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by bad_user 2y ago
So what questions are LLMs good for?
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by bad_user 2y ago
Judging how the US administration has turned against its historic allies, while pandering to authoritarian regimes, I'm pretty sure that it's by design, not reckless.
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by bad_user 2y ago
> They say the best form of government is a benevolent dictatorship I asked who is "they" from this sentence.
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by bad_user 2y ago
You can ask these questions about NATO as well, and while USA has been the greatest contributor, in a confrontation with China, it wouldn't stand a chance without its NATO allies. I know that many like to complain of Europe's bure
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by bad_user 2y ago
Who is "they"? People that don't know any history?
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by bad_user 2y ago
Safari's ad-blocking abilities are no more potent than what Chrome's Manifest v3 gives you. In fact, the changes in MV3 were inspired by Safari. I used to work adjacent to a team working on anti-ad-blocking tech. Safari's pro
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by bad_user 2y ago
Thinking that funding forks, like LibreWolf, would save said forks from dying if Mozilla goes under, is naive. The development of Firefox costs around half a billion $ per year. Estimates for Chrome range from 1 to 2 billion $ per year. In
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by bad_user 2y ago
Dollars, current estimates ranging between 1 and 2 billion. Firefox is currently developed with half a billion, but IMO, that is why there are only 3 browser engines left, with all the “forks” depending on the upstream.
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by bad_user 2y ago
Chromium browsers can't make that pledge and those that promised have red flags in my book. 1. These browsers can barely add their own functionality on top of upstream, and maintaining Manifest v2 compatibility may be expensive. Consid
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by bad_user 2y ago
Firefox-based browsers exist, notable ones for me being: Tor, Mullvad, LibreWolf, Zen.
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by bad_user 2y ago
They did try some extra services, such as VPN or Pocket. I think at this point a Pocket subscription is how one can fund Firefox. But indeed, even if they ensure that donations go towards Firefox development, instead of other crap, that wou
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by bad_user 2y ago
You're overestimating people's willingness to pay for software when free and arguably better alternatives are available. Preferring Firefox to free Chromium alternatives requires a level of nuance and tech literacy that most peopl
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by bad_user 2y ago
DNS-level blocking doesn't work very well. It only blocks requests to 3rd party domains; however, publishers can just turn to 1st party solutions, and many do just that. E.g., DNS-level blocking will not block the sponsored links in Go
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by bad_user 2y ago
Exactly what I said. So you're OK with YouTube hosting Joe Rogan while they also maintain a monopoly and not giving a damn in general, because they are too big for that. https://www.youtube.com/@joerogan Tell me, how d
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by bad_user 2y ago
Comments such as yours are missing the point. Mozilla's ToS applies for Firefox's use, and this is literally written by Mozilla themselves: “Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy” There's no distin
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by bad_user 2y ago
Does it matter? I am concerned about the periodic attacks on Spotify, while the elephant in the room, YouTube, escapes unfettered. Everything from artist royalties to hosting the Joe Rogan show. And as it happens, Spotify isn't a FAANG
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by bad_user 2y ago
> Morally wrong, legally not so much Of course, but then, the legality of it is irrelevant. Free markets work because consumers can exercise their freedom to choose, and in such instances it's easy, given that the reason for why m
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by bad_user 2y ago
I'm from Romania, and IMO the comparisons with the US make no sense, as the actual comparison should be what happened to the countries in the Warsaw Pact before and after USSR's collapse. Well, those that entered the EU are now fa
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by bad_user 2y ago
Your general understanding is wrong, as there's nothing in either BSD or MIT that allows for re-licensing, and nothing else gives you that right. You can incorporate MIT/BSD code in a proprietary project, but that imported code it
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by bad_user 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with building proprietary software of a couple of thousand lines of code, including themes. And people should be able to ask for money in exchange for their work. What's wrong is the bait and switch, as these
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by bad_user 2y ago
European armed forces should know best, given that Signal has seen actual use by Ukrainian military personnel, with Russian forces trying their best to target those encrypted communications (right now mostly by getting those smartphones fro
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by bad_user 2y ago
The idea of EU funding Mozilla is naive, and if this is the best people can come up with, I'm not blaming Mozilla going for ads. For one, Mozilla is still a US entity. As an EU citizen, I'd rather have my taxes go towards funding
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by bad_user 2y ago
I'm not familiar with that many languages, but I'm pretty sure that romance languages have words for both. “Security” refers to active protection against existing threats, whereas “safety” refers to the state of being protected.
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by bad_user 2y ago
Firefox has been literally funded by Google's Ads, that Search deal having kept Mozilla alive. With all due respect, Firefox not being connected to AdTech is a hallucination. Actually, all 3 major browser engines are directly funded by
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by bad_user 2y ago
You're not wrong, but lately, criticism of Israel includes its right to exist, and while anti-Zionism isn't technically anti-Semitism, in practice it is. Furthermore, the pro-Palestine crowd includes many textbook anti-Semites.
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by bad_user 2y ago
Name it X because old Twitter is dead.
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by bad_user 2y ago
> The people involved probably should not be using Twitter/X for this sort of thing in the first place. Usernames don't necessarily link someone with their real identity, and phone numbers can be hidden. This isn't the w
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by bad_user 2y ago
One can argue that this is implicit in FOSS licenses, including the GPL. If the author can be held liable for any defects, then they can't really share their contributions, and FOSS contributions would only be possible by entities with
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by bad_user 2y ago
In a democracy, the government is an outcome of elections, however they represent the majority and you may not be in that majority. This is why you can't talk about democracy without a strong culture focusing on the individual's r
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by bad_user 2y ago
The Brave browser also has a setting in “Privacy and Security” -> “Site and shields settings” -> “Additional permissions” -> “Autoplay” You can block globally or per website.

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