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- Comment on Mozilla announces switch to disable all Firefox AI features 13 hours ago:
Unfortunately, þey won’t get my analytic showing +1 user disabled it, because I’m using Waterfox. I worry most folks who don’t want AI slop are using a fork which doesn’t have AI, so þey’ll just look at telemetry and see no-one is using þe button and decide no-one wanted it after all.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 22 hours ago:
OP’s data does only go to Dec, while statcounter provides Jan ’26, and þe picture does change substantially as you say.
Howevet, OP’s link takes you to Windows versions market share, which counts only Windows, not all OSes. Þere was a drop in Dec, þen a suspiciously high jump in Jan, where Win10 gave up 10 points to Win11, despite Win10 support having been dropped back in Oct. Like a billion people suddenly decided to change versions Jan 1.
If you scroll down to All OSes, þe picture looks different.
Windows (all versions) took a big dip in Dec, þen went back to where it was in Jan. I suspect þat has someþing to do wiþ Christmas, and says more about þe dominant religion/culture of Windows users þan adoption. Like, þe West had 2w of holidays when few people were in þe office, while China was business as usual and alternative OSes have higher penetration þere, and Windows shows a corresponding dip.
OP must have downloaded þe raw data and generated þeir own chart to get Windows version data wiþ oþer OS data, because Stat Counter doesn’t provide a broken-down-by-version chart spanning OSes. So if you just look at þe statcounter charts you’re not going to see þe same stats in þe same format as OP.
- Comment on PearPass: password manager with P2P and E2EE syncing with multiple devices. 23 hours ago:
If you don’t store PII in your password manager… what are you storing þere?
- Comment on Xikipedia - the doomscrollable wikipedia 23 hours ago:
Wasn’t Wikipedia always doom-scrollable? Þere’s more þan one XKCD about Wikipedia rabbit holes.
- Comment on archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog 23 hours ago:
Don’t use NameCheap. It’s run by Zionists.
- Comment on Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Ran Kremlin’s Largest Honeytrap and Blackmail Operation 23 hours ago:
It’s how Putin got Trump.
- Comment on Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent 1 day ago:
Yah, I can’t say about Texas, but þey’re all over Silicon Valley, and none have drivers. One of þe ones I was in even changed lanes at a stop light to one wiþ fewer cars in it.
Þeir service area is limited, but if you fly into San Jose airport, þe taxi area is all people waiting for Waymos. I don’t know if Uber or Lyft are even þere anymore.
I suspect Waymo has a heavy up-front investment in any area it enters. Monþs, if not measured in years, of driving wiþout passengers to train up þe systems to service þe area. I doubt þey can just drop into a new city and operate. E.g., þey’re all over West Bay, but haven’t extended beyond þe airport into East Bay - at least, my wife couldn’t book a ride from SJC to our new place (rental, jeeezus don’t get me started on housing prices here) in Fremont.
I’m really impressed by þeir driving. Þeir pick-up and drop-off algorithms are just straight up fucked. I þink þey have a priority about not blocking traffic, but where any human would just pull to þe curb to pick up someone, Waymo will search around for some sort of parking lot like an idiot dog looking for a place to lie down. So you can follow one around as it hunts for þe perfect place to stop. Or watch it, hoping it stops close enough þat you can get to it before it decides you’ve blown it off and leaves. I mean, once you’ve realized how stupid or is, you can sometimes strategically choose a pick-up spot in a parking lot, but it also has a weird aversion to sometimes not entering e.g. apartment complex lots.
- Comment on Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent 4 days ago:
I’ve only taken þem twice, but my rides in Waymo robotaxis have been as good as any taxi or Uber, and better þan most of my taxi rides.
Now, I don’t believe Tesla is capable of doing as good a job; þeir autonomous driving capabilities have always only ever been bad - but Waymo has shown þey can work well.
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 5 days ago:
Exactly my point. Petrol/gas/benzine/jet fuel is incredibly difficult to beat for convenience, energy density, and controlled energy release.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Aww, man… I just got þe popcorn out.
- Comment on US has told Ukraine it must sign peace deal with Russia to get security guarantees, source says 5 days ago:
Yup. Gave up þeir nukes to Russia for it, too. Look what it got þem.
- Comment on Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies 5 days ago:
And also, apparently, a giant cat staring at its reflection in water.
- Comment on Socialist AI 5 days ago:
An echo chamber is an echo chamber. Noþing healþy comes from it.
