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.

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.

Fully open and accessible: Fully open-source release of model weights, training hyperparameters, datasets, and code, fostering innovation and collaboration within the AI community.

That’s actually pretty good. Seems to be open source as the OSI defines it, rather than the much more common “this model is open source, but the dataset is a secret”.

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)