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  • After they decide to abandon their AI project can we use them for something meaningful?

  • Yep, I had said

    mobile Firefox

    Just saying it's sad that FF mobile on Android is basically the only time it doesn't work.

  • Meanwhile mobile Firefox doesn't even support YubiKey / FIDO2 for some godforsaken reason.

  • Because politicians are loyal to mega corps.

  • WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin

    Jump
  • This isn't accurate. The issue is that part of that open source software is using non-open source APIs which are paid for by the WordPress Foundation. Making money off open source software is harmless and AFAIK he has no issues with that. However, using an enormous amount of resources where your foundation needs to pay $$$$$ for without contributing anything is what this is about.

    The same issue is with Linux, for example. The OS is open source, but the repositories are hosted be e.g. Canonical, which needs to pay to maintain them and for the enormous amount of bandwidth and usage from people updating their packages. That isn't free.

    It's very common for companies which fork Ubuntu / Debian to contribute back in some meaningful way, whether that's source code or donations.

    WP Engine doesn't contribute anything.

  • The search engine magic isn't just about caching pages. It's also extremely expensive / complex to:

    • maintain an index of all the websites in the world. This is an extremely high cost
    • refresh that index in almost real time. How long will your self hosted crawler take to find new content for every website in the world?
    • there's also the algorithm for weighing results. The order of results and their relevance is not easy at all. How many times a word appears on a page is a terrible metric.

    A hosted search is also a lot more environmentally friendly - that gigantic search index and all the energy poured into the work is something that can be shared by everyone. If everyone did that themselves at home, you spend that same amount of energy for every single household.

  • It could have been USB 4 Spec 2.0, couldn't it?

  • Shouldn't errors be in the bottom of the output if you don't want to scroll?

  • https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=20639

    tl;dr it isn't Latin Latin - a lot of swords had tons of odd spellings and there are theories about why that is. This sword could be a combo of acronyms of Latin words and possibly spelling errors.

    For example, "I'd like a sword named Christmas" -> "Please make me a sword that says XMAS" -> sword that says XMS

  • And you won't get good search results in exchange.

  • This x100. Obviously anyone who has fun using well crafted tools to explore a vast frontier of information is a shill. /s

  • No, that isn't how it works by any stretch of the imagination. Kagi has its own search index.

  • Kagi is pretty awesome

  • Banks don't take this into consideration when assessing collateral?

    Lol, who downvotes a question?

  • Sure, I didn't say they use the system browser - I said the opposite. I'm saying the OS should be able to block non-HTTPS connections. If you have control of the OS you can control what protocols are used by apps, unless I'm missing something.

    What cases are there for non-HTTPS? I can't think of any. It's 2024. All communication should be encrypted.

  • We need a switch like Firefox has that disallows anything non-HTTPS, but from the phone level. Companies like Apple and Google could also eventually warn apps that they're going to make it the default setting.