Heh. Admitting.

Not really sure why this was -1, it's a pretty good play-by-play of what happened. Was it a day out of date, perhaps? Maybe they should have added an extra step: "...announce AI girlfriends to distract the news cycle from MechaHitler...."

Um, kay, you have a brain. Please continue to surpass us with your super-human Elon-assessing powers.

What is the point of comparing a Japanese lab's exotic trunking speed to the USA's "average home" speeds?

Does Japan plan to install this exotic 19-core fiber into their homes? Of course not.

How many companies used llama instead of paying OpenAI for API access?

If Meta saw OpenAI as a market competitor then denying them revenue is a cunning move.

Especially if llama isn't Meta's core competency but ChatGPT is OpenAI's.

Maybe even legal in that aspect, though they both seem super guilty of not paying for copyrighted material.

My FB feed is full of anti-solar, pro-petroleum memes. "Wind Turbines use oil, that somehow means they're worse than gas-cars!", "Solar panels give babies cancer!", "Mining vehicles destroy entire mountains to produce a sugar-cube's worth of rare earths!"...that sort of thing. A lot of the memes are fairly obvious trolls, but lots of dum dums fall for them anyway. I wouldn't go as far as to say these are protestors like you're thinking of, but are there those that oppose anything? Yep, just like you said. I'm pretty certain this is the sort of thing that has affected how people vote.

My favorite troll-meme on this topic features an EV on the side of the road being recharged by a gas-powered generator. Sure enough people come along, pointing and laughing at the EV needing gas to proceed. Then the trolls come out asking those peeps if their car is diesel, like the generator. Heh. I'm not saying it's never happened, but I personally haven't seen anybody go "yes, my car is diesel" yet. Again, this is FB, not the best-of-the-best at attracting reasoned debate.

Easiest way to fix that is to just use LibreWolf

Do yourself a favor and install LibreWolf

It is literally what you thought you were getting with FireFox: no spying, ublock preinstalled, no upsell.

My only gripe is the LibreWolf team will not accept money they do it gratis

>"Firefox is just a ui on iOS."

That is 100% not by Mozilla's choice.

>"Chrome is not a boggieman. It's open source, and runs on almost everything."

Chrome is most certainly NOT open source. It is 100% closed. Chromium is open-source, but it is not an open project. Google controls 100% of what goes it in, and brutally so. And it is too big/complex to actually fork. So multiplatform browsers that are not Firefox-ish are, indeed Chromium, for most purposes that matter (Google's control over standards, security, control).

>"They have gone back enough into niche status I wouldn't recommend Firefox to general people."

Then you are doing everyone a great disservice.

>"Vivaldi and Brave retain support for manifest v2 if I remember correctly, so you can continue to use proper ublock origin, and not the shitty v3 version."

Until changes in the base Chromium code they try to maintain become un-maintainable. They don't have the resources to actually perform a true fork.

Vivaldi, Brave, Edge, Opera, whatever, they are all Chromium underneath. They all lend support to Google's control over web "standards" and they all contribute to a dangerous monoculture. One that will have serious security, privacy, and standards implications. Firefox (or its children) are the only real multiplatform alternative left now. And it is not like you have to sacrifice anything to use it.

>"It is like Chrome WITHOUT the Google Spyware and ads."

Except it is, at it's core, Chrome, since it is based on Chromium. And, thus, you still giving power and control to Google. And still promoting a dangerous monoculture, and not protecting from the security and standards nightmare that will be a resulting from that.

If I were *forced* to use a Google-based browser, it might be Brave. It is an obvious better choice, and also somewhat erodes a bit of Google's grip. But I have zero reasons to use Brave over Firefox, and many reasons to use and promote Firefox over any "chrom" browser.

>"It just needs an email client."

https://www.thunderbird.net/

>"The snap package is pretty bad. The moment you install the native package though, you wonder why you ever put up with the performance hit in the first place "

And the solution is:

* Don't use Ubuntu
* Don't use Snap
* Don't use containers for important software that should be native

https://linuxmint.com/

>"I take that back; I did run into a site (can't remember now what it was) that told me I needed to update my browser, when what they actually wanted me to do was switch to Chrome/Chromium."

And it is up to us to make noise about that. I know *I* do. It is rare I run across such a site, but you can bet I will immediately Email them at a minimum. If it is a site for a place I would do business, I will do a lot more, up to and including making sure their marketing department knows they are going to lose business from me and others. I closed a bank account over it and let them know, and then recommended to everyone I know not to use that bank because they were incompetent. (They eventually fixed it, but far too late).

It is the ultimate in lazy to not be able to "support" the only three browsers they are likely to ever encounter- chrom*, Firefox, and Safari. There was a time there were a dozen actually different browsers and sites managed. And the reality is that most of this isn't even real, a site can complain about your browser, or throw out a message, and you change the user agent

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

and it magically works fine. But such warnings can cause SEVERE damage to the adoption and mindshare of Firefox. So can clueless "support staff" saying or "recommending" you just "use Chrome." This mentality has to change.

This. Brave is for people who live advertising and do not care about truth or privacy. https://www.tomsguide.com/news...