someNameIG
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Comment · 4 months ago
If the US gov does try to limit all frontier models from being used outside the US, I wonder how that would go with Google and Deepmind?
Comment · 8 months ago
He was also a nazi. Not in the "everyone I don't like is a nazi", but he was a member of a group calling themselves national socialists.
Comment · 9 months ago
That's great. The only reason I haven't got it on my M1 Air yet.
Comment · 9 months ago
Deutsche Bank made a statement recently that Europe holds about double what the rest of the world does combined in US bonds and equity.
Comment · 10 months ago
They say it's first operational system in it's class, but it seems very similar to the Australian Apollo system, with Apollo being able to go up to 150kW
https://eos-aus.com/defence/high-energy-laser-weapon/apollo/
Comment · 10 months ago
I'm Australian and neither any Meta platform nor Reddit have asked to verify my ID, as I presume both just inferred that I was over 16 and that was adequate.
Comment · 10 months ago
> All the non-technical people I know loved it. It's pretty. It's neat. It looks cool. Apple is a consumer products company.
My partner doesn't like it, and outside of excel she is not a technical person.
Comment · 10 months ago
> using a fork like Mullvad or Waterfox. Those are going to keep all these AI features out. So what do we privacy maximalists care? The forks give us exactly what we want.
The thing is most of the forks are still using some/all of the on device ML models, they're just not advertising them as AI. From Waterfoxs announcement of "Not using AI*"
>The asterisk acknowledges that “AI” has become a catch-all term. Machine learning tools like local translation engines (Bergamot) are valuable and transparent. Large language models, in their current black-box form, are neither.
https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla...
Zen:
> Based on Firefox, Zen also inherit its translation features
Comment · 10 months ago
> Firefox was and still is mostly used by "power users" and we're pretty much the only ones left that intentionally install the browser.
This really isn't the case. Firefox has almost 200 million users, yet sub 10% of them have uBlock Origin installed:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
Less than half have any extensions installed (with extensions include language packs):
https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior
The users who talk about Firefox online are not the average user.
Comment · 10 months ago
Not who you were asking but my reasons for thinking Brave is a joke.
First they're a cypto/addtech company, which is a type of company I wouldn't trust to run my browser. And this has resulted in them doing things in the past like:
Blocking ads and replacing them with their own ad networks ads: https://archive.is/W0k4j
Their rewards crypto was opt-in for creators. Making it look like creators were openly asking for donations in Braves crypto currency without their consent. They had to change this due to complaints: https://brave.com/blog/rewards-update/
Inserting their own affiliate links: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...
Installing a non-free VPN without user consent: https://www.xda-developers.com/brave-browser-installs-vpn-wi...
They criticise the effectiveness of ad block testing websites, and urge people to use and trust privacytests.org instead. They fail to mention the conflict of interest in that privacytests is run by a Brave employee. https://brave.com/blog/adblocker-testing-websites-harm-users...
Comment · 10 months ago
> Well, yes. If you build a userbase out of power users and folks who care about privacy and control...
Is that their core user base, or just the vocal user base online? Only 5-10% of their user base have UBO installed (FF has almost 200 million users, extension store reports ~10 million UBO installs).
Firefox isn't LibreWolf, it's user base are just average people, not much different than that of Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Comment · 10 months ago
Just to test I just logged into myGov then through Firefox and it worked fine.
Comment · 10 months ago
And their engine is still around, how's the leader of the times web engine going?
Comment · 10 months ago
They're the only modern usable browser engine not developed by a multi-trillion dollar corp. I'd say that's a pretty big achievement.
Comment · 10 months ago
> Want a fully functional ad blocker
Is this even the case? UBO has ~10 million users going by the extension store, Firefox has over 150 million users.
So less than 10% of Firefox installs also have UBO.