Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux
biofaust@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The real issue is not whether we are going to be force-fed this features or not, but the fact that a foundation with limited resources is going to spend any sizable amount of them developing a solution its users are not interested in.
Waiting for Ladybird at this point.
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
These guys played host to one of the tech world’s most prominent homophobes for decades. In like the browser but the foundation has been trying to fuck everything up since the beginning of the web.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Huh? The board ousted him when his political donations came out
markko@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
According to your link below he was co-founder of Mozilla in 1998. Based on the other information on that page, he had a very significant role in shaping Mozilla and their tools, so as disagreeable as his personal views may be, it’s not impossible that Firefox might not even exist today were it not for his work there.
Someone else has already pointed out that he was pushed out, but he actually resigned due to public pressure (he was only CEO for 11 days, and one of the board members even left due to him being appointed) before going on to found Brave and becoming the CEO there lol.
If I chose not to use products based on the personal beliefs of the people who worked on them I don’t think I’d have very many options. Mozilla has made heaps of questionable decisions over the years, but the other options are generally much worse.
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Obviously, as a Firefox user myself, I’m making similar choices.
But I’ll be dammed if I let an opportunity go to waste to remind people that Brandan Eich is disgusting human trash. He’s responsible for JavaScript, and that’s only least of his sins.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Out of the loop, who was that?
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Eeesh, and an anti-masker too 😟