Call me cynical, but I believe that companies might be happy keeping the prices high if it means they can shuffle consumers onto computers as a service. Maybe wasted silicon will end up being good for business.

Better a proxy for Bing than Bing itself

Windows tip: clicking the X button multiple times will often kill a frozen app.

Firefox is mostly funded by google

Brave’s source code is mostly written by Google. Use what you’d like (and there’s good reason to criticize Firefox!) but pretty much the only independent browser that’s usable across most websites is Safari.

From GrapheneOS:

Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox’s sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn’t happening for their Android browser yet.

Does this change their current assessment substantially?

• Both browsers are more private OOTB than Firefox.
• LibreWolf has more privacy- and security-oriented defaults than Waterfox, like a halfway point between Firefox and Tor Browser:
  • It enables Resist Fingerprinting by default
  • It discards browsing history by default
• It has a new Settings menu that makes it relatively easy to control these features that tend to break websites.
• It lacks some of the customization features Waterfox pioneered.

What? Purchasing a premium package for your car vanishes when it transfers to a new owner?

If you buy a premium trim, it doesn’t vanish if you resell the car.

Twitter has become a de facto public platform for disseminating information. To very roughly paraphrase Cory Doctorow, everyone wants to leave, but nobody can agree on where to leave to. It’s a mutual hostage situation for all parties involved.

Oh, I get you now.

???

The air quality in Tennessee would disagree with you about datacenter waste products…

I thought most all of this stuff could easily be re-enabled through the Settings screens themselves (including a LibreWolf-exclusive page that lets you unbreak the canvas sizing), including the first section of your recommendations!

This is good to know, though.

Mozilla tried to explain this change by, IIRC, claiming you had misunderstood, and that their behaviors ran afoul of the legal definition of “sell”. They did not clarify what they were doing, which could be counted as “sale.”

Ironically, after eroding almost all the trust in even much of their die-hard user base, they recently announced an AI initiative to “build the world’s most trusted software company”

(edit: fixed link)

Do you have any basis for this assumption, FaceDeer?

Based on your pro-AI-leaning comments in this thread, I don’t think people should accept defeatist rhetoric at face value.

New Mozilla’s goals:

As Mozilla pursues a new portfolio strategy centered on building an open, trustworthy alternative to today’s closed and concentrated AI ecosystem…

That’s the only goal listed. No second point. No mention of Firefox anywhere in the article.

Do you have any reason to believe the opposite?

There are plenty of true things that aren’t a perfect fit for Wikipedia. Is the article untrue?

Thank you for the write-up. I was wondering why these comments were removed too before looking at the account and realizing the whole thing was gone.

Is there any way to view comments removed by moderators without wading into the modlogs, or do servers simply respect those decisions?

Torvalds doesn’t want AI-generated submissions to the Linux kernel because

the AI slop people aren’t going to document their patches as such. That’s such an obvious truism that I don’t understand why anybody even brings up AI slop.

He’s right, and this should be obvious. I have seen many a conversation between somebody who has filed an AI-generated bug report, and a developer trying to diagnose it, where it’s clear the person who’s filed the bug report has no idea what they’re talking about.

What’s the most concrete use case for AI that justifies its existence?