Ephera @ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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The problem isn't the existence of forks, it's rather how many developers are behind them. Mozilla has around 750 employees, so I'd guess maybe around 500 full-time devs work on Firefox. Tor Browser and such have significantly fewer contributors, who only do this stuff in their free time.

A bunch of their touchscreen implementation work is Wayland-only, because it would've been a lot of work to retrofit it on X11. It's well possible that the GNOME devs invested more time into X11.

Hmm, Dolphin takes about 0.5 seconds on my laptop. Might be that worth debugging on your system, even if it is some bug that your specific system triggers.

Yeah, good question. I imagine the screenshotting itself is largely negligible, although obviously not free either. I don't know when the LLM gets to do its job. Theoretically, it could be delayed until some point where there's not much going on on your PC.

At some point, Microsoft wanted to roll out these AI features only on PCs which have an NPU, which is basically an additional CPU with a different architecture optimized for pattern recognition and such. I don't know, if they still hold onto that requirement, but it would mean that it wouldn't hog your CPU at least.

They have been somewhat desperate to roll out Recall, because it was the only semi-useful out of a handful of features that they came up with to somehow integrate AI into Windows. So, that's why I'm never quite sure, what requirements they're still holding onto.

Would've been funny, if a fish was somehow snacking ants on the regular. 🙃

I mean, it's gonna depend on the specific ant species. Some ants don't sting at all. Some ants only have formic acid. Some ants' venom tickles. Some ant venom can kill you.

But to quote Wikipedia for one of the latter, the Jack Jumper ant:

The retractable sting is located in their abdomen, attached to a single venom gland connected by the venom sac, which is where the venom is accumulated. Exocrine glands are known in jack jumpers, which produce the venom compounds later used to inject into their victims.

It then goes on to list all kinds of those compounds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_jumper_ant#Venom

I don't have much deeper knowledge than that, but at that point, it might as well be a mixture of some compounds that they ingest and some that they produce from simpler compounds. At the very least, they would need to ingest appropriate atoms/molecules in some form, like for example nitrogen, which is contained in relatively many of those compounds.

It takes a screenshot every five seconds and runs an LLM over it to extract text. Then there's a UI where you can query it for what you did in the past.

It came under fire when they wanted to introduce it last year, because it stored all that data on your disk in unencrypted form. Meaning if anyone manages to run malicious code on your system, they don't need to do the collecting themselves anymore, but can rather just send off any screenshotted passwords or whatever other secret things you might've been doing on your PC at any point in time. In particular, Microsoft had claimed that the data would be encrypted and it wasn't. Didn't even need special permissions to access it.

No idea, if they fixed the encryption now, or if this is just a case of the shitstorm having died down, so they roll it out now. But yeah, even with encryption, the implications aren't great. If your parents or boss or law enforcement want to know what you were doing on your PC, they now have an exact history. And Microsoft could still change their mind and decide to upload all your data at any point in the future.

It's better in some ways for now. All commercial social media platforms start out by being less bad than the competition. That's how they attract users. When they have enough of a user base for network effects to take hold, that's when they enshittify.

Wow, did not know that the Bielefeld conspiracy is an early internet meme. I always thought, it was some urban myth here in the Many Gers.

Jason Schreier is not a no-name. I would expect the guy to figure it out, if he thought about it for a moment. But yeah, the whole article seems a bit rushed...

Currently browsing Lemmy on my mobile browser, so...

Yeah, and just because you know they're lying, doesn't mean you know what the truth is, much less so how to prove it to someone else.

Other people: Let's go to a party, it'll be fun.
Me:

Yeah, I really don't know about responsibly managed. The new owner might be better than Google, but it's unlikely for Chrome to be bought by a charity. Ergo the new owner will want to make their money back and enshittify accordingly.

They changed CEOs just last year...

They provide like 99+% of the development work. You won't easily replace that with volunteers.

Empty and pretty clean...

Yeah, even leaving personal afflictions aside, the YouTube website sucks so much. You can add another minute onto the time needed for finding a video, because it needs to reload itself three times before it's able to display itself.

And higher quality website implementations, like Invidious, those get slowed down or blocked by Google all the time, making the experience infuriating, too.

You always attack into the direction that the camera is facing, so if the character was facing away, that would look quite weird.

Double the dad jokes...