People usually have different tolerance level for pop-ups and distractions based on their neurobiology.

I have heard autistic people say pop-ups hurt and overstimulate them, ADHD people say they can’t ignore pop-ups, while neurotypocal people say they don’t even notice the pop-ups.

So both experiences can be true at once. You have no issues with pop-ups, while for someone else physically can’t tolerate a single distraction without stressing them out.

There might be, but very few. Most (like gpt-oss, or Deepseek R1) are open weight, because no one wants to make their model training data public.

Open sourcing a model would likely give away they are using pirated content or scrap internet websites without permission. That’s something Anthropic was fined for last year, they were caught using pirated books for model training.

Moreover, training data is one of most lucrative resources in AI race next to GPUs, and AI companies are going all in on finding it, desperately fighting for any possible data. Heck recently they even started buying antique books, digitizing, and burning them.

They invest a whole lot of resources to get quality data, and they don’t want to share it with competitors for free.

My personal opinion though is FOSS philosophy doesn’t apply that cleanly to LLMs anyway. If compiling Chromium or Linux kernel from source is tedious enough, “compiling” an LLM from source on consumer hardware is straight impossible. It’s something only your competitors could do.

Thus you can’t verify the LLM is the same as it’s source code anyway, so open source label becomes meaningless.

And open weight model is still an improvement over using a cloud model, as it’s local and doesn’t call home with your chats data.

According to the article, this guy’s legal team claims he did, in fact, tell them they should show a search warrant, and he won’t talk without a lawyer.

But they were ignoring those requests, and pressuring him further till he realized it’s a lost cause, and handed them over the Duress pin

Even if he leaves in 2029, the US doesn’t have that much time to sit on it’s ass and let all social progress, climate action, relationships with allies, economy etc get demolished.

We have Germany, Russia, China and Japan hiking military spending and remilitarizing, preparing for a confrontation.

Climate crisis is not getting any better either and we have just crossed the point of no return where we could have still saved coral riffs.

This is the worst possible time to allow Trump admin free reign

If money isn’t going to be a thing in 10 years, then why not just spend like crazy right now?

I guess as always: people lie with their mouth, and tell the truth with their wallet.

I am curious how Elon expects robots to create infinite abundance with limited resources.

Where those robots are going to be getting fresh water? Nuclear energy? Rare earth for GPUs? They are all limited.

There is also only a limited amount of CO2 you can pump into the atmosphere until you create uncontrollable spiraling of greenhouse effect. And since basically all consumption creates additional CO2, you can’t have infinite consumption without causing infinite CO2

Ethics exist independently of any deities even if they did exist.

If ethics didn’t exist separately, and God is actually the source of good, then we would have a lot of logical paradoxes to solve.

For instance, let’s assume God is who defines goodness and educates us on it, and goodness does not exist without God.

Thus, we recognize we don’t have inherent ability to define what’s good or bad. But that also means we can’t prove God is good, because we already recognized only God can define what’s good.

I might have butchered the logical fallacy a bit, logic is hard, but I remember it roughly being stated this way.

Building anything underground is extremely expensive and energy intensive, as you have to constantly pump ground water and pour concrete to keep walls from breaking under pressure of tons of soil.

So yeah, underground could work, but better used sparingly when benefit outweighs the costs, like maybe in areas that could go literally uninhabitable on the surface. Otherwise not worth it.

Urban planning wise: I think ivy walls, or other greenery covering residential buildings.

For reference, you might want to look up Bosco Verticale in Italy, or lush green roofs in Norway.

I know this isn’t a catch-all solution, but it could help mitigate climate crisis impact in addition to other options people offered here.

Or both! Don’t consume where possible, seek out the most ethical option when you must

Jurisdiction doesn’t matter, it’s an myth spread by Protonmail marketers so everyone thinks their privacy is ensured by some strict Swiss privacy laws.

Although privacy laws are pretty mild everywhere. Even GDPR is quite outdated and is barely enforced.

Proton, Tuta and others do it because “Swiss privacy” or “EU-based” brand is much more recognizable and easier to sell people on, compared to “we do metadata obfuscation” or “here is our 50 page long security audit”.

However, what actually matters more is security architecture. Signal is US based, but they thought through how to retain as little data on users as possible, so when FBI asked them for info, Signal could only give them date of account registration, user ID, and last login.

TLDR ignore country of registration and HQ location, evaluate on the merits

NYM seems promising, they are trying to build a decentralized VPN with multiple nodes, same as TOR but faster, so no one has full data who talks to who and what type of traffic.

However it’s only been around for a year, so we still don’t have enough data if their approach works or not compared to traditional VPNs.

iVPN is a good one, it has been around for 15 years now, and is also privacy and FOSS focused like Mullvad.

However they lack some security features that Mullvad has: DEITA, diskless servers etc.

Ultimately I would say go with:

• NYM if you want to gamble (high risk high reward),

• Mullvad for good security, but yeah your money goes to a far-right party in Sweden,

• iVPN: worse security than Mullvad, but more trustworthy than NYM, and your money doesn’t fund right-wing populism

Its my crack I can’t stop coming back to all while hating every second of it

If you promise to dismantle Adobe you will have secured another vote xD

“Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, or Denmark? We always take people from Somalia, places that are filthy, dirty, and disgusting”

– Donald Trump

AFAIK Firefox forks aren’t too different from Firefox feature-wise. It’s hard to make substantive changes to Firefox, so most forks like Librewolf or Waterfox slightly change default settings and extensions, but not sidebars and other cosmetics.

So unfortunately, there is probably no Firefox browser that would have Vivaldi’s features.

Maybe you could try uBlock Origin Lite? It’s Manifest v3 compliant, and I don’t remember having any issues with YouTube shorts using it. I use it on “optimal” filtering mode

It’s worse than average person. I don’t even see tech-savy friends use adblockers nowadays. No idea why, I never asked.

And I feel like majority of people don’t even know browser extensions exist, and those who do think it’s all shady and malware, so they avoid those like plague.

I am baffled someone actually didn’t understand when a far-right white male politician says “illegals” they’ve always meant “people of color”

Mfers the real deadline was 20 years ago, we already irreversibly fucked up wild bees and many forests, you don’t get to delay it anymore. In fact, be grateful deadline is not “tomorrow or go broke” (as it should be)

Uh, it’s like comparing the best life you could have in Western Europe with the worst life you could have in American suburbs.

It’s no different from comparing an American surgeon earning 400k yearly in Manhattan to a person surviving in Belarus or Albania. Same bias but flipped in opposite direction.

Both comparisons would be unfair.

I am not saying life is worse in the EU than in the US, but there are many better ways to argue that more logically using data.