Just think of all the juicy benefits of replacing journalists with machines. They’ll never stumble or cough while presenting the news, they’ll never call in sick, never age, never get mad as hell and decide to not take it any more, never resign from the editorial board in protest no matter what garbage you tell them is the news. Machines are just better suited to the job, it’s inevitable.

GPU has fallen off the bus.

If you’re lucky, it’s an nvidia driver problem. If you’re not, it’s a hardware problem.

Your particular complaints are better addressed to almighty God I suppose. So long as you don’t blame linux kernel devs for them it’s all the same to me.

Address your complaints to the government of the USA. Or, if you have the right to do so, cast a vote in the upcoming election there to prevent it taking a big step in the opposite direction from a world in which it might consider anything like similar sanctions against Israel.

You may be amazed to learn that there aren’t many international sanctions against the USA at this time, but I imagine you could probably get into legal trouble for collaborating with Americans if you’re in, I don’t know, North Korea maybe.

Later in that thread:

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Hello Internet commenters. Please remember that there’s no rule that says you need to tell us all your gut reaction to this if you know absolutely nothing about the situation.

In 2015 we started migrating repositories from SVN to GitHub

I feel compelled to point out, for the benefit of anyone who might be reading this without knowing about such things, that Git is not the same thing as Github. You can (and should, especially if you’re a big-time tech company with the resources to host your own repo and some respect for free software) choose to have all the convenient features of Git without going anywhere near Microsoft-owned Github.

To be fair, this was not so obvious a choice in 2015 as it is now.

At this point all that remains to be said on the topic is: Don’t feed the trolls. Not even if have recognizable names like Drew Devault.

It’s find -L if you want it to follow symlinks.

Too long to read? I get it. Here’s the summary. Download Firefox.

Yes. One option is to download it from here: https://librewolf.net/

cat `find /sys -name pp_power_profile_mode`

If by “advanced mode” you mean the “expert” installer, it’s not in graphics mode so you wouldn’t need the ctrl key.

Edit: Actually there is also a “graphical expert install” apparently, but anyway you may be in text mode. You could instead pick rescue mode from the menu as well.

True, I was ignoring the distinction between the supply of shitty web pages and the supply of attribution-recording advertising opportunities provided through them. Not quite the same thing even if they do seem likely, as you proposed, to be closely correlated in the scenario where Mozilla’s product somehow ends up surviving to become a hugely influential new ad platform.

I assumed that PPA was the new game in town.

It kinda feels like you didn’t read what I wrote. That very assumption is what I was calling optimistic. Unrealistically so, I think.

It seems remarkably optimistic to think that this stuff will shift the supply supply curve of advertising to the right, lower barriers to entry for spammers, and crowd out quality content.

This would require increasing the number of people willing to accept that their web browsers are made by an ad company, that they’ll be subjected to all the ads, and that the software they use is designed in part to measure and analyze the audience of which they’re a part so that data can be sold to advertisers. I don’t think there’s room for that number to increase much further.

More likely, the only substantial result will be Firefox losing ground even more quickly in the battle against a Google monopoly on web browsers and either someone else comes along to take up the fight or we’ll have to give up this “world wide web” thing and go back to writing our comments on bathroom walls, if there are some left that aren’t covered in ads.

The alternatives for Mozilla are: A) Try to become an advertising company, or B) Don’t.

Isn’t this basically just the old trick of estimating (x * y) as (x + y - 1) when x and y are somewhat close to 1?