It has been for some time. That's why I said Chrome is the default.

From what I can tell Chrome will use less ram if you are someone who uses 1 to 10 tabs. The kind of lunatics around here the keep 100+ tabs open at all times are going to benefit from Firefox. It's a difference in design philosophy. Chrome is catering to the more average user that isn't going to keep a shitload of tabs open. I don't understand why people keep all this tabs open you can't possibly use them all and 90% of websites are going to figure out that you haven't been on that tab in a while and reloaded anyway. But I guess you do you. I know it really bothers people to have their tabs fucked with

You know that the industry is hurting.

To see commodore or the husk that is commodore taking advantage of people who have mental issues when those people with the mental issues are looking for something like this because another company is taking advantage of them.

There's just something uniquely fucked up about a clearly substandard product that exists specifically to cater to someone who can't just uninstall Facebook and twitter, and again I am not blaming people for that Lord knows I have my own mental issues as my detractors will no doubt a test to. But there's something really fucked up about selling what's very obviously a $150 device, I mean for fuck sakes it's a cheap Media tech phone with a cheap display, and charging a premium because the phone blocks apps that the person buying it knows they can be tricked into installing even though those apps make their lives objectively worse.

It's also possible that this is going to get marketed to kids but again you have a bunch of people doing a fucked up thing and another bunch of people selling a product to solve the problem caused by the first fucked up thing. How about we just don't do the fucked up things in the first place?

It really is peak capitalism though I'll give them that. One group of capitalists Selling me a substandard solution to a problem created by another group of capitalists.

Why do you think they would stop in their tracks every time there's a power or cell tower outage?

Yes, there have been some issues with widespread power outages causing the cars to get confused because things don't look right, but that's a bug, not expected behavior.

And although they won't have fares if they have no cell service, there's no reason to expect them to stop being able to drive. They will do whatever they normally do when they have no fare — find a place to park. Other than for learning about pickups and dropoffs, robotaxis use cellular networks only when they break down, to request remote driving assistance (i.e. relatively rarely).

Doge wasn't all him. It was just project 2025. And he didn't make big decisions, he made stupid and easy ones to kill children in exchange for tax cuts that made him a trillionaire.

In the real world he has teams of people whose job it to prevent him from making decisions at his companies.

I told them that Katyusha, my Russian Blue cat couldnâ(TM)t be trusted with commit rights.

I guess they had to find out the hard way.

Oh, yeah, I just realized that this is an expense on the Roku side, so the taxes would cancel out. Ugh.

Then yes, you're correct that there's no possible way for consolidating two businesses to save money without direct job loss, other than perhaps reducing payouts to external companies for things that they both do (e.g. accountants).

It's about bribes. Anything this administration does is because they didn't get their cut. We put a guy who hung around Russian Mafia in charge. What did anyone expect?

If your government breaking into your house and applying hardware-level attacks to scrape your secrets out of the RAM of your running computer is seriously part of your threat model, it's almost certainly very, very far from your biggest concern.

Also, you should probably consider turning your computer off.

Citation? Who is a household name leveraging AI to upend an established market...who isn't merely just reselling AI, like Claude/Cursor/etc. Has anyone disrupted a non-pure-technology business? entertainment? logistics? retail? transportation? dating?

Who is the grindr/tinder/uber/salesforce/netflix/amazon of the AI age?

All I know of are pick and shovel vendors. People selling AI to you so you can figure out how to make money with them.

So the good news is that won't happen with SpaceX satellites because they come back down to Earth every 5 years like clockwork. You could potentially wind up in that scenario for a few years you just have to wait it out which is frightening but it wouldn't be the end of space.

The bad news is that the high cost of maintaining that satellite fleet and the need to have big fat juicy government contracts in order to make it profitable means that SpaceX is not a viable company. Go watch the tail end of the last video Patrick Boyle put up on youtube. He takes a while getting there but he explains what's about to happen. The SpaceX IPO is structured so that if you bought it as a retail investor you can't sell for 120 days and after that every single index fund in the country is forced to buy into it whether they want to or not. That means your 401k is going to be heavily invested in SpaceX, Grok, Tesla and Twitter and any other crap Musk does.

It's possible that corruption will keep government contracts going his way and therefore keep the stock price up. But without that it's going to slam headlong into your retirement savings in a few years. And it's a corruption does keep going it's going to wreck your retirement savings another way. It's kind of a heads Musk wins tails you lose kind of thing...

Meant to be and is are very different things.

Starlink is technically profitable but it's heavily subsidizing the actual rocket business which is a huge money loser. It's expensive to put shit in space especially when you have to replace it every 5 years. And starlink is always competing primarily with wired internet.

So they're going to be very sensitive to having their satellites knocked out of orbit.

It is kind of funny that Musk books 7 billion in profit on starlink and 5 billion in losses from SpaceX even though they're basically the same company. I guess it does technically make it net profitable until you start mixing in the AI bullshit. Also it's very likely that Europe is going to start cutting starlink and SpaceX out for national security reasons. Never mind what's going to happen if the Republicans don't win in 2028.

Whether Anthropic was trying to hype about Mythos / Fable or not (and FYI, it is a pretty big leap forward), they absolutely did not want to get public access shut down. The US government very much seems to want to have exclusive access to it for now.

Also, to clarify the "jailbreak": They took open source projects that had known vulnerabilities, as well as deliberately introducing vulnerabilities into some other projects, then asked Fable to fix them, and then asked for test scripts to demonstrate that the exploits could no longer be exploited - the implication being that they could then use those exploits against unpatched systems. But what's the logic here? The challenge isn't "how to write exploits against known bugs", any model can do that. The challenge is finding the bugs - something Mythos / Fable has proven better than previous models at. Even if Fable refused to write said test scripts, it would automatically downgrade to Opus 4.8, and then *Opus* would have written those test scripts. Or any other model out there could do it, including free open source ones that can be safety-abliterated at will.

Because la Presidenta is a giant buttplug screwing up science and technology in the U.S.

"how many federal employees are employed full-time to monitor and report on the energy, water, and climate impact of federal government datacenters?"

Answer: very few, the current alleged administration does not care about any "impact" other than to their bank accounts.