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I definitely think Apple is less susceptible to this, but people seem to forget that Apple literally has an ads business.

Look at the ads in Apple news and in a couple of other places. Apple isn’t immune to injecting ads into the UX of their products.

Some countries actually hold them accountable and have reasonable privacy laws/laws about how you can use the user’s data.

Running locally is the answer.

Lamarr!

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.

While most people find things in windows annoying, they mostly also view using a PC altogether as a chore.

Viewed through that lense, telling them “well you can get rid of XYZ issues by investing some time in installing Linux” is like someone coming to you and saying “you can spend a few hours working on your washing machine to make it work a little faster and make the beeps less annoying”.

You’re probably not going to do it. Using a washing machine is a chore already, you don’t want to spend hours tinkering with your washing machine. You don’t want to think about washing machines at all. You just put up with any inconveniences, then go about thinking about stuff you actually care about.

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).

Worth noting that despite this, support is currently only 32%.

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.

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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.

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).

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.