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I'm all for going sailing but if there are features you want that that can't quite replicate, it's also a great time to look at a VPN service with a server in Turkey... Sign up on a Turkish IP and the exchange rate puts you under $2/month USD. This works for a lot of other things too.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks

I wish firefox was faster but benchmarks are pretty common, it's not hard to test. It's kind of an unfair fight at this point honestly, large swaths of the web are just built for chrome. There are other benchmark options out there, but even using Mozilla's own kraken benchmarking solution, it loses tremendously more than it wins. I honestly really respect them for not building their benchmarking system to make their solutions come out on top.

In some benchmarks the lag from firefox is very significant and then on the other hand, when firefox does win, chrome is usually right behind it. It's not ideal.

A lot is kind of an understatement:

"In 2022, 81% of Mozilla's revenues were derived from Google"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#:~:text=In%202022%2C%2081%25%20of%20Mozilla's,twice%20hourly%20from%20Google's%20servers.

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-2022-fs-final-0908.pdf

With that level of support, I don't think an ultimatum would be required.

I think this is likely going to be true unfortunately, but I also feel like the title is more than a bit misleading. (The title at Ars is identical to the title of the thread here)

I didn't see anything in this article indicating that Spotify has made any direct comments on whether they were going to open source it or not. From the article, it also sounds like refunds haven't been publicly stated as the official solution from spotify, but instead just something some people have managed to get spotify support personnel to approve. In fact, it's stated that Spotify specifically 'declined to confirm' that refunds were the official solution.

You're not wrong, but it should be noted that 'at worst 1 second slower' means a lot more when the fastest time is under 2 seconds. Saving 1 second is kind of a big deal when you only have 3 to work with. Closing that much of a gap would be a huge win for Firefox.

Also worth noting that many of the linked tests are also not directly based on time, and the difference in benchmarking is still fairly substantial. With the exception of the singular test that it came out on top on, the best case among these benchmarks is that firefox mobile is 15-20% slower than Chrome. These benchmarks even include Mozilla's own Kraken benchmark (where it still comes in last among these results).

Lastly, do want to say that I hope mobile firefox can catch up on these, but they've got a lot of work to do and the odds are stacked against them.

They're not wrong, benchmarks have been done on mobile firefox.

https://www.androidauthority.com/best-fastest-android-browsers-337802/

Firefox doesn't lose every test, it even won one in the linked article, but chrome at least beats it in every other one and firefox comes in last several times.

I don't think it's even just the red/blue state issue. I haven't seen many in a prime voting demographic who care about this issue and the ones that do care are concerned in terms of wasting taxpayer money. The overlap between demographics who aren't statistically likely to vote anyways and people who are concerned about this issue is looking like it may be pretty damning.

Yeah, legitimately could choose just about anything else besides polio and it would have landed pretty well.

You joke, but that's actually a really interesting story. Jonas Salk, the developer of the first polio vaccine was adamantly against even patenting it and claimed that it 'belonged to the people'. There is some potential controversy there, but we mostly just think he was a pretty great dude. Dude's a fucking hero regardless.

I get the analogy you're trying to make, but maybe want to switch to something else.

In the US, that would be a bargain.

If you only needed 1-2 teeth it's comparable, but if you need more than that, 10 grand is a pretty good price domestically.

Having been around awhile, it's so weird that people are trying to make the case that a republican presidency could be a good thing for... just about any country in the middle east. Not saying that any party is going to spend much time on it, but it's just a weird stretch.

Yeah, but gas prices are currently considered reasonable and tying those to politics is also a bit unfavorable now since everyone blamed the president when they were extra high but then it actually went back down and then no one knew what to do.

Sudan isn't popular because it's difficult to tie either side of the conflict to a specific political party. No one gets too many political points for speaking for/against.

I know someone will say it's for standardization and/or cost savings, but I love how it's always the jankiest setup.

Go drill a hole for a camera mount to it's head and glue a PTZ setup to it's back for the gun. It's like they just asked the security camera guy if he had any extra parts in their equipment closet and just ran with it.

I don't know why, but I've never had a worse hangover than after having a few of those. Taste is alright, but do not recommend.

I do really wonder if the dome is still hiding inside there. It looks like it might be big enough and that sounds like it would be the easy solution.

There were rumors of that and a lot of other complications in the animal trials. I don't think we ever got proof, but a lot of irregularities that were explained away. Could be a lot more problems coming.

On a bit of a tangent, but it's all about positioning, you repeat and broadcast the positive outcomes that you can manufacture supporting data for as much as possible and don't engage with the negative ones. So, we don't even talk about cancer, we just show you how much weight you can lose, and weight loss is obviously good for you, something like this:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916523175897

It's real easy to miss, but you'll find a 'Supported in part by the Nutrasweet Company' in the foot notes on one of the pages. The study is not specifically 'Aspartame is good for you and makes you run faster' but... it's pretty close and people are going to draw similar conclusions from it. They don't have to lie, you just have to make sure the 'right' data is prevalent enough that it buries the 'wrong' data.

You either misread a little bit or whatever you were reading wasn't planning on getting those harriers off the deck. I'm not sure you could physically fit 36 harriers on the deck even if you didn't have to worry about flying them off/on.

It can hold a few dozen helicopters, but the space required for helicopters is not interchangeable with the space required for harriers. The aircraft numbers you probably saw is assuming you take up the whole flight deck, no space to take off and land at all, and that is assuming the helicopters are small. You can find details pretty easily online, but just do an image search, it will make it pretty obvious that you are not fitting that many harriers on that boat. They'd have to hang them off the sides.

This still is probably the ship to watch out for, but comparing it to a real aircraft carrier is rough. Also, if you count this as an aircraft carrier, there's 11 countries, maybe more depending on how you look at it. Australia has two of these that are the same class but they built and classify them exclusively as helicopter docks and don't have anything else classified as a carrier.

I've mentioned at least a few times that this theoretical would require both sides being dedicated to the conflict and no outside interference, with that I don't see how that matters as both sides would have that problem to overcome.

Also, Ukraine does have a Navy. When you compare the actual ships to the Russian Navy or even just the Black Sea Fleet, it is almost a rounding error, but they still have a few dozen small ships floating around out there. The Ukrainian Navy still had 15,000 personnel as of 2022, but I'd guess that things likely have not been going great for them lately, not sure where that's at now. I haven't heard of any successful engagements using the few boats left, but they are very outclassed and I'd imagine outnumbered. Does exist though, several naval bases, and they are still fighting.