Trump currently still has a 40% approval rating, so I think it would be a mistake to assume that things will go back to normal when he’s out of the picture. There is something fundamentally wrong with a large portion of the US, and the other half is mostly either apathetic or complacent to it all. The “No Kings” protests, for example, are too little, too late.

If the US even cares to fix its fundamentals, it would probably take decades of sustained work. I don’t think they have the conviction to do that.

And so, I think joining the EU at some tier is a fine idea. We are stuck in our geography, but we don’t have to be stuck in our mindset.

Maybe it will depend on the specifics of their UI/UX implementation, but I don’t think you’ll end up in a scenario where you’re surprised that a website suddenly has access to your serial ports. I expect the UI will be fail-safe, very visible, and that you’ll be able to disable it entirely if you wish, so that you never even see a prompt.

This is a bit of speculation on my part, but I think the recent leadership changes, especially Eric Rescorla (ekr) leaving as Mozilla CTO probably lead to this. I think ekr was responsible for many of the security vetoes that held APIs like this back. Maybe they had good reason for it at the time, but Chrome has now demonstrated that Web Serial has been safe for years.

So although I appreciate Firefox has always been security conscious, I think they sometimes landed a little too strict on some decisions. I’d be happy if this attitude change allows some more innovation in Firefox that is not just “AI all the things”.

Well, one counter point. I just searched their videos and found this video from 2026 (that I had already watched, because I do support Palestine). So I wonder if Nebula changed their stance. https://nebula.tv/videos/additionalilyalexandre-life-in-gaza-in-2026-a-chat-with-ahmed-mater Same video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhgpXjGYRNk

Hmm. I’ll have to look into this. Thanks for pointing it out. If you happen to have links to more info, please share.

Let her skydive

I think most of their value was as a streaming backend for other companies, not their user-facing video sharing platform.

You can just email them to yourself to get the code for sharing.

Thanks!

Nice! You can definitely just browse through each category to get a sense of which creators are on there, it’s not a huge list. In the “Explore” screen, click on “Channels” first, then browse through the categories to see creators in each category. The “Latest activity” sort is also good to find active creators. For example: https://nebula.tv/explore/channels?category=gaming&sort=lastUpdated&order=desc

For videos, it might be worth filtering by “Original” and “Plus” if you’re looking for higher quality content. Many of the channels have lot of older archived content, which is worth going through if you’ve found a creator you like. Though I mostly just check the “Everything” category for new videos to discover creators.

And of course their homepage is updated regularly with featured creators and categories.

Sweet! Thank you.

Heck yeah. Thanks!

So this whole story exists because the bigots came out of the woodwork to squee at the acronym? Good then, let them show themselves and burn in the sunlight. The acronym did its job.

I mean, no one is forcing you to memorize it.

I’m very surprised they’re even doing this.

So you don’t want to hold OpenAI and Sam Altman accountable. Got it, thanks.

I understand you’re trying to consider both sides of this for the sake of argument, but the issue I have with it is that it is justifying current real world harm in the name of hypothetical (arguably unlikely) future benefit.

I want OpenAI to be held accountable, don’t you?

I’m not so sure that power usage should be dismissed so easily just because it is distributed instead of centralized. The slop per watt rate may even be worse than at a datacenter. Fundamentally, we should care more about efficiency.

Imagine a panel of 20 standard LED light bulbs. That’s 180 watts, roughly the equivalent of GPU usage while a local LLM is doing any work. If you keep that in mind, then you have to ask yourself if the benefit you’re getting out of your local LLM is really worth that energy cost. Now, monetarily speaking, that’s not a ton of money, because electricity is cheap, but would you flip that switch for the duration of the task you’re performing? What if you could use conventional non-LLM methods to do it instead? Would that be more efficient? And where is your electricity coming from? Is it a solar farm, or a coal plant?

How was your local LLM trained? Was there copyrighted material in its training data set? Were low-wage workers asked to sift through horrendous content to clean up the data?

We need to consider the externalities, even when using local LLMs. We moved so quickly from the initial release of ChatGPT to now, that we never stopped to ask those questions. They remain unanswered until someone cares enough to think.

Local slop is still slop