Apologies, I meant this in a more general sense.

Perhaps a clearer phrasing would have been that I believe (and in this I agree with Spaleta) that it will not be possible for open source supporters and society more broadly to ignore ML products/services at scale.

I tend to agree with Jef Spaleta, LLMs and ML tech/services are not going anywhere and they will continue to have a bigger impact on our lives.

You can’t just reject the notion of ML products/services, they clearly have significant utility (not just LLMs, I do a lot of video ML upscalling as a hobby and you’de be surprised with the result you can get for DVD or even VHS quality source material).

The ethical dilemmas inherent to AI tech are not technical in nature. The root cause is tied to the current oligarchic regime and the inability of the largest and most powerful democratic-leaning society to deal with corruption.

I’ve been looking into non Google/Apple smartphone alternatives in a serious way since Google set a path to abandon sideloading (it’s happening, they will use a phased approach) as I use a lot of open source apps and I avoid Google Play whenever possible.

For whatever reason it seems Pine Phone is often very difficult to get up and running, this is of course just anecdotal evidence. I actually heard about Pine a long time ago when evaluating their Rock series SBCs; they looked good on paper, but practical implementations left much to be desired.

I am personally saving up for Jolla phone:

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sep-ii-2026

I want to get the 12/256 variant, so that works out to €800+.

Pricey considering I’ve been getting mid-range devices ($450 absolute max) for the last 10 years; but this seems like the most user friendly option for a phone that doesn’t run on a US-based software platform.

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Wrong post/thread?

Did Nadella “promp engineer” his agents to send him a headline of a summary of a summarised transcript of two agents doing a 30 minute podcast about any Microsoft internal commuication that isn’t about low effort AI spam.

It honestly seems like Nadella is metamorphosing into an LLM himself, incapable of recognizing anything that’s not part of his limited training dataset of his vibe coded electron web dashboard summarizing "hottest shit on AI across TikTok, Reels and X [emoji talk only] which he only semi-jokingly calls “the organic pulse of the thing after next” based on a suggestion from his “Everyday Visionary Writing” LLM agent.

Why go with cloning specifically the OpenClaw repo? Just because it wins on some vibe engagement metrics that might not be relevant to his own goals of building similar tools within Microsoft.

And how come he didn’t vibe code the solution by himself and show us the future of “product management and software development all developed by agents”. The fuck is he doing with all the pre-historic GitHub clone boomer shit.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the guy is going to be institutionalised shortly after demanding all employees get Microsoft Teams AI Telekinesis Edition to be more productive with their use of AI.

Are you sure something that something that approximates this is a good thing?

Not to mention that I don’t think it’s possible to truely make something like that in the physical sense. You can make Forward Time Traveling Anal ZProof Coinbutt that gives you free Blockchain blowjobs, shit is about as good as using the money in SimCity 3000 save files as a medium of exchange if it doesn’t connect to reality (i.e. has a system of sourcing and managing information in a reliable manner).

Or am I missing something? Genuinely curious.

You often hear crypto proponents on Threadi (not the oort cloud of types who de facto only care about high risk speculation and are pushing bags, the genuine ones) say that they want to use crypto as a way to fight data brokers/collection, but that doesn’t make sense (to me). The payment is just one step of the process and you can’t leave civilization at scale.

But for me personally, I don’t see the point of such a system if one can’t manage current challenges with human organisation in democratic leaning countries or perhaps even more broadly (at whatever level/scale that is relevant for you). It seems like you would just be back at square one but with more wallets, random useless shit you have to memorize and having to track client/protocols updates and some other crap.

Sure we might get a technology at some point in the future that truly impacts human nature, but in that case all bets are off and we are entering pretty avangarde sci-fi.

I am on an older version and I so not looking forward to moving to another launcher.

Nova just so many small useful things that all just work (folder/icon gestures, icon pack support is exemplary).

Is 5,000 mAh a big deal though? My Samsung A73 has 5,000 mAh and it’s from 2022.

American “freedom” themed polemics are such farce in every way imaginable.

They would never buy a PC company as a direct expansion play (way too low margins).

