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by bad_user 3y ago
The biggest reason, as I see it, is that the web is a free market, whereas on Android's and iOS's app stores you're beholden to Google's and Apple's taxes, restrictions and whims. The second reason is the resources
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Google pays Apple billions in their search deal, per year ($18 billion in 2021). Apple may sell devices, but it's safe to say that at this point Google entirely funds Safari. Apple is unwilling to upset that cash cow without risking th
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by bad_user 3y ago
> "Privacy Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising" This is BS. Firefox is funded entirely by Google's Ads. Even if you donate to Mozilla, those donations won't be
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Fair use is intended for humans, much like copyright in general. If you can't copyright AI-generated pieces, then why would fair use apply to LLMs?
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> the greatest threat to free software is the proliferation of non-copyleft free software which can be closed down if a company so wishes. That's BS. First of all, companies have closed down GPL projects, because founding companie
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by bad_user 3y ago
I agree. And for this reason I also think that people show hypocrisy when blocking ads on YouTube, saying that they support creators via other channels. Because everyone cares about price, and supporting creators individually gets expensive
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How much are Google or Apple spending on developing Chrome and Safari? And note that they also develop the operating systems (Android, ChromeOS, iOS, macOS), so have an integration advantage from it.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Not sure what “userspace emulators” you're speaking of, but the apps I tried, for running a programming language (for education purposes) are rubbish due to limitations (you can only interpret, you can't compile). And the restrict
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by bad_user 3y ago
That article actually shows that Mozilla spends most on software development. It does have a lot of administrative overhead that it could do without, instead of laying off engineers, like they did. But the article itself is trash, due to co
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I think this trend favours unpopular languages. ChatGPT can only provide answers for programming languages and libraries that were included in its training. Granted, unpopular programming languages have online activity, too, but sample size
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by bad_user 3y ago
You could get extensions working on FF for Android, for some time now, by setting a custom collection ID, allowed in the Beta version. The problem is that many extensions have been incompatible with Android. And of those compatible, many ha
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by bad_user 3y ago
I very much agree with you, however, do you really think that Microsoft, of all companies, isn't using your data for training LLMs, with all the data leakage risks? What makes you think that your data is safer on OneDrive? Bing Chat (b
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by bad_user 3y ago
The latest Kotlin can target WasmGC. WasmGC became enabled by default, quite recently, in both Chrome and Firefox: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/wasmgc/ Kotlin's support is in Alpha right now, but works w
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by bad_user 3y ago
WASM, Android, and iOS targeting is subpar, though. For multi-platform client-side targeting, Kotlin is actually more interesting. .NET was always built for showmanship, with somewhat disappointing results when actually tried.
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... for Big Tech. It's how companies like Microsoft or Adobe could grow and gain uncontested monopolies. Because, due to piracy, price was no longer a good enough differentiator. And it's why "Linux on the desktop" never
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Except it's missing the "everything" aspect, payments processing, or the support of the Chinese government.
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That may be true, but if you don't like YouTube, go somewhere else. The argument that it's your machine and you choose what to run on it no longer holds when YouTube clearly no longer wants people with ad blockers as visitors. So
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This isn't actually true. HR people do apply such filters, but you can usually work around it, if you're a capable individual that can actually "stack shift". I "stack shifted" multiple times in my career, with
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If employees would have voted Sam out, you'd take that as a shiny example of the proletariat exercising the power for the good of human kind, hammer, sickle and all that. I always find it funny when people understand democracy to mean
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by bad_user 3y ago
Non-profit just means there are no stakeholders, meaning that revenue must be used for the organization's expenses, which includes the compensation of employees and growth. Many non-profits also benefit from tax-exemptions. Assuming an
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by bad_user 3y ago
> Show me a study of a population who eats steaks, vegetables, avoids processed foods, and is athletic and I’ll show you a healthy heart. You're probably right, but only because the actual problem has always been the excess calori
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by bad_user 3y ago
Indeed. I wrote that post, and I must say, I currently use Firefox, but I have a love-hate relationship with it. I can list many things I dislike about Firefox, and I understand if people don't like it. But overall, yes, it's a go
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I already answered your question in the post you're replying to.
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It's the same Chromium, it can't be more resource-efficient. It did have some tricks, but “energy saver” and “memory saver” modes have been added to Chromium.
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by bad_user 3y ago
I keep seeing Edge mentioned as a worthy alternative, and I just don't get it. First, all Chromium-based browsers will eventually block uBlock Origin for the sole reason that they can't maintain Manifest v2 on their own, and they
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by bad_user 3y ago
The universe is not based on math, says math. Math can be viewed as a product of how our minds work. We use abstractions to understand and predict the universe, but it's always imperfect, and the theories always incomplete. E g., you&#
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Math should be patentable, too. I see no reason for why not. The old argument that it's discovered rather than invented is bullshit. Multiple people can always have the same idea for an invention because we think alike and live in the
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It's still parroting what other people did, it's not doing any math reasoning, and it's not any different to LLMs seemingly able to compose prose or poetry. If you want to make an argument that math or software shouldn't
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> " They put all the streams in one pool and then split from there. Popular artists get almost all of it. " Like they should, mostly because they drive Spotify subscriptions. It's fair because there is a strong correlation
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I can corroborate this experience. As a teenager in the 90s and a young man in the 00s, I barely bought a couple of original CDs in those decades. Most of the music I had was pirated (downloaded, or recorded from radio). I would fill my har

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