I mean, I think there should be a medium. Governments don’t need that power either.
In other words, I think this movement should be placing more blame on corporate lobbying and monopolies, too. But not let up on the censorship efforts from govts.
A little too corporate friendly here.
Not that I oppose the idea, but also, Big Tech wants a kind of narrower censorship… so they can be the defacto gatekeepers, and no one else.
They all have one! In the attic, with an amp. I installed them myself.
It’s not the same as the Roku TV app though. Those channels are like older person catnip, and the duplicated ones don’t cut out unpredictably.
It’s also understandably difficult for some folks to remember how to change TV input, rescan channels and such.
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Tons of older folks (like my Mom, grandma, my aunts) have Rokus set up to replace cable. They don’t know how to operate individual apps, but they love Roku TV (which pops up by default), and kinda just watch whatever comes in.
So… Yeah.
That’s not worrying at all.
But scientific studies suggest alcohol physically toxic to kids! Social media is…
Well…
Also shown to be toxic. Like, measurably dangerous to your health.
(And I agree about the IDs. Honestly this should be done for alcohol too).
I mean, if you are using plain Chrome, you can kiss any semblance of tracking protection goodbye. And it is going to get more anti features in the future.
Believe me, I understand not having the energy to address a pile of tech issues; I have them too. But it’s not too bad if you decide to switch, either, as all browsers can import settings from each other.
For corporate use, it’s very good. But the immediate advantage is cost.
The open source models are sparse, and use an efficient architecture. They are very efficient to run.
You can pick from hundreds of competing providers (including those using specialized ASICs), rent GPUs, or run your own server internally.
I’d say the big unrealized advantage is flexibility. Companies can fine tune the big open models to their specific tasks, and even host a “mixture of Loras” as a set of specialized models. They can constrain output at the sampling level, and cache context programmatically. They can use raw completion syntax creatively, or train task vectors real quick. There’s all sorts of neat hacking to be done, but the issue is that 99.9% of businesses have no idea because they’re used to getting chat response tokens from a black box like Claude.
Now… as a pure, turnkey, “cost is no object” agenic worker? Clause is a but better, most of the time. But not always, these days, especially if speed, long context or other things are factors.
Also… the “unspoken” business issue is that most big open models are from China.
It’s stupid. It’s just a block of weights in an open source harness, no more security risk than (say) a tire on a car. But try explaining that to decision makers who don’t really understand the tech and are afraid of getting hacked.
But Nvidia has a pretty good big MoE now, and there a number of “laundered” finetunes of Chinese models, so even that’s hardly an excuse anymore. It’s just a matter of time before word gets around, businesses realize Claude is never going to replace their employees (just augment them), and look for cheaper and more controlled solutions.
Indeed. Though they are still two versions away from depreciation:
https://github.com/imputnet/helium/issues/1746
No idea how they’ll handle it, but yeah, they could lift Brave’s engine. Cromite also has its own adblocker they could pull in as a patch.
Nope. Ublock lite was made for Manifest V2 depreciation, specifically.
It’s not as effective as full UBlock though. I notice it missing elements or bugging some pages out when I use it on others’ PCs.
AFAIK mobile Chromium doesn’t use extensions.
But if you do, full Ublock will definitely stop working.
Yes, it will. It’s already very finicky with chrome, and it will stop working:
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on-Chromium-browsers
This will also be an existential issue for downstream browsers that ship Ublock, like Helium (though forks with their own blocker engine like Cromite or Brave will continue to work).
I found Zen to be lightweight, actually. It seems to use a hair less RAM than vanilla FF, and the UI can be extremely minimal.
I’m not sure I’d recommend Ladybird or Orion for general use yet. Orion is still getting there on Linux, ladybird is in deep development.
…Why not a good fork? Like Zen, Librewolf, or if you need Chromium compatibility, Helium?
Misleading headline, as UBlock Origin Lite will work.
….Which is what the vast majority of Chrome users would be using now anyway. Using full Ublock requires a ton of manual hoops (or a Chromium fork) already, and basically no one using plain Chrome at this point is gonna do that.
Not that this is okay.
I’m just saying it’s misleading. Full Ublock has already been evicted from Chrome for like 99.99% of its users, and sadly, they didn’t seem to care.
Yeah, +1
I think most write this off as a “MMO,” with the grindy hotbar and such, but it doesn’t feel like a WoW clone. Like (unfortunately) SWTOR did to me.
That’s a lot of vagueness though.
I’m interested in something physical. Something I could buy, that could realistically upgrade an Arc B580 in (say) indie games, or KCDII, or llama.cpp.
This is nowhere close yet.
And I dont doubt they’re getting investment, but I’m just skeptical because I’ve seen this story a hundred times before, even in China. And even then, what’s promised to be general hardware often evolves into something for a very nich need. As a recent example, see Tenstorrent.
My feelings:
Neat.
Future is interesting.
But proof is not in the puddin’ yet.
It’s easy to say “they’ll scale it up. They’ll get to optimizing the software,” but I’ve seen waaay too many hardware makers mess up that step, and fade into the vast graveyard of their peers.
Like, does anyone remember Centaur’s exciting, 8 core x86 CPUs, with a huge block for ML inference, from about a decade ago?
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/via-part-4-a-deep-dive-into-centaurs-last-cpu-core-cns
It was competitive with Zen 1, not even counting the accelerator.
The answer is “probably not.” Even the Wikichip Fuse writeups on the architecture are gone.
And then we barrel towards regulatory capture, as the very biggest corporations can just lobby to their benefit.
The page touches on this:
So I think govt should go after the most manipulative corporate offenders, but not create a situation where they can have so much control over individuals. In other words, no one should have that kind of manipulative power, and its the govt’s role to break it up wherever it pops up, not take control of it.