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e40on Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

Why would you disable "dom.text_fragments.enabled"? Why "privacy.query_stripping.strip_on_share.enabled"?

The latter, especially, seems helpful.

e40on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

How so (genuinely curious)?

e40on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

I do agree this is a possible explanation, but there is another:

The avarice and narcissism of our leader, along with all the yes-people, grifters and people devoid of ethics and morals he has assembled around him have led to the current situation. Also, it appears a lot of people in the administration are not very smart, but think they are. We can never underestimate the damage that can be done by a stupid person that thinks they are smart. In this case, these people have incredible amounts of power.

e40on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

Meanwhile, China has "genius camps" for young people, to skim off the cream of the cream of the crop, so they can go on to do amazing things for their country. It blows my mind what we've done in the last year, to damage our ability to compete on the world stage.

e40on AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

> Boris said that writing code is a solved problem

That's just so dumb to say. I don't think we can trust anything that comes out of the mouths of the authors of these tools. They are conflicted. Conflict of interest, in society today, is such a huge problem.

e40on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)

We've already lost the battle to prevent catastrophic change:

https://davidsuzuki.org/story/is-it-too-late-to-escape-clima...

And 7 of 9 boundaries have been crossed?

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-bound...

This is starting to look more like the movie _Don't Look Up_.

e40on America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital

I don't think a ban is required. Other countries (in the EU?) have put restrictions on it that prevent the abuses you see in the US. Why don't we do that? Because US Congress has been neutered and that appendage of US politics has withered and died.

e40on Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

Come on, that's a very lazy answer. I'm in CA and have never heard that visiting a nude beach can get you on that registry.

e40on Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

How can visiting a nude beach get be a trigger?

e40on The Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso's Airspace

This is what you get when you put idiots in charge. Also called consequences.

e40on Evolving Git for the Next Decade

Competition is good for an ecosystem.

e40on Gemini 3 Deep Think

And it gives incorrect answers about itself and google’s services all the time. It kept pointing me to nonexistent ui elements. At least it apologizes profusely! ffs

e40on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

Seemed like it was more than that, but the comment is ambiguous. I took it to mean "show me all the commands which are shadowed" not "is this command shadowed"...

e40on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

Care to share?

e40on My AI Adoption Journey

Does this essentially give the companies controlling these models access to our source code? That is, it goes into training future versions of the model?

e40on My AI Adoption Journey

For those of working on large proprietary, in fringe languages as well, what can we do? Upload all the source code to the cloud model? I am really wary of giving it a million lines of code it’s never seen.

e40on Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award

I appreciate the reply.

On a podcast recently and they talked a lot about his influence, but didn't play any music. And, when I went to look for it on YT, I didn't find the items you referenced. Thanks!

e40on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce

I have noticed a dramatic decline in human scam calls and a commensurate increase in ai calls.

e40on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce

The phrase playing with fire comes to mind.

e40on How not to securely erase a NVME drive (2022)

That was way longer than I expected. Wow.

e40on Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award

It’s sad that we don’t have recordings of his work, and all we really have are people’s recollections of him.

e40on Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt

Porn?

e40on ICE expands power of agents to arrest people without warrants

They will keep expanding their powers until they are stopped. We need to find the best way to stop them. Economic boycott? Not sure protest works, other than giving them excuses for violence.

e40on Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers

What? A 5 minute drive is miles, and that's plenty far enough. They are currently being built within 100 meters of homes. It's absolutely insane.

EDIT: https://youtu.be/t-8TDOFqkQA?si=Qa9ot70MylFp6qkE

Just watch that and not get hoppin' mad.

e40on Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers

The idea that data centers have to be built near homes (or anywhere people live or work) is absurd. The US is huge and vast amounts of open spaces.

e40on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE

Everything is a projection with these people. Including the pedophilia.

e40on Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults

"civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army"

I don't know if you're from the US, but here, militia applies solely to civilian groups and not government ones.