doubledealer

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[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Hang in there comrade.

Yeah, we don't have to worry about bombs dropping on our heads, but we're one injury away from ruin or looking over our shoulder for one snapped coworker or student with a military grade rifle. We have no real safety net besides what we can stitch together ourselves. Don't be afraid to ask for aid. The best thing those of us in the heart of empire can do is help ourselves and help each other. Being ready to act, and having those around us also ready to act is more important than acting prematurely.

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 72 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

Said also:

"We are not in the situation where we are thinking that a takeover of the country might happen overnight," Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said at a news conference in the capital Nuuk.

"You cannot compare Greenland to Venezuela. We are a democratic country."

lmao Greenland not being fucked is the only fantastical thinking I'm seeing on display

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

well at least your account isn't so old that they dont have to bother asking

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a good tweet for 2021. Are the fine details correct? No, the other comments are picking on 'em.

But at least one mom or grandma saw the bigger point and thought, "Oh, maybe Mark Zuckerberg only got where he is because he was already wealthy" and started on a path that later opened their eyes to class consciousness and now has friends at the wine club or bingo game who are sick of hearing them talk about the tech bro oligarchs and guillotines all the time.

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

zatzi

lol are we being pranked? Rotate the first letter of their Twitter handle to right 90 degrees and that's exactly who I imagine would AI generating pictures of a mass grave and posting it as a threat

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

Measure the time needed to

Nah, I'd rather measure this lumber, rope, and very large blade that can be used to slice watermelons in half

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

https://heimdall.site/ for my links homepage and I just check my hypervisor management interface if I want to see how things are running.

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

There was some initial confusion about Librewolf's stance on AI, at the same time Mozilla Foundation CEO was putting his revolver into one of his orifices, that has since been cleared up: https://chaos.social/@librewolf/115716906957137196

With their clarification on why AI slop was enabled in Librewolf, I'd only caution anyone against Librewolf because they are a hardcore privacy solution for the most conservative risk tolerance. If it doesn't break your browsing or screw with your flow, then it's also a good consideration.

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Consider https://www.waterfox.com/ as an alternative. Anyone who wants a fair and free internet is probably still fucked in the mid-term unless a new FOSS engine falls out of the sky or a bunch of Mozilla devs jump ship with a hard fork because Waterfox is still downstream of Mozilla, using their engine, and reliant on them maintaining code. But Waterfox is not a bad option at present in a sea of terrible options, and it's what I've switched to.

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/

Waterfox exists because some users want a browser that simply works well at being a browser. The UI is mature - arguably, it has been a solved for problem for years. The customisation features are available and apparent. The focus is on performance and web standards.

In many ways, browsers are operating systems of their own, and a browser’s job is to be a good steward of that environment. AI, in its current form and in my opinion does not match that responsibility.

And yes, yes - disabling features is all well and good, but at the end of the day, if these AI features are black boxes, how are we to keep track of what they actually do? The core browsing experience should be one that fully puts the user in control, not one where you’re constantly monitoring an inscrutable system that claims to be helping you.

Waterfox will not include LLMs. Full stop. At least and most definitely not in their current form or for the foreseeable future.

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone who believed the shitty Escapist article is at best a fool who was easily duped, and any opinions they express should be considered accordingly.

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What do you mean you dont like us moving the search bar thats been at the top of the screen for over a decade to the bottom because we felt like it? Don't worry about the fact that we had UI researchers and data informing our past work and we laid them off or replaced them with AI. Actually you're the problem if you think you shouldn't have to relearn how to use our product you pay for every couple years.

[–] doubledealer@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

If they are so successful that it actually becomes a redefined word with social understanding that it's used as a reference to somebody who is Republican or fascist or Nazi or has those tendencies, that could be awesome.

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