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guessbest commented on Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS discuss.haiku-os.org/t/pr... · Posted by u/return_0e

asadotzler · a year ago

No.

Phoenix Technologies, the BIOS maker sent me an email telling us they made a BIOS web browser and our name would confuse things. Under advice from our legal support, we agreed to change the name.

We changed to Firebird and the OSS database project bombed my inbox (and Mitchell's too) for a week with hundreds of nastygrams and though we were in the clear on TM, we didn't want to stomp on the little OSS project so we changed again.

I was at the whiteboard when Jason Kersey of mozBin, mozillaZine, and later Chrome fame came up with Firefox. We had two columns of names, forces of nature and animals and were pairing them up.

guessbest · a year ago

It was Firebird. Thanks for correcting me.

guessbest commented on Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS discuss.haiku-os.org/t/pr... · Posted by u/return_0e

simcop2387 · a year ago

It wasn't Firebug, that was a developer tool extension. It was first Phoenix which hit trademark issues, and then Firebird which hit trademark issues, which then became Firefox.

guessbest · a year ago

Maybe it hit trademark issues, but the reason I remember from slashdot was that phoenix was already a semi-popular open source project in the debian repository, so firefox had to be named from phoenix to mozilla-phoenix. But firefox at the time still named phoenix just ran so much better on windows than linux, it was funny.

guessbest commented on Show HN: XPipe, a brand-new type of remote file browser and shell connection hub xpipe.io... · Posted by u/crschnick

regularfry · a year ago

Sounds a bit like KDE's KIO slaves, at least in principle.

guessbest · a year ago

Are those still being used? I haven't used Konqueror in awhile.

guessbest commented on I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs github.com/khiner/Crosswo... · Posted by u/khiner

guessbest · a year ago

I have Objective-C software for iOS that was built for iOS 3 that still runs on the latest version of iOS and people still pay for it. Strange how language stability is an achievable goal.

guessbest commented on Pharo 12 pharo.org/news/2024-04-26... · Posted by u/xkriva11

no_time · a year ago

Weirdest programming language/IDE/Runtime/everything I've ever attempted learning.

The sheer oddity + lack of real world example code floating around made it feel impenetrable. To put it into perspective, picking up Rust and writing entry level but real world applications was a walk in the park after coming to terms with the ownership system.

guessbest · a year ago

How would you compare this to say, writing WinForm applications in Visual Basic 6?

guessbest commented on We hacked Google A.I. landh.tech/blog/20240304-... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

doakes · a year ago

So is the idea (for the last/$20k one) that you would convince someone to paste your maliciously crafted prompt to steal their data?

The other post[0] of the same exploit is really interesting b/c it reads instructions from a document. So if someone had something like "find X in my documents" and you shared the malicious document with them, it could trigger those instructions.

[0] https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/google-bard-data-e...

guessbest · a year ago

Its seems like a combination of 90's seo spam pages combined with running unsigned/unchecked executables. I think we're going to have certifications and positions for AI Tools Security Officers in the near future if we don't already.

guessbest commented on Ask HN: What prevents Google from having the leading LLM? · Posted by u/tikkun

amadeuspagel · 2 years ago

Google Drive dominates cloud storage[1].

[1]: https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/file-sharing--198/goog...

guessbest · 2 years ago

I have a hard time believing that, but if that website says so, it must be true. I would wonder if they are including gmail users as well as all android users, but I don't know their methodology. If they include all android users, they should include all ios users for Apple Music and iTunes since Apple stores their music on Microsoft Azure, which last I checked is the same thing OneDrive uses.

guessbest commented on Ask HN: What prevents Google from having the leading LLM? · Posted by u/tikkun

whalesalad · 2 years ago

Startups can move fast and break things. Google cannot. I think they'll surpass OpenAI relatively quickly just based on the sheer volume of data that they possess for training, combined with the size of their GPU compute. It's just a matter of time. Gemini is already outperforming GPT-4 on paper, we just haven't been able to use it yet.

guessbest · 2 years ago

People don't like advertising. Google is an advertising company. The more these AI models get corrupted with advertising the more likely they are to take a lead. That the reason they don't dominate in cloud storage. Where's the competitive advantage in embedding advertising in people's personal and publicly shared documents?

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