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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (25 children)

Where should they be "taking" funding instead?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

In theory, yes. But if you follow the link and that leads to downloading the JS and running it, you're already too late inspecting it.

And even if you review it once (and it wasn't too large or obfuscated via minification), the next time you load a page, the JS can be different. I guess there could be a web browser extension for pinning the code?

The only practial alternative I know of is to have a local client you can review once (and after updates).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So the trick is to use the #fragment part of the URL, that is not sent to the server.

Of course the JS one downloads from the server could easily upload it to it, so you still need to trust the JS.

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

Alas my game PC is going to stick with Windows due to bad state of VR in Linux :/. And therefore one day it might need to update to Windows 11.

In particular if you have a headset that is not Valve Index, though apparently with Meta Quest one can use ALVR, as long as you get the actual games running.

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

Indeed, warranties usually don't cover misuse anyway.

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

Then there are the cases where you want the LLM to actually interact with the page, using the current web page state and your credentials.

For example, one might want to tell it to uncheck all the "opt in" checkboxes in the page.. And express this task in plain English language.

Many useful interactive agent tasks could be achieved with this. The chatbot would be merely the first step.

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

I haven't done it, but you could try socket activation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Then you certainly shouldn't! But if I have one icecream in my hand, I'll much prefer go to the self-checkout instead of queuing to the register.

One local store also has a hand-held scanner/terminal you can use while shopping. I think I could do big shopping with that as well, it's less of a chore do it while shopping. Previously I had only seen those at wholesale stores for businesses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I think the main problem is that Chromium still contributes towards the browser engine monoculture, as it is bug-for-bug compatible with Chrome. Therefore if you switch to Chromium, it's still enough for the web sites to test for Chrome compatibility, which they will, because it has the largest market share. Users of competing browsers suffer, further driving the lure of Chrome (or Chromium).

On the other hand, if people switched to some other engine, one that does not share the same core engine or even the same history, this will no longer hold: web sites would need to be developed against the spec, or at least against all the browsers they might realistically expect their customers to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I highly doubt businesses would have been this fast in making the switch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Well that's exactly the worry. Why shouldn't it be? It is their business and livehood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Apparently Lapce has remote development as its core feature. But I only (re?)learned of it today..

How didn't tramp work out for you?

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