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And then in the same article he goes to write that Firefox "will evolve into a modern AI browser", which makes AI sound like an intrinsic trait. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence if you ask me.

Yep, everything connecting to the Internet goes through the TIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication_Infrastructu...


Ministry of Information is a name with a certain feel

I probably spent far too much time looking into why they'd set themselves up with that kind of name... but it just nerd sniped me too hard to pass up.

Translation tools claim (I don't know enough to verify) a literal translation is "Ministry of Communications and Information Technology". I.e. they handle telecoms & IT, or "communications technology and information technology" if fully expanded.

But why bother switching it around to "Ministry of Information and Communications Technology" then? Apparently because that's what the order we call it in English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications... which surprised me because I didn't even know that was a term and I've only ever worked in the IT and telecoms jobs - WHTMA (We Have Too Many Acronyms).


Searching for "DOMContentLoaded" gives me an error "'noresults' is not valid JSON" and the page gets stuck in an infinite refresh loop.

Edit: It's actually unrelated to the search term, I get this for anything I search for. I'm using Vivaldi Android with adblocker on, maybe that's the problem.


Woah it was because I had run out of API credits, fixed! I'll improve the error screen for that. Sorry, did not expect this traffic, it's had several thousand searches today!


Why didn't they have the AI write a JS runtime instead of this acquisition?


The big picture of “build a runtime” is an easier idea than “what would make this runtime better and how should the parts interact”.


I wonder how AI has survived Germany's seemingly strict copyright law.


https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO...

This is for the whole EU, not just Germany, but there's no reason why Germany couldn't employ further restrictions.


The individual MEPs' positions are wrong, it's not 1:1 with the national government's position as the website suggests.


> For decades, the way we’ve used browsers has remained linear: open a tab (or 20), search for something, read a page, repeat. It’s a model that’s worked well, but it hasn’t fundamentally changed.

Maybe it doesn’t need to change if it's working well? Have you considered that?


Next they'll be trying to sell you on eating with your ear or something because "for millennia, the way we eat food hasn't fundamentally changed".


A big part of it is OpenWebDocs, which is a mix of volunteers and tech companies.

https://openwebdocs.org


OpenWebDocs is a great partner of MDN! We celebrated this big milestone with them. <3

If you'd like to take a look at our partners page → https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/about#our_partners


Off-topic: Is the placement of the apostrophe right in the title? Should it be "a users' local network" (current version) or "a user's local network"?


It should be "from accessing a user's local network", or "from accessing users' local networks".


Why do you think so? How is "a users' local network" significantly different from "a children's book"?


json5[1] is a thing.

[1] https://json5.org


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