
2025-07-25 15:29:46
Firefox 141.0 released with "a local AI model" that can perform tab grouping.
If that's really the best use for an "AI" in a browser, then please stop trying to shove it in, will you? And no, I'm not dissing the "local" part at all - any cloud AI models used by any browser coming near me are immediately disabled!
Reference:
Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/1021871/
More on the crisis in open-source maintenance as exemplified by libxml2: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025971/73f269ad3695186d/
Some money *has* to start flowing into this community or the foundations we all rely on will start rotting away. Given the many-bi…
Ah fuck, people are using LLMs for kernel code. They really are going to fuck over everything, aren't they?
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026558/9f3079fb392c4a9a/
Rather surprised to see the performance scaling of nftables is so bad compared to iptables, especially as many distros switched to nftables by default some time ago.
I do understand that synthetic benchmarks of firewalls are difficult, and that you are supposed to use the advanced features of nftables (e.g. sets, maps) to express the same filter in fewer rules.
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Rather surprised to see the performance scaling of nftables is so bad compared to iptables, especially as many distros switched to nftables by default some time ago.
I do understand that synthetic benchmarks of firewalls are difficult, and that you are supposed to use the advanced features of nftables (e.g. sets, maps) to express the same filter in fewer rules.
h…