The more AI is being pushed into my face, the more it pisses me off.
Mozilla could have made an extension and promote it on their extension store. Rather than adding cruft to their browser and turning it on by default.
The list of things to turn off to get a pleasant experience in Firefox is getting longer by the day. Not as bad as chrome, but still.
It’s both, and not a small amount of bytes.
Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours’ and adtech’s bandwidth.
Wasting resources isn’t a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.
the printing process requires much less energy and produces many fewer greenhouse gas emissions than traditional TFT manufacturing methods
A carbon tax would make this kind of production process more viable commercially than more polluting processes.
It’s necessary not only to have the technology, but also the right insentives.
“Unfortunately, the National Science Foundation program that we were pursuing funding from to continue working on this, called the Future Manufacturing program, was cut earlier this year. But we’re hoping to find a fit in a different program in the near future.”
It sounds like the US may not even have the technology with cuts to research. Don’t be surprised if another country leapfrog the US again in electronics production.
Contractual obligations and contract terms do not superseed laws. If anyone is doing something unlawful through Google or Amazon’s infrastructure, a NGO or union could sue in order to try to stop it.
No word on cost. That’s a red flag signaling a possible gadgetbahn. But this might not even qualify as badgetbahn since it’s not public transport.
Remove 1 lane, put a train track and some electric trains on it. It’s more cost effective, energy efficient, and has a much better track record.
Sure, but it’s still a serious problem even if it’s a side channel attack.
Almost everyone rely on the OS/hardware providing some isolation. People often install shady apps, and browsers automatically execute JS/bytecode from random website they visit. It’s best to have defense in depth, not assume people are perfect at avoiding malicious apps/websites.
Big oil prefer us to feel hopeless about climate change, rather than doing something about it and aiming one’s anger at them.
Think about which actions, even small ones, you can take to reduce dependency on fossiel fuel, and oppose big oil, without breaking the law.
It could be individual or collective action.
Well done noyb!
Meanwhile, Nvidia has promised to pump $100 billion into OpenAI over the next decade, a move that will conveniently help OpenAI pay for Nvidia’s own chips.
OpenAI and NVIDIA’s future are getting tied together more than they already were
I doubt “Not on Amazon” would be a selling point. If merchant have put up with it this far, it’s probably because Amazon bring sales.
If leaving allow selling at a lower price, that would definitely be a selling point. But they would need a solid online store, their own or another markeplace.
The path to a better Amazon doesn’t lie through consumer activism, or appeals to the its conscience. Corporations, being artificial, immortal colony-organisms that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to.
A great argument for efficient regulation.
That surprised me. I always try to buy from the manufacturer’s website or official reseller rather than Amazon to avoid such bullshit. Apparently that’s not enough.
If brands selling on Amazon are overpriced, everywhere, could favoring brands that do NOT sell on Amazon help find products with a fair price?
Ford and General Motors have come up with a temporary solution: buying all their own EVs before the credit expired, then leasing those vehicles to customers through dealerships at a $7,500 discount
Nice loophole
Kudos to Microsoft workers who risked and lost their job to protest the company providing services to the israelly military.
Given the duration of the outage, I guess the company has both a complex computer system that’s all networked, and doesn’t have a solid disaster recovery plan.
Neat.
DNS over Quic would be nicer, but that’s still a move toward more privacy.
Yep, using ChatGPT is a way to increase one’s environmental footprint.
And the energy cost doesn’t appear to be fully passed to users yet, as OpenAI isn’t profitable yet. There are even free LLM services. So users don’t have an insentive to prefer less polluting alternatives, such as classic search engines.
Well, think again.