Gits are backed up and migrated quick, so I’m not as worried about that I suppose.

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Ubuntu is still on Twitter. You don’t want Ubuntu to quit before you do, do you?

If someone starts trying to make money off modified images via Grok, then that becomes a much easier case to win.

They can use it to farm engagement. Is that the same thing?

And yeah, that’s the icky part. This is a dream for spammers and “cheap SEO” types who don’t really care about copyright law in this context.

Sigh

Still. I don’t want to be on an internet where Chrome is basically the only develoment target, and for most sites to work properly you have to be on Google’s browser. Safari’s mere existance forces at least some generalization, but that disappears if Google pushes most of those users to Chrome anyway.

That’s the internet where Google has even more total control.

They should be worried. It’s pretty clear Mozilla’s leadership has “AI fever” that every CEO seems to be going mad with.

Still though, people need to take a breath. This isn’t Microsoft. And Mozilla’s “local first” approach is not bowing to Big Tech and the AI conmen like everyone else is (though the reality is that hardware isn’t ready for stuff outside of lightweight tasks).

That’s kind of a blessing in disguise; otherwise basically all web traffic would be Chrome.

Apparenty this is softening some: https://www.techspot.com/news/108965-japan-gives-apple-december-deadline-drop-ios-browser.html

And Safari is quite performant on iOS.

Maybe I’m too cynical, but I wouldn’t mind if that continues, just so there’s some chunk of traffic that isn’t Chrome and that web development doesn’t turn into a complete monoculture. A smidge of Firefox and Safari alone isn’t enough for that.

(EDIT: My assumption is that if Apple allows Chrome on iOS, you can bet they are going to funnel basically everyone into it).

Mozilla might be the only company trying to provide privacy first AI features.

They are not. There are boatloads of privacy friendly “AI” implementations, they just aren’t very high profile.

But I do think people are over-reacting. This is a less bad approach. And if you can turn it off and leave it off, what’s the big deal?

There are some good iOS browsers.

At the moment, I use Orion (from Kagi) and Narrow32. Quiche Browser is good, DuckDuckGo is fine.

Discoverability on iOS is awful though. The store is just packed with SEO spam and corporate slop on top of all the passion projects or “benevolent” ones.

I blocked /c/politics over this, but it seems like none of the big .world communities care about tabloid sourced/clickbait headlines.

And, unfortunately, clickbait works. They always float up to the top of Active.

Spread the word too! When it comes up.

I feel like a ton of people are in your situation but don’t know something like Slate exists.

Same with a lot of products TBH, especially software. Discoverability is really hard these days, with so much spam everywhere.

What you want is the upcoming Slate EV. It’s cheap, looks like an old Bronco, comes in 1 color, and there’s no factory infotainment system. There aren’t even any speakers, but the specifications are all open and it’s designed to easily allow you to install your own (or get a shop to do it).

The real answer is because it’s default.

People use what’s the default. It’s that simple. Any knowledge of how images are encoded is kind of unnecessary information for most folks.

There are a ton of technical and usage-based arguments around image formats, and political complications, but ultimately jpeg’s eternal dominance comes down to people using their app defaults, and wanting stuff to just work. And PNGs are big enough to create technical issues or incompatibilities, sometimes.

Wasn’t that the obvious deal from the beginning? You buy the subsidized hardware and ignore Facebook’s gravity as long as you can. That’s the catch for the low price.

Anyone who thought otherwise is, well, thinking wishfully.

I kept trying to hammer this on Lemmy, but no one listens :( Mods also seem uninterested in information hygiene.

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CPU makers can’t really make system memory affordably, unfortunately. That’s why it’s separate in the first place :(

Intel has actually done this in the past, with a little eDRAM cache for their integrated graphics on some older 5000 series CPUs, like the 5775C. It topped out at 128MB.

AMD already does something similar with their X3D CPUs, albeit with SRAM… it tops out at 64MB.

They will sell you a bigger version, with IIRC 768MB of L3 memory, for many thousands of dollars.

Another issue is that CPU designs take many, many years to go from initial idea to manufacturing, along with truckloads of cash. So they couldn’t even respond to this shortage in 2026 if they wanted to.

Another is that AMD outsources their manufacturing anyway, though not Intel.

Strix Halo (AI Max CPUs) are basically that.

But they’re still DDR5 hanging off a bus, manufactured in the same place as sticks, so that wouldn’t really affect the price.

I was just about to bang out that they must lose a lot of heat from the compression. But apparently not! That’s amazing.

I’m struggling to think of systems that would significantly outperform “75%+”. Chilled superconducting coils? Those are expensive, and would fail rather catastrophically.