Yeah, and even native stuff is super bloated now.

I noticed an instance of Brave with all of the features turned off sitting at a new tab page was using 230MB.

I remember doing OK with a version of Firefox that supported xhtml and JavaScript 2 that ran on a machine with 16MB of RAM total.

And the current browsing experience isn't somehow instantaneous on a CPU with 16x the cores running at 10x the clock. The user response time is about the same.

I think that browser itself ran in 4-8MB. Probably with the Flash plugin loaded too.

FWIW that old machine would take about 15 minutes to encode a 3 minute mp3 file and my current machines does it in about six seconds. So the hardware gains are real.

Maybe ML will actually be able to find some optimizations that are too cumbersome for humans to manage.

You people have gone insane.

Stop trying to control every atom of existence and every move people make.

You're sick in the head, not visionaries, not thought leaders.

Go plant a garden and get back in touch with the real world.

No, NOT FARMVILLE!

They could have created an endowment and then would not have had to worry when the money dried up, because the earnings on the principal would have funded them through the end of time. But, like most non-profits that end up with a bunch of money, they just used the opportunity for mission creep.

> genuine question - why was this code pushed now

Zuckerberg has aggressively been bribing politicians to enact this at the State level.

Several news stories about it though you have to search for terms like 'lobbying' and 'Meta' as fig leaves.

An exception is the Zeropatch technique where they dynamically update machine code of the OS in memory on the fly for folks who can't tolerate downtime.

It's certainly not common on unix systems.

Or an IoT device running a 2.6 kernel that is never going to be updated. :)

Did Dolby break any countermeasures of Snap's copyrighted code in what would appear to be a significant reverse-engineering effort to make this determination?

Or do they only have a suspicion?

This scenario reminds me of the SCO lawsuits when the progress of technology made that company obsolete.

I'm with you brother, whitespace is overrated!

I also went to take a look at his history. His posts were very sporadic but not too bad until the time of the Covid lockdowns (2020):

https://slashdot.org/users2.pl...

... and progress downwards from there. Pretty scary progression.

I've been living in the DoD (now the DoW) supplier business for decades

It is still the Department of Defense. The executive branch has no authority to change the name of anything created by Congress. You canâ(TM)t even get the basics right. There is no tortious claim to be made over a vendor agreeing to another vendorâ(TM)s terms of use. Repeating that claim does not make it true. That is a basic part of negotiating a contract, which any third-party vendor can choose to sign or not.

Labeling a vendor a "supply chain risk" is not a warning. It is a black ball. Any vendor for the DoD is prohibited from working with a supply chain risk. That is the hostage situation actually in play here. That is the restraint of trade. You are living in bizarro land.

Show actual evidence the show was unprofitable. The network that decided to take him off the air also appointed Bari Weiss to can inconvenient investigative reports last-second--after paying Trump $16M to settle an obviously frivolous lawsuit. I have no reason to believe they have any basic economic skill.

Count the number of "former" intelligence officials on his company's board.

Then search for the many photos of him mouth-kissing his father and son (RIP).

They use both carrots and sticks to control compromised people.

I took mine apart and there were two separate display modules for the 4K screen with ribbon cables I didn't recognize so I just put it back together and stuck in an HDMI streaming stick flashed to LineageOS.

I got one around 2008. They were the best of the non-premium 1080p HDMI screens at the time.

The one I got had slightly better test review scores on display quality than the LG that year. The Sony was 20% better for 3x the price.

It lasted about twelve years and by then a bigger 4K with much brighter colors was half the cost in nominal dollars, so probably 1/4 the cost in real terms.

And by then cheap flashable streaming sticks were available as was pihole and fairly easy outbound NAT rewriting rules to keep the beasts contained.

You get to claim to be Catholic if you have been baptized by a Catholic priest. Even the excommunicated are still considered catholic. The mark of baptism is indelible, and by claiming otherwise you are the one actually engaging in heresy. I suggest you confess this sin of wrath before Sunday, friend.