This is great! How does this system handle security/privacy concerns?

Google automatically blurs faces and license plates, and there are vulnerable and secure locations that are blurred by request, for example.

I would hate to see something like this misused by law enforcement or by violent radicals.

Care to share an explanation or link about what panoramix is?

It is weird. Lemmy is the second largest fedi platform, having long since passed Pixelfed. But it is rarely mentioned in articles like these. I’m not sure what makes it such the black sheep.

Well… Good for them. Am I supposed to be alarmed by this? Weren’t we saying a decade ago how China was the top contributor to pollution? Now they are doing something about it by investing in necessary tech?

If US and EU can’t compete due to subsidies, let’s increase our subsidies. C’mon, it’s not rocket surgery.

I think not exactly - it appears to be a fork, or more correctly a patched version of the official Android version.

https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

I’ve also used Fennec for Android, which I found indistinguishable from FF

For Americans who may not be aware, much of the critical Fediverse infrastructure, including Lemmy.world, is based in Europe.

It is just incredible to me that we have the ability and knowhow to send instructions to a 40 year old transistor computer to reprogram itself and get it working again with just radio signals.

I find myself in the same situation. The recommendations here are all great and it depends on your preferences. I settled on Raccoon for now, which has very active development. I would love someone with the know-how to fork Eternity and add a few missing features to bring it up to date, but that’s pretty unlikely I think.

Vertical tabs will be huge for me. On a big monitor, I don’t really mind one way or the other, but I use a tiny little screen on my linux laptop. there is not a lot of vertical real estate to go around, so vertical tabs will be a game-changer.

If the AI features are actually useful (like the automatic page translation they did recently), then I’m all for it.

It would be pretty useful to have one of those com badges from Star Trek. That seems to be the form factor.

It is also created by a crypto-scheme company. So I’m not sure I have too much confidence

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

Checks out.

Unpopular opinion: “the other side is just bots” is the new “the other side is just paid protestors.”

Bot warfare is a very real and very serious form of information warfare but the idea that any particular political actor is using it disproportionately is pretty difficult to prove. This article, for example, identifies a study which found a third of internet traffic is made up of “bad bots.” The study shows that the VAST majority of bad bot traffic is targeting Gaming (virtual currency farming), IT (DDoS), and Data Scraping, with propaganda bots making up less than 2%.

Thanks, this is one of the few truly beginner-friendly blogs I’ve found (not just this post, but the entire blog). It would be great for people to suggest some other more up-to-date resources for someone starting out. Specifically, this blog talks about trying and comparing different setups, factoring in costs, time commitments, dealing with setbacks, preparing for different use cases, etc.

There are lots of resources that share technical details, how-tos, system specs, etc., but not many that I’ve found walking through the decision making process including what worked and what didn’t and why.

What are some important things that have changed in the past five years that would change some if the choices?

Part of the issue with web results is that it would generally update as you type which is just a bad fit for a general menu search. I personally don’t see a place for it. If you are searching the web, you’re going to open the browser anyway. Maybe some users would use it to navigate directly to common websites, sort of like bookmarks? I don’t know.

For about a year or two, windows had an amazing search from the menu that used a blazing fast index search to search files, directories, and file contents locally and almost instantaneously. It was a glorious thing.

I cannot think of a case in which a user would not need to distinguish between web search and file search (other than the convenience of a single click). I do use a unified search on my phone that includes files, apps, and contacts, and if it’s not in any of those, it will launch a web search using the query. That is more than adequate. If it were performing the web search in real time, I wouldn’t be able to easily access apps and contacts, and the results would slow and change while typing.

Wait, this is actually a good tip lol