Brutkey

Firefox for Web Developers
@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.

We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.

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Paris Marx
@parismarx@mastodon.online

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Gianmarco Gargiulo
@gianmarco@videos.gianmarco.gg

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Paris Marx
@parismarx@mastodon.online

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ploum
@ploum@mamot.fr

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

SuperDicq
@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo

Be a sucker.
Make my entire infrastructure dependent on a proprietary SaaSS implementation of Git.
The proprietary SaaSS suddenly wants money from me? How could this happen?

Niccolò Venerandi
@niccolove@fosstodon.org

When I pushed back, I think many felt attacked and felt the need to state their disgust and unwillingness to buy from Frameworks. None of which was the topic of the discussion.

The point is, again: falsely claiming that a company financially supports a neo-nazi is, IMO, really bad behavior, regardless of what other bad things the company is doing.

Since we're not on Twitter, can we please have an adult conversation that's able to discuss things in their merit without feeling attacked? [2/2]

Niccolò Venerandi
@niccolove@fosstodon.org

Let's have a serious discussion. Yesterday I mentioned Framework, and somebody claimed that they have financially supported neo-nazi DHH.

To the best of my knowledge, this is misinformation. They never did that. And I think that falsely accusing a company of financially supporting neo-nazis is bad.

When I asked for a source, many chimed in, providing information about Framework's financial support to other projects or other kinds of support to DHH, thus missing the point entirely. [1/2]

SuperDicq
@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo

Merriam-Webster choose "slop" as the word of the year. Very good choice, accurately describes what the tech industry is doing now.

Meanwhile Van Dale choose "hallucineren (hallucinate)" as the Dutch word of the year. This is a bad choice. This word enables a common misconception that a lot of normies think that an LLM is actually thinking.

An LLM does not hallucinate, it is literally text prediction aka "bullshit generator". It does not know anything at all.