Safari is a good browser... not sure how the reviewer missed that browser. Chrome is just a fork of Safari with a lot of bloat and some questionable technical/moral decisions.

Chrome gained popularity on a VERY specific implementation and is succumbing to the same fate as IE. (e.g. Chrome on iOS/Android doesn't support extensions because of design decisions made before Google even forked Chrome off Apple's WebKit, Chrome's extension standard is a hodge-podge of stuff thrown at the wall over many years and can't ever be changed without breaking the Chrome world. Safari and Firefox support extensions on mobile browsers)

This guy must really LOATH Google... Most Chromebooks are equipped with only 4GB of RAM and are LOCKED into the bloated Chrome browser he's eviscerating in his review. You have to upgrade to the mid-tier Chromebooks to get the 8GB he finds completely unacceptable.

There are some real numbers at https://www.tomshardware.com/p...

The Snapdragon X is ~30% slower at single-core tasks than Apple's M3. (all M3 CPU types have similar single-core performance)

The Snapdragon X is ~15% faster in multi-core tasks than the base M3.

The Snapdragon is ~30% slower than the high-end M3-Max at multi-core tasks.

Snapdragon's performance is competitive with the entry-level Apple Macbooks and outclassed by higher-end Macbooks. Real-world energy usage on M3 Macbooks is RIDICULOUSLY GOOD, but we'll have to wait to see real products before we can compare that.

What use case do you have for lossless transcoding from JPEG? I don’t get that point at all. As you pointed out, JPEG is used because it’s very compatible and easy to encode which are the two things dropped with jpegli(only mostly backward compatible and takes many times more processing power and exponentially more memory.

In the context of smaller lower-fidelity images used on the web Jpegxl/jpegli do considerably worse webp and way worse than HEIC/AVIF. JPEGXL and HEIC are both ONLY supported by Safari(no other browsers) while AVIF is supported by all major browsers. The big advantage HEIC has over AVIF is it’s substantially faster to encode(which gives Apple/iOS an edge since Apple uses it in everything Apple-related)

Compression roughly equivalent to JPEG XL, slightly worse than WebP, and much worse than heic/heif/avi? why?

Google can’t be trusted with numbers; it made similar claims when launching WebP and it’s the compression comparisons were fairly misleading. https://siipo.la/blog/is-webp-...

This seems like it will get ramrodded through into Chrome, used on a handful of websites, and then support will get gradually be removed as Google abandons it for the next hotness.

heic/heif/avif files are already better on every metric and this new standard is WORSE than Google’s current WebP standard.

Verbatim copying is being litigated. OpenAI’s main defense is that to get GPT-4 to verbatim regurgitate articles a user usually has to violate OpenAI’s terms of service which they say is not common. https://www.searchenginejourna...

So you agree they are obviously infringing copyright? Copying a document into a different format doesn’t magically remove copyright.

Yes it’s the “smug” people on that other mobile platform not the smug assclowns trying to defend not supporting Unicode text input only on the mobile version of a website in 2024

At this point I think Slashdot’s mobile website is purposefully broken.

Several of the justices are so obviously corrupt we could roll back their rulings without destroying the country...

It will be interesting if the EU finishes banning iOS and Google Play. Iâm sure Chinese Android AppStores arenâ(TM)t going to get bannedâ¦

Detroit has its problems, but crime/danger isn’t one of them. I think the government in a lot of unsafe places to live do cave into this identity-politics crap demonstrated here(look at how bad “INSERT OPPOSING GROUP” is! You must only vote for my group!)

Apple didn't originate Vendor Lock-In. Nintendo added lock-out chips when introducing the NES in the US/Europe because of the issues with quality controls in video games.

ALL the big tech companies are VERY bad about lock-in... with Apple likely being one of the least worrisome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I expect other app stores to follow Apples lead quickly. . . What Apple is proposing is exactly the same as how console games are currently distributed; so I doubt the EU can claim foul.

I don’t know why a CEO would bother hiring new remote workers in high cost of living countries I expect many are just going to use remote as a way to gradually transfer jobs to lower cost of living countries without bad press.

I suspect that 66% Baidu number is wonky. Looking at statcounter.com’s worldwide numbers has Baidu at 0.9% of the market, which puts the China market at 1.3%. I’m guessing statcounter.com is only counting traffic that gets filtered through the great firewall of China as the “China Market”. Would be interesting to see raw numbers instead of percents.