I still can’t give them money, so what’s the point? Just like with Mozilla, they rely on sponsors and you are the product.
Readit Newsfguerraz commented on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h... · Posted by u/MrAlex94
fguerraz commented on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-locati... · Posted by u/mmaia
ProtonVPN clearly marks these “virtual locations” in their UIs as “smart routing”, so there really isn’t any deception here https://protonvpn.com/support/how-smart-routing-works
fguerraz commented on String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof quantamagazine.org/string... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
No Theory of Everything is going to make realistically testable predictions. That's a problem of the domain, not the theory. The unification energy between the graviton and quantum field theory is on the order of 10^19 GeV, over a dozen orders of magnitude beyond anything we can generate.
We might get lucky that some ToE would generate low-energy predictions different from GR and QFT, but there's no reason to think that it must.
It's not like there's some great low-energy predictions that we're just ignoring. The difficulty of a beyond-Standard-Model theory is inherent to the domain of the question, and that's going to plague any alternative to String Theory just as much.
> The unification energy between the graviton and quantum field theory is on the order of 10^19 GeV, over a dozen orders of magnitude beyond anything we can generate.
lol the confidence.
fguerraz commented on Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model starflow-v.github.io... · Posted by u/vessenes
fguerraz commented on Datacenters in space aren't going to work taranis.ie/datacenters-in... · Posted by u/mindracer
So what?
Of course it’s stupid and it’s never going to work. The same is true for Carbon Capture and Storage, blue hydrogen, etc. It’s nonsense from the start, but it didn’t stop governments around the world to spend billions on it.
It works like this: companies spend a few millions on PR to market a sci-fi project that’s barely plausible. Governments who really want to preserve the status quo but are pressured to “do something” can just announce that they’re sinking billions in it and voila! They’re green, they’re going to save the world.
It’s just a scam to get public money really.
fguerraz commented on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy openai.com/index/fighting... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
OpenAI created this problem all by themselves. If the intention for private chats is that they should be private, then they should be e2e encrypted.
This is just corporate greed!
I live in a EU country in an apartment and 5GHz is completely crowded and pretty much unusable because of DFS (making your WiFi AP unexpectedly stop to do a complete scan and choose a new channel), so 6GHz is the only stable, high bandwidth option here, and we need more channels so that most peopole chan switch to it.
The cellular networks operators can have that shitty 5GHz part of the spectrum if they want it!
fguerraz commented on This Month in Ladybird – October 2025 ladybird.org/newsletter/2... · Posted by u/exploraz
While I truly admire how much progress they’ve made, and respect that everyone should pursue whatever they feel like doing with their time, it still feels to me like such a waste that it’s not written in a modern memory safe language.
I fear it’s ultimately going to be the most promising, least safe browser to use.
But hey, I want to be proven wrong, so I still gave them some money…
fguerraz commented on Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition andreafortuna.org/2025/11... · Posted by u/speckx
The politicians gave themselves an exemption from the scanning.
This is just from the top search result but this is widely reported.
“The scanning would apply to all EU citizens, except EU politicians. They might exempt themselves from the law under “professional secrecy” rules” https://nextcloud.com/blog/how-the-eu-chat-control-law-is-a-...
Yes, but they would be immune from a legal point of view, they would still have to use the same backdoored software.
fguerraz commented on Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition andreafortuna.org/2025/11... · Posted by u/speckx
I really don’t think this has anything to do with pressure from the 10% of the public that can afford to care about this.
Politicians, and more importantly influential people, also rely on the same tech as we do and they have infinitely more to lose if their communications leak.