Those solar panels look pretty useful.

Did... Did you read the article?

I don't know why you're being downvoted, but you're right. SpaceX made a lot of advancements on its rockets and in lowering the price per launch.

This is objective. This isn't sentimental or arguable.

This assumes a broad misunderstanding I keep seeing here on Lemmy.

These forks rely heavily on Firefox core engineering and development, which, if Firefox dies off, they will no longer have access to, thus relegating them to history as well.

These are not hard forks. These are forks that maintain release parity with Firefox itself, absorbing the grand majority of all engineering efforts into Firefox into their own projects, meaning they are strongly tied to Firefox's success or demise. And "strongly" is an understatement. We're talking 95 to 99% of Firefox engineering efforts are consumed by these forks.

So somewhere from 1 to 5% of the engineering effort these forks rely on to continue to stay relevant, secure, performant, and up to modern web standards is provided by their contributors.

Keeping Firefox up-to-date with web standards and security is an engineering nightmare. I mean, just look at Safari.

Having forks is awesome, but sitting back on our haunches, believing that they are safe, independent browser developments is absurd.

Inevitably?

My friend, the MAJORITY of the comments will be unhelpful Linux snarks.

I hope you know that Waterfox and LibreWolf have their fate tied to Firefox, right?

These aren't hard forks. They consume the engineering efforts of Firefox itself in order to stay relevant. They aren't developing their own solutions to web standards and CVE patches, except in extreme circumstances.

If Mozilla loses funding for their engineering organization, which is the grand majority of their entire budget, Firefox stops keeping up to date with web standards and security patches and rapidly falls behind. Leaving just Chrome as the only option, or Safari, but I know none of us want to choose Safari.

All the soft forks go with it.

Now, if all the soft forks abandoned their own projects in order to pool their efforts together to maintain a single fork in this scenario, then they might make some success in staving off irrelevancy, which, instead of becoming irrelevant in the course of a couple of years, might take half a decade instead. Which does leave enough time to cobble together enough contributors and a large enough project to keep it afloat.

But I highly doubt that all these various forks will pool their engineering efforts into a single project, at least not immediately and at least not willingly.

That didn't take long.

It's fine-tuned Kimi 2.5

They didn't train this up for themselves.

It's an OK model that is fast and cheap. It outperforms other models of the same price class, but it's nowhere near Frontier model capability.

Fr. That was a hard look.

Poor kitty 😞

Well, the mortgage on a 120-year-old house, food, water, electricity, internet, phones, medical bills, and medication, and the usual modern necessity bits and pieces, add up to about $5k/m

Add on childcare and similar that's $6.5k

:(

So most of it...

Love it.

I think that community guidelines/ code or conduct should still exist at a top level, in a digestible form, and not nested within a legal document.

They can still be part of the legal document, but should be made more accessible if said guidelines are cared about.

Otherwise you'll find that it's a set of expectations that no one reads (And likely cannot find even if they where looking for them), when those expectations are critically important to community health.

Hell, even worse, crying in the lost information. Discord is a black hole where community knowledge goes to die.

It's the worst.

You literally can't.

There's a ton of stuff you can't do with the new garbage settings.

Let's not even mention that on an operating system called "Windows" you can only have one "window" of settings open. And opening new settings will just replace where you just where. Which is extremely rage inducing.

So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it's about as good as any first-pass bash script.

It'd be a stretch to call it malware, it's probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.

I mean you essentially just highlighted a primary user experience problem with Linux....

Information & advice is fragmented, spread around, highly opinionated, poorly digestible, out of date, and often dangerous.

And then the other part of it is that a large part the Linux community will shit on you for not knowing what you don't know because of some weird cultural elitism...

When you finally ask for help once you realize you don't know what you're doing, you're usually met with derisive comments and criticism instead of help.

Do you want Linux to be customizable so that users can control it however they want. Or do you want it to be safe so that users don't mess it up? You can't have it both ways, and when you tell users to "go figure it out" and then :suprise_pikachu: that they found the wrong information because they have literally no idea what's good or bad, instead of helping, they get shit on.

It's the biggest thing holding Linux desktop back.

That's not how systemic problems work.

This is probably one of the most security ignorant takes on here.

People will ALWAYS fuck up. The world we craft for ourselves must take the "human factor" into account, otherwise we amplify the consequences of what are predictable outcomes. And ignoring predictable outcomes to take some high ground doesn't cary far.

The majority of industries that actually have immediate and potentially fatal consequences do exactly this, and have been for more than a generation now.

Damn near everything you interact with on a regular basis has been designed at some point in time with human psychology in mind. Built on the shoulders of decades of research and study results, that have matured to the point of becoming "standard practices".

It's a fucking black hole for information. I hate that they don't direct people to at least GitHub issues or GitHub discussions.

Even worse are the people that have an open GitHub repo for their project and then tell you to go seek help on discord when you open a GitHub issue.

I love that MasterCard is pushing this shit under the guise of "brand damaging" products.

Yet this whole fiasco is the most brand damage they could ask for.

Refrigerating bread slows down mold growth...

This increasing the shelf life.

You don't have to refrigerate bread. But you can with clear reason.