@jon@vivaldi.net Microsoft learned nothing from the Explorer / Netscape antitrust case, or are they now brazen, secure in the knowledge of having bought the courts and the politicians?
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net Searching directly on wikipedia is surprisingly effective at getting at information – as opposed to content farms cashing in from showing ads.
@jon@vivaldi.net The clarity of communication here about what LLMs are and why they have no place in the browser is commendable. Having found the Vivaldi source code as available is reassuring. Vivaldi is building a credible replacement for Firefox. Does it implement addons (or build in) like ublock-origin? The web with ads is unbearable.
That said: Ubuntu 24.04.1 works very well. Feels faster than the prior long-term stable release (22.04.3) in the same laptop; perhaps it's the graphics which seem snappier.
And just now, as seen at the bottom of a blog post:
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Yes to all. For a while I've been de facto using a miniscule subset of the web. My gateway to other, relevant websites are via human-to-human recommendations, primarily in a place like this.
When externalities in beef production in the US get internalized into the cost to consumers, meat will become unaffordable, the whole industry would collapse. Likely a good thing.
Consider subsidies to oil exploration, oil production, oil transportation, corn, corn processing, and tax cuts to all of these.
I've heard that back in the day when rivers where polluted as hell, there was this simple idea that made it into policy: an industry must draw water downstream from where they dump their liquid waste. If they wanted clean water, they had to filter it before releasing it back into the river.
Could a simple rule like this be enforced: if an industry is to dump anything into the atmosphere, they must intake any air consumed from that same spot.
Applying this to ICE cars would stall the engine. When applied to the cabin, it would kill the passengers. Diluting it into the air only postpones the problem. This "externality" has come due and it's expensive. Best to cut losses and stop pouring exhaust fumes into the air.
Meanwhile in coastal Southern California: it’s 17C and tonight the restaurants have their outdoor gas-burning heating on. For lulz, or is it just naïveté, or foolishness, or recklessness? On the other side of the mountains they reached 35C and the rest of the state is under a heatwave. “I can’t even.”
(And some have flames inside narrow vertical tubes, again for the fun of it. As if the CO2 emergency was something happening elsewhere.)
@JimsPhotos@ohai.social There's something very special about this photo, it's almost like a painting. It's beautiful.
@jon@vivaldi.net Microsoft learned nothing from the Explorer / Netscape antitrust case, or are they now brazen, secure in the knowledge of having bought the courts and the politicians?
@BearOfaTime Demonstrable evidence falling into trained ears that can understand statistics, math, physics, chemistry – at least at an entry level.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net Thank you. Another one would be to search directly into the wayback machine of the webarchive.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net Searching directly on wikipedia is surprisingly effective at getting at information – as opposed to content farms cashing in from showing ads.
@jon@vivaldi.net The clarity of communication here about what LLMs are and why they have no place in the browser is commendable. Having found the Vivaldi source code as available is reassuring. Vivaldi is building a credible replacement for Firefox. Does it implement addons (or build in) like ublock-origin? The web with ads is unbearable.
@jon@vivaldi.net Hands down Lynx. No javascript, no images, no self-playing movies.
That said: Ubuntu 24.04.1 works very well. Feels faster than the prior long-term stable release (22.04.3) in the same laptop; perhaps it's the graphics which seem snappier.
#ubuntu #ubuntu24
@superkret@feddit.org Yikes.
@superkret@feddit.org Oh I did choose the suggested OS, but lsb_release -a says "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" ...
@superkret@feddit.org Having installed Debian bookworm in a raspberry pi recently, the stable Debian release isn't without its warts unfortunately.
@xris@ecoevo.social A very well read friend!
@ajsadauskas @degoogle
And just now, as seen at the bottom of a blog post:
"Post a Comment
Unfortunately because of spam with embedded links (which then flag up warnings about the whole site on some browsers), I have to personally moderate all comments. As a result, your comment may not appear for some time. In addition, I cannot publish comments with links to websites because it takes too much time to check whether these sites are legitimate."
@ajsadauskas @degoogle
Yes to all. For a while I've been de facto using a miniscule subset of the web. My gateway to other, relevant websites are via human-to-human recommendations, primarily in a place like this.
@szakib @silence7 @neanderthal
When externalities in beef production in the US get internalized into the cost to consumers, meat will become unaffordable, the whole industry would collapse. Likely a good thing.
Consider subsidies to oil exploration, oil production, oil transportation, corn, corn processing, and tax cuts to all of these.
@silence7 @neanderthal
I've heard that back in the day when rivers where polluted as hell, there was this simple idea that made it into policy: an industry must draw water downstream from where they dump their liquid waste. If they wanted clean water, they had to filter it before releasing it back into the river.
Could a simple rule like this be enforced: if an industry is to dump anything into the atmosphere, they must intake any air consumed from that same spot.
Applying this to ICE cars would stall the engine. When applied to the cabin, it would kill the passengers. Diluting it into the air only postpones the problem. This "externality" has come due and it's expensive. Best to cut losses and stop pouring exhaust fumes into the air.
#WarOnCars #CO2
@wabooti
Meanwhile in coastal Southern California: it’s 17C and tonight the restaurants have their outdoor gas-burning heating on. For lulz, or is it just naïveté, or foolishness, or recklessness? On the other side of the mountains they reached 35C and the rest of the state is under a heatwave. “I can’t even.”
(And some have flames inside narrow vertical tubes, again for the fun of it. As if the CO2 emergency was something happening elsewhere.)
#ClimateDiary #ExtremeHeat #GlobalWarming