They would never buy a PC company as a direct expansion play (way too low margins).

The implied strategy seems to be to push their N1 ARM CPU and have full control over the product.

That would have been true of any upgrade to the WPA algorithm, WPA2 was released in the mid 2000s.

Although I didn’t know it was mandatory for WiFi 7. At the end of the day you should be able to pick if you want to run WPA2 or WPA3.

The memory shortage is the perfect moment for Chinese DRAM manufacturers to enter the market in a big way. The big 3 are colluding and avoiding any significant expansion of manufacturing capacity to keep supply tight.

I have multiple books from the Kindle store, but I’ve never used a Kindle.

Why does Amazon even need to have a sunset date (or perhaps how is it they can even define one?). Or do these 2010-2025 era Kindle device still get updates for tings like DRM?

The Amazon store stops working, you can still move either EPUB or the AZW files via USB, can you not?

The big one for using storage space is 4K video and various video enhancements like ML based Slow Motion (5 min of footage can take 7-8 GB easily).

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Reviews.55.0.html

Notebookcheck often does reviews of miniPCs, while they don’t have a dedicated toggly for miniPC (at least on this page), you can filter by brand which should get you pretty close.

https://liliputing.com/

Liliputing covers mini-PCs, but reviews are rather rare.

Why not get either a DIY Raspberry Pi type media player/server or if you need other streaming subscriptions a licensed Android TV box.

Very, I am assuming this a native app and not some web crap.

Although the UI/UX definitely needs work.

What the fuck? Why would they waste time on this shit?

I don’t think they are lying in the technical sense, it all depends on what they define as “sandbox/continenment” and the nature of their prompts and output.

That being said, the AI Doom is well known propaganda technique used by those who stand to benefit from the hype.

This is more like MP3 or H264, a compression algorithm that strives to be perceptually lossless mid to high end.

For much of mainstream music, on a vast majority of speaker/headphones it’s difficult to tell a 256 KB MP3 and a FLAC.

This is sort of similar. Just read up on it.

The EV demand changes reflect the population that is currently looking for a new car (have the money and are willing to buy) and people were previously “on the margin”, those who weren’t looking to buy a car immediately (more like sometime in the next 6-18 months), but due to fuel price changes they have now moved into the first group.

I outlined my thoughts around Waterfox’s decision to work with StartPage and whitelist their adds further down in this thread. I don’t see an issue with this.

You keep making bombastic statements, but when anyone calls you out and asks for specifics, you either ignore or try and change the subject.

How do search suggestions in Firefox integrate advertising? Is it tied to a specific search script and what is advertisement display logic?

The on-hover provider sponsorship notice is indeed an ad. That’s fair. Definitely not an example of “Firefox is bursting at the seams with ads.” and you know it.

As I said in another post, Mozilla has massive issues, there is no question about that. But you clearly have some sort of weird agenda and have no qualms with being deceptive and promoting misinformation.

I am done here.

You’re again being deceptive and even contradicting yourself. I suspect the reason for this you don’t actually know whether:

This is more secure than an extension

You just said that because you thought it was something easy to pitch.

Even the Waterfox team don’t use the “improved security” argument in their write-up on integrating Brave’s content blocking code.

And your “It is more safe to trust one group than two groups.” statement doesn’t even add up in terms of a count of groups in involved under different scenarios. At any rate, this is a clear tautology and not a real argument.

I was curious about the differentiation between predictions on delays and cancellations.

Delays happen all the time in complex projects. A relatively modest level of cancellations is also to be expected, you’ll have relatively less experienced “business hustlers” pitching completely unrealistic proposals to returns hungry rich investors or even larger entities attempting some level on consolidation and cancelling the least efficient projects.

But if say 40% of planned projects for 2026 (on a capacity basis) are permanently cancelled that seems like a sign of more systematic issues.

I wasn’t able to get the PDF because they want my email and name. But the stats shared in the article and promo page actually imply that delivery rates will be below 50% (capacity basis):

At least 16GW of capacity is slated to come online in 2026 across roughly 140 projects. Yet only about 5GW is currently under construction. Around 11GW remains in the announced stage with no visible construction progress, despite typical build timelines of 12–18 months.

5 GW out of 16 is 31% and just because something is under construction, doesn’t mean it can’t slip. I guess some smaller projects may be be able to rapidly build out and deliver in 9 months, but this sounds more like an exception.

I do wonder what the rate of “legal” fraud (not a fly by night rug pull) is in this area what percentage of the both planned and under construction capacity is attributed to hyoerscalers/large tech firms and the major “AI” firms.

It’s not a matter of the size of the codebase; this is a reputational thing.

And if it’s such a tiny fraction, why not write it themselves?

We are not discussing Mozilla, you’re just trying change the topic when you get called out. The points I made have nothing to do with Mozilla, they can be worse than the LRA or be literal representatives of the devine in earth, my point stands.

And how is a in-built blocker inherently more secure than an extension? If it’s clear, it should be easy to answer in one sentence.

I believe it is technically based on Fedora, but it’s not really clear to what extent (i.e. is it a fork from 20 years ago or do they keep it in sync?), but Red Star OS is a distro for which an exception can be made.

Red Star OS 1.0

Red Star OS 2.0:

Red Star OS 3.0:

Red Star OS 4.0:

Beyond the rather interesting design/visual choices, it has some rather unique features and functionality.

Aren’t both Alpine and NixOS really big in certain enterprise areas? And NixOS and Alpine are both relatively well covered in news articles and posts.

When I think niche Linux distro, something more like GoboLinux comes to mind:

GoboLinux at a Glance - GoboLinux is a modular Linux distribution: it organizes the programs in your system in a new, logical way. Instead of having parts of a program thrown at /usr/bin, other parts at /etc and yet more parts thrown at /usr/share/something/or/another, each program gets its own directory tree, keeping them all neatly separated and allowing you to see everything that’s installed in the system and which files belong to which programs in a simple and obvious way.

I believe it depends on how you use Ecosia.

For French and German languages, they have been experimenting with their own search index. I wish someone would do an in-depth article on how this is going. I know for a fact that Google can be less competitive in other languages compared to their dominance in the English language internet.

For English, it seems to be a combination of Google and Bing, with the main source being Google (this is true for me, but Wikipedia states that this was true as of 2023 in general).

The article below suggests some countries (languages) are mostly serviced by Bing:

https://support.ecosia.org/article/579-search-results-providers

I am assuming if you get Bing results, Bing gets the IP associated with the query. But Google does get IPs tied to a given query via Ecosia.

This means that when you search through Ecosia, we work with either Microsoft Bing or Google to provide you with search results and ads. In order to do this, we automatically collect data required by search partners to prevent bot attacks and ad fraud - which includes your IP address and search terms.

Yeah, Bing also gets IPs associated with a query.

https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

By relying on Brave?

That doesn’t make sense.

You can that say it makes them less reliant on the Firefox extension engine, you can say that it is faster. Those are fair points.

But you’re not hedging your bets by relying on Brave, a gang that secretly engaged in link hijacking and referral re-writing.

I am genuinely curious, how is an in-built content blocker inherently more secure than an extension? Assuming you trust both the browser developer and the extension developer.

I can see it being faster and better integrated, but how is it more secure?