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Not only are loading times and total network usage ridiculous, sites will continue to violate your privacy via trackers and waste your CPU even when background idling. I've written…

Cool resource. Took me a bit to find it, so for anyone curious: "All game assets found on the asset page are public domain CC0 licensed..." There is a small FAQ if you click Suppor…

Info from the FAQ: - Currently using Mistral 7B, but ability (by Mozilla) to swap the model used to another open source at any point. - Hosted "by Mozilla" on their GCP instance. -…

I wasn't able to get many decent results after playing with the demo for some time. I guess my question is...what exactly is this for? I was able to get substantially better result…

It does seem like this is one of those domains where new AI models could thrive. From my understanding, the amount and variety of data necessary to make these models work is huge. …

No problems here with a very similar setup (22.04, Firefox), and this is on a 2015 laptop. Very stable and uses very little background resources. I am running unlock origin and pri…

This looks very interesting and I'm checking out the details now. Btw, the link on the site to your GitHub repo has an extra dash, so it's leading to a 404.

I like the general idea of this, but this feels like it is trying to do too much. Removing ads, trackers, and unnecessary widgets is mostly a solved problem using unlock origin (+ …

I genuinely think this is a great thing to offer and very much needed. Great work. Your ffmpeg tutorial also looks really interesting, and I'll definitely be checking that out when…

Honestly, this is just repulsive. Crypto has brought nearly zero benefits to society and has made income inequality even worse. Not to mention the environmental impact. I don't see…

You make a very good point about "good" option source options. There are also situations where plenty of open tools exist, but whole-system complexity is such that people choose pr…

After seeing the great Rust security camera software project on the front page today, I started thinking about other software with no open-source alternatives. That is, are there s…

This is not surprising, and unfortunately, this situation is unlikely to get better any time soon given our increasingly conservative (corp friendly) federal courts. It's really a …

Gotta be honest, given much of the news I have been consuming in the past few weeks, I could read 100 articles like this. Concise, well-written, interesting and about potentially u…

Sorry that I wasn't clear. This was in Toronto. I've yet to see quite as many such ads here in the US, but it's possible they were just pushed out by political ads during this peri…

I'm American but lived in Toronto from 2022 until a couple months ago. I was astounded by the amount of online gambling ads just literally pasted everywhere in Toronto. When I got …

Great project. I particularly love the: 1) mit license 2) using plausible instead of Google analytics. Practically speaking, uBO is going to block both by default, but for non-tech…

Appreciate it! Looks like it's just on my end.

Ok interesting. Very weird since I tried from multiple devices and IPs. Anyway thanks for confirming.

Is anyone able to access the USPS website? I have been trying from multiple different IPs and had no luck. Could not find any info on social media about it. I would normally think …

Having produced only a single book for standardebooks, I don't think many people appreciate the amount of effort that goes into the corrections, semantic html additions, and other …

I've always been a bookmark guy, and I don't know how you hundreds-of-tabs guys do it. It would driv me crazy I think. That being said, have you looked into something like this: ht…

That's interesting. I don't have a Facebook account anymore to check, but I'm guessing you only see this when logged in, correct? I get very little CPU usage on their main/login pa…