Let’s not completely forget they were suing based on patents that they filed after palworld was created for mechanics in palworld.

Which were just patents made based on extensions of previous patents and were dubious to begin with.

Firefox is partially in this position because the community really does not support Firefox. Every decision Firefox makes or Mozilla makes in an attempt to try and claw back their financial freedom away from Google, the community dumpsters them on. Then, on posts like this, the community turns around and dumpsters Firefox for being so financially dependent on Google.

FireFox was and is an awesome project, but unfortunately, without the financial backing of a large for-profit business, they cannot keep up with Chrome. Even then, FireFox, with an engineering team a quarter the size of Chrome’s, still manages to keep up, which is a god damn miracle.

Developing a browser that is fast, actually works with new web standards, stays up to date, and is adding features is incredibly difficult. It is a stupidly expensive endeavor, similar to the level of effort necessary for operating systems.

And unfortunately, there is no Linux equivalent for web browsers, at least not right now. There are some up-and-coming projects, but it’s going to be decades before they reach the level of maturity necessary to start competing against Chrome. At which point there may be so much standards capture that some of these browsers may find it impossible to actually catch up.

You know, I seem to see this rhetoric a lot, and it seems to be getting upvoted more now, which isn’t a good sign for Lemmy, but are you really surprised by this? Is this really a question? Are you really that under a rock?

If it’s rhetorical, then what’s the point? Is this just a petulant way to try and dumpster something without going through the effort of actually picking out a real problem with it, of which there are countless?

Is this starting an interesting discussion? Is this voicing an interesting opinion? What is the point of this exact kind of comment?

Maybe I’m just too autistic and I’m going off the rails here, but these are starting to itch like a form of “internet forum hives”.

In all sadness, folks on Lemi and other more technically inclined forums infight even more than leftists infight, and all they do is sabotage themselves.

Projects like Firefox are mountains above Chrome when it comes to privacy and not ceding web control over to Google. Yet any thread about anything Firefox is doing is just filled with FUD from people complaining about small individual changes or Firefox not being perfect enough, so on and so forth.

It’s self-sabotage. If you didn’t think Firefox is good enough, congratulations. Now you’ve got Chrome, and pretty soon you won’t have Firefox.

😒

Actually, reading stuff can be a bit of a high bar for some folks, unfortunately.

I think there’s a fundamental misunderstanding here.

All of the qualities that make a codebase easier to read, maintain, and consume by humans do the same things for LLMs.

A codebase designed for humans is a codebase that is designed for LLMs. It’s just that most teams don’t even know how to design a codebase for humans. And those same teams just kind of accept LLM and Agent Slop as “Designed for LLMs”. When it most definitely is not.

• Patternization
• Structural consistency
• Naming conventions
• Style Opinionation
• Organizational conventions
• Safety and Quality Standards
• …etc

All these things matter just as much for humans as they do for LLMs. And like I said previously, most human developers don’t understand these things and do not optimize for them anyways. Which means that most human developers are ill-equipped to create codebases that are not degrading rapidly under the use of agents.

This is a bit of a rant of mine… because I’ve spent the last decade learning how to optimize software engineering to best fit the needs of humans. Now that LLMs are crashing onto the scene, teams that already were writing slop by hand can now write slop at twenty times the rate. And then seem to think that all the things that make for good software no longer apply to them

What do you think LLMs were trained off of, my friend?

Funny enough, this threshold for what you find dirty or gross can cause a lot of relationship strife within a household as partners may have different thresholds for this.

Generally, the partner that has a lower threshold for when they feel like things are too dirty or too messy or too gross and it starts bugging them feels like they do most of the cleaning work because they start feeling stressed and end up cleaning earlier then the other.

The grand majority of businesses are smaller, medium-sized businesses, not huge corps that have golden parachute CEOs.

So, by doing this, all you would do is kill all your local businesses, and the large megacorps that you hate would happily swoop in and gobble them up and consolidate them and then enshitify them.

This would be like shooting yourself in the liver to spite your enemy.

