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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Fantastic news. Lemmy has been lucky to have such a great team behind the development and I've been impressed over and over by how things have been handled on the development side. Onwards and upwards!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But if Mozilla can, for example create a sources list and even charge for the ability to be a default on said sources list, wouldn't that be a double win? The problem with things being unreliable can be dealt with via language. Like big red text saying don't trust this blindly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They should've never given us fuckers (human beings) plastic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

cannot fact check itself let alone anything else. Why don't you do your own fact checking?

Why don't I render my own CSS? Firefox has the ability to pull alternative sources in the background and compare against my current page. What is wrong with that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But the problem is, people think that there's one single development team working on Firefox and if they're working on AI, they're not improving or working on anything else.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (15 children)

People hate the term AI and so Mozilla were always going to struggle with providing modern functionality, as let's face it, the Internet is embracing AI whether we like it or not

There's AI in many forms in Firefox such as how it predicts the page you want to revisit from the address bar and translates content locally on device. If these AI capabilities were moved to extensions, it would probably significantly reduce the benefit users get from Firefox and likely prevent other useful features such as privacy preserving AI alternatives.

This is poignant. AI as we know it is basically what we were calling machine learning a couple years ago. The same people that are very vocally complaining about the advent of a smarter browser, are the same people that bemoan Mozilla for depending on Google for financing. Somehow they want a browser that only the most devout privacy evangelists would use and they want a browser that is self-sustained through diverse deals, none of which they're able to see or feel.

I feel like there's a lot of disingenuous Firefox supporters who want a utopia browser and refuse to allow Mozilla to do anything to evolve the browser. These same people talk up all the Firefox forks and that change a few defaults and yet bemoan everything Mozilla does that makes those forks possible. It's boring.

  • I want a browser with on device translations.
  • I want a browser with smart page suggestions.
  • I want a browser that's able to summarise articles.
  • I want a browser that can fact-check pages.
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Betteridge's Law says no. Should they though? Hell yeah!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Warte, was? Das ist eine Sache? Warum hat mir das niemand gesagt? Ich will auch spielen!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Ich verstehe es nicht

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the truck driver is thinking about riders in blind spots and so trying to solve proximity visibility with ambient light.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

They're a good registrar in my experience.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40066739

Alphabet-owned Waymo unveiled its sixth-generation Driver system on Monday with a more efficient sensor setup. Despite having a reduced camera and LiDAR sensor count from the current platform, the self-driving ride’s new setup allegedly maintains safety levels. Once it's ready for public rides, it will coexist with the current-gen lineup.

CNBC reports that the new system is built into Geely Zeekr electric vehicles. Waymo first said it would work with the Chinese EV maker in late 2021. The new platform’s rides are boxier than the current-gen lineup, built on Jaguar I-PACE SUVs. The Zeekr-built sixth-gen fleet is reportedly better for accessibility, including a lower step, higher ceiling and more legroom — with roughly the same overall footprint as the Jaguar-based lineup.

The sixth-gen Waymo Driver reduced its camera count from 29 to 13 and its LiDAR sensors from five to four. Alphabet says they work together with overlapping fields of view and safety-focused redundancies that let it perform better in various weather conditions. The company claims the new platform’s field of view extends up to 500 meters (1,640 feet) in daytime and nighttime and “a range of” weather conditions.

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