Which is funny, because they’ve already been ruled a monopoly and that gravy train is going to be gone.

At the heart of the case are billions of dollars’ worth of exclusive agreements Google has inked over the years to become the default search engine on browsers and devices across the world. According to the court, Google’s 2021 payment to Mozilla for the default position on its browser was more than $400 million, about 80 percent of Mozilla’s operating budget. A spokesperson for Mozilla said it was “closely reviewing” the decision and “how we can positively influence the next steps.”

Source

God, I hate that. I find search results all the time (that don’t involve google) that are now completely different :/

Like… I was looking for that specific search.

Sort of funny when you consider all of the information in the dossier was public information already…

Lol, what a great title

but Mars L1 Lagrange point is only 2.2million km [from the sun]

I… don’t think that’s true? The L1 point is fairly close (in solar system scale) to the planet.

In the future it is quite possible that an inflatable structure(s) can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 Gauss) as an active shield against the solar wind."

Indeed, “in the future” seems to be doing quite a lot of heavy lifting. As noted, 1-2 Tesla is a pretty powerful magnet - so you’d need a pretty big and powerful magnet.

It also doesn’t completely protect the entire planet just two critical points on the surface.

That is certainly an important catch.

Mars gets roughly half the light of Earth, so I don’t think Solar panels would be realistic (how much solar panel surface would you need to power a magnet of that size?)

I’m also not sure a nuclear reactor is realistic - forget the nuclear waste, how do you get rid of the heat waste?

You’d need quite a big magnet operating at a level akin to superconducting magnets in particle accelerators.

Perhaps someone could calculate more accurate numbers and feasibility, but to me, it currently sounds very out of reach for us (not impossible, mind you).

You just put a giant magnet in space at Mars’ L1 Lagrange point

Well, that’s a lot saner than nuking the poles.

Doesn’t seem like we’re near technical feasibility, though - how would you power such a massive magnet in space?

Not surprising - many scientists fled to Mastodon when he first took over. What took them so long?

I mostly agree, but I think voice notes for close friends/family probably have a point.

At this point, I would also argue that texts/emails are also for time critical things since voice calls are essentially dead at this point.

99.99999% of the phone calls I get are spam. I haven’t gotten a new voice mail in like 6 months.

Must be nice to a functional telecommunications agency that has the tools to punish soammers.

Really sucks for more technical things, and also when you’re in a situation that doesn’t allow for audio (such as those that are deaf, or when viewing articles at work).

Trying to follow a video tutorial for programming when you could have the code in a syntax highlighted code block that is copyable…

To be fair, smart TVs are terrible enough to leave disconnected from the internet…

Is it? I don’t think anyone gets a pass on supporting a nazi.

Unfetted capitalism is ultimately a self-masticating ouroboros.

It’s not like Musk is known to sexually harass his employees, or anything. /s

While anticheat is definitely a weak spot (though, it doesn’t have to be…) - the Steam Deck and Proton demonstrate it’s pretty mature for playing most games.

Alternatively: Twitter announces end of livestreaming feature - gives up to Twitch and YouTube.

Strange, it still refers to itself as formally Twitter.

Trying to get it to work with ActivityPub seems like it makes Threads at all redundant…

Alternatively, just stop using Nazitter.

Apparently, never heard of hobbies or seen an open source project.

Thanks, I hate it.

Now not only do you get fake news, you get fake fake news.

Is it “fully X” if they still refer to it as Twitter?

Sort of makes you realize how daunting self driving cars are.

RISC-V itself is open source, and this board seems fairly open

Maybe they just need a friend to fill in the void that they’re trying to fill with power and money.

Which we won’t get with Ford deciding instead to focus on hybrids.

Instead, the Blue Oval wants to focus on making more hybrids instead and says it will have hybrid options for all its internal combustion engine-powered vehicles by 2030.

Also, apparently, people quite like the EV Mustang.

But with Mustang Mach-E sales up 77 percent to 9,589 sold, and a 148 percent growth for the E-Transit, Ford is the country’s second-bestselling EV brand.

This.

If automakers were truly scared, Ford wouldn’t be scaling back it’s EV plans.

Amazing that a company so focused on AI would lay off their entire team for the language that is the foundation of AI research and runs the web’s largest video site — after record profits and their first time offering dividends.

Seems like there’s not many sources for this particular story, perhaps this is slightly better?

For most people (for the time being), the most important benchmark will be how the emulator/translation layer performs for their most common programs.

Chrome, Firefox, and more obviously already have ARM builds, but most programs do not, not to mention device drivers that will need to be recompiled for ARM.

There’s an Arstechnica article that goes into it, hopefully it works well and both MacOS, Windows, and Linux users will be able to reap the resulting benefits

This plus the installation of bullshit games like Candy Crush (glares at Samsung)…

Redefine the internet and the definition of web 3.0 - the future should be decentralized and interoperable, not a bag holding contest for the ultra wealthy.

As long as it doesn’t crawl down stairs, we’re good.

Elon is fucking weird.

The account

One post replying to bitcoin advocate Michael Saylor asked whether he liked “Japanese girls” and another response to a post about FTX employee Caroline Ellison included the reply “I [heart] librarians”.

Confirmation of operating the account

I still contend that “web3” is nothing but cryptoscams.

“Web 3.0” is the fediverse.

Announcing stuff is great, but it’s not yet 2025.

That also would mark only 2 models, as great as a 100% increase is.

Toyota should sign with someone to help facilitate EV development. Having one model (bZ4X) really isn’t all that impressive.

Gavin Free intensifies