To be fair here, no one’s certain this will be cost-effective either. The new techs make it worth trying though.

I’m surprised it’s not mentioned in the article, but also complicating this situation is the Chagos refugees seeking to take control of the TLD and/or receive reparations from the current registrar.

Their relationship had been kind of good until recently as there has been an uptick in dissatisfaction on the status quo of Taiwan’s political status (unspoken independence) — mostly on China’s side, but also from some Taiwanese.

They remain important trading partners for each other, though.

If there were a way I could load Lineage on it, maybe. Not interested in a device locked to Amazon’s firmware.

They don’t mention what the offer is. Very easily could be a stock-based deal where Intel stockholders get a portion of the combined company. That’s how T-Mobile bought Sprint.

NetSurf is a very barebones browser. It can fill a niche, but is not a daily driver where other options are available.

Firefox everywhere. It’s not perfect, but is still the closest a browser gets.

Unless I need a PWA on desktop, then Edge (windows) or ungoogled chromium (linux).

Nvidia is diversified in AI, though. Disregarding LLM, it’s likely that other AI methodologies will depend even more on their tech or similar.

I guess I don’t really see why generative AI is a necessity for a search engine? It doesn’t really help me find information any faster than a Wikipedia summary, and is less reliable.

GNOME Web stopped using Gecko as a backend when it was still embeddable. They decided on WebKit for other reasons.

Why would they need to tie that telemetry to people in order to use it to inform their own development (as it states as the purpose, and is the purpose of all their telemetry as far as I know).

If a third party app store provides a tool or service to improve their app store, should apple expect to be able to use that for free? Negating any benefit that third party would get for developing such an improvement

Sideloaded apps aren’t asking for benefits from being in Apple’s app store. They’re asking to be allowed to exist on Apple’s platform without being fined for it.

Apple has used other platform API and tooling at no added cost the same way everyone everyone else does. iTunes and Safari used to run on Windows. Apple provides AppleTV+ apps for several platforms. And there’s a number of apps they make for Android.

Apple already charges developers for access to their APIs and tooling. What Apple is doing with the per-install cost is trying to charge developers for access to their audience — which is not what the EU intended.

When my co-workers get terminated for political criticism? Yeah, I would. Lots of tech workers would and do — remember the Blizzard walkout several years ago? At the very least, this is the type of thing that spurs white collars to form unions.

I’m honestly somewhat surprised that these firings haven’t triggered a mass walkout or something at Google offices yet. They’re being very cavalier with employees they spend so much effort (at least historically) on keeping in the office to work “free” hours.

But you can’t just wait until every phone on the planet supports it.

The proper approach is simply to have the app check the hardware decode capabilities of the device and use the best option. Pretty sure that’s what YT has always done for codec transitions in the past.

Forcing AV1 on devices without hardware decode will end up making users think their battery is starting to wear out, even with the better software decoder’

DDG also has a partnership with Firefox. It’s one of the selectable engines included in Firefox (at least in the US).

Bigger problems that the FCC can address right now?

VPN use likely spiked in South Korea recently as well, since being blocked by Twitch.

Knowing how hard something is can be a larger barrier than not knowing. But the main barrier preventing space colonies is the same thing preventing ocean colonies — “Why?”. What motivation is there to settle space? Exploration and experimentation can be done for motivation of seeing if we can, but settling needs known payoff both for the settlers and the funders.

Asteroid mining is the only current suggested motivation for such a thing. And it’s very possible that by the time we figure out asteroid capture, we won’t need humans present for that work.

Which point would that be?