Honestly, I’m scared to remind people now. Lest Paramount “revise” TOS and TNG.

It’s even a vast majority in China.

That’s a little surprising.

Helium.

Comes with full (not lite) UBlock, but Chromium based. It’s excellent.

To be fair, some sites/things don’t work with Firefox, and keeping up with Chromium derivatives is a difficult task.

Hence most default to Brave. They got the SEO. They got the marketing money and socials hype.

You have to dig deep into the internet to find Helium, Vivaldi, Cromite, Ungoogled Chromium, or whatever the fork de jure is. And that’s if you miss all the scamware.

I dunno. Psychologically, buyers don’t like an upfront tax. It’s just how our monkey brains are.

…How about an EV tax proportional to vehicle mass, or maybe battery mass/capacity? With a cutoff for tiny, cheap EVs. This would tax commercial vehicles and ridiculous luxury EVs like the Hummer EV, but incentivize small EVs or plug in hybrids. And it “makes sense” because heavy, long range vehicles wear roads more.

I assumed it would be wholesale prices. I guess cracking and refining oil yourself, or brewing biofuel, would be the analogue to backyard solar or whatever.

Part of the point is that “home gas” for local commutes and such is hilariously impractical, whereas that’s not the case for EVs.

How about an EV fast charger tax? Same as gas.

If you charge at home, it’s tax free. Just like a gas tank in your back yard would be, I assume.

I think Republicans would buy that too, as it’s still technically “EV negative” and not very visible to constituents (just like the gas tax).

Mistral’s saying this because they dropped the ball themselves. Don’t believe the tech bro “we need fields of data centers to do anything” myth.

That’s code for “please help us be anticompetitive”

It’s also a bit laughable, as a lot of US AI firms are going to implode, messily. And expose all the “innovation” the tech bros sucked away.

That being said, vague and conflicting EU law is choking Mistral and anyone in EU tech, too. What anyone in the chain is liable for, how training is going to be regulated by govt, what’s the standard for end users, it’s all as clear as mud.

They should make coherent rules. EU AI regulation should be strict, that’s not the issue; the issue is what they have now makes no sense.

Hence, few in research and no one in business wants to touch the EU with a ten foot pole. Even oldschool ML is choked, and tech literacy among those trying to clarify the rules seems to be about zero.

That sounds better and worse. An attack could persist past one specific version without anyone noticing for a bit.

It’s absolutely mad that LLM hallucinations are “socially accepted,” and that the population seems to be kept ignorant of them. It’d be like not requiring a license to drive cars, and completely obscuring anything about how they work, locking steering behind a corporate subscription connection, and then calling running people over a “cost of advancement; the next car will be better, we promise!”

…I know why.

Education would reduce engagement. Big Tech can’t have that.

But still. It’s mad. These text models should be presented as primitive aids, like they were designed to be. Not freaking do-anything magic lamps.

To be fair, the crown’s only “worth” is as a collectable.

It’s not equivalent to, say, 750,000,000 kg of Nutella. E.g £5 billion of Nutella. You can’t just sell it and distribute the Nutella, it has to be manufactured for £billions worth of work.

The crown has no utility. Its gems don’t do anything productive, relative to their value. It can’t pay engineers and farmers and such wages to make Nutella, because what are they gonna do with 1/10,000th of a crown?

Practically, if the UK govt sold all royal stuff, what would happen is some ultra-rich would buy it, and… sit on it, at the expense of other collectables they’d have bought instead. That doesn’t improve much.

Yeah, agreed. eBay is notorious for being brutal on sellers, taking them down rather easily.

Scam listings are still everywhere though.

See: Facebook.

All this can be fixed in Windows 11. One can neuter it to faster-than-Windows 10.

…Thing is, if default Windows 11 is so bad, why spend weeks and weeks learning how to mess with it? For the same mental energy, learn partitioning and install Linux, or W10 like OP.

Eh, to be fair, this is an appropriate meme because of what her company does, per the website:

We optimize your cloud spend, automate your savings, and give you enterprise-level pricing, at no cost to you! Average cloud savings: 30%.

It’s just meme marketing.

Radiologist used computer aids almost as long as they’ve read digital scans, including various iterations of machine learning based ones.

This is huge, but “outperforming” is a misleading title. In practice, this this would be tool on a radiologist’s monitor. As they’re flipping through scans, it would flag this with a blinking notification, prompt them to squint at the spot, and likely confirm its warning (like existing tools already do in, say, highly detailed breast cancer scans).

And that’s what machine learning should be. Continuously finetuned, laser-focused tools that are uncannily good at their specific job, checked by humans (so the job is faster and less tedious).

“Replacements” only in the sense that maybe you need fewer radiologists.

And don’t let literal sociopaths in the tech world tell you otherwise.

They’re specifically trying to emulate food people know (like burger patties). In that context, I think versioning makes sense: “this is our 1st attempt, our second is closer, our third is…”

And it’s something you buy if you specifically want emulation.

You aren’t wrong: direct, less processed diets are better. I’m just saying that this food is for a more narrow purpose.

It completely depends what you use your computer for.

For example, do you game? DRM free or no, and where are they installed? On a seperate drive?

What about work stuff? Media? The larger question I’m getting at is “how much of what you do is portable, and easy to just plop on a USB stick, reinstall from the internet, or just leave on a second drive already in your desktop?”

Briefly, Beyond Burger burger patties were cheaper in a (U.S.) Costco than the equivalent Morton’s patties.

It got me to try their v3 forumula… and its actually really good. You have to grill the snot out of it, but it’s good.

V2 was awful. And so salty it made my skin tingle.

V3 is like night and day.