mossTechnician

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by mossTechnician 7d ago
They have a reason: profit.
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by mossTechnician 7d ago
It reminds me of a Labubu doll designed by committe, (literally) removing the sharp edges
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by mossTechnician 8d ago
There has to be a much stronger correlation between good press for a software release and the subsequent downloads of it, even if a certain number of downloads were inevitable.
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by mossTechnician 14d ago
The troubling part in the post is that telemetry (about AI features) begins before the user can rush to disable either of them. It's a response to the Mozilla CEO saying[0] "Trust is earned. Consent is asked. AI skipped both,&quot
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by mossTechnician 15d ago
I ended up on this comment after looking through the linked article and realizing the words "data center" never come up in it.
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by mossTechnician 15d ago
I think you can use it without enabling telemetry, due to a recent change: > Previously, access to these changes required you to share technical and interraction data (telemetry) with Mozilla. However, as of Firefox version 148, you can
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by mossTechnician 19d ago
> If they choose to support the PKK Did they? There's a lot of implication with that "if", and I saw someone else point out (albeit rudely) that anything that may have supported them was taken down.
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by mossTechnician 1mo ago
Even intelligent people have demonstrated they are not immune to the damaging effects of AI sycophancy. The most recent example that comes to mind is Hank Green.
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by mossTechnician 1mo ago
Mozilla lost trust rewriting their policy, and even more trust when they blamed their users for being "confused"[0] IMO. They're the ones with the lawyers and the sponsorships. All blame for "confusion" rests upon t
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by mossTechnician 1mo ago
I don't think that the ability to record and transcribe people's words will encourage manufacturers to remove Wi-Fi functionality. If anything, that would encourage them to keep it. Imagine the marketing possibilities.
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by mossTechnician 2mo ago
What specifically is that agenda?
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by mossTechnician 2mo ago
My hat's off to you for finding and shouting out an artist to complete the look!
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by mossTechnician 2mo ago
At their current trajectory, absolutely. But if they focused their development efforts, cut down on careless spending especially to third parties, and looked for alternative sources of funding (it is presently not possible for users to dona
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by mossTechnician 2mo ago
Microsoft also apparently "rebranded Office to Microsoft 365 in 2022"[0], causing a lot of confusion about what "Microsoft 365 Copilot" on their homepage meant, but I think it would translate to "Cloud Office Suite
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by mossTechnician 2mo ago
Conversion therapy advocates have disproportionate influence in book banning, for example. We know that's a form of torture.
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by mossTechnician 2mo ago
The specific examples I provided included domestic abuse; most sexual abuse is done by a family member. I hope it's not contentious to say that parental control should not be as authoritarian as to allow that, let alone suppress the vi
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by mossTechnician 2mo ago
Is it really that cut and dry? A technically competent person might easily access a book while living in an authoritarian country, while someone who grows up in an authoritarian family in a "free" country might be prevented from r
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by mossTechnician 2mo ago
I don't understand the scare quotes: per my previous reply, is a ban not a ban regardless of who does it? Maus has nudity and curse words; that's why it was banned in Tennessee. 1984 has multiple sex scenes - the well-funded Chris
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by mossTechnician 2mo ago
Banning a book in a school district still signifies a form of authoritarianism. If someone is prevented from reading Maus[0] (or finding out they are in a cult, or a victim of domestic abuse), what is the effective difference to them betw
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by mossTechnician 2mo ago
Can you list some of these books you want removed from school libraries, along with why?
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by mossTechnician 3mo ago
I am wholeheartedly against identity verification, especially when it comes to giving up privacy. And I hope these "think of the children" arguments can be pushed back at from multiple angles. If the danger is real, then by the ti
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by mossTechnician 3mo ago
I appreciate the wealth of technical solutions that don't violate privacy, but isn't this overlooking an important point: that children don't need to be connected to the Internet at all times from such an early age? Many inte
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by mossTechnician 3mo ago
> LeCun framed AI as an infrastructure-level platform that will soon mediate "all of our interaction with the digital world with information more generally" This doesn't read as revolutionary, it reads as accepting a premi
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by mossTechnician 3mo ago
The structure here is confusing me too. I gather from the Wiki that at the top is the Mozilla Project, described as a parent of everything Mozilla does (including the Mozilla Foundation). One level lower, we have the Foundation. And the new
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by mossTechnician 4mo ago
> 77 percent of low-income households can cover an unexpected $400 expense, though many must cover it with disposable income or short-term credit... 43 percent of low-income households unable to weather small expense shocks might be able
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by mossTechnician 4mo ago
How does that go for Americans who cannot afford to pay for a $400 surprise expense out of pocket? https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/sheddata...
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by mossTechnician 4mo ago
noai.duckduckgo.com probably receives much less traffic than the main domain, which enjoys placement in many prominent browsers (and offers AI overviews by default, although they are far smaller and less likely to appear than on Google). It
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by mossTechnician 4mo ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. A similar section offers an apparently contradictory take with similar language: > A smart executive welcomes the union, signs a generous contract, and uses the goodwill to consol
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by mossTechnician 4mo ago
Confusingly, that page only provides the changes to the Google Chromium source that allows their UI to run. (I'm not sure it would be easy to discern this without already knowing the source is not fully open.) https://help.v
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by mossTechnician 5mo ago
That must be somewhat significant, because after that percent, Apple will start showing "Your battery’s health is significantly degraded" warnings.

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