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American AI companies pirated hundreds of thousands of books, scraped the web against the express wish of site owners, extracted all public GitHub repositories without the explicit…

Except for the M in LAMP.

I did not come to any conclusion. I called out a baseless claim. A few pints about Ladybird: * It's an awesome project, and they appear to be pretty efficient. * Greenfield project…

I wasn't able to reproduce the back button hijack. It never asks me for an email address, regardless of what I try.

How did you come to the conclusion that 750 people is a lot to build a web browser? The Chrome-adjacent teams at Google are about 4,000 people, and that doesn't even include all th…

They are not entirely separate from Mozilla. The MZLA Technologies Corporation is a for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. They have access to some of Mozilla's common in…

We get a statistically meaningful result about an upper bound of the incident rate. We get no statistically meaningful lower bound.

Sure, but we shouldn't stretch the analogy too far. Die rolls are discrete events, while miles driven are continuous. We expect the number of sixes we get to follow a binomial dist…

> we should default to the calculation of 2-4x the rate. No we should not. We should accept that we don't have any statistically meaningful number at all, since we only have a sing…

The distance from Earth to Mars is about 3 to 22 light minutes, not 20 to 90. That doesn't change anything about your point, except the capacity is lower.

That's as far from being a general JS executing speed benchmark as it could be. It essentially just times the startup speed.

The claim I responded to is that Bun is "at least twice as fast" as Deno. This sounds a lot more general than Bun being twice as fast in cherry-picked microbenchmarks. I wasn't abl…

I only claimed there is absolutely zero chance that Bun is twice as fast at executing general JavaScript as Deno. The example doesn't give any insight into the relative speeds of B…

Twice as fast at executing JavaScript? There's absolutely zero chance this is true. A JavaScript engine that's twice as fast as V8 in general doesn't exist. There may be 5 or 10 pe…

Are you using the Ubuntu Snap to train Firefox? If so, you can switch to the native Debian packages released directly by Mozilla. They don't do that sandboxing stuff, and they are …

He also links a Wikipedia article stating that more than 60 percent of Londoners were born in Britain to prove his point that only a third of Londoners are "native Brits". That doe…

Not even that. There's no rule in the GDPR to disclose the use of cookies. The regulation doesn't actually mention cookies at all, except maybe in an example. Instead, any data col…

Similarly, the Rust query will include "trust", "antitrust", "frustration" and a bunch of other words

They are not complaining. You configured Google Search Console to notify you about problems that affect the search ranking of your site, and that's what they do. if you don't want …

Can you substantiate this a bit more? Do you have a link?

It had a reusable orbiter, not a reusable first stage.

I've never seen that. can you give me an example search term?

Why do you think that this happens multiple times every day? Do you have any sources, or are you just making things up?

I think that's vastly overstating how bad it is. Maybe it's different if you are a German citizen. Just as an example, I never did anything other than signing the contract to get a…

The link about the Google "data breach" appears to be about some tax companies being sued for using Google Analytics tracking pixels. Calling this a data breach may be a bit of a s…