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Comment Re:Surprised Firefox is not higher (Score 1) 81

by Un-Thesis on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:17AM (#65635486) Attached to: Chrome Increases Its Overwhelming Market Share, Now Over 70%

This is the moment that caused Firefox to utterly lose.

Comment Re:So, then (Score 2) 81

by Un-Thesis on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:10AM (#65635478) Attached to: Chrome Increases Its Overwhelming Market Share, Now Over 70%

2 September 2025:

Google and Apple’s $20 billion search deal survives

Google can keep making payments to be the default search engine in other products, a judge ruled.

https://www.theverge.com/news/...

Comment Put it on a shirt (Score 5, Informative) 105

by Un-Thesis on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @08:40PM (#65620442) Attached to: Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release Software

Last time something like this happened, we put the DeCSS on a t-shirt and sold them and the Supreme Court ruled it 1st Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:This is science (Score 1) 29

by Un-Thesis on Thursday August 21, 2025 @08:05PM (#65606486) Attached to: Peer Reviewers More Likely To Approve Articles That Cite Their Own Work

Plus it's the 3rd major piece of science to come out of Brisbane, Australia, this decade!!! Relative to that location, of course!

Comment Re:Worst Research Project Ever??? (Score 0) 29

by Un-Thesis on Thursday August 21, 2025 @08:03PM (#65606480) Attached to: Peer Reviewers More Likely To Approve Articles That Cite Their Own Work

No, I did not even read the article. What are you, a newb around here?!

Nope, you're my slashdot elder :-( Why are you rating at me for not reading TFA??? All due reverence to you.

Brisbane, Australia, says everything. I will utter my sincerest apologies, as those Aussie scientists are conducintg some of the most ground-breaking research to ever come forth from that most White of countries most South of the equator.

Comment Worst Research Project Ever??? (Score 1) 29

by Un-Thesis on Thursday August 21, 2025 @07:42PM (#65606440) Attached to: Peer Reviewers More Likely To Approve Articles That Cite Their Own Work

These guys are sure spending tax payers' dollars wisely!!

Where's DOGE?!?!?!

Comment SpiceJet is terrible (Score 1) 8

by Un-Thesis on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @07:51AM (#65554958) Attached to: India's One-Airline State

I lived in India for several years, and SpiceJet is the worst airline in the world.

I took them for two short-haul flights in India and never again! SpiceJet makes Spirit Airlines look like Emirates Air in comparison!

I only flew two times on SpiceJet, but both flights were delayed more than 30 minutes.

They have a 2.4/10 rating.

https://youtu.be/gxS47cJsT78

Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 115

by Un-Thesis on Sunday July 27, 2025 @04:43AM (#65548124) Attached to: Stack Exchange Moves Everything to the Cloud, Destroys Servers in New Jersey

My main server is with Hetzner, bare metal, and sitting in Frankfurt, Germany. I'm currently in Santiago, Chile. I have never ever had to step foot in the datacenter or even the continent where it resides.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 248

by Un-Thesis on Sunday June 29, 2025 @10:17AM (#65484018) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do You Use AI - and Is It Actually Helpful?

https://duckduckgo.com/chat 100% of your searches reside on local storage only, but who knows what the chatbot API servers keep?

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 248

by Un-Thesis on Sunday June 29, 2025 @10:16AM (#65484014) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do You Use AI - and Is It Actually Helpful?

Yeah Google's Search AI is the worst... It can't even get the names of A-List Hollywood actors right if you give it the movie.

Comment Re:Nobody understand what this is (Score 1) 21

by Un-Thesis on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:16AM (#65460247) Attached to: Facebook Now Supports Passkeys

Do you ever use SSH keys for authentication? Passkeys are SSH keys but for the web browser. Seriously, it's the same tech.

Comment Re:Corporate money rather than taxpayer money (Score 1) 148

by Un-Thesis on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:18AM (#65346755) Attached to: Apple Says Most of Its Devices Shipped Into US Will Be From India, Vietnam

TSMC Arizona started making 6 nm chips (better than anything China can make) in December 2024. https://youtu.be/WHat_LYrpQE TSMC Arizona started making a fabricator for state-of-the-art 2 nm chips yesterday, 1 May 2025, when AMD gave it substantial money to do so. Estimated to be complete in 2026. https://wccftech.com/tsmc-starts-building-us-chip-factory-within-hours-of-receiving-permit-amd-ceo-says-2nm-hpc-chips-in-play/

Comment Re:Work ethic issues. (Score 2) 87

by Un-Thesis on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:00PM (#65327955) Attached to: Google Forcing Some Remote Workers To Come Back 3 Days a Week or Lose Their Jobs

I had all 7 managers and 9 architects sign a written petition at IBM Cloud Classic to not lay me off in September 2024 until December 2024, after the major guzzle migration project I was the architect and lead of was deployed, as they felt the project would quickly fail and they'd lose major billion-dollar contracts due to the guzzle vulnerabilities. CEO Arvind rejected the plea. I was laid off for being more than 50 miles from an IBM office. I had started during COVID-19 and had a written and approved 100% telecommute permission enacted in 2022. The guzzle project failed. In January, a major Big 5 bank pulled their servers off citing guzzle v4 security concerns. Then the mass layoffs started in March and my then-team of 3 shrunk to a team of 2 and more projects are at risk. From 6 devs in 2023 to 2 devs in 2025...

Comment Re: Three days in the office (Score 1) 87

by Un-Thesis on Thursday April 24, 2025 @11:54AM (#65327935) Attached to: Google Forcing Some Remote Workers To Come Back 3 Days a Week or Lose Their Jobs

Since 2022, I have been living primarily in the Middle East (Egypt and Dubai) and my workday for American corps starts at 7 PM and ends at 1-2 AM. It is absolutely fantastic! Every weekend is a three day weekend (end work around midnight Friday night, start work Monday at 7 PM). Every day I have tons of time to do whatever I want.

Comment Re:Hah, about time... (Score 3, Interesting) 26

by Un-Thesis on Saturday April 12, 2025 @07:42AM (#65299899) Attached to: Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October

Arch Linux has had 100% reproducibility since at least 2010. I'm not joking. Every makepkg run sha256 and sha512 sums every single file. It's part of makepkg's core duty to extract the files in an in-memory, containerized file system and ensure everything behaves as it should, both at package creation time and installation time. If one little thing is off or the file already exists on the system, everything, the entire upgrade run (and all previously-installed packages) are unrolled before anything is permanently written to the file system. But Arch is probably superior to Fedora in literally every technical way. Much better architects and engineers.

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