is not an easy or intuitive process, it would be great if i could hook it up in firefox per default.

At least Firefox isn’t an extension of the worlds largest ad company, no amount of dev budget can fix that.

Context aware search, summarizing in side view or importing an agent directly from a repository into your browser are things that come to mind without much thinking, and i am not a developer.

Worst case they loose their current users without attracting new ones.

And where to?

Ladybird, Servo and Floorp are all not useable as a daily driver and will take years to get there (and btw, the ladybird guy is a major shithead and last i heard of Servo was that they were going to cater to the embedded market, not a full blown browser).

Firefox forks can do what they want, even switch off the AI button, but i’d still say they help keeping the browser engine itself afloat, because they still depend on Firefox - there’s not one fork with enough dev staff to keep up. That leaves us with chromium based browsers and safari. I’d say the commitment to the current userbase to make the changes optional is good enough to keep most of them.

I ’m one of them. Why not make it one click for people who want it instead?

I’d put current Firefox users much more in the department of “able to find the settings” than the vast majority of users. The majority wants something that works with everything they throw at it out of the box without rummaging through settings.

The issue is that there aren’t many of us Firefox users left, so asking us while FF wants to get NEW users to expand the market share (which is badly needed, so they do not lose their seat at the table regarding web standards, and to make them less dependent on googles payments) is not helpful at all.

As long as i can switch it off with one click, i couldn’t care less and will continue using FF, but as you can see many existing users will bitch and moan even if it’s just one click.

Those were the times when my ISP, which was owned 100% by the city, had it’s own newsgroups server full of warez lol

Maybe they were gifted the gift card - Or they default to purchasing their Apple stuff using gift cards only because they don’t want their credit card data saved on Apples side. Who knows?

…wearing a gucci belt

Firefox-based browsers can choose to set a default font to be used instead of site-configured fonts; there are addons that work as a button to swap between the two. I assume chromium-based browsers can do the same. I for my part swap everything by default with Atkinson Hyperlegible Next .

I can understand the reservation against an AP-Platform not making clear that they display only a subset of messages, but not against the practice by itself. After all, it’s a platform specifically for showing images. A notification when following a non-pixelfed account that only image posts will be shown would do the trick too, but implementing the option to view text posts gives the user more agency, which is normally the best path as long as it doesn’t mess with usability.

According to government figures, users have downloaded the app more than five million times since its launch, helping to block more than 3.7 million stolen or lost mobile phones and blocking more than 30 million fraudulent connections, Reuters reported.

In that time, the app has helped recover more than 700,000 lost phones, according to the figures.

I don’t know, but i don’t believe a userbase of 5 million (which started at zero in january) with the rest of these numbers (700k lost phones?)

I dki so too - just upgraded my X2600 with a shiny X5950, the nicest cpu my aging mainboard can run. with 16 cores and 64 gigs of ram i see a future when i simply replace the entire machine for daily use and make this one a very nice server.

and he looks a bit like surprised pikachu

I’d love a doorknob that can move along the door like this one, my cats would be absolutely thrilled!

oof. sorry to hear that. explains why they have no issues dealing with russia.

I learnt about Aadhaar here about a month ago and was appalled at this technological nightmare, which (of course!) fucks over the poor and disadvantaged the most, with shit like “you cannot get an Aadhaar because you don’t have one”. I didn’t realize that this abomination could be cranked up to eleven too!

My suspicion is that this will lead to an “official” india and a “inofficial” one, with the inofficial part being ruled by gangs and crime syndicates with all the bullshit that comes with that. (if it isnt that way currently, i don’t know too much about it)

ProtonMail does not log things by default, but they can still be court ordered to do so by swiss authorities - if you want to run any business at all, you have to submit to a jurisdiction, you can only choose which one to run under. And even if your chosen authority is alright by itself, it can still be misled by other jurisdictions like the French did, using the terror-cudgel against climate activists.

I can also recall that in this case Proton said that had their user actually bothered to use any VPN, even Proton’s, there wouldn’t have been anything to give to authorities except for an exit node IP.

Individuals can apply for registration of a fixed camera which must be approved by the privacy agency of the state. If it is approved, you can film into public space, but normally this comes with rules like the anonymization of visible faces and car plates when you are a normal citizen.

Without doing this you are allowed to place a camera for constant monitoring at a fixed place if it films your private property only.

For normal businesses the same rules apply, although you might get a camera approved which watches the area around your entry/exit easier.

Those rules made dashcams illegal in most of the EU, but legislation has caught up in those cases in a few countries - but not all yet.

Well that was an roller coaster! It’s interesting that he could stay defiant and still live, even if came at a great personal loss. It look like in the end they just kept him around because they grew accustomed to his dissent.