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by xacky 3mo ago
This is now the end of Wikipedia for me, it's only a matter of time before the rest of the admins try to split the wiki into endless forks.
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by xacky 3mo ago
I didn't have a PDA but surfed the web on a WAP phone and a PSP.
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by xacky 3mo ago
The real milestone is when it's over 50% all the time.
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by xacky 4mo ago
There was also the various attempts at TV web browsers back in the CRT era and also that some modern smart TVs ship an outdated Chromium build that doesn't work right.
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by xacky 4mo ago
IP allocations are inaccurate due to all the VPNs, (CG)NATs and proxies spoofing everything now, the whole internet is tangled up like weeds.
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by xacky 4mo ago
Might as well say "Adobe, please ship an official creative suite for Linux", and will probably fall on the same deaf ears.
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by xacky 4mo ago
Stop linking to malware sites please.
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by xacky 4mo ago
It could be said vibe coded competitors to any proprietary software. If everything proprietary was "forced open" by AI what would be the economic effects?
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by xacky 5mo ago
I just hope they don't start ignoring human created bug reports, as there are still many that haven't been fixed for years.
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by xacky 5mo ago
The trouble is that Mozilla has admitted they can't survive without Google's revenue. You are basically using Google by proxy unless you use a truly independent browser engine of they get blocked by Cloudflare for not having enoug
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by xacky 5mo ago
Firefox and Safari used to have RSS built in, but removed.
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by xacky 5mo ago
Might become more interesting if the Android powered laptop rumors are true.
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by xacky 5mo ago
The fact that mobile devices are now mandatory to prove "humanness" means that Google no longer trusts desktop/open platforms anymore.
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by xacky 5mo ago
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by xacky 5mo ago
This all looks like game theory, the more people delay the more likely a compromise will slip through. The same reason why I don't use LTS/ESR releases either.
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by xacky 6mo ago
Copilot has been reduced to "Internet Explorer" status, where it is the "AI to download another AI".
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by xacky 6mo ago
Will this change AFD discussions over the commonly cited WP:NOTNEWS? Also Wikimedia has too many small wiki sister projects that are mostly being overrun with vandalism as there are not enough editors to monitor it, especially with AI bots
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by xacky 6mo ago
There is no pure browser anymore. The little red hen of Google funds everything, and forks like Waterfox just change a few parts of the UI but still rely on the upstream for all actual browser code. Even Mozilla was bootstrapped by AOL-Time
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by xacky 7mo ago
I use it, and if you don't like the point of view then make your own AI encyclopedia. I'm fed up of Wikipedia, it's no longer the encyclopedia that anyone can edit since all controversial articles are BLUELOCKed to people who
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by xacky 8mo ago
I follow a lot of the alternate browser engines and am always looking for new ones outside of the big three. You should use your experience to get a career in the browser tech world as we are dangerously close to the Chromium only web.
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by xacky 8mo ago
Gnome comes with built in virtual machine support with the Boxes app, just download an ISO and try as many as you want.
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by xacky 8mo ago
If Google really cared they would ban ICE ip addresses from using Google services and stop ICE using Google Cloud. Google is a big enough company to force the issue, otherwise they secretly condone ICE.
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by xacky 8mo ago
I'm still a Slashdotter, I use it more than HN. Although Slashdot isn't as fun since they cracked down on trolling.
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by xacky 8mo ago
This is also the general threat to books and encyclopedias. Grok for all its point of view flaws still generated a full encyclopedia in two months that Wikipedia by humans took 25 years and Britannica over three centuries. The only remainin
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by xacky 8mo ago
All this effort for legal immigration and then US wonders why they have so many illegals.
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by xacky 8mo ago
I don't care about Mozilla anymore and I was a passionate Firefox user back in 2004. The rest of the world just standardized on Chromium. The vast majority of the remaining Firefox users are just using it for ublock origin which is not
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by xacky 8mo ago
Then again how many more people would live alone if they could afford to rent or buy on a single income?
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by xacky 8mo ago
Residential proxies need to be classed as malware and added to antivirus definitions and kicked off of app stores. Mass ban evasion needs to be cracked down on.
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by xacky 9mo ago
Reminds me of "The World Is Not Enough" for the N64, which tried to capitalize on Goldeneye's success.
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by xacky 9mo ago
Nvidia is chasing trends again, they did it for crypto mining, and I bet some new fad will come up soon. It looks like the gaming industry needs to move to something else than the current GPU ecosystem in the long term. Intel Arc and Moore

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