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There are other governments.

An expansion rather than just a contradiction would be welcome. In what way is it not true?

Ad blockers work fine when upgraded to the new extension spec

They do not. They operate at a reduced level of functionality that does not match previous capabilities. uBlock Origin would never have a separate Lite version if that was not the case. Nobody would care about a new version of the WebExtensions manifest if that weren't the case.

It's a very different way of implementing ad blocking yes but it still works for 99% of the old use cases. Chrome "closing the door on ad blockers" is just blatantly not the case and over-exaggerating.

Agreed that it's exaggeration. Adblockers are possible, they're just severely kneecapped. It will still remove most ads, but it opens the door for more ads that can't be blocked by the present means.

Ad providers and blockers have always been in an arms race, and this change halts one of the race participants in their tracks. That is something significant, especially for an ad company.


You can write malicious MV3 extensions. The changes' stated reason was performance, not security.

JavaScript really isn't that slow. JIT compilation can wind up faster than AOT compilation. And much of the APIs called by JavaScript is natively-implemented browser code. JavaScript is faster than C# yet people implement games in C# (not the engine cores, but that's a very similar situation to JS) and don't bat an eye.

> JavaScript is faster than C#

Are you joking? C# is in another leage, when we talk about performance.


> JavaScript is faster than C#

Apples to oranges, scripts need an entire browser/Interpeter framework underneath it to even function


See the mentioned game engine reference which closely parallels this.

They're built on Chromium, they still reinforce the Chromium monoculture and expand Google's influence.

Search engines return a trove of SEO-optimized generated garbage. Search engines do not apply labels such as misinformation or conspiracy theory.

Try finding anything objective on the Ukraine war and you will find to have a constant narrative shoved down your throat

Actually they or at least social media does or used to do, peaking during the panny-d and dismantling the 'fake news' checks and balances during Trump II.

In Italy a left wing writer and historian declared publicly he was going to vote a certain way on a referendum and facebook flagged it as "fake news"… how could it be fake news if it was clearly just his own opinion and intent on what to do.

Not to mention the very first example.

Before:

> “I want to know why my React app’s state is not updating when I click a button.”

After:

> “React 18. useState. Button click handler sets state but component does not re-render. No error in console. Explain top 3 causes and fix for each. Show code.”

> Notice the transformation: 22 words down from a long conversational sentence, yet more information is packed in because every word carries signal.

It's 27 words up from 17, and would produce poor results on the local models this claims to be targeting. Without some way to iterate and close the loop, models are pretty bad at producing good prompts.


There's always the next great kernel level font or scrollbar exploit.

This is contrary to the mayor's words on Twitter.

> An open AI model trained in Rio with public funding over the last year by @Prefeitura_Rio surpassing all other models.

https://x.com/CavaliereRio/status/2065984620626129026


Without the system prompt, asking its name results in it responding with the name of the model they're ripping from. That would certainly draw your eyes to the right places.

Why is this? Do labs reinforce the model name during training? I was under the impression that this sort of "self-knowledge" always came from the system prompt, but I guess not...

Yes. In this case, during fine tuning. Other blurbs are also baked in during fine tuning that are perfectly reproducible from the Nex model. The details inside the linked issue are quite accessible.

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