Basically all of the AI companies get away with violating basically all IP laws and norms, and manipulating the PC hardware market to the detriment of consumers. I believe that’s what he meant by “getting away with murder”. As a point of comparison to this relatively minor kerfuffle.

I wouldn’t mind a web browser being part of a broader system of trusted software, but shoving an AI chatbot into my web browser does not make me trust it more.

What have they decided based on market data?

I think in this particular case at least Mozilla decided to introduce something that their users didn’t want without asking, and our backpedaling and are being mocked for having done the thing in the first place.

Frankly I don’t know what’s going on in their collective brains. What Firefox needs more than anything else is refinement. There are no features that it’s missing as far as I can think of.

Absolutely insanity.

Cool 🤙

Jibes are no fun when you have to spell them out. Not saying anything ill should befall you either, I hope you just…change.

On the off chance that I misunderstand and you are a literal child: don’t stop reading actual books.

You know exactly what I mean. Have a good one.

Literate people can read, you bioluminescent fraud.

My critique is of people who lob calls for violence without clarity about their targets. Striving for clarity can be annoying, but I think it’s important when discussing the deployment of violence.

Again, not defending Nazis, actual (my definitions from above) or made up (your heretofore unwritten definition, which I assume is dumb).

Just because I think you’re an idiot doesn’t mean I like people you don’t.

It’s kind of crazy that the company whose name is synonymous with the product category is going into bankruptcy. It would be like if Skype, which is synonymous with video calls, was out competed by every other video call platform.

I’m not defending nazis you illiterate toad.

Actually my point is firmly anchored to the reality of linguistic descriptivism. Insofar as I’ve seen a wide range of ideologies and people with diverse views called nazis (by equally diverse people), whose views don’t mesh with my prior understanding of the term as I mentioned above, I actually hesitate to nod along with generic calls to beat up nazis.

Like to put it less plainly, neo-Nazis are nazis, skinheads are nazis, advocates for White Nationalism are nazis, KKK are nazis, but who else does the speaker mean? Like I literally don’t know.

Since you seem to think I’m being overly pedantic in my description of nazis, I think you might be one of the people I’m talking about.

I do agree that America has a problem with fascists out in the streets. Maybe if you and your local softball team had been better organized before this wouldn’t have happened. Or maybe the efficacy of bats doesn’t extend much beyond the edges of your local punk bar. And anyway it’s not like it’s just screwdriver fans I’m worried about these days.

Yeah the first point was about the inability to sort and identify.

I was a lot more cool will “beat down nazis” when I thought everyone knew “nazi” meant “fans of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and their racist political philosophy and policy programs”, but I feel like I see way too many people using them term as a generic insult or a label for “anyone to the right of Stalin”.

And I’m frustrated by that because I’m in the USA and the government is out of control. Oh and baseball bats won’t solve it.

Holy shit that’s fantastic.

Because when you talk about protection or safety for children or animals or [insert vulnerable group here] you can short-circuit a lot of people’s reason/skepticism.

AI creating jobs by requiring more human intervention for validation of previously reliable forms of information?

Okay cool, I’m here for it.

I think this kinda points to why AI is pretty decent for short videos, photos, and texts. It produces outputs that one applies meaning to, and humans are meaning making animals. A computer can’t overlook or rationalize a coding error the same way.

I mean, if I felt I could control the little computer in a smart fridge without expending excessive effort to do so, I might be interested in getting one myself. Absent other concerns, a tablet integrated into my fridge could be handy to monitor the appliance, make quick or even automated grocery list updates, etc. Not earth shattering, but still marginally useful.