miridius
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- Comment on Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck 2 months ago:
I tried it out for a while and yes, it really is as bad as the article implies. I gave it a fair chance for a few weeks and then went back to the old assistant (a task which which gemini was also completely unable to help me with, at one point even gaslighting me and saying I wasn’t using Gemini).
It’s kind of crazy to think about but it seems like Google is just somehow really terrible at AI
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 2 months ago:
Personal preference I guess. I’ve tried Firefox many times over the years and always ended up going back to other browsers. I find Firefox doesn’t render some pages quite right, the user agent stylesheet is odd, and the UI is less streamlined. Performance also used to be a problem although I hear it’s caught up now.
I used to be a Chrome user but now I prefer chromium based alternatives like brave and edge (which incidentally, uBO will keep working on). Chrome is still required for work, but uBO change won’t be an issue I think, there are plenty of other ad blockers that will work with MV3
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 2 months ago:
Sensationalist and inaccurate title
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So is human speech
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Appreciate you taking the time to reply in such detail! Some good insights thank you
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
If were just a personal project that they’re building entirely on their own then sure, go nuts and do whatever you want. But they’re trying to gain adoption, asking for contribution, and wanting to replace other browsers. At that point it’s no longer just a personal choice if you’re asking the community to invest their time and money into it with you
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Reading all of that it sounds mostly like a dev who has spent 20 years doing things the C++ way wasn’t comfortable learning something new. Like basically they’ve been using horrible design patterns that Rust bans because they’re horrible, and instead of learning better approaches they just say Rust is bad
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
there’s a reason
Oh good that settles it, no further questions your honour
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Your main point was to throw childish insults around, so you got the same in return
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t go around accusing people of being 10 years old when your English skills are worse than a 10 year old’s. Glass houses and all that.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Sure :)
There are a lot of downsides of C++ compared to more modern languages that make it not a great choice if you’re starting a web browser from scratch
- Complexity of the language leading to increased bugs and slower development
- Manual memory management is error-prone and leads to issues like memory leaks or segmentation faults. Modern browsers need to handle large amounts of dynamic content, making memory management complicated
- C++ lacks some of the built-in safety features of more modern languages, which has led to the majority of security vulnerabilities found in major browsers. It’s so bad that Mozilla invented an entirely new programming language just to deal with this
- Compared to higher-level languages, C++ can be slower to develop in, which may impact the ability to quickly implement new web standards or features unless you have a massive team
- While C++ is cross-platform, ensuring consistent behavior across different operating systems can be more challenging than with some other languages.
- Newer languages often provide built-in support for concurrent programming, garbage collection, and other features useful for browser development, which C++ lacks.
So tl;dr: a browser but in C++ will take much longer to develop, have fewer features, more bugs, less concurrency and and more security vulnerabilities
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
builds a new browser from scratch without borrowing existing code
still chooses to do it in C++
Epic fail
- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 5 months ago:
For a community that loves Linux so much, Lemmy seems really obsessed with everything Microsoft does
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 6 months ago:
The Chinese ones are cheap because they’re being subsidised by the Chinese govt to be sold that cheaply overseas as a deliberate economic attack tho
- Comment on Thoughts? 7 months ago:
GDPR article 17 might have a problem with that
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
As a person in Europe currently using it, I am very confused by this comment
- Comment on A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI 9 months ago:
This is why we can’t have nice things
- Comment on A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI 9 months ago:
Nice idea but how do you propose they pay for the billions of dollars it costs to train and then run said model?
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community 10 months ago:
That still doesn’t have anything to do with workers rights
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community 10 months ago:
Which workers rights are being infringed here exactly?
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 10 months ago:
It’s amazing how much people will upvote something without reading it if the title confirms their biases
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 10 months ago:
Even just calling it a “new study” is already a lie
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 10 months ago:
The studies are from 2018 and 2020, “new study” in the post title is a complete lie
- Comment on Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons 11 months ago:
Yeah that’s never gonna happen, unless the EU forces them by law.
One of the many reasons I’m so so happy to be back with an Android phone after having to use an iPhone for work for a few years
- Comment on Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox 11 months ago:
It would be nice to spend one day on Lemmy without seeing a half dozen posts telling me to switch to Firefox nor 100 comments on every post that’s even vaguely browser-adjacent about how ever since they switched to Firefox their life has been nothing but joy and rainbows
- Comment on Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome 11 months ago:
I’m glad you read the article, since it seems like nobody else in the comment section has!
- Comment on Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome 11 months ago:
Cool story bro. Completely irrelevant comment for this post but cool story anyway.
- Comment on Companies With Flexible Remote Work Policies Outperform On Revenue Growth 11 months ago:
Study by company that makes remote work tools finds that remote work is good
- Comment on Does anyone feel like an actual adult? 11 months ago:
I do. It happened somewhere in my mid-late 30s. The two main contributing factors have been:
- Years of therapy so that I’m able to have my shit together
- Having a kid so I’ve got a reason to have my shit together
Order of those two is very important!
- Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform 1 year ago:
Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, ICQ, FB messenger, Matrix, just to name a few!