Came off as abrasive, but your point stands.

Political support for the alt-right is booming across Europe. The last thing you European folks need to do is raise your nose at the American tire fire. Deal with your own, before its too late.

What would happen if a tanker was destroyed and spilled out there?

Imagine if you showed this to someone in ~2009.

So sick of seeing confidently incorrect people opining, using historical examples, when they have never before cracked open a history book and have no idea of the context.

This has always been the case through history.

The issue is Twitter boosts them over less engaging experts. The new problem is the medium. Twitter is not a fair forum, and these takes trend deliberately.

…And I think its really important for scientists (or anyone who believes in science) to recognize that. With all due respect, I do not understand, with everything that’s happened, why they still keep using Twitter.

Even not-fully-reproducible open-weights models are extremely important because they’re poison to OpenAI, and they know it. It makes what they’re trying to commodify and control effectively free and utilitarian.

But there are fully open models, too, with public training data.

It’s anticompetitiveness.

They want to squash open models, and anyone too small to comply with this.

I say this in every thread, but the real AI “battle” is open-weights ML vs OpenAI style tech bro AI. And OpenAI wants precisely no one to realize that.

Take the benchmarks with a grain of salt.

…And even then, performance differences like that can feel trivial on modern desktops.

But yes. Even in some real world situations of mine (like text boxes with 50K+ words), I find FF extensions really bog it down.

Adding to what others said:

Mobile browsers are very performance sensitive, compared to desktop. Adblocking extensions (in my experience) slurp battery, but native implementations use much less, hence other mobile-focused browsers (like Orion and Cromite) already tend to use native adblockers.

But it probably doesn’t matter as much on desktop.

The title is misleading. It’s using Brave’s open library without any of Brave’s nonsense.

This is fine. It’s like how Cromite lifted ABP, or Helium ships UBO themselves.

“With search ads enabled by default” just means it’s whitelisting StartPage’s minimal text-only ads. That kind of whitelisting is what I try to configure anyway.

These comments…

Some day, Steam is going to enshittify, eat game devs for breakfast, and all these Steam fans will wonder how anyone could have possibly seen this coming.

Kind of like a certain online bookstore named after a river.

Not that I don’t enjoy Steam. But I trust them as much as any corporation: not at all.