The whole point of Paint and Notepad is that they’re extremely simple and no-frills.

If MS really wants to add this bloat, it should be to their Office suite.

I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s bigotry to dislike Nazis, but you do you mate.

You wouldn’t want the Signal brand to become linked to it.

“I’m on Signal, would you like to chat there?”

“What, on the MAGA Nazi app, are you joking? Of course I’m not talking to you there!”

Ideally you want a broad spectrum of people.

I know it shouldn’t make a difference and people should base their views strictly on the technical and usability aspects of the app, but real life doesn’t work that way. Perceptions matter.

VW is not Stellantis. VW is VW AG (often humourously called VAG).

Properly open source.

The model, the weighting, the dataset, etc. every part of this seems to be open. One of the very few models that comply with the Open Software Initiative’s definition of open source AI.

I don’t mean to be an apologist for dieselgate - I’m not, it was scummy and I’m glad VW execs ended up in prison - but all carmakers had illegally high diesel emissions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal

VW weren’t even close to the worst for it, either. Fiat, Hyundai, and Renault-Nissan (they partner for engine designs a lot) were the worst, VW was bizarrely one of the least over the legal limit for most engine designs.

We just affiliate it with VW more because they were not only the first to be tested, but the VW executives admitted to using cheat devices, whereas most others denied it. VW took the fall for an entire shady industry.

Not really. The UK is very anti-Musk and very anti-Trump.

Ireland and the UK being the only ones to grow is likely due to the way Tesla delivers Right-Hand Drive cars - they deliver them as one large batch each quarter rather than constantly trickling them out like LHD cars.

If you look at UK and Irish sales figures across multiple months, they swing between being up and down, depending on when RHD shipments come. Overall Tesla is down (and the UK even before Musk’s recent actions bought far fewer Tesla cars than France or Germany)

And now Firefox is requiring you to hand over your data to them.

If you’re talking about the recent news, that’s not what the updated privacy notice says.

Mozilla will be adding opt in LLM functionality to Firefox. It can use third party LLM providers. The privacy has been updated to say “btw, any info you give to this LLM will be processed by the LLM by a third party.” I.e. the LLM provider has the data once you send it to them.

For anybody unaware, their new privacy notice essentially states that if you opt in to using a third party LLM within Firefox, the LLM provider will get the info that you give to the LLM.

There’s the FXtech Pro-1, with a slide out keyboard, apparently the hinge is very good.

But it’s pretty ancient by now and there’s still no successor… I doubt it sold well.

I can’t find a gif of it, so I’d just like everyone to imagine that I posted that scene from the SpongeBob Movie where a worker sprays a can of hair onto King Neptune’s eyes.

I’m so fucking glad Valve isn’t beholden to shareholders.

The people who create these services will always be more clever and quick to implement workarounds than politicians. It’s a futile battle.

Want to avoid piracy? Make getting things easier and more convenient.

Back when Netflix was £5-10 depending on tier, had a load of content, and an account could be shared between a few trusted people, I practically gave up pirating. Now it’s £18 per month for 4K (and due to rise), and doesn’t have those other positives going for it, I’ve abandoned it in favour of Radarr+Sonarr+Plex, and am having a better experience.

For video games, I predominantly buy from Steam, because it’s a good service, and so far I have not seen any evidence that Valve are going to fuck me over. They’ve made gaming and all the things ancillary to it a lot more convenient. So I happily pay. If they embrace enshittification, guess what I’ll do?

The only games I do pirate are Nintendo/Sega games that haven’t been sold in decades. Why? Because there’s no feasible other way to buy them and keep them!

I don’t pirate music because Spotify. For all the issues I have with it (and boy do I have a few), it still has almost every song I search for, is fairly priced, and hasn’t clamped down on account sharing in the same way Netflix/Disney/etc have. I’m part of a family where we split the cost. All the music I could possibly want for £2.20 per month? Fine by me! If that goes away, I go away, yarr harr.

Aren’t they banned in China anyway?

TL;DR:

Geothermal energy is currently only feasible in very few places where heat comes close to the surface. We are limited by how far we can dig.

The article doesn’t really go into detail on why that is, but basically it’s due to pressure and heat, drill bits last less time the deeper we go, eventually there’s just way too much pressure. It effectively becomes impossible to dig past a certain point due to the cost and materials science of drill bits.

But lasers don’t have this problem, enabling us to dig much much deeper, potentially making geothermal practical in many more locations.

Weird, I read fine with Ublock+Firefox

Indeed. This is what I was thinking of, except I couldn’t remember whether it was OSI or FSF pushing for it and, well, I’m too lazy to check lol

Thanks

“Open source” and “commercial” aren’t opposites, plenty of models we consider commercial are also ‘open source’ - an obvious example being Facebook/Meta’s models…

Looking outside of AI there’s plenty more examples. Chromium is open source, does that mean it and Google’s Blink web rendering engine is non-commercial? I’d say no.

Should also be noted that there’s been some pushback recently on whether models trained on closed sources should be called “open source”, just because the model itself is.

From what I can gather, they’re only discontinuing sale of blank writable discs? I imagine they don’t sell very well.

Every government tells every phone maker what to do with phones. You can’t, for example, have them using restricted frequencies. Funny that you think you have a gotcha there.

Trying to equate mandating that the user can uninstall apps if they want (a massive win for the consumer and good for competition) to mandatory installation of government ID apps is hilariously pathetic.