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What the heck is this trash shipping with firefox? about:compat
  • Now that sounds like the job for an extension, since for most users "stfu and always apply the fix" would be the preferred option.

  • What the heck is this trash shipping with firefox? about:compat
  • How about, if you want a broken version of Firefox, you compile it yourself, rather than let everyone else suffer?
    Like, the vast majority of browser users don't even know what an extension is, let alone install one.

  • What the heck is this trash shipping with firefox? about:compat
  • I like the thought, but I can't imagine that most people will enjoy getting even more popups when they load up a site, especially when they come from the browser itself.

    Just take a look at OP here. If they responds this way to settings that are there for their actual benefit - just imagine how much they'll like those popups.

  • What the heck is this trash shipping with firefox? about:compat
  • Awww, it learned to write a word without understanding what it means.

  • Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable
  • It's one thing to claim that the current machine learning approach won't lead to AGI, which I can get behind. But this article claims AGI is impossible simply because there are not enough physical resources in the world? That's a stretch.

  • The Mozilla Graveyard
  • It's "funny", because without that injection from Google, Mozilla would surely die. And the only reason Google hasn't stopped doing that is because then Chrome (Blink) would be more likely to be treated as a monopoly.

  • Renew The Orville!!!
  • Yeah fair enough. Key part was "arcs that go nowhere". I got so incredibly tired of TV shows that think the way to do mystery is drawing out plot far too slowly, in hopes you'll tune in next episode.

    Then again, regarding new trek, I only watched season 1 of Discovery, and the first episode of Picard. I ain't got no patience for this.

  • US Gov to explore requiring 3d printer manufacturers and software developers to contain controls to prevent users from manufacturing firearms components
  • Well, not equally ridiculous, since the example you have given has actually been implemented in large scale. So basically what you're doing is giving reasons for non-tech-savy people to think it can be done.

  • Renew The Orville!!!
  • And most important (for me): self-contained episodes. No season long story arcs that go nowhere.

  • AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds
  • That's a a bit too absolute way to look at it.

    From their point of view the goal isn't to abolish human involvement, but to minimise the cost. So if they can do the job at the same quality with a quarter of the personnel through AI assistance for less cost, obviously they're gonna do that.

    At the same time, just because humans having crappy jobs is the current way we solve the problem of people getting money, doesn't mean we should keep on doing that. Basic income would be a much nicer solution for that, for example. Try to think a bit less conservatively.

  • AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds
  • I'm not sure how long ago that was, but LLM context sizes have grown exponentially in the past year, from 4k tokens to over a hundred k. That doesn't necessarily affect the quality of the output, although you can't expect it to summarize what it can't hold on memory.

  • Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’
  • troed:

    It's problematic when people conflate their gut feelings for facts.

    Also troed:
    I understand activitypub better than creator of Lemmy

  • Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’
  • Well, that convinced me. Thanks for your insight on the matter, I now know how to value the rest of your comments.

  • Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’
  • And in one of those cases they are violating a very clear "this is not okay" signal, and in the other they are not.

  • Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’
  • What I think or what they "may" do is irrelevant regarding public data. What matters is sending a clear signal what you are and are not okay with.

    Whether you actively participate in helping them get your data or not might not effectively matter in them acquiring it, but it may heavily impact the fine they get for it afterwards. You might be okay with them getting your data for free, but I'm not, sweet summer child.

  • Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’
  • They can still train ML models (create profit) from the data they get from you without consent.

  • Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’
  • Public is not the same as public domain.

    I'm not a lawyer, but Federation would probably imply consent to sharing the data. Whereas defederation would strongly imply you're not okay with sharing the data with that entity.

  • Google scraps plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome
    www.campaignlive.com Google scraps plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome

    After more than four years of trying to build a privacy-safe alternative to cookies, Google will pivot to focusing on “elevating user choice.”. From Campaign US

    Google scraps plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome

    > In a blog post released on Monday, VP of Privacy Sandbox Anthony Chavez said that Google is “proposing an updated approach that elevates user choice” by allowing users to select whether or not they want to enable cookies on Chrome and adjust that choice “at any time.” > > “Instead of deprecating third-party cookies, we would introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing,” Chavez wrote.

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