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- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 3 days ago:
If you look at the kwebkitpart commits, it looks like it’s been nothing but localization for years.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 3 days ago:
Konqueror is more or less dead as a browser. I don’t even think kwebkitpart is maintained anymore since QtWebkit was abandoned with Qt6.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 4 days ago:
The Noctua fan option should be pretty quiet.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
Most fission plants transfer the heat away from the reactor before boiling water. The same can be done with fusion.
The main difference with fusion is you have to convert some of the released energy to heat first. Various elements have been proposed for this.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
They weren’t trying to generate electricity in this experiment. They were trying to sustain a reaction. As you said in another comment, they are different problems.
Converting heat to electricity is a problem we already understand pretty well since we’ve been doing it basically the same way since the first power plant fired up. Sustaining a fusion reaction is a problem we’ve barely started figuring out.
- Comment on First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech. 2 weeks ago:
The point of 230 was not to protect hobbyists, but rather to encourage big platforms (like CompuServe at the time) to moderate their users. The issue was that in moderating users, the platform makes themselves a publisher rather than a distributor (which were already immune from liability for the speech they distributed).
Without section 230, platforms will simply stop all moderation (including for illegal activity and content) to protect themselves from liability. Every single platform operating in the US would become 4Chan (or worse, since even 4Chan does some moderation).
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 3 weeks ago:
The downside of Signal is that it’s centralized, and thus at the whim of those who run it. Structurally, it’s not really different from Whatsapp or Telegram except for who owns it.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 3 weeks ago:
Mostly just that it’s still pretty new and thus hasn’t been as polished or scrutinized yet. Haven’t tried it myself. For the sake of the OP’s question, it may also be notable that it’s a UK company.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 3 weeks ago:
The two encrypted messaging platforms I currently suggest are XMPP or Matrix. Both are usually fine and are decentralized. The main thing with them is to either self-host or choose a server you trust to set up an account — which applies to the Fediverse in general.
- Comment on Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites 3 weeks ago:
The quote from the email isn’t her words. They were given to her (and all agency heads) to send out to their workforce to implement the EO. It should not be taken as “embracing the new regime”.
- Comment on Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio' 1 month ago:
I thought DTS:X was the (at least more) open version of Dolby Atmos.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 3 months ago:
Sprint was not a splinter of ATT.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 3 months ago:
musk could just buy it. jack already sold twitter to him, and while musk might have comprehended how shitty a deal it was (i mean he tried to back out of the contract and all); he doesn’t seem like the guy who would be smart enough to avoid cost sunk fallacy and might want to buy bluesky to keep digging that hole. and jack wouldn’t turn him down for a bid on bluesky for the same reason he didn’t turn him down before - money.
That’s actually not as easy with Bluesky. It’s decentralized enough that buying it doesn’t help control it that well. The previous owners or someone else could easily go set up another shop and compete using the same network and protocol.
Do I wish Mastodon were coming out on top? Sure. But Bluesky is still a significant improvement.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 3 months ago:
I wonder if this gives them the rights to all of Infowars’ library of footage. Maybe they could “keep” Jones as a host by cutting up old clips kinda how South Park did with Isaac Hayes for Chef’s last episode.
- Comment on Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app 4 months ago:
Well, first of all, K9 regularly beta tests their new versions before release already.
Being launched under the Thunderbird brand, though, is expected to hit a much wider audience than just K9 users. And being a first impression, they want to do everything they can to make that impression a solid one.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 5 months ago:
I was expecting idiotic rules screaming “bureaucratic muppets don’t know what they’re legislating on”, but instead what I’m seeing is surprisingly sane and sensible
NIST knows what they’re doing. It’s getting organizations to adapt that’s hard. NIST has recommended against expiring passwords for like a decade already, for example, yet pretty much every IT dept still has passwords expiring at least once a year.
- Comment on Qualcomm Reportedly Taps Intel With An Acquisition Offer 5 months ago:
I don’t recall Qualcomm trying to buy ARM. That was Nvidia. (though, yes, it likely would also have been prevented if it had tried)
But they’d probably have a better (but still slim) chance of getting a purchase of Intel through. That’d be a more horizontal acquisition than a vertical one as Qualcomm doesn’t make x86 chips so they can at least argue it wouldn’t be anti-competitive.
- Comment on Qualcomm Reportedly Taps Intel With An Acquisition Offer 5 months ago:
They don’t mention what the offer is. Very easily could be a stock-based deal where Intel stockholders get a portion of the combined company. That’s how T-Mobile bought Sprint.
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 5 months ago:
GenAI = Generative AI AGI = Artificial General Intelligence
You are talking about the latter. They were talking about the former.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 5 months ago:
Nvidia is diversified in AI, though. Disregarding LLM, it’s likely that other AI methodologies will depend even more on their tech or similar.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 5 months ago:
I guess I don’t really see why generative AI is a necessity for a search engine? It doesn’t really help me find information any faster than a Wikipedia summary, and is less reliable.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 5 months ago:
In general — yes. Most of the time they do so by subjecting their eyeballs to ads. Do you think it’s a good idea to flood AI models with ads as well?
- Comment on Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity 6 months ago:
I think it’s unlikely one of those techs “wins” at all. It’s relatively easy to support them all from a software perspective and so gamers will just use whichever corresponds to their GPU.
- Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip 6 months ago:
Only in Nightly and not by default (you need to enable it).
- Comment on NREL Researchers Pave the Way for Carbon-Negative Concrete 6 months ago:
Isn’t the formula for Roman concrete unknown?
Yes, though a lot of research has been done to figure out its not important properties. A secret of its durability was just figured out last year. news.mit.edu/…/roman-concrete-durability-lime-cas…
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 7 months ago:
They forked it into Blink a long time ago now. They’ve diverged significantly since then.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 7 months ago:
Previous way for companies to cut down on customer support costs was to make a better quality product (making support interactions rarer). That is not so much the philosophy anymore.
- Comment on Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones 7 months ago:
Google can’t operate Play Store in China because it closed its Chinese offices in response to China attempting to hack them (and several other corporations) back in 2010 (Operation Aurora).
- Comment on Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones 7 months ago:
It’s just a writer seeking to vary their language a bit. It’s a trick to keep themselves from repeating “Microsoft” quite so many times in a short span, as too much word repetition can cause readers to “tune out”.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 8 months ago:
Best of luck, I guess, but seems like a doomed project to me. Forking WebKit, Gecko, or even Servo would seem much more reasonable, and even that is a huge undertaking.