For everyone who wants to know why it’s endangered (like i did): Because of a fungus that originally grew on the japanese chestnut variant (starting in the early 1900s), to which the american chestnut has no resistance - it is estimated that in in first half of that century, three to four billion tree died to that fungus. In the original geographic range of the American chestnut, only 4 mature trees remain. There are still some root systems that sprout saplings, but they get killed off by the fungus quickly. There are some enclaves in other areas that still have a few hundred, like in northern Michigan

Wanted to ask exactly that - I don’t care too much about blocking wifi because repeaters are a thing, but mobile reception is gonna suck big time. If this is going to be widely adopted, we will be back in the times of searching the spot with the least worst reception.

FIFA is a mafia-like structure, and they get more emboldened world cup after world cup.

kill everyone with a pacemaker, disable emergency systems, create traffic chaos

I didn’t read the headline fully and only midway through the article i realized it was about Iran, not Israel.

It uses a Form Post - I recommend navigating to the DDG Lite site, right click on your search bar (you might have to add it if you removed it by using “Costumize Toolbar”), and select to add it. Edit: just realized ithis also works in the address bar, no fiddling around needed. Edit2: But it does not work consistently - the search bar variant always works.

They don’t have their own index, but they implement a whole lot of other indexes (Scopia, Yahoo, Bing, Wikis, YaCy, Netluchs, Exalead, Yandex, Die ZEIT, OneNewspage, Infotiger). The 3 big indexes are the ones that charge metager for providing search results, and those costs are what you pay for, and since it’s a non-profit (https://suma-ev.de/), the costs are close to what you would pay if you had access to API pricing.

Per default it uses Brave’s index, Mojeek’s index and Google’s Index via Serper. You can switch off whatever index you do not want. It also respects quotes and +/- in searches. There are no sponsored search results. You can open pages using their anonymous proxy when clicking “Open Anonymously”. This is a Screenshot of a search using Brave and Google’s Index.

NVidia is the one selling shovels to the golddiggers, a business that always was a profitable one. If AI goes bust, they can go back to selling GPUs to gamers.
Microsoft makes profit because they get paid by OpenAI for their Azure platform.
Facebook makes profit because of ads? Don’t know why they were even mentioned here, their AI experiments seem mainly invested in making better bots for their platforms.

No AI Company is profitable in any way, and barring some technological breakthrough, they never will be. Currently it’s all subsidized with huge dollar amounts by venture capitalists. The problem is that inference is expensive (You need a specialized datacenter for Nvidias new hardware, the hardware itself is expensive, the training of models costs a lot and you can never stop training new ones just to keep up with the joneses, you need lots of power to run all of this, and the GPUs used have to be replaced on the regular).

At the moment it all gets propped up by the largest financing rounds ever, and that is without even counting the Venture Capital that gets funneled to OpenAI/Anthropic through AI startups.

Especially the subscription model will disappear very soon. Users with 200$ Subscriptions blow through tokens costing a multitude of what they pay. API pricing per token will be the default, and those prices will make every single AI startup weep as soon as the subsidies disappear, and then close up shop, which will be the beginning of the end for OpenAI/Anthropic.

I switched to MetaGer long ago. No AI bullshit, no trackers, no ads, you pay a pittance per search to cover the costs of your search. I started using it 8 months ago and i still haven’t used up the 10€ i charged my account with. They are run by a non-profit, and it’s FOSS under AGPL3.

My first reaction to this headline, coming from a german speaking country, was that it sounds like a neonazi hitpiece (it wouldn’t be the first time that neonazis would spread allegations like this).

The article quickly made me realize that those allegations have a lot of substance and credibility.

Any zionists here who wanna explain why i now have to say that some fucking nazis had a point?

The human answer was more helpful, but the AI answer sounds metal af

Magyar is a conservative, but there are differences - his policies are 100% not the same as Orbans. There’s a big difference between being actively hostile towards LGBT and the neutral stance Magyar has taken. Since Magyar has been voted in by a very wide coalition of people with differing views on LGBT issues, this is probably the best he can do regardless of his own views to prevent fracturing of his voter base.

Good question, I do not know. The GitHub repo removal was obviously Microsofts retalitaion, I can only think of MS pressuring GitLab, playing the “abuse” angle as a reason for the GitLab removal.

I don’t think so - from how i understand it, everything where you upload a file to a server to edit it there wouldn’t work at all.

The flow looks like this:
You select a file for upload - the browser creates a file in OPFS storage representing the original file - any change you make serverside are replicated to the copy in OPFS storage - when you save the file, you don’t actually have to download it, but the file gets moved from OPFS to wherever you save the file. This prevents long downloads and a lot of warnings (if you would download the file in the classic way, the OS would flag it with the Mark of the Web even tho it is your own file, triggering smartscreen on Windows) and the file in OPFS storage is encrypted because of HTTPS.

it’s explained in detail here: https://web.dev/articles/origin-private-file-system

I looked it up - Firefox does not allow OFPS storage in private mode since November 2022 , so that is an option at least.

Ah just like me then lol, i welcome you my brother

Barbarians. This is the system the .ml Tankies are pushing. Inexcusable.

Similar here. My nightmares wake me up when i want to sleep, until i am too exhausted to stay awake. Currently i am often afraid to go to sleep because of those IMAX-Style hyperreal dreams, which makes the problem even worse.

I’m the guy who didn’t sleep right for the last 3 years. Anyone wants to trade? You get a lot of extra time that you don’t spend sleeping!