Trump currently still has a 40% approval rating, so I think it would be a mistake to assume that things will go back to normal when he’s out of the picture. There is something fundamentally wrong with a large portion of the US, and the other half is mostly either apathetic or complacent to it all. The “No Kings” protests, for example, are too little, too late.

If the US even cares to fix its fundamentals, it would probably take decades of sustained work. I don’t think they have the conviction to do that.

And so, I think joining the EU at some tier is a fine idea. We are stuck in our geography, but we don’t have to be stuck in our mindset.

Maybe it will depend on the specifics of their UI/UX implementation, but I don’t think you’ll end up in a scenario where you’re surprised that a website suddenly has access to your serial ports. I expect the UI will be fail-safe, very visible, and that you’ll be able to disable it entirely if you wish, so that you never even see a prompt.

This is a bit of speculation on my part, but I think the recent leadership changes, especially Eric Rescorla (ekr) leaving as Mozilla CTO probably lead to this. I think ekr was responsible for many of the security vetoes that held APIs like this back. Maybe they had good reason for it at the time, but Chrome has now demonstrated that Web Serial has been safe for years.

So although I appreciate Firefox has always been security conscious, I think they sometimes landed a little too strict on some decisions. I’d be happy if this attitude change allows some more innovation in Firefox that is not just “AI all the things”.

Fair point. I can see how a bubble burst might not recover those discarded wafers, assuming that story is true. However, I’d still imagine that if the bubble did burst, there would naturally be a reduction in demand for memory, and that would cool prices at least a bit. Certainly time will tell. It’s still difficult to predict the direction this is all going in.

Well, one counter point. I just searched their videos and found this video from 2026 (that I had already watched, because I do support Palestine). So I wonder if Nebula changed their stance. https://nebula.tv/videos/additionalilyalexandre-life-in-gaza-in-2026-a-chat-with-ahmed-mater Same video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhgpXjGYRNk

Hmm. I’ll have to look into this. Thanks for pointing it out. If you happen to have links to more info, please share.

Let her skydive

I think most of their value was as a streaming backend for other companies, not their user-facing video sharing platform.

You can just email them to yourself to get the code for sharing.

Thanks!

Nice! You can definitely just browse through each category to get a sense of which creators are on there, it’s not a huge list. In the “Explore” screen, click on “Channels” first, then browse through the categories to see creators in each category. The “Latest activity” sort is also good to find active creators. For example: https://nebula.tv/explore/channels?category=gaming&sort=lastUpdated&order=desc

For videos, it might be worth filtering by “Original” and “Plus” if you’re looking for higher quality content. Many of the channels have lot of older archived content, which is worth going through if you’ve found a creator you like. Though I mostly just check the “Everything” category for new videos to discover creators.

And of course their homepage is updated regularly with featured creators and categories.

Sweet! Thank you.

Heck yeah. Thanks!

So this whole story exists because the bigots came out of the woodwork to squee at the acronym? Good then, let them show themselves and burn in the sunlight. The acronym did its job.

I mean, no one is forcing you to memorize it.

So you don’t want to hold OpenAI and Sam Altman accountable. Got it, thanks.

I want OpenAI to be held accountable, don’t you?

They started the meeting with a prayer about “keeping their minds on the children”, followed by the most robotic sounding pledge of allegiance I’ve ever heard, and then they proceeded to pardon the predator, mostly using religious “grace” as a justification. America!

Buddhist Copilot builds apps with sublime coding standards, and on the last iteration it runs rm -rf * .git before it recites a koan on impermanence.

I hope the rest of Canada isn’t just annoyed at having to hear about Doug all the time. This might just be more of an Ontario (and Toronto) problem right now, but it shouldn’t be ignored just because it is contained in that province.

Speaking as an ethnic Sri Lankan (but Canadian national), Doug Ford and his ilk remind me very much of the political dynasty that Sri Lanka fell victim to. Sri Lanka saw rampant corruption for decades, followed by a devastating economic crisis and government overthrow. It will take them years to recover, and the political family responsible might still get away with it.

Keep an eye on the Ford family. Aside from the Rob Ford dumpster fire, his nephew Michael Ford was previously the Ontario minister of citizenship and multiculturalism, briefly attempted to run in the Toronto mayoral race, and is now a registered lobbyist at Toronto City Hall.

I think Doug is a bit smarter though, and his political cronies and business pals are probably going to benefit much more than his family, but that doesn’t make it any better for the people of Ontario or Canada.

Archive link: https://archive.is/zXQRP (Yes, I’m aware of the problems with archive.is, but I think it’s important to let people bypass the paywall in this case)