If you understand the security implications, you probably won’t enable it.

Not surprising. Most Linux OSes are lightweight compared to Windows. And Moores’ Law slowed down in the last 10+ years.

Would this be reciprocal?

• EU member states get access to USA databases to seach for threats
• Safeguards and privacy protection applicable within the EU would also apply when the USA searches into EU members databases

Protecting the identity of members make sense. If that org is fighting bad actors engaged in CSAM and child abuse, they’d want to shield themselves from harrasment and retaliation.

What’s most shady is the tactic, asking third party to block archive.is when they apparently didn’t ask achive.is themselves to remove the content.

The sad thing is you paid to get a car with a TCU, then paid a mechnic to remove it. Assuming you’re not a mechnic/hobbist yourself.

It’s good that Mozilla is shaming car companies and shining a spotlight on the issue. Journalists need to ask about tracking and privacy when a new car model comes out. Buyer should ask sellers the same.

You may be right, but I don’t see how that change the calculus. Should employees and union be complacent with corps’ bad and potentially illegal actions (firing for being in an union is not legal in some areas), refuse to defend colleagues, just to avoid hurting the corporation pride?

Anyway, we’ll probably hear more soon, and will see how this play out.

R* should have thought of that before doing union busting. Now management is left with bad options and have to decide which option is least bad, for instance admitting they were wrong, or let the situation decay further and potentially escalate the fight against their own workforce.

You want AI in your browser?

Well, think again.

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.

They also moved to do away with the European civil liability regime, which served to harmonise firms’ obligations in the event of breaches, referring to national legislation instead.

So replacing 1 European civil liability regime by 27 different ones, one for each member nation.

I don’t see how that reduces red tape.

That’s a great ad for anyone selling pools.

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.

Not satisfied with polluting earth with resource-hungry data centers, Google is looking into polluting earth’s orbit.

Lasers that can disable drones aren’t cheap to buy nor easy to find.

Recent events shows Europe probably need this kind of defense systems.

Is this clickbait, or is the story as omnious as the headline suggest?

if a 100% effective cure (or preventative) for cancer comes around, what will be the next big goal?

Making the cure accessible. Some cancer treatments are more effective AND much more expensive. Companies may be looking for return on ivestment, or the treatment is tailor-made from the patient’s own cells, and inherently labor intensive and hard to produce.

Either way, curing 100% of the richest 5% who can afford it isn’t a very satifying outcome.

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.

Bien joué. Est-ce qu’il a été plus facile d’arrêter la cigarette électrique que la cigarette classique ?

It sounds like all of this is voluntary, so the slow pace is not surprising.

Let’s make polluters pay with fines that amount to carbon price for leaked methane + a 15% penalty to pay for the monitoring.