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- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 2 weeks ago:
Do they have the money? What is the value of Chrome anyways, if you can’t do monopoly things with it? About as much as Firefox?
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 weeks ago:
Take a minute to learn the difference between mozilla.org and mozilla.com. They are very much separate, and the .com has never pretended to not be there for the money. It’s explicitly why it exists, so that the org can keep doing its thing.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 weeks ago:
The “translate page” button in my browser is evil? Get a grip.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 weeks ago:
“Responsible use of AI” could mean things like providing small offline models for client-side translation. They’re actually building that feature and the preview is already amazing.
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 5 weeks ago:
You need an editor for traditional transcription tools too :) and it’s A LOT more work. They don’t even do punctuation or names.
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 5 weeks ago:
I use it for generating subtitles. It figures out context, it ignores stuttering, it does punctuation etc. It’s really is just better. With clean audio it transcribes like a human does.
It does better than other techniques with dirty audio, but when it fails it fails weird, which is the big issue here.
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 5 weeks ago:
Whisper really is a lot better when it works, and it’s free. The problem is that it refuses to produce gibberish or give up when it doesn’t work. You’ll always need an editor.
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 5 weeks ago:
It’s actually extremely good at figuring out confusing text. It gets weird when the audio quality is bad.
I use it for generating subs for obscure movies.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131 – Firefox Nightly News 3 months ago:
Just this past year
- Builtin offline translation
- A pdf editor
- Firefox View And of course a whole bunch of privacy, security, performance, and developer features
- Comment on Despite Spending $100 billion on AI Google is still no where close to a real ai assistant | Amazon Walkout failure and no real plan for sustainable profit. 4 months ago:
Artificial intelligence is intelligent like artificial grass is grass. That’s how the word artificial works. It just means man-made, says nothing about quality.
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 6 months ago:
I’ve seen and prefer “Twitter, now X”.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
Politics on Reddit has always been shit. Product reviews and recommendations were good. How-to’s and troubleshootings that don’t fit on stackoverflow are still good.
- Comment on Why has Firefox not removed third-party cookies, despite the fact that Chrome has begun phasing them out? 9 months ago:
That’s why they’re asking
- Comment on Why has Firefox not removed third-party cookies, despite the fact that Chrome has begun phasing them out? 9 months ago:
Firefox blocks known trackers and isolates third party cookies per site. They do have legitimate uses, and not every site has made the switch to modern tech that could replace it.