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Ads featuring the slogan also occasionally featured men who would accidentally get into risqué positions whilst trying to get a Gaytime.

Heh, I had to look one of those up. Classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKVdYZEfkNA

Well, good to know we weren't the only ones with the racist names (feels like ages ago, but it wasn't even that long ago). Schaumkuss makes sense though, they just changed them to the Dutch equivalent of "kuss" here.

You clearly haven't seen people on the Fediverse talk about Firefox 😅

Ik hoor dat er een leuk festival is in Den Bosch, dus misschien daar maar eens heen.

Mozilla Public License, and there are a number of forks. A browser is a lot of work though.

Steelmanning the argument, I'd say: you could outcompete the companies doing those things, e.g. by giving people AI that runs on their device and is ethically trained.

It might seem hard to compete at the moment, but given that there'd be no costs to running them, I don't think it's necessarily impossible: even if the quality is lower, it's very hard to beat free.

Hopefully, if the OpenAIs of this world go bankrupt, they'll stop hammering, say, OpenStreetMap.

Heh true, but only if they're rented for long enough to make the total rental costs outweigh the cost of buying them new. Given that that bubble's going to pop some day, renting still seems like the less risky strategy 😅

It doesn't sound to me like any GPUs will be bough for this? The comments about having fewer resources and being at a financial disadvantage implies to me like they know there's no winning by trying to be the next OpenAI - none of the mentioned allied companies appear to be doing anything like that either.

Reading the article, I think at least to oppose centralised players that DoS the internet, congest our electricity infrastructure and pollute the environment, and try to bypass democracy through regulatory capture. That captures quite a few of the dark sides of the current AI hype that I'm unhappy about, so let's hope that works out.

The thread shows just regular pushes, which is even more on the nose.

En we noemen het: Logius.

In general, it's good to be aware that the defaults in Firefox are often chosen to find a balance between breakage and privacy protection, and projects like arkenfox consciously accept more breakage in exchange for more privacy. (Although sometimes not even that, e.g. when you enable most, but not all, fingerprinting protection, thereby creating a new fingerprint.)