Second-order effects are a thing. Laws and regulations need to target these large corporations who are abusing the tax system.

Does that include your local or regional convenience store or your local bakery or any of your local businesses as well, who would most definitely go out of business and go bankrupt because the grand majority of the revenue is spent in operating expenses.

I’m sure a ton of megacorps would love to buy up a bunch of new failing small businesses to enshitify and roll them into everything that you already hate. Funnelling money out of your local communities, making your local communities even poorer than they already are

That’s not money laundering, though. That’s just normal fucking loophole and corruption in our tax system that only the larger players get to really benefit from, while all the small players, a.k.a. all your local businesses or even regional businesses, usually aren’t large enough to take advantage of that sort of thing.

It makes plenty of sense for them to not be taxed on their gross revenue.

You’re thinking of this from a mega-corp standpoint when you should be thinking of this from a small business standpoint. Mega-corps really should be forced to abide by different rules, in my opinion.

Let’s imagine you own a bakery shop and it brought in $1,000,000 in revenue this year. You spent $400,000 on raw ingredients, $250,000 on salaries and personnel, and $150,000 on maintenance and equipment…etc

At the end of the year, your business would go bankrupt if it was expected to pay taxes on that million dollars, despite your operating expenditures eating up the grand majority of your year. Similarly, every dollar you spend and every dollar that is spent on wages or salaries is taxed anyways, first or second hand.

That’s why that exists.

It makes sense for small or even large businesses.

Where the whole thing breaks down is when you have mega corporations like we do today. Who have accumulated wealth, power, and influence well beyond the scope of what any of these laws and regulations were meant to handle

So, they are giving everyone a cut, effectively.

Not giving a raise means that everyone loses to inflation, so everyone essentially gets a pay cut for the privilege to continue working for this company.

This is also assuming that reading and writing are mutually exclusive.

The places where this level of storage density and longevity are valuable are places that are generating terabytes or tens of terabytes a day. Especially scientific research.

It is definitely an interesting development, and the lack of bit rot makes it incredibly useful as an archival system. However, I am curious if the surrounding hardware necessary to actually successfully read from it is going to be as long-lived. Similar to magnetic hard drives, I am sure the plates that are being written to need to exist in an extremely sterile and particle-free environment in order to be read and written to.

At 10MB/s it’d take you 416 days if constant writes to fill it up.

EXTREMELY slow archival.

At least for now, till it gets better

It’s a classic knee jerk from commenters who don’t know what they are talking about.

A tale as old as time.

… What?

Are you drinking your grandma’s bath water again?

Did you reply to the wrong comment? If not, I suggest you re-read the comment and re-check your reading comprehension.

Nowhere did I state anything similar to what you are saying.

I know you’re baiting me, and I know I’m taking the bait, but I expect better on Lemmy as opposed to Reddit.

This is like banning everything that is related to AI and then being surprised that your MRI results no longer are interpreted well because the ML models that have been used to do that for the last decade are no longer available.

Because you don’t know the difference between an LLM and other ML models, which, honestly, seems to be true for the majority of this thread.

No, they still rely on the Firefox engineering team to keep updating Firefox and to keep adding necessary additions for web standards, security updates, performance fixes, and so on and so forth.

All of these forks will fall behind web standards changes and effectively just become the Firefox flavor of Internet Explorer over time. It won’t happen overnight. You’re right about that, but it will most definitely happen over the course of a few years. Effectively handing full control over to Google and Chrome

All of these forks rely on Firefox to provide the hard bits in order to keep up with Chrome, or at least attempt to keep up with Chrome.

Building a browser is pretty damn hard, and honestly, it’s a miracle that even the Firefox engineering team has managed to do what they do, given they only have, at best, a quarter of the resources that Google puts towards their browser.

It’s a lot more than just video. It’s all your audio while you’re in the car. Your driving habits, your location, your devices, who is in the car with you so on and so forth.

There’s a ton of data that can be gathered and associated without having to have a camera.

If you ever talk in your car and it’s a modern car. Congratulations! That’s being recorded cataloged and sold off to the highest bidder.