Maybe this is a "strategic inflection point" for Intel... to get back into the DRAM business?
Readit Newsdrewda commented on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months pcpartpicker.com/trends/p... · Posted by u/zekrioca
drewda commented on The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy taggart-tech.com/mozilla-... · Posted by u/holysoles
I wish Mozilla would explore the enterprise productivity space. There’s huge amount of money currently being made on dubious enterprise security products, and with the browser being at the forefront of threats (its literal purpose is to execute lots of untrusted code safely) I feel like an enterprise build with centralised management, in-browser DLP (removes the need for janky TLS interception middleboxes), built-in adblocking (since those also reduce productivity) would sell really well and give them independence from Google and the advertising industry.
I don’t understand Mozilla’s current strategy; their attempt to pander to the advertising industry and produce a Chrome clone has been a massive failure as demonstrated by their ever-shrinking browser market share which is now effectively a rounding error. For people that are satisfied with being part of the advertising economy, why wouldn’t you just use Chrome and the Google ecosystem? If you don’t mind your data being used for advertising purposes, Chrome is an excellent browser and their broader ecosystem gives you functionality Mozilla will never match.
Mozilla’s only way out is to go back to its roots and build a better user-agent, and provide an adversarial alternative to the current advertising-based ecosystems.
As others have mentioned but not yet shared links, enterprise support is coming in January: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-support-organiz...
I really wish Kagi would focus on search and not waste time and money on slop.
What they saying in this post is that they are designing these LLM-based features to support search.
The post describes how their use-case is finding high quality sources relevant to a query and providing summaries with references/links to the user (not generating long-form "research reports")
FWIW, this aligns with what I've found ChatGPT useful for: a better Google, rather than a robotic writer.
I've been so happy to see Google wake up.
Many can point to a long history of killed products and soured opinions but you can't deny theyve been the great balancing force (often for good) in the industry.
- Gmail vs Outlook
- Drive vs Word
- Android vs iOS
- Worklife balance and high pay vs the low salary grind of before.
Theyve done heaps for the industry. Im glad to see signs of life. Particularly in their P/E which was unjustly low for awhile.
For what it's worth, most of those examples are acquisitions. That's not a hit against Google in particular. That's the way all big tech co's grow. But it's not necessarily representative of "innovation."
drewda commented on Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally? lucidvoice.app/... · Posted by u/metalogical
For a premium UI around the open-source Whisper core, there's also MacWhisper: https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper
drewda commented on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App macrumors.com/2025/10/26/... · Posted by u/daveoc64
Maybe it's the same sort of deal as Google where they sell the traffic to Yelp and agree not to compete? So they can sell your privacy without it looking like they're selling your privacy. If they did what you're suggesting they'd either do it in a privacy-respecting way and leave money on the table, or else directly profit from the sale of privacy and lose the ability to claim they respect your privacy. They don't like either of those options, so they go this indirect route.
Again, I have no idea if they have this relationship with Yelp, I'm just speculating if it's like the Google deal.
Apple likely pays Yelp to license the review content, not the other way around.
drewda commented on Social anxiety isn't about being liked chrislakin.blog/p/social-... · Posted by u/rohmanhakim
Not sure why this article didn't link to the original when citing it, but here's the link to the Scott Alexander blog: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/23/friendship-is-counters...
And a follow up: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/09/friendship-is-still-co...
FWIW, this blog writer appears to only be cross-linking to his own posts. Perhaps good for his own SEO, but not as much for his readers...
drewda commented on SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust sedona.apache.org/latest/... · Posted by u/MrPowers
Interesting, but why share the Sedona name?
I thought Apache Sedona is implemented in Java/Scala for distributed runtimes like Spark and Flink. Wouldn't Rust tooling for interactive use be built atop a completely different stack?
drewda commented on Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig openai.com/index/vijaye-r... · Posted by u/tosh
Are we supposed to post every blog/news post of OpenAI and keep fueling the AI hype? I think at this point people should know that OpenAI is just like any other company.
Agreed. There are dozens of startups and established companies providing analytics-y software. The fact that this one is being acquired by OpenAI doesn't make it any more newsworthy to anyone other than the people who are getting some OpenAI equity...
- the pure consultancy is another company now - the IBM portfolio of software "products" are being packaged in ways that emphasize professional services and elaborate licensing schemes (rather than turnkey software)