@davidrevoy for an hn user who commented "Show the “full image” with a pond of Google and Microsoft crocodiles."

@davidrevoy 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

@davidrevoy I have never seen a more true comic filled with such comedic sadness.

@davidrevoy oh no, poor fox ☹️ great work as always, though.

Unfortunately also very accurate, but won't get me to move to anything Chrome based, since imho a Browser engine monopoly would be even worse.

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

Why's it got to be a robot bird?

not mad # great art

@davidrevoy this is so sad

@davidrevoy
You sir are the wisest of illustrators..... Insta-meme!

@davidrevoy oh no Avian Intelligence

@davidrevoy you can check web browsers privacy at https://privacytests.org/ @privacytests
but there is nothing yet about AI.

@davidrevoy I'm not sure so far. ML has valid applications, and so far what Mozilla has brought to the table seems very reasonable to me. Most important thing for me is that everything is local and privacy friendly. And the features they have are very reasonable: An alt-text generation model makes a lot of sense for people to whom alt-texts matter. And local translation of websites also sounds like a really nice feature. As far as I see such features will make the web more accessible with better privacy.

For me the most important things are:

1. ML should be local and not send arbitrary data to shady third party services
2. ML should be build to only affect performance when you actually need it
3. ML should provide specific tools, not general purpose blackboxes

Also
4. ML should be trained in a responisble way, which means:
1. Responsible source of training data
2. Resource use of training should be justified by the benefit of the functionality

I remember the time when ML was mosty an exciting University thing, where results were shared, and not some big corporation BS. I am not against going back in that direction.

But you know, digiKam has been using public models for facial recognition and matching for years now. And I don't think anything bad came from it.

I am currently in the position of saying: Wait and see what mozilla does. And if it turns out the wrong way, there are forks. That's the beauty of open source.

@davidrevoy The fact that they're already sawing. Yep, that's the Mozilla I know and tolerate

@davidrevoy sorry how you mean ?

@davidrevoy This looks so beautiful for commentary on tech!

@davidrevoy @jargoggles This is so accurate 😂

@davidrevoy
Brilliant

@davidrevoy very accurate.

@davidrevoy Pretty sure they know they're alienating their core users, hoping to get a larger group of less privacy-savvy users.

@davidrevoy Yep. As a user since before it was Firefox, it’s totally disappointing.

And another in a long line decisions messing around with the frills while not dealing with the core product.

@davidrevoy or capitalism overall.

@davidrevoy Perfect. Absolutely perfect. 😂

@davidrevoy I already moved to LibreWolf on my desktop, but I'm still looking for an alternative for Firefox on my phone.

@davidrevoy I actually like how Firefox has handled AI - small local models, no spying to train AI on my data. For users who insist on using a mainstream online chatbot, it lets them do it without forcing it on others. (And there are more such users than I thought. People who I thought are way too computer illiterate to use AI surprised me by using ChatGPT.)

Firefox lets me translate text locally without big tech spying on my translations. Is this bad because it happens to use neural networks?

@davidrevoy Yep. As a user since before it was Firefox, it’s totally disappointing.

And another in a long line decisions omessing around with the frills while not dealing with the core product.

@davidrevoy I'm sure all Mozilla's strategy is not in any way an intentional act of self-sabotage coincident with a period of minimal regulatory oversight.

@davidrevoy it’s tragic

@davidrevoy so sad

@davidrevoy accurate

@davidrevoy I think my head just exploded.

@davidrevoy this is why you're my favorite

@davidrevoy Excellent! 👍

@davidrevoy For a second I thought Avian Intelligence had escaped confinement

@davidrevoy I'm really not happy with the situation either... :(
Maybe a workaround would be looking at the code and find every single url/ip that FF is supposed to call and block them in a firewall... but that's both not very casual user friendly and time consuming because if it's efficient they would just have to regularly change subdomains or whatever to make things hard.

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AI slop is why I dumped firefox for DuckDuckGo.

@davidrevoy https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115728747391375438 #vivaldi

@davidrevoy at first I thought that was Thunderbird who cut herself loose and was flying away. One can dream...

@davidrevoy I lament that the fox you created is cute, gives it a juxtaposition.

But maybe it’s actually brilliant? After all, we want to save the fox, from itself.

Either way, I’m never paying for browser AI, and if that means ads/privacy invasions I’m out. Such a sad state of affairs. :(

@davidrevoy qu'est ce qu'il se passe ?

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No.

@davidrevoy I do not trust this hysteria about it. Mozilla has been making the right choices for the past 20+ years; I believe it will continue to be so.

@davidrevoy posting this here, just because there's still hope: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740501470592801

@davidrevoy I changed to Brave and it's very nice..... but the default search engine still has some AI stuff, but DuckDuckGo is still there.

@davidrevoy yep u_u

@davidrevoy Tellement triste 😢.

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org lmao you draw fast

also perfectly accurate