I just threw in SIMD processing on a whim to an existing library.
It wasn't a regular structure that needed one operation or two again and again, it was this irregular object that needed each field each operation to be carefully picked. Assessing what instructions were going to help me do which fields how would have been hard hard hard. Hours of analysis, would have gotten stuff wrong. Would have been so frustrating.
I could just ask for, and I got it.
This is a very specific kind of example. But smart people who know what they want but don't have endless time to go chase every idea themselves will, I think, find great joy getting the AI to go out and land some amazing improvements.
And there's so many projects like zerobrew that just would never be attempted. We can make whole systems, see their performance, and if it's not good, change the stack and generate a new version of the app, a new attempt, with far less effort. We will try many more things.
Kinda all very very obvious to the actual excited doer folks.
I think the way it could work is to send a letter to each of the messaging apps saying that they are now legally required to use the EU’s encryption keys and make the messages available to the EU.
Then they would make it so that the apps that don’t comply are not available in the app stores by pressuring google and apple respectively.
I think this is the reason why for example telegram is not end to end encrypted by default - as some regions require them to be able to access users info.
Software you’re using on your own wouldn’t be effected, but wouldn’t necessarily be legal either.
People who are technically savvy could get around it, but the vast majority of people just assume that their private messages are private.
Telegram is not E2EE because it's easier and faster to sync and transmit messages between millions of people. The scale of Telegram groups and channels is massive. Telegram, for a long time, has not complied with law enforcement requests and has made it hard for authorities to get data because of their architecture. You still have Secret Chats for E2EE messaging as an option.
Not sure what your point is. Telegram is not an example when it comes to privacy. Anyone who has access to the server has access to pretty much everything. Nothing can tell you that governments (or bad actors) are not already reading your Telegram messages.
Heavily evaluated better-auth when implementing auth at my current company. Ended up with keycloak because of SAML SSO.
One thing I remember having some issues with was customising schemas with the drizzle adapter. Looks like you've cleared up the documentation more now. I think at the time I was confused as to wether custom schemas were specified in the drizzle adapter options, or inside the the organization plugin.
My two cents: Keycloak's UI is pretty self explanatory if you understand OIDC (oauth2 + jwt + specific JWT claims) and, if you have to use it (my condolences, though it's also just interesting to see how crazy specs can get), SAML. I'd strongly suggest reading up on the OpenID Connect spec, including the oauth2 spec, and this will serve you very well in your authn/z journey.
That said, keycloak also does have a great docs site.
I strongly disagree. It doesn't render correctly on FireFox on my Mac. And while those animated pages might look cool, they are very bad on giving you information. The product looks really cool, but as a Apple Watch owner I would really like to know what exactly it does and how.
It does exactly what your watch does now. It merely provides a way to interact with the watch in a similar way to the original iPod. Many people have their own personal reasons why they might enjoy this.
strong disagree. as i scrolled, the animation blinked as it loaded the image sequence and felt very staccato and not smooth at all. at least what apple does works
I was going to rant how unusable this page is (it is) when I realized that it's just another form of content.
The web was created for providing documents, like research papers. Then it evolved into applications, like Google Maps. This kind of website is different from others: it's a movie.
Just like a movie it is expected you start at the middle and go through every single part in order until the end. You are not expected to start at the middle. You are not expected to search inside of it. You are supposed to consume it entirely from beginning to end.
I like movies because they entertain me; this website is trying to go the entertainment way and I highly dislike it. I want to understand what the thing does, how it can be used: I'm looking for information, not a pleasant time.
I wonder how much of that is user aging out of active usage for one reason or another (retirement, switching to a tablet from a desktop, etc) and how much of it is people switching (and how much of that switching is to something newer and small (e.g. not Safari, Edge, etc).
It is definitely going to go back up in June. I don't use Firefox now, it's now a good experience when compared to Chrome but will definitely switch if that's how I get my clean web browsing back.
The pay wouldn't be so egregious if it wasn't a constant pattern of pay raises, despite by their own stats, losing MAU and revenue. They also laid off 250 people (which is much more than $5MM, any way you cut it) but it seems in bad taste to give the CEO a raise in the same year.
The journalist has blamed all this on "editors" -- so we'll never know _who_ exactly did the stealth edits and lied about contacting for comment. In any case, it is pretty ironic, given the CEO of Mozilla seems to think we need more than de-platforming to combat "misinformation":
Fairly good choices from what I understand (although I'm not sure I would consider Safari is a good alternative for someone with complaints about corporate pay and structure, even if that was a concern of yours I suspect you don't have much of a choice on the device you're using it on).
For me, one of the most important reasons to use Firefox is to support one of the few remaining alternate browser implementations. Sure, Chrome and Safari and Edge have all likely diverged to a degree since their shared ancestry (which really wasn't that long ago), but I suspect they're far more similar underneath than different. I would prefer they not be political (but I can see how they get mixed up, as leaning in heavy on privacy is necessarily political in some ways, such as when it involves opinions of nations that disagree, and then there are probably some at he org that want to push in what they see as a similar direction on other topics), but I don't really care about the pay of the CEO in comparison to the vital importance I think heterogeneity in the actual engines browsers use is for many reasons.
