TheGrandNagus @ TheGrandNagus @lemmy.world

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Right now Manifest V2 is disabled on Chrome, but the code is still in the engine. MV2 will almost certainly only exist in Chromium browsers until Google gets rid of it entirely. That includes Edge.

The only browser committed to MV2 in the long run is Firefox. And it's supported on Android and PC.

Facts are lefty propaganda now...

The far right are the people living in a bubble separate from reality.

And imagine being someone who likes star trek enough to have a reference to it in their username, yet be far right. Incredible lack of perspective.

Such a long stream of bullshit.

blame her for the pathetic 0.4% growth in December.

0.4% growth in a single month is not pathetic, that's great. Do that every month and you have nearly 5% yearly growth - absolutely unheard of for a developed economy. On what planet is 0.4% in a month pathetic?!

She inherited the fastest growing economy in the G7

We had a temporary increase after a recession. That's not sustained growth. Conservatives didn't suddenly crack how to enable permanent explosive growth.

businesses are firing the lowest paid staff and curbing their new hires as a DIRECT RESULT of the disastrous budget

No they are not. The fabled mass unemployment after the budget never materialised.

Businesses rated the UK as the second best country to invest in after the budget. The facts don't seem to be lining up with your opinion.

Not to mention pensioners going hungry to be able to afford to heat their homes

Nope. Not only are their pensions going up by a huge amount, the WFA is means tested. Poorer people still get it. The wealthy don't.

They are planning on sending more SEND children to mainstream schools

Probably for the best. The current solution is rubbish. My nephew has to travel two hours each school day, in a private taxi, because that's the only suitable SEND school for him. That's an insane system. It would be much better to restructure the system for more local support.

They are removing our rights to free-speech.

Arresting people for inciting violence is a good thing.

God your whole comment is full of such nonsense misinformation. Stop. You're not convincing anybody.

Imagine actually thinking that Labour are damaging the country more than the Tories did. Christ on a bike. If you put your brain in a cat's body, you'd bark.

The UK is currently ranked by businesses as the second best economy to invest in.

https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/research-commentary/2024/global-ceos-rank-uk-most-important-market-after-us---pwc-s-28th-.html

And if you're ready to point at the 0.1% contraction in January and blame "Rachel from accounts", you by extension must also believe that the 0.4% growth in December was also her doing.

Mazda is a physical dial by default, but if you want to you can go into the settings and enable the touch screen. Best of both worlds.

No it isn't. Not even close.

Indeed.

The VW group trades places with the Toyota group for largest in the world.

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

Does anybody expect them to say anything else? Web engine development is more costly than even OS development, we're talking costs that often run into the hundreds of millions per year – it's virtually impossible to fund unless you're a giant like Google or being funded by someone with very deep pockets, like... er... Google.

Even MS bailed and ceded power to Google, because it simply didn't make financial sense. Apple does it but they're pretty meh in terms of implementing standards and such... there's a reason 3rd party WebKit browsers are rare. They comparatively run it on a shoestring budget, and they're Apple FFS - their wealth is practically limitless!

People aren't going to start paying to use Firefox, and that money needs to come from somewhere. The community rejects giants paying Mozilla (understable sentiment), rejects paying for Firefox (also understandable), and rejects Mozilla selling data (definitely understandable). Some say donations, but be real, that won't make hundreds of millions per year.

What is the solution here? I'm not trying to be contrarian I just don't know what they can actually do. You'd hope that the Linux Foundation or something would chip in, but nope, they help Chromium instead. I worry for the future of web browsers.

That said, I'm also deeply uncomfortable with Google being able to pay to be default search on so many products. It gives them a huge advantage. I don't want them to have that advantage. It's anticompetitive and scummy as fuck.

Mozilla are definitely between a rock and a hard place here. I don't like some of the decisions they make, but damn, I'm not sure I have the smarts to come up with better ones, given the position and market they're in.

Multiple browsers have said they will keep support while the code is still there (in Chromium it's still there, only disabled for now).

When it is removed from Chromium, it's probably going to disappear for most or all major Chromium browsers.

That's not what this is about. It can't even survive a reboot.

This flaw allows attackers with local administrator privileges to bypass AMD's cryptographic verification system and install custom microcode updates on affected CPUs.

If you already have local administrator privileges, you have access to the system and its data anyway. Doesn't seem that critical a flaw. It doesn't even survive reboots.

Regardless, AMD has already issued a fix.

Seeing this late, but thank you very much, that's very kind ☺️

It's training that uses a tremendous amount of power.

Speech-to-text transcribing of voicemails is done on-device and uses basically zero energy.

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 actually think that's true. Not because people wouldn't want it, but rather because yields are good enough that there won't actually be many 9070s (which is a cut down and lower clocked die).

Because GOG doesn't want to support it. They'd rather the community do it.

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.

I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy.

IMO it's a side effect of money being seen as the most important thing in life and the measure of success. Our culture says the more money you have, the greater a success you are.

With that in mind, imagine you're a rich person. In your mind, that makes you a success.

You hear people with less money than you giving their opinions of what you should do, and you think "well why would I listen to these people? If they were as clever as me, they'd have as much money (read: success) as me. They do not, ergo their ideas must be worse than mine."

In the mind of a mega-wealthy person, any normal person trying to give advice is met with the same reaction that a minimum wage toilet cleaner would be if they tried to give life advice to a median earner. "Huh? Really? You're trying to give me life advice? Lmao. Ok buddy, sure."

It completely explains why so many wealthy people surround themselves in yes men. It not necessarily that they hate any pushback (although of course it sometimes is this), it's that they won't take it seriously from someone who, by their perceived metric of success, is less qualified to call the shots.

And you know what? It's not actually a completely unreasonable deduction. It's just based on a flawed and extremely fucked up premise. Any person thinking clearly of course realises that there's so much more to life than wealth.