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Comment Re: This is a problem? (Score 0, Troll) 77

Don't you have any shame and get tired of repeating the same tired talking points of the zionists?

Iran has supposedly been 2 weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon for the past 30 years?!

Meanwhile in the real world, Iran's ayatollah published a famous religious edict (fatwa) banning nuclear weapons development, and Iran has been a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT) along with the JCPOA and UN inspectors have always stated there was no evidence of a nuclear weapons program.

Even the CIA admitted their intelligence showed Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapon, and Tulsi Gabbard stated as much just before the war.

All the while, the rogue terrorist zionist regime has never signed the NPT, nor joined the JCPOA, nor admitted to stockpiling nuclear bombs despite intelligence to the contrary⦠and having the "Samson option"!

It's rather amazing that many now believe Iran should have just gone ahead and developed a nuclear weapon, it might have kept the terrorist apartheid regime from launching massacres every few years with their neighbours - or, "mowing the lawn" as the zionists like to say.

Comment Re:This is a problem? (Score 3, Insightful) 77

All this because America on behest of their master in the terrorist apartheid regime started an illegal war against civilians.
Marco Rubio stated as much, that America was pulled into the war.

Not only has that made Iranian people side more with their government, especially after revelations that Trump was providing weapons to protestors early in the year, but the new government has become more hardline.

Imagine if Iran unjustly attacked America to "save Americans from their Epstein paedophiles and corrupt MAGA politicians", while bombing a children school in New York on the first day, and then going on to destroy other schools and hospitals in the following weeks - you wouldn't become more patriotic and rally around your government to go after the attackers?!

Iran is doing exactly as they stated they would, and gave us at least a year's notice of their intentions to close the strait, and bomb American interests in the Middle East - also exactly what the terrorist apartheid regime wanted: they want to destroy the Middle East, especially UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia as almost half of Saudi Arabia is part of the "Greater Israel project".

Thanks to the terrorist apartheid regime, we have been giving over 20 years of warnings to Iran to destroy their country - they had plenty of time to prepare.
Remember former NATO commander and US Army General Wesley Clark shortly after 9/11: plan to “take out” seven countries in five years, naming Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.

Comment Re:Up 10x since 2022 (Score 1) 47

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there isn't going to be any AI bubble-bursting event for a while to come.

If anything, more companies are jumping on and finding intriguing and amazing uses for AI such as in the medicine and surgical space, whether using reasoning models or image/video/audio generation.
I may not agree with AI, but sadly it's looking more and more like the future behind everything, and many of us will sadly, soon find ourselves as reviewers/testers in organisations powered by AI.

As huggingface shows, AI is growing leaps and bounds and new general intelligence and reasoning models keep being produced, along with the data centres to back them - e.g. Alibaba's Qwen, or moonshot's Kimi, or Xiaomi's MiMo, or DeepSeek, etc, all of which are right up there together with Google's Gemini 3 and OpenAI's GPT-5 in benchmarks like GPQA Diamond or Humanity's Last Exam.

These benchmarks show that the newer reasoning AI models do far better than those with PhDs or subject matter experts.

Then there's nVidia and Amazon who are pursuing and creating their own AI models, Nemotron and Nova.

Comment Re: On the bright side (Score 1) 36

I think most agree with what you're saying, especially the first part.

The problem is modern software development, especially with "Agile" - in the real-world - means sacrificing quality over speed of delivery. Sadly most organisations don't care about code quality (thus cheap offshore devs), or the hardware required to run it. In fact, hardware is rather cheap compared to a developer's time, even with such high memory costs.

As for the second part - the reason modern games require massive amounts of storage is due to higher fidelity and photo-realistic games. Thus, much larger textures (like 4k quality), much higher polygon count means complex maps and layers of textures, and then there's the localisation files, high-quality audio and actor voices and orchestral scores, cinematic videos, and countless other assets like huge maps and unique terrain unlike repeated tiles. Many assets are stored with light compression for on-the-fly decoding and loading to minimise stutters for fast-paced 60+ fps games.

Comment AI replacement (Score 1) 15

I've argued for a while, AI may not take all jobs, but it certainly will cut down on number of hires.

So instead of several testers, and a team of back-end and front-end devs, depending on size of company, they can get away with half or quarter of the team.

Sadly as AI gets ever more advanced, I envision a time perhaps in a year or two where the senior dev is left mostly just reviewing pull requests generated by AI.

AI is already taking away design opportunities, and you only have to look at some of the professional and frankly, quite amazing presentations and infographics coming out, not to mention the countless thumbnails for YouTube/Rumble videos!

