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by wtallis 2y ago
The M1 is in a product segment where discrete GPUs have been gone for decades , in favor of integrated graphics that shares one pool of RAM with the CPU. The better question to ask is why Apple kept using that unified memory design even wh
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by wtallis 2y ago
I think the implication was that a soldered SSD doesn't give the customer as much chance to pick the wrong SSD. But it's still possible for the customer to have a different use case in mind than the OEM did when the OEM is picking
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by wtallis 2y ago
The trash can also suffered from hitting the market right around when the industry gave up on making dual-GPU work.
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by wtallis 2y ago
The rackmount Mac Pro is for A/V studios, not datacenters.
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by wtallis 2y ago
> Nothing personal or valuable leaves your computer. Maybe the location queries, but I expect they are anonymized. You said "That data doesn't leave the user's computer". It does. You may not consider it personal or v
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by wtallis 2y ago
> using opt-in customer metadata to improve their own free product, without distributing it to any third party at all. Explain how that qualifies under California's law. The requirement that data be shared to another business or thi
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by wtallis 2y ago
I particularly dislike how this article tries to sweep the power loss issue under the rug: The first mention of loss says that the isolation link is "responsible for about 50 percent of the charger’s power loss". The second mentio
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by wtallis 2y ago
Excerpts from the Privacy Notice that I have read, and attempted to get you to read: > Mozilla processes certain technical and interaction data, such as how many searches you perform, how many sponsored suggestions you see and whether
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by wtallis 2y ago
> Firefox didn't make stupid policy changes. Firefox made policy changes they were legally required to in order to comply with a stupidly-worded California law. They had other options, including not collecting and selling user data
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by wtallis 2y ago
Forcefully disabled, for now , with plans to permanently break it in the near future. The last officially-sanctioned workaround is planned to be killed in June.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Their crippling of ad blockers goes well beyond merely preventing ad blockers from downloading dynamic rulesets. The changes cannot all be justified by security.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Except for the specific cases where their Privacy Notice does give them permission to collect and sell user information, such as collecting information about what topics users are making search queries about.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Not really. They responded with a blog post "clarifying" some things but the only thing they actually reversed course on was applying their Acceptable Use Policy to Firefox as a whole. They're still putting a weird copyright
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by wtallis 2y ago
Dividing by the square root of two with each iteration isn't any weirder than how Knuth does software versions.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Also, chip fabs keep getting more expensive and taping out a chip design for those new fabs keeps getting more expensive. That makes today's semiconductor industry work quite differently from how things worked 30 years ago and means so
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by wtallis 2y ago
Might have something to do with Naval Air Station Pensacola,.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Mozilla's legal team is probably competent, but working under unreasonable constraints where their initial advice to the effect of "don't spy on your users" has been rejected and now they need to find a way to shield Moz
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by wtallis 2y ago
Don't guess. Read Mozilla's Privacy Notice: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ There's a lot more in there than phishing protection.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Right, the applicability of RF energy harvesting is fairly narrow, and will still be narrow even with this technology. But this news release didn't seem to be making any sensationalized claims about being able to power something like a
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by wtallis 2y ago
You gave examples of when you change your UA, but didn't actually say what change you make. Are you changing it to match a Google Chrome UA, or what?
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by wtallis 2y ago
Microsoft was a major contributor to IE's downfall, through their incompetence. Google is doing a much better job of not shooting themselves in the foot with Chrome.
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by wtallis 2y ago
It wasn't a mistake at the time.
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by wtallis 2y ago
> I worry less about 2.63 % of the marketshare using some aggregate browsing data Mozilla's not using that data. They're selling it. They wouldn't be in this kind of hot water if they were keeping the data to themselves.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Do you really, honestly believe that the only reason Mozilla wrote terms of use that way but cURL doesn't is that Mozilla has more or better lawyers? Do you actually find it hard to believe that the legal terms attached to cURL are ent
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by wtallis 2y ago
You cannot grant a program a copyright license because a program doesn't need a license. It's running on your computer at your behest, so there's no third-party involved, just you the user, and eventually the site you send
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by wtallis 2y ago
> Implicitly or explicitly you have to give Firefox permission to store and reproduce the text you type in this very textarea so that it can submit the form for you. You don't have to give Mozilla permission to store and reproduc
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by wtallis 2y ago
Forking the Firefox code base is easy, at first. Forking the Mozilla Foundation to keep browser development going long-term is hard.
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by wtallis 2y ago
It sounds like you're assuming that RF energy harvesting is theoretical but in practice an unattainable dream. Samsung has for several years been selling a TV remote control that uses RF energy harvesting. It's real; it works outs
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by wtallis 2y ago
Mozilla isn't changing their terms of use because of anything relating to their bug tracker. But to answer your irrelevant question, California law would probably not consider Mozilla putting user data on to Mozilla's public bug t
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by wtallis 2y ago
> UnGoogled Chromium removes the Google parts, it's not making architectural changes. More accurately, UnGoogled Chromium removes the Google parts, but doesn't add back in the stuff Google killed.

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