You are just moving the goalpost. What I have said remain true, and I have never ever said you should choose a browser because of animation support (WebGPU is definitely not a small one, Multicol missing would break the entire website).

If there is any technical aspect (not moral, just technical) I am ignoring please feel free to share with the rest.

fixed that for you

CSS scroll drive animation (standard), Cross document view transitions (standard), CSS corner shape, Multicol Level 2 (standard), some of the Filesystem Access API, WebGPU on linux, PWA manifest install (standard), took 3 years to ship documentPictureInPicture.

Facts are facts. Web standard are implemented first in chromium, then in firefox after years.

what?

Chromium based browser have strict multiprocess isolation. This is not true for firefox. If a tab crashes chrome it does not crash the entire browser. This is only partially true for firefox

yes it is a known fact that google sites including youtube are engineered to be slower on firefox.

Yes, and if you check browser performance on a neutral benchmark like speedometer 3.1 chrome is still faster. Also this is a fact.

Chromium is an objectively slightly better browser on paper than Firefox. Firefox is a much better browser for your privacy, for open source development and the health of the web in general.

There are only chrome, Firefox and safari. All other browsers are derivative of the one above. Chrome is objectively the best from the technical prospective: better support for web technologies, more stable, and better performance. This is not the same as IE that was actually a bad browser.

You either choose a derivative of chrome with better interface and privacy default (vivaldi?), a derivative of Firefox if you care about open web (librewolf?) or a derivative of safari if you have macOS (orion?). But it is still one of those 3, and if google kill manifest v2 then manifest v2 is killed for all derivatives.

I know what I am talking about, but I cannot dissect the entire document in a comment. And even so it is worthless as it is not a technical document but something completely vague. Most of the stuff there is industry standard elevated (code signing, secure boot, memory safe languages, pointer authentication, encryption, stateless processing).

The document totally ignore the elephant in the room: the trust root is circular -> iphone verify attestation correctly. So Apple controls client, keys, logs and servers. This is only as safe as much as I trust Apple. Transparency log is run by Apple only, and nothing guarantee that my device log will be the same as the researchers (and with 90 days delay).

They actually admit to unmitigated memory remanence issues with the all “the address spaces are periodically recycled to limit the impact of any data that may have been unexpectedly retained in memory”

How does Apple does moderation if the claim of stateless processing is true?

There is more stuff for sure, but I got bored very fast looking at that document.

So Apple is saying: I will give Siri AI unrestricted access to user data and app because I trust my AI is good enough that it does not need a safety framework (permissions, visibility, accountability) to protect user data. But while Siri AI is safe (trust me bro), other AI provider are not so we will block them because the same unrestricted access we give Siri AI would cause issues. You see how delusional that sounds?

Reality, step by step, is:

1. Siri is trash
2. Please Google, give me an AI model that is good enough
3. Creating a safe environment for the model is hard, takes a lot of time, and the experience is bad for the user as security add too many blockers to the features
4. I can bypass all this complexity by just telling the AI not to do unsafe stuff
5. I cannot give third party access in this state, and I do not want to do it anyway as I like to keep total control like I do with App store. EU sucks

You are totally right but no one makes arm hardware as good as Apple. Linux alternatives are raspberry pi level (not something you can use for serious computing) or windows locked down system on chip with no driver and worse performance. Linux works on intel and amd for now and none of them produce something as good as Apple silicon.

EDIT: I do not understand the downvote. This is factual truth. You may not like it but benchmark are clear. There is no competitor for an M5 max in term of efficiency, performance, memory bandwidth as CPU+GPU package for laptop. I know it is not supported yet by Asahi, but the quality on Apple silicon was unmatched for the M4 all the way down to the M1.

Just so you know, AdGuard Home exists, that is more or less the same as PiHole but uses less resources. I run it on my router (and I use the router firewall directly to force the DNS to AdGuard) with SSL certificates automatic renewal with certbot so that encryption is supported. I think you can ask an AI for help on your specific setup.

Correct, pihole alone cannot fix it. You can fix the issue of hardcoded DNS with a firewall translating requests to DNS into another DNS, but that also has issue with DNS over https. The only reliable way I saw for YouTube Ad block is either custom apps or browser level Adblock like Brave Shield (which Firefox is also integrating as it is open source)

I just see a wall of text with vague specifications. If giving third party the same access level Apple has make your data insecure that means by definition that Apple implementation is insecure. The rest is just marketing.

MacBook since Apple silicon have the best processors (performance, battery life, feature support) in any laptop. Software development is much more similar to Linux and local LLM just work with the best unified memory bandwidth of any other device (recent nvidia RTX Spark is shit compared to a MacBook M5 Max).

Apple is shit, with anticonsumer practices, but actually has the best hardware, ok software, wide support for long time and ok stability. It is not perfect, but better then windows laptops on hardware and software while being worse then Linux laptop in some use case and better in other use case.

Siri AI has privileged access to all your private data and apps. The EU force Apple to give the same access Siri AI has to third party. Current Siri AI access is unsafe, therefore third party will be unsafe. Apple just need to design a safe environment for both Siri AI and third party. Apple is the politician saying: we do not need body cams, the government hired the policemen, and the policemen are on the side of the law.

This statement tells more about Apple than about EU. What DMA says is that third party API access must be on the same level as first party API access.

Apple would have to give any virtual assistant direct access to users’ private data — and the ability to directly control other installed applications

This simply means that Siri AI has direct access to users private data and the ability to directly control other installed applications.

the DMA requires Apple to give any AI system nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the ability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s ongoing visibility and control. That includes the ability to read and send messages, make purchases, access files, and execute actions across any app.

This is what Siri AI is doing.

The EU rejected Apple decision to not follow the law by giving Siri AI privileged access to users private data and apps while preventing others to do the same.

User that grant access to their private data to third party would blame Apple? Why? I blame Apple because they think they are better at deciding what to do with my data than me. Why is Apple AI more trustworthy with my data then Mistral AI? This is just anti-consumer monopoly enforcement disguised as care for the users. They do not care about the users, they care about controlling their ecosystem.

It is not a fork of Edge, it is just using the system webview, that for windows is actually the same as Edge.

AdGuard DNS

a DNS AdBlocker just stop a request to a specific domain. If youtube serves video and ads from the same server you do not know which one is an ads and which one is a video on the DNS level. Furthermore you have some devices hardcoding DNS server (google homes are common for calling google DNS directly instead of getting the DNS from the Router) which makes it very hard to use DNS level AdBlockers.

Google spends a lot of money mixing ads and legit content to make it impossible to block, it is not safari “letting ads through” is more like safari cannot identify ads anymore.

Which weapon contract was renewed by Italy? Do you have any source of that claim? If you refer to the memorandum between Italy and Israel that was suspended. There was no renewal for 2026.

Last time I checked, India one of the major emerging supplier of wartime materials to Israel is full of brown people. Maybe is about religion, not skin color.

But is still false. It is US above all, then India for conventional wartime materials and Germany for weapon systems.

Most European countries have applied sanctions to Israel and stopped all exports

As always “The West” is actually just the US. And India apparently, that was happy to largely replace most of the European country sanctions.

No, that is not a western characteristic, but a human one. Given the condition for exploitation each system of government will do that. China does it, India does it, Saudi does it. If you consider also Russia “not western” then also Russia does it. The fact that some western countries were better at hegemonic dominance is the result of historical military prowess, more than cultural alignment. Finland, Austria, Ireland are not particularly different in cultural makeup from Sweden, Germany and Britain, but their role in historical colonialism and exploitation differs a lot.