Comment Re:Good luck with that (Score 1) 41

This is false.

Mozilla themselves state in the article:
"AI-assisted bug reports have a mixed track record, and skepticism is earned. Too many submissions have meant false positives and an extra burden for open source projects. What we received from the Frontier Red Team at Anthropic was different."

Regardless, you can see various high-severity security issues found by Claude Opus 4.6 patched in the latest version of Firefox (v148) here.

Comment Re:Cool AI hype post, too bad reality is here. (Score 1) 41

Anthropic’s own Red Team lead (Logan Graham) admitted these exploits only worked on a "test version" of the browser.

Citation?

Both the article from mozilla and anthropic doesn't mention anything about a "test version of the browser", instead it specifically states the current/latest version of Firefox...

So we tasked Claude with finding novel vulnerabilities in the current version of Firefox—bugs that by definition can’t have been reported before. We focused first on Firefox’s JavaScript engine but then expanded to other areas of the browser.

The article goes on to state:

After just twenty minutes of exploration, Claude Opus 4.6 reported that it had identified a Use After Free (a type of memory vulnerability that could allow attackers to overwrite data with arbitrary malicious content) in the JavaScript engine. One of our researchers validated this bug in an independent virtual machine with the latest Firefox release, then forwarded it to two other Anthropic researchers, who also validated the bug.

Here's the list of all fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox 148, as found by Claude Opus 4.6.

Mozilla's themselves state:

AI-assisted bug reports have a mixed track record, and skepticism is earned. Too many submissions have meant false positives and an extra burden for open source projects. What we received from the Frontier Red Team at Anthropic was different.

Comment Re: Supermium is a good alternative for Windows (Score 1) 31

Thank you.

Recently found out about it, although I was using r3dfox on my Win8.1 machine.

Not sure how r3dfox built by a single dev can compile and fix several issues to make Firefox run on Win7 and 8.1 machine, but Mozilla with their highly paid devs is unable to do the same?

Trying to stick with win8.1 as long as I can before being forced to downgrade to spyware-ridden Win10.

Comment Re:Well, there is a positive way to consider this. (Score 2) 71

I have never seen any improvements come from telemetry

That could be because many technologists disable telemetry out of fear of spying, and so what we need doesn't really get exposed to mozilla / other non-profit projects. Which would also explain why the interface keeps getting dumbed down and oversimplified.

Regardless, it's a simple toggle under: Settings -> Privacy -> Data collection.

Unlike Google's aggressive and extensive data collection via countless avenues which we mostly can't escape (recaptcha, analytics, doubleclick, googlesyndication, tagmanager, googleapis, maps api, firebase, play store, youtube embeds, etc), it only takes 1 or 2 domains to block Firefox telemetry endpoints, if you really don't trust the toggle. Alternatively pi-hole / NextDNS takes care of it.

Comment Re:Well, there is a positive way to consider this. (Score 4, Informative) 71

Telemetry doesn't always mean spying, especially when done by a non-profit in a responsible anonymised way.

Telemetry is extremely useful in many cases, and it's the reason most websites implement analytics of some sort.

In Firefox's case, telemetry can reveal that many people don't notice a feature or rarely use it, so it doesn't need to be as prominent. It can also show that many users visit `about:config` to change settings, which suggests the org should expose those options in a more user-friendly way instead of burying them.

Telemetry can also reveal widespread use of an add-on, which may justify building that functionality into the browser. Examples include tracking protection, dev tools, tab controls, and vertical tabs, etc.

Regardless, Firefox asks on first install and in new profiles whether to enable technical data collection.

Comment Re: New Neighbors (Score 1) 100

Curious how some would frame the UAE with a native population of ~12% and immigrants / expats making up the majority at ~88% (same in Qatar), majority of whom are Arab / South Asian Muslims - 85% who identify as Muslims in UAE, and 65% in Qatar.

Meanwhile UAE and Qatar are consistently ranked as some of the safest places in the world.

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https://www.numbeo.com/crime/r...

Comment Re:Light passenger rail... (Score 2) 72

Did a bit more research, turns out, these trains were originally built by Vivarail (using Hoppecke NMC battery tech) before being acquired by GWR.

LFP batteries aren't able to charge as fast, especially under 5 minutes using an enormous 2 MW (2000 kW) charger.

For comparison:
* A Tesla Supercharger V3: 250 kW
* A modern electric bus with LFP: 300-450 kW

So the GWR train is charging at 5x the power of a modern fast-charging bus, and 8x a Tesla.

LFP charges at a slower pace, is a lot heavier, and has lower energy and power density, and more sensitive to cold weather.

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