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Why do you assume they haven’t warned Mozilla in advance?

Also, Mozilla was fully aware that what they were doing is in breach of GDPR. I find it extremely hard to believe that the makers of Firefox are not fully familiarized with it by now.

Last but not least Mozilla is doing this for financial gain. It’s selling pur data to advertisers. Why should we excuse it? It’s a very hostile act.

If Mozilla has hit rock bottom and has been reduced to selling our data to survive then that’s that. We’ll find another way and another FOSS browser. Accepting it is not an option.

So what, are we giving Mozilla a free pass to do anything now? Is the new bar “not quite as shitty as Google”?

Yeah that’s about what I had figured too, 400-600 kWh/mo per house during summer. Double that is more likely to be estimated capacity rather than actual use.

Um, why does the average Chinese home consume 1 MWh/mo? Or do they mean the battery capacity would account for one home consuming up to 1 MWh?

Last I read about it it required connecting for 6-7 hours continuously on 32bit systems, and it’s unknown how long it would take on 64bit.

SIMs are standalone embedded computers (they run Java!) that handle the cellular connections one their own and communicate with the phone over a standard pin-out and protocol.

This way the phones are somewhat insulated from advances in cellular technology and it’s one of the reasons mobile phones have been able to evolve so smoothly from feature phones to smart phones.

That was the whole point. They’re making sure you don’t scroll past that first page.

At some point they’ll probably just show a full page unskippable ad after you press search. 😄

And if you want to know exactly what will stop being possible with V3:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)#filtering-capabilities-which-cant-be-ported-to-mv3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59qgzzSD1tk

Don’t blink.

Which brings up the question, where is the alternative software that’s dedicated to people keeping in touch, to events, and communities?

It used to be called group ware, now it would be a good time to resurrect.

It’s not gonna burst, at least not the way I think you mean. Expectations will eventually come down to earth but everybody will still keep scraping human-produced content and train LLMs on it and generate stuff with it. That genie is out of the bottle and it’s here to stay.

Sooo… they’re still gonna do it. But it’s ok because they promise to keep it separated from other stuff. 🙂

It’s not a cost issue. It’s about taking responsibility for maintaining a reliable, highly-available service.

I’m pretty sure a solution will be found eventually. EU institutions need IT infrastructure to work and communicate like everybody else and all EU countries have highly available infrastructure like emergency services, secure channels etc. It’s just a matter of putting this task in the right context.

It’s a very good thing that they’ve stumbled across this snag because solving it can also open the way for running more internet public services in the EU in an open, transparent manner, and may open the way to weaning ourselves off commercial platforms.

Having a distributed, federated, secure, privacy-friendly and open EU-run messaging platform for example would be a huge boon for its citizens and have wide implications for other regions as well.

Passkeys are. more similar to TOTP codes than passwords. Everything about passkeys is autogenerated. Browser negotiates with website to generate a key pair that will establish your identity on that site. Every time you “login” they exchange unique autogenerated keys to prove to each other who they are. That’s it. You never have to remember anything again and it’s impervious to many attacks that affect passwords and 2fa codes.

Where they fucked up is allowing big tech to call the shots so now instead of simply having passkeys in your browser you have to go to a higher authority to have them validated. And goes who that is — Google, Microsoft, Apple. So it’s basically gatekeep and you can’t touch them without depending on them.

As long as you can reduce something to a pattern, it will work with a LLM. That’s what they’re great at, matching and recognizing patterns.

You might still do better with random moves. Depends on a couple of things.

First, a LLM is only as good as its training data. Depends on whether that data contained enough good moves that would work against a random button pusher.

There’s also the question of whether the random pusher is human or not. Humans are not great at generating random data, we tend to think in patterns and there’s also muscle memory. So I think the moves of a human random masher could easily fit into defendable patterns.

If the random masher is a computer I think it comes down to how well the game is designed, whether it rewards combos, whether longer patterns that build on each other have a large advantage over a series of completely random individual moves.

They’ve switched their brand to Honor everywhere else and it’s business as usual.

Their company is attempting to hijack TLS connections to eavesdrop on their browsing.

It only works with websites that also offer a non-TLS version (which the hijacker uses to fetch content and then re-encrypts with their own certificate after they’ve snooped). But it doesn’t work if the website doesn’t have a non-TLS version and/or specifies it should only be used with TLS.

Another way for it to work is for the company to get their own certificates on the machine, which is very easy if it’s a work-issued machine. But I’m guessing OP is not using a work machine.

It would be such a pity if it turns out the protests caused him to miss the good window.

And the crux of the matter:

Less emotionally, I think it’s unwise to assume that an organization that has…

• demonstrably and continuously made antisocial and sometimes deadly choices on behalf of billions of human beings and
• allowed its products to be weaponized by covert state-level operations behind multiple genocides and hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of smaller persecutions, all while
• ducking meaningful oversight,
• lying about what they do and know, and
• treating their core extraction machines as fait-accompli inevitabilities that mustn’t be governed except in patently ineffective ways…

…will be a good citizen after adopting a new, interoperable technical structure.

It’s also interesting that nobody’s asking “how is Threads federating with Mastodon/Lemmy?” All the focus is on the underdog but shouldn’t we pull our heads out of the bubble and give some attention to what the big dog is doing?