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You might want to avoid “total anything death” phrases

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tnd-kill-behead-roundhouse

By all accounts, this sucks.

I tried the link preview feature on a link to the English Wikipedia article about Touhou Project, and the LLM’s key points are just hilariously bad. For some reason it’s focusing too much on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch (which the LLM “thinks” were both released on August 15, 1997). I have a screenshot 6 days ago when it wasn’t a Firefox Labs feature yet in my Misskey:

https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/a6d86p8n26

Tried it today in an updated Nightly and the key points are still the same lol.

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Recently, they made a blog post triumphantly proclaiming creating two divisions for AI. To me, that sounds like two divisions that are about to get laid off.

Amazing how your post history illustrates you only care about one topic. Like the last time I saw one of your posts:

These articles are getting so obscure, that you probably had to peel through a good amount of stuff that people here would find way more relevant.

And based on other articles from this same website, they are American exceptionalists. And not competent about technology. Here is another article of theirs, “how autocrats weaponize AI”, which was published last month and refuses to mention the Trump administration among their list of autocrats.

The article is also extremely stupid, misrepresenting how Signal works.

Encryption apps like Signal use AI to ensure secure communication and protect activists from government surveillance.

I don’t know what the author was smoking when they wrote that, but Signal does not use any AI.

How does this affect people who upgrade? They just have Firefox plus a second browser?

I think the purpose is to find a source of revenue so that they don’t have to ruin their product. There’s a lot of potential good here, in addition to the unfortunately undeniable potential bad.

Until the lawsuit between Steve Teixeira and Mozilla reveals the truth, I’m going to withhold my judgment about how fascistic Mozilla was internally.

Teixeira claimed Mozilla conducted an audit that found them pretty lacking in the equality department IIRC, and Mozilla’s own lawyers disputed many things but not that.

You can close a group and reopen it later.

I thought tab groups on the desktop were neat but ignorable… Until browser vendors started implementing stuff like this. Now it’s basically a halfway point between an open tab and a bookmark. Excellent for organization.

This comment was enlightening.

If we look at just the ratio of expenditure. We have an NPO (on paper at least) that just went from spending a ratio of 4 to 1 between developers and managers to spending a ratio of almost 2 to 1.

I agree, but I’ve seen so many arguments that “you need to pay the CEO millions, otherwise you’ll lose a CEO that’s definitely worth millions.” Not a great argument, but I think it’s somewhat laid bare by breaking down their actual salary versus their bonus, which is… Over nine times their salary.

It’s almost unfair that JWZ has to be grouped in with the same historical figures around Firefox as Netscape ghoul Marc Andreessen and JavaScript ghoul Brendan Eich. Firefox (and predecessors) aren’t managed by the best people.

I genuinely appreciate Niko’s pushback against the absolute BS that various political agents push under the guise of critiquing tech or wanting improvement. (Notably, because these criticisms are dictated by their politics and are often hypocritical, and there is no “right way” for Mozilla to behave to them… except to embrace their own politics or cease existing.)

I wish there was a popular non-political agent that was capable of critiquing Mozilla’s finances, especially because my biggest issue is with them is the combined $65 million Mozilla devoted to AI and venture capital (mostly AI), and how they proceeded to lay off employees that were part of a division that was actually making money. To the protests of their manager. Who was then also laid off.

FWIW, the Mozilla CEO salary actually went down in the last year we have records. From about $6.9 million to $6.2. (The base salary is still around $600,000, and the rest is a bonus.)

I like at least one of Nico’s other videos, and while he makes technically correct points…

“Nothing changed”

If this is true, then Mozilla can delete their entire Firefox license. Nothing will change a second time.

I also saw this comment which I agree with:

The Linux Experiment is probably being too harsh, for this issue, but leaving Mozilla for understandable reasons (enough is enough etc), whereas you are giving them too much benefit of the doubt.

When it comes to personal privacy and sovereignty, nobody should ever give a legal document the benefit of the doubt. I think it is rational and healthy to search for a worst possible scenario in order to know what a company can do with a document you have accepted.

Interesting equivocation, but until Mozilla Corp specifically explains how they sell your data, it is unhealthy to be anything but skeptical about why they refused, repeatedly, to clarify.

Also your private browsing data is not the same as your public post data.

Malice it is, then. I correctly predicted bullshit, and instead of acknowledging it, you pretended it wasn’t there.

And how much of the video did you watch, my friend?

I’m trying to figure out whether you told me to waste my time out of hypocrisy or malicious awareness.

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I previously had bad luck with DRM content in forks, so I’m curious if things get better. Right now I’m hanging onto my current FF and watching changelogs like a hawk.

(case in point: the Weather display is sponsored content.)