The implied strategy seems to be to push their N1 ARM CPU and have full control over the product.

The big one for using storage space is 4K video and various video enhancements like ML based Slow Motion (5 min of footage can take 7-8 GB easily).

Very, I am assuming this a native app and not some web crap.

Although the UI/UX definitely needs work.

I outlined my thoughts around Waterfox’s decision to work with StartPage and whitelist their adds further down in this thread. I don’t see an issue with this.

You keep making bombastic statements, but when anyone calls you out and asks for specifics, you either ignore or try and change the subject.

How do search suggestions in Firefox integrate advertising? Is it tied to a specific search script and what is advertisement display logic?

The on-hover provider sponsorship notice is indeed an ad. That’s fair. Definitely not an example of “Firefox is bursting at the seams with ads.” and you know it.

As I said in another post, Mozilla has massive issues, there is no question about that. But you clearly have some sort of weird agenda and have no qualms with being deceptive and promoting misinformation.

I am done here.

You’re again being deceptive and even contradicting yourself. I suspect the reason for this you don’t actually know whether:

This is more secure than an extension

You just said that because you thought it was something easy to pitch.

Even the Waterfox team don’t use the “improved security” argument in their write-up on integrating Brave’s content blocking code.

And your “It is more safe to trust one group than two groups.” statement doesn’t even add up in terms of a count of groups in involved under different scenarios. At any rate, this is a clear tautology and not a real argument.

It’s not a matter of the size of the codebase; this is a reputational thing.

And if it’s such a tiny fraction, why not write it themselves?

We are not discussing Mozilla, you’re just trying change the topic when you get called out. The points I made have nothing to do with Mozilla, they can be worse than the LRA or be literal representatives of the devine in earth, my point stands.

And how is a in-built blocker inherently more secure than an extension? If it’s clear, it should be easy to answer in one sentence.

I believe it is technically based on Fedora, but it’s not really clear to what extent (i.e. is it a fork from 20 years ago or do they keep it in sync?), but Red Star OS is a distro for which an exception can be made.

Red Star OS 1.0

Red Star OS 2.0:

Red Star OS 3.0:

Red Star OS 4.0:

Beyond the rather interesting design/visual choices, it has some rather unique features and functionality.

Aren’t both Alpine and NixOS really big in certain enterprise areas? And NixOS and Alpine are both relatively well covered in news articles and posts.

When I think niche Linux distro, something more like GoboLinux comes to mind:

GoboLinux at a Glance - GoboLinux is a modular Linux distribution: it organizes the programs in your system in a new, logical way. Instead of having parts of a program thrown at /usr/bin, other parts at /etc and yet more parts thrown at /usr/share/something/or/another, each program gets its own directory tree, keeping them all neatly separated and allowing you to see everything that’s installed in the system and which files belong to which programs in a simple and obvious way.

I believe it depends on how you use Ecosia.

For French and German languages, they have been experimenting with their own search index. I wish someone would do an in-depth article on how this is going. I know for a fact that Google can be less competitive in other languages compared to their dominance in the English language internet.

For English, it seems to be a combination of Google and Bing, with the main source being Google (this is true for me, but Wikipedia states that this was true as of 2023 in general).

The article below suggests some countries (languages) are mostly serviced by Bing:

https://support.ecosia.org/article/579-search-results-providers

I am assuming if you get Bing results, Bing gets the IP associated with the query. But Google does get IPs tied to a given query via Ecosia.

This means that when you search through Ecosia, we work with either Microsoft Bing or Google to provide you with search results and ads. In order to do this, we automatically collect data required by search partners to prevent bot attacks and ad fraud - which includes your IP address and search terms.

Yeah, Bing also gets IPs associated with a query.

https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

By relying on Brave?

That doesn’t make sense.

You can that say it makes them less reliant on the Firefox extension engine, you can say that it is faster. Those are fair points.

But you’re not hedging your bets by relying on Brave, a gang that secretly engaged in link hijacking and referral re-writing.

I am genuinely curious, how is an in-built content blocker inherently more secure than an extension? Assuming you trust both the browser developer and the extension developer.

I can see it being faster and better integrated, but how is it more secure?