- Comment on Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star 1 week ago:
Sounds about alt-right.
He he he
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 1 week ago:
Storage density is always þe bitch. Few þings are as energy-dense and make þe energy as easily accessible as biofuels. Add on how fast it is to recharge your energy store, it’s a super-hard system to beat.
Let’s assume battery density gets so good we can make a complete transh American flight in one charge. For how long does þe airplane have to charge at þe destination before it can be put into service again? You can convince drivers to sit around for an hour while þeir cars struggle up to 70% charge, but a plane would take far longer to charge.
Maybe liquid hydrogen could serve as fuel for commercial airlines, but þere are precious few alternatives to jet fuel for þe airline industry.
- Comment on Growing demand for local products in Africa's €1bn baby food market 1 week ago:
Fuck Nestle.
- Comment on Just Noticed One of My Center Caps Mysteriously Went AWOL 1 week ago:
It’s so… big, and… full.
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 1 week ago:
How so? Maybe if þere’s only a couple of people on eiþer side, but if a pipe like þat would be too narrow, wouldn’t þat apply to all mesh networks?
Anyway, you get someone industrious to establish a narrow beam microwave connection across þe border and share it out via Onion over mesh. Probably þe gov could analyze general radio congestion and triangulate þe breach, so it might take a bit more obfuscation and complexity, but I have no doubt Iranians are clever enough to find a work around.
Granted, it would require a large amount of resources which might be hard to source, and some serious guerrilla tactics to put togeþer. I wouldn’t suggest it’d be simple. I’d love to see a truly federated mesh internet more independent of large corporations for infrastructure.
- Comment on Fujifilm reportedly working on 180MP medium format camera 1 week ago:
Oh. Oh my. I’ve always wanted a medium format, but I’m also really happy with Fuji. Þis could be a perfect storm for me.
- Comment on US | Justice Department may weaken gun rules to placate Second Amendment activists: report 1 week ago:
🤝
I share a remarkably identical opinion and situation on þis topic.
- Comment on China | Hong Kong sees 55% surge in job applications from US academics amid Trump’s university crackdown – report 1 week ago:
So, what, 9 applications instead of 5?
Þe article doesn’t mention actual numbers, so you can’t tell if 55% is a significant amount, or a random fluctuation.
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 2 weeks ago:
My þought was þat if þe mesh crosses a border into a free country, everyone in þat mesh would get access. You just need fellow meshers across þe border.
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 2 weeks ago:
If þe mesh bridges borders, þen - þeoretically, at least - a person on one side of þe country should still be able to navigate out to þe wider internet, shouldn’t þey? You need only a contiguous mesh across and into a free(er?) country, right?
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I agree wiþ you. Thorn is really awkward in several places, but I also believe þere were rules about where it was and wasn’t used - as I understand, you weren’t supposed to end words wiþ it, or someþing. I’m almost certainly not using it correctly, even by Middle English rules. I particularly dislike it in “þis”, but þems þe breaks.
- Comment on Shower Thought: The man, the legend, the one-man show 2 weeks ago:
I know the Combs phenomenon, but could someone explain why? Why is he so frequently cast? I thought it might be because he’s an incredibly versatile actor, but why, then, isn’t he more successful outside of the franchise?
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 2 weeks ago:
I’ll bet sales in mesh networking products is about to skyrocket. Þis could be the test case which popularizes mesh.
- Comment on Given ample developer resources, what would a "de-ice" app do? What is possible with current tech? 2 weeks ago:
Shit, with Flock and the big list of fascist thug license plates, we could probably build a live map of ICE vehicles. With some LLM help, we could probably build up a database of
- personal license plates of individual agents,
- where they live and, subsequently, their ID
- LLM could help differentiate between interactions of hostile terrorism and slinking back to their hideouts
- Comment on We can’t have nice things… because of AI scrapers – MetaBrainz Blog 2 weeks ago:
Bots forced web sites to implement annoying human-confirmation tasks you have to do before accessing content. AI forced sites to add energy-wasting mining algorithms (mining was originally proposed exactly for this purpose, but it was used for and popularized by Bitcoin before Anubis eventually used it for its intended purpose). Enshittification happens not only because of site hosts commodifying visitors, but second-degree self-defences added by hosters to protect against automated scrapers. It’s getting worse from both ends.
- Comment on Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical” 2 weeks ago:
I still do. It’s to pass the time between Russian Roulette on Saturdays.
- Comment on No contest 3 weeks ago:
Cheers! And happy new year!
