True. Hopefully Intel can work things out, but I don’t think this strategy is it.

Or more likely, some Karen somewhere saw face cards and complained, and lawmakers/regulators didn’t bother doing any actual research.

Yup. I watch MtG Arena draft videos, and they throw hundreds with worth of resources sometimes in a single video, but they’re also making ad revenue and whatnot, so it works out. And viewer numbers are peanuts compared to more mainstream games.

I refuse to play them. If they want kernel level anticheat, they can submit the source under the GPL to the Linux kernel devs for consideration, because that’s the only way I’d consider using it. No game is worth compromising my system’s security.

No American would spell fiber that way.

I’m not worried about data loss. Honestly, the only feature I actually care about from sync is open tabs and recent history, since I’ll often open something on one device that I was using on another. I don’t really use bookmarks or saved passwords.

My main concern is security. I don’t want my machines to be susceptible to malware, and with browsers being very complex, I want to make sure the dev team is very responsive in shipping security updates.

The main reason I use IronFox on my phone is that it works with FDroid, which is important because I don’t have Google Play running on my main profile (I use GapheneOS). If the flatpak is updated within a few days of Firefox consistently, that’s good enough. But if it takes weeks or more, that’s too much.

Yup. Switching won’t be a big deal.

I doubt the revenue from sales to cheaters is that significant compared to the risk of losing players. I think the simplest explanation is that catching cheaters is hard (read: expensive), so they’re happy with catching the most obvious cheaters with off the shelf solutions (i.e. the Pareto principle).

Yeah, perhaps I’ll try it out. I’ve made most of the changes they did in my config though.

From looking at the repo, it looks like it’s simply a set of patches that get applied to the Firefox source code. They don’t maintain a fork, just a set of changes that get applied before building.

Yes, mull. My bad. IronFox is the replacement that I’m using now.

And that’s part of my point. Once my browser is installed, I don’t really care about it, so I’m unlikely to notice it not receiving updates unless someone calls it out on SM or something.

Perhaps. But a browser is something I’d prefer to just forget about and not track updates. So it’s very likely that I won’t check if it has gotten updates for a few months.

Maybe? It’s a lot less likely for FF to disappear than LibreWolf.

It needs it to accomplish its goals. Whether its goals are worth accomplishing is a separate discussion entirely.

1 Bitcoin transaction = 645kg of CO2

I think it’s interesting that this very much depends on the coin. This article compares Bitcoin to Monero, and here are the figures (per transaction per year):

• Bitcoin - ~95 TWh per year
• Monero - ~1.5 TWh per year

So Monero is ~63x more efficient than Bitcoin at transactions, and that’s with all the overhead Monero bakes in to its transactions to maintain privacy (each transaction generates a bunch of fake transactions to mislead snoops, and it’s notoriously ASIC/GPU inefficient).

I’m guessing the same is true for different AI models, some models will be a lot more wasteful than others in their training and queries.

I agree, the opposition to LLMs is misplaced. There are legitimate reasons to dislike it, and there are certainly policy changes we should make, but attacking it for energy use in the weakest way to oppose it. If LLMs ran on 100% green energy, would you still oppose them? Probably, so figure out why you oppose it and attack LLMs over that, and perhaps policy can alleviate the worst of those concerns.

Really? You must have a very rosy memory of what GeoCities sites looked like…

This looks like a regular static site generator theme.

Absolutely. If you care about this, search for a YT video or something about how to disable it, and they’ll walk you through it and list the caveats. For example, sometimes it’ll just show a warning on the infotainment center, and other times unrelated functions will break.

BEVs certainly started the trend, but once they showed people will put up w/ it, combustion vehicles followed suit.

Yup, but I need to be careful on years because newer used cars still have this crap.

Yup. Sometimes larger studios make a good game, but most of the games I play are from indies or smaller AA studios.

At least w/ OnStar, there are documented ways to disable it, and it’s honestly not all that difficult (basically remove power to the OnStar device). Some cars are more integrated, so disabling that crap is a lot more difficult w/o breaking anything important.