I totally agree its important, so I hope it doesn't go the way of Netscape. If they focused only on privacy, that would be fine (since its advertised as such). It really wasn't one issue or another that caused me to abandon it, rather just reading post after post from the org about how they're tackling issue X, Y or Z.
I also don't care about the CEO's comp either _unless_ the business is just... sucking... for lack of a better word. When they let go of 250 people and then bump the CEO's salary by nearly 50%, it just looks a little self-serving.
If Brave or Safari end up sucking enough I look into trying another browser again, I'll give FF a shot. I used it from about 2008 to 2020.
Brave? So the cryptocurrency-laced browser made by the guy who donated $1000 to a Republican candidate who the year before said "our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide" and "homosexuals have declared war on nature, and now nature is exacting an awful retribution"? [0] Huh. Really not seeing how that's somehow preferable over the company that.. checks notes.. demands transparency in funding for advertising, and calls for research into how centralized social platforms and their algorithms work and are affecting people -- none of which have anything to do with invading anyone's privacy.
It has built-in ad-block, reading lists and vertical tabs. That's about all I need from a browser.
As for the CEO's donations, I couldn't care less. I don't care who the CEO of Mozilla donates to. I used Firefox for years, even when they (individuals at Mozilla) donated exclusively to democrats: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/mozilla-foundation/recipien...
Mozilla (as an organization) has chosen to participate in political activism and pay their executives ridiculous wages. I don't agree with a lot of the decisions they've made, so I don't use their browser. Simple as that.
Perhaps if the browser was just so good, it was impossible to live without, their MAU wouldn't be dropping... but that's not the case.
Right? I find that ppl who are so afraid of this kind of stuff generally have a view like "I'm worried non-straight ppl will force their views unto me, sorta like I force my views onto them", one of those "seeing in others what is in yourself" kinda thing. Thus their constant fear and outrage about anything different. But seriously, don't worry guys, people just want to live their lives. You know, "live and let live"? What someone wears or who someone "gets it on" with is not an existential threat to your astronomically-inflexible views or values. (Though if your views/values are "LGBTQ ppl have less rights than others", yeah those are definitely going to be deeply and directly challenged, moreso every day, and I'm here to do my part in that, cheers)
It’s been my browser for both web development and personal browsing for more years than I can remember. It is terrific. I don’t even have chrome installed on any of my computers.
If you want to use uBlock Origin on iOS, there's Orion browser. Enabling extensions and installing uBlock Origin on it requires a tedious step and the app is noticeably slower to respond and just overall worse and buggier than Safari, but the ad blocking works.
I can recommend librewolf, firefox with all the mozilla crap stripped out and good default privacy settings. Can tweak the options easily too if there's anything too annoying.
> Binaries are unsigned, third party update service, Google safe browsing disabled unless you build from source, running unusual browser setups can actually make you more distinctive online, unencrypted DNS by default, speed of security patches is slower than base Firefox, etc.
Unsigned binaries is good, update service is good, google safe browsing disabled is mega good, unencrypted dns is comparatively good from what i understand compared to mozilla's imperfect solution. Speed of security patches is not great, but having non-mozilla vetting on security patches is a tradeoff that is worthwhile.
Librewolf is great, but an easy way to lock down regular Firefox is to generate a profile on something like ffprofile.com and replace the default config.
If you're a duel monitor nerd it feels required if you want to do something besides internet surf on one monitor and stream something on other.
I dont have the most powerful computer but if I want to play baldurs gate 3 on one monitor while stream something on the other monitor it has to be in firefox over chrome.
Firefox is my main browser for many years, and it's still good.
(The only main thing I don't use it for is for the DRM that my main streaming service wants right now. I dedicate Chromium to that, to keep the nastiness away from my main browser.)
With Firefox, you probably do want to change a lot of settings from the default, for privacy&security reasons.
Firefox is absolutely not holistically security&privacy-friendly overall -- there's a long history, of often behaving like a for-profit tech company, to grow out of -- but it's the closest I'm aware of that we have right now.
Not helping is that browser standards were captured and turned into both serving the needs of particular kinds of businesses, and as massive market moats for dominant players.
I don't know what to think of all the browser startups and open source forks. I know at least one person at Brave, and that person is a 100% straight-shooter true-believer in privacy&security (and intellectually formidable), but some things leadership has done are too trust-me and bad optics. Regarding the rest of the efforts, there might be gold in there, but we have to skeptical of each one by default, for two reasons: (1) our field is bad at what we do, and that's now reflected deep in our technology stacks, as well as in practices for new development; (2) our field has normalized a lot of sociopathic behavior in the last 25 years, so it's easy for even well-intentioned people to inadvertently do bad things, and there are also a lot people with not as admirable of intentions.
I'm curious to how or if this work could be adopted by homebrew, most likely they wrote in ruby(?) since that's what they're productive in.
One approach I find interesting is if we see repos that are actually "specs" for AI to mirror in a more performant language.
I'm sure the core optimisation techniques of this could be done in ruby as well.