Dekkia
@Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 5 days ago:
Context aware search, summarizing in side view or importing an agent directly from a repository into your browser are things that come to mind without much thinking, and i am not a developer.
And this is something normal users require?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 6 days ago:
And where to?
If both noteworthy browser engines are made by companies who make decisions against their user’s interest I might as well switch to the one with higher development budget.
The majority wants something that works with everything they throw at it out of the box without rummaging through settings.
And where does AI come into play here? It’s not like a browser without AI doesn’t work.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 6 days ago:
so asking us while FF wants to get NEW users
This is a balancing act and Mozilla behaves like an elefant in a porcelain shop right now. Worst case they loose their current users without attracting new ones.
existing users will bitch and moan even if it’s just one click
I’m one of them. Why not make it one click for people who want it instead?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 6 days ago:
very loud minority.
Please share your data that lead you to that conclusion.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 6 days ago:
They could do a survey amongst Firefox users about what they want.
But if the result is anti-AI they can’t claim anymore that they weren’t aware of their users opinions.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 6 days ago:
I hope people don’t buy the story that the kill switch was part of the plan all along.
This is clearly the result of mozilla scrabling for a compromise after the backlash to their recent announcement.
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 1 week ago:
The idea behind anubis is that a browser needs to deliver proof-of-work before accessing a website.
If you’re doing it one-off with puppeteer, your “browser” will happily do just that.
But if you’re scraping millions of websites, short challenges like this add up quickly and you’ll end up wasting lots of compute on them. As long as scrapers decide that those websites are not worth it anubis works.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
Have you tried to buy a non-smart TV recently?
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 1 week ago:
There’s a tool for that: anubis.techaro.lol
Alternatively cloudflare also has scraper-protection offerings.
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 3 weeks ago:
So it’s opt-out. Great
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 3 weeks ago:
But that stuff is copywritten as well most of the time.
Just because it’s free to look at doesn’t mean it’s free to download, modify or feed into an AI.
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 3 weeks ago:
This is the definition of ethically sourced data from the Apertus website:
[…] the training corpus builds only on data which is publicly available.
So they still train on Websites, Blogs and Social Media. Ethical my ass.
- Comment on I dunno 4 weeks ago:
Counterpoint:
If kids where taught how to solve them properly we wouldn’t need to dumb down equasions.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know what to tell you other than that there’s probably something wrong with you.
- Comment on New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient 5 weeks ago:
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 5 weeks ago:
While a lot of people die trough suicide, it’s not exactly good or helpful when an AI guides some of them trough the process and even encourages them to do it.
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 2 months ago:
vast majority of Internet traffic across the world is unencrypted.
In 2023 between 80% and 95% of web traffic was encryted. Unencrypted web traffic is getting pretty rare.
- Comment on ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way 3 months ago:
The best part is in the comments.
You’re right, he might have a backported patch and not be vulnerable to any of the several CVEs for this version of Apache. But also, his server might be really easy to hack. Rather than confirming that his server is secure, he blocked me when I reported the issue.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 3 months ago:
Nothing is stopping you from doing that: us.macmillan.com/books/…/enshittification/
- Comment on Keyboards from My Collection 3 months ago:
Not a big fan of keyboard collectors since lots of them only have the keyboards without the matching computers which means somewhere there’s a retro computer missing a keyboard because of that.
I guess it doesn’t matter all that much with new or popular machines, but on old hardware with esoteric plugs and protocols that sucks.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 months ago:
Was reel-to-reel ever mainstream?
I always had the impression that it was too complicated and/or expensive for most.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 4 months ago:
I understand what enterprise software is. That wasn’t my question.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 4 months ago:
CEO of enterprise-software powerhouse IgniteTech.
Can someone tell me me what they do? They don’t have a Wikipedia Article and their website is mostly AI slop.
- Comment on LYING TO CHILDREN 4 months ago:
tbh current time keeping kinda sucks.
- Comment on Can I build a fully decentralised website? 4 months ago:
Could you elaborate what you’re looking for exactly? Like, what do you want to achieve and how much ressources are you willing to put into it?
- Comment on The Foreign Censorship Threat: How the European Union’s(EU) Digital Services Act(DSA) Compels Global Censorship and Infringes on American Free Speech 4 months ago:
Fuck your American free (hate)speech
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 5 months ago:
“I was ready to paint the walls with Sam Altman’s f*cking brain.”
While I absolutely wouldn’t wish this upon him or anyone else, it wouldn’t take me long to make jokes about Frankenstein getting killed by his own monster.
- Comment on Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps 5 months ago:
He doesn’t like it because it’s the same as twitter according to him.
Journalists don’t like it because they get called out on bullshit there.
- Comment on ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims 6 months ago:
If my grandma had wheels she’d be a car.
- Comment on ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims 6 months ago:
I believe the premise of AI having any input in getting shut down is bullshit.
Even if the AI had free reign over a computer you can just pull the plug.