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Yeah.

I don’t really think I’m an asshole but I’m certainly unhappy.

Misery loves company as they say.

I think I’m here because I crave the dopamine, but am not willing to log in to reddit or whatever else.

Basically it’s the best option from a range of bad options.

Amazing.

With the greatest respect, I already know as much as I wish to on this topic and do not wish to compare our differing opinions at this time.

Google is responsible for many things but I don’t think this is one.

I’m so sick of the humanising language used in these articles.

An LLM doesn’t “decide to cheat”.

If you instruct a model to try everything, then inevitably, after n million iterations it will do something you didn’t expect.

If you train a model to copy code bases and augment them, then when you instruct that model to develop a bot to do whatever thing, is it really that fucking surprising when it does exactly what it has been created for?

The real answer, that we all know but dare not speak, is that it’s miserable here.

Once you’ve blocked the tankies, porn, and militant dweebs, it’s wall to wall politics and titty memes.

I’m here because I’m also a miserable asshole.

I say this in all of these threads: more users does not mean a better experience.

Instead, focus on making our communities the best they can be.

Astonishing really.

This is the guy running the US like a business.

Don’t worry about debt, just stoke up inflation so it does t seem like so much money.

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan.

That’s just because Brave tells websites that you’re using Chrome.

All http requests include a “user agent” where the requester tells the server what agent the user is using. requesters can specify whatever they want - it’s not complex to tell the server you’re using tea leaves to render the server’s response.

Some web pages are designed to tell the user that their browser is not compatible, if it doesn’t match a set of compatible browsers. So if you say you’re rendering the page with “tea leaves” it will tell you it’s not compatible because it doesn’t match “chrome” or “edge” or whatever.

The outcome is - these alerts are rudimentary and not actually considering the capabilities of your browser.

I generally use librewolf but as you say some pages are just broken, so I use ungoogled chromium for those pages.

Brave does this by randomization instead, which is far more effective.

Randomisation isn’t necessarily more effective, it’s just a different strategy.

Orion claims to this day that fingerprinting resistance is impossible, which is preposterous because Brave is doing it today.

I think you mean Orion is saying RFP is ineffective, and whether Brave’s implementation is or is not is a question of semantics.

Like most security measures, each decision is a trade off between security and usability. The Firefox / LibreWolf / TOR implementation is fine for most users:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting#Terse_List

Doesn’t Firefox have fingerprinting protections which are disabled by default? LibreWolf enables them by default.

Ungoogled chromium

Hold the phone. Do you mean to tell me, that the screen shot of a post I’m looking at is not an original funny joke created by the purported author, and is in fact an iteration of some other meme created by someone else?

What is wrong with people. Someone should call the people down at “the internet” and get all of this straightened out.