When I asked a couple of developers who work on websites/webapps with a lot of moving parts, they said it was easiest to just test for chrome, since that’s what most people use.

It’s turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It’s no longer the fault of long-term CEO Mitchell Baker, she of the six-million-bucks salary. She took the cash and left in February 2024. After the February 2024 layoffs that went with the “open source AI” announcement, in November, new boss Laura Chambers laid off another third of the staff, but somehow found the money to hire new executives.

Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there’s wealth, there’s a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It’s been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five.

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Mozilla’s leadership is directionless and flailing because it’s never had to do, or be, anything else. It’s never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It’s no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It’s role-playing being a business.

If you’re down, absolutely.

What I’m getting so far (from the reviews and your comment) is that deregulation could incentivize more housing construction, but there’s a massive asterisk that Klein and Thompson are avoiding.

My opinion so far is they either earnestly believe in the neoliberal promise that “if you just get out of the way, the free market can solve anything” or (more cynically) they’re seeding the terrain edify buzzwords for a Democratic comeback campaign.

Either way, you’ve convinced me to put it on my to-read list.

Most of what I’ve read about Abundance is a general distrust for their arguments.

As someone who’s actually read the book, have these criticisms been handled and no one noticed, or would they need to publish a revised edition?

The defendant’s full post read: “Go on Rotherham. Burn any hotels with them scruffy bastards in it.”

This decision reinforces the idea that copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes—like making a book searchable, training an AI, or preserving web pages—can be lawful under fair use. That legal protection is essential to modern librarianship.

I’m happy that this works out in libraries’ favor, but I can’t see how Anthropic managed to slip through “copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes”. Are they a non-profit and I just didn’t know?

Archive link: archive.ph/wUAQn

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted an AI-generated image depicting the Statue of Liberty wearing a black burka with the caption: “This hits hard.”

Greene’s fellow congressional stunt artist Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) posted a photo of Mamdani dressed in a kurta — a garment worn by men in Southeast Asia — while attending an Eid service at the Parkchester Islamic Center in the Bronx. “After 9/11 we said ‘Never Forget.’ I think we sadly have forgotten,” Mace wrote.

Turning Point USA founder and far-right influencer Charlie Kirk wrote on social media late Tuesday night that “24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City.”

“People were saying, ‘You took two bullets for this country. Like you’re more American than most of the Americans living in America,’” he said.

Seems like you should get honorary citizenship at that point. He’s put in the work.

How’s mbin doing, lately? I switched (back) to Lemmy when kbin shuttered and haven’t kept up with it.

I’m not making it past day 1.

This has to be a shitpost.

Transportation of paper-stored data

You can take the sheets with you, send them by post, or even attach them to homing pigeons

LocalSend is open-source and great for file transfer (or even just sending text) between my devices.

I don’t usually hear this opinion.

Most of the time, it’s about how XMPP has everything you need without the boat of a Matrix server.

Agreed. Call yourself whatever you want.

I consider this:

One part sarcasm, one part hoping they’d actually do it and get in trouble.

as underhanded and immature. What kind of argument were you having?

A pot o’ pho? Isn’t that a French thing?

This is a win for everyone in Europe, and possibly beyond. [Emphasis mine.] Companies may no longer secretly track your behavior based on “consent” given under pressure. Hopefully, this will not only put an end to these dubious practices, but also to those pesky cookie banners.

But we’re not there yet. Regulators have ruled the system illegal, and the court’s ruling has now confirmed it. Still, the companies making billions from this model won’t stop on their own. That’s why European regulators must now truly step up: enforce the law and make sure these companies actually comply.

Regulators try not to get compromised by lobbyists when billions of dollars are at stake.

I sincerely wish you good luck.

I just figured that’s what being a sigma male/chad is.

(Is there a non-gendered word for it?)

I use Caesium for image compression.

Not shilling, since both seem to be free and open-source image compressors.

How’s MAZANOKE different?