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We will develope a new API in partnership with AI providers that allows for tighter integration with our browser. To the point, a user can easily make it agentic if they want to. Or they can opt into the parts they want.
We are starting a new team that will work with such AI developers to ensure that the plugins they deploy both properly notify/request user permissions and only send the data they say they will.

That's the "Let's go AI!" while also being "We aren't sheep!" message.

Firefox should be the "user choice" browser

I also hope Embark do the right thing and get VAs back in to voice quests and cut scenes.
Use the generated voice for items and locations only. Maybe, as an emergency, for continuity.

I guess it gives them unbelievable leverage over the VAs: "We are offering you $10 to do 4 hours of voice lines. Or we will just use the model we have already trained".
Which then puts even more downwards pressure on VA wages.

I bet Embark has made bank, and it would be a massive PR win to get the VAs back in at an industry standard rate to do the quests and cutscenes.

Pretty much any mikrotik is a fantastic piece of kit to have.
It is so unbelievably versatile.
I love the various mikrotik routers, switches and APs I have. I use them all the time for little ad-hoc networks and projects and stuff.
You will learn a lot about networking when using them.

But Unifi is a hell of a lot easier to use, and I have not found anything I can't do on unifi (but I don't do bgp, mlag, etc at home).

Mine is named "Searching..."

It's caught a few friends out

Lithium ion batteries cannot go in the hold.
They are a huge amount of stored chemical energy that wants to turn into a fire, and fires on airplanes are one of the most dangerous things. Fires in the hold even more so.

Lithium ion batteries need to be carry on, so if they do try and start a fire they can be quickly spotted and dealt with

sudo is a command that "does" something as "super user"

Fun fact, it originally stood for "superuser do", however it now stands for "substitute user do" as it can "do" as any user - it's just that the default user argument is root (IE super user)

Pretty sure all ram manufacturers are Korean? I guess China puts chips on PCBs, maybe? But South Korea has the knowledge . And it had met domestic demand. RAM prices have been acceptable for many many years.
It's the AI sector that is inflating demand (maybe by circular investment and contracts).
So, I don't see anyone investing 10 years into the future to make ddr6 ram where their business plan relies on current trends.

It must take so much R&D to achieve anything remotely comparable to what Samsung, Micron (/Crucial... RIP) and SK Hynix can produce.

Fingers crossed they can either undercut the 3(now 2) big producers, which is doubtful. But hopefully they can help reduce the maximum price that decent memory can inflate to. Because at some point a medium sized customer is gonna get fed up of the Samsung/micron/skHynix bullshit, and custom order the ram they need, and such a smaller producer will provide a much better service for a similar price

Only for multi CPU mobos (and that would be pinning a thread to a CPU/core with NUMA enabled where a task accessed local ram instead of all system ram). Even then, I think all ram would run at the lowest frequency.
I've never mixed CPUs and RAM speeds. I've only ever worked on systems with matching CPUs and ram modules.

I think the hardware cost and software complexity to achieve this is beyond the cost of "more ram" or "faster storage (for faster swap)"

Windows defender uses Blockchain? Why?

Edit:
Oh, I get it. The virus mines crypto. Antivirus stops the virus. Hence I have a good antivirus.
Went way over my head

Never had Blockchain forced into operating systems

Thank you for confirming I haven't seriously misread something here.
Felt like I was taking crazy pills for a second there!

Yeh, they did.
They were extremely smart people.
And they considered the possibility of that happening.
They calculated the probability of it happening, considered their known-unknowns and unknown-unknowns in their calculations, and concluded the possibility (including their error margin) was so incredibly low that it wouldn't happen.
And they were right.

A scary prospect, to be sure.
But ultimately, that's what experts do.
Anyone can build a bridge that will stay up, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that only barely stays up.

I mean, I guess? Kinda?

You said you didn't know the specific on the bombs dropped.
Ok, so 0 information on the bomb dropped.

But that Chernobyl created a massive cloud of fallout that impacted neighbouring countries and caused acid rain.
Well, that's true. But that wasn't a fusion explosion.

So, it felt like you were trying to relate 2 unrelated things. Like an apples-to-oranges situation.

I feel that I clarified that the bombs dropped were designed to converted all fusable material to energy. They were literally designed to weaponise fusion.
And that the fallout from Chernobyl wasn't caused by material turning into energy (ie fusion), but from particle dispersion.

So, I guess.
In that you said you had 0 knowledge of Thing A, and stated an unrelated fact about Thing B. Where both things are true, and are related by the fact that nuclear fuel is involved. But that's as far as the relationships go

But everything you said after "yes" does nothing to support the "yes"

Pretty sure the fallout from Chernobyl was all the radioactive particles dispersed into the atmosphere by the initial explosion of reactor 4, and the subsequent fires of radioactive and contaminated materials.
Literally a "dirty bomb" dispersing radioactive material, instead of the radioactive material being converted directly to energy

consume the whole atmosphere

They weren't concerned about rock getting involved.
The concern was that the extreme temperature and pressure caused by the fission event would trigger fusion events of the nitrogen in the atmosphere, which would lead to a chain reaction of fusion of the atmosphere.

https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/could-a-nuclear-explosion-set-earths-atmosphere-on-fire/

Trumps "Epstein Ballroom" will now come with a complimentary giga-yacht. In other (completely unrelated) news, the WB-Netflix merger has gone through.

Important stuff isn't a plain white envelope.
Important stuff isn't sent just once, you get reminder letters.
So, I can sort the post another day because it looks like it hasn't changed since yesterweek

The game that rewards solving puzzles with more puzzles.
Such a cool game