I clicked on that and uBlock flagged it as badware. I looked into it and apparently it was bought by "LimeWire" earlier in the year and is uploading your files to the cloud. I would use one of the forks or alternatives like PairDrop instead of that.
It still upsets me that Swype is still the best keyboard, and that it can't really be used on modern Android anymore. No other keyboard I've found has embraced the extremely useful shortcuts that keyboard had. Did a word get completely mangled and you want to retype it? Tap the word and then double-tap the Swype symbol and it would select the whole word and let you try again. It is such a pain to do that on basically everybody other keyboard on Android. Copy/paste having shortcuts was also extremely useful (so you didn't have to attempt to long press on an input field), and having shortcuts around punctuation like 's and ? made it much easier to use proper English. It's just sad.
How is that relative? It literally won't do anything unless you trigger it to generate the preview. If you've chosen to generate a preview of a link, you've chosen to visit that link, and that is entirely on you.
It's not even that. It's a simple web page FizzBuzz test (print the numbers 1-100 on a web page when you click a button and do FizzBuzz-like things). We give them a day to do it and tell them that we will review what they write in the technical interview. People create elaborate solutions to impress, but I've noticed certain... trends in how they design it. And after the review, when we ask them to make it so the FizzBuzz factors are user editable on the web page, things always end up falling apart.
We provide a technical test in our interview process and we got all sorts of neat submissions but it always falls apart when we ask them to make changes live. I personally don't care much about somebody using an LLM if they can demonstrate that they are skilled enough without using one, and if they can demonstrate that they won't trust a result. In fact, at this point we ask about AI usage and have applicants ask it questions that we know will give wrong answers just to see if they can identify the problem and figure out how to resolve it.
Well, you can choose to just not install it. It doesn't ship with the browser and you have to enable it and download the AI model explicitly. But, you can go to "Tools > Extensions and Themes > On-device AI" and delete any AI model that you may have installed if you don't like it.
I mean, it doesn't even get installed until you choose to install it, and it can be removed at any time. I don't think having AI extensions that aren't shipped with the browser and need to be explicitly enabled don't really qualify as "bloat". This should just be an article about how their smart tab grouping feature is broken.
They make it clear when you install the add-on. It explains your highlighted text will be collected and sent and it requires you to opt-in before it can be used.
I would agree with that. It's anecdotal but I've noticed when using Copilot at my job that it usually gets me a "mostly" proper solution. But even getting you mostly to a solution can save you an hour or more of digging through documentation. "Hey Copilot, I have an Excel workbook in a memory stream. Load it up with the Open XML library, open up the Summary spreadsheet, and copy out the contents of cell D:3." AI bots are pretty good at crawling through lots of information and summarizing it; I've been finding them quite good at identifying which classes and functions you need to use in unfamiliar libraries. But, in the end, you still need a developer with enough skill to understand the provided solution and know where the solution was deficient, since, as I said, it usually just gets you part-way there.
They claim about 20% more battery life over the Pixel 8 when the screen is on. The 8 was pretty good already so I'm hopeful, but we'll just have to wait for reviews of the device.
The Mozilla CEO said that was a UI issue that they will fix in a newer version of Firefox. Telemetry being disabled does prevent the feature from being used.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
The UI fix should be hitting beta, nightly, and 128.1esr.
It looks like Citra (3DS emulator) may have been managed by the same entity so Citra has been removed too.
I really doubt Apple wants to get into the regulated healthcare industry and be on the hook for all that hospital tech Masimo sells.
Firefox extensions can do things that Chromium based browsers can't do. There are also some APIs that Firefox doesn't support.
https://developer.mozilla.org/...
Sure, you can't have an extension rewriting the browser UI anymore, but there is still a lot that extensions can do. And you can always re-style the UI on your own with UserChrome.css to get that Windows 95 look back.
A comment in the last slashdot story on this topic mentioned that updated rules on uBlock Origin seemed to mitigate the youtube ban blocks. Is this true?
Yes. I've seen people who work on the filters say that YouTube is updating its scripts about twice a day. The uBlock Quick Fixes filter auto-updates every 12 hours (and possibly every 6 hours once
Basically, once YouTube updates the script to bypass ad-blockers, uBlock will shorty follow with a fix. Unfortunately, it isn't instant, and you may have to manually update your Quick Fixes list. It's an arms race.
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