tauonite
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- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s quite clear there’s ambiguity (hence this discussion). How would you define opt in? Should a user not even see the button for an opt in feature?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
I mean yeah, that’s a fair point, and the dev said that themselves, that the definition of opt in is ambiguous. The definition they seem to use is that AI won’t run unless you explicitly tell it to, and I think that’s ok. There’ll be a button that you can press to do some AI action and you can hide it using the kill switch.
I do hope the kill switch isn’t hidden behind 5 layers of menus
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
Come to think of it, I do enjoy the translation feature in Firefox
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see why there is a big outrage. Sure I’m not a fan of the AI features and I certainly will disable them but it’s tot like they’re forced upon me. Some people like (want) AI in the browser and good for them. For me, it doesn’t change my experience at all
(Commented this separately on purpose)
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
All AI features will also be opt-in. I think there are some grey areas in what ‘opt-in’ means to different people (e.g. is a new toolbar button opt-in?), but the kill switch will absolutely remove all that stuff, and never show it in future. That’s unambiguous.
Sounds like they will be opt in, not opt out
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
Are you suggesting we should break into people’s homes and discreetly install Linux on their computers? Because I’m in
- Comment on Share your poops! 2 months ago:
Mood
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 3 months ago:
Shots fired
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 3 months ago:
Yes, I agree. Google will use this to control the Android app ecosystem beyond the Play Store and I don’t like it either
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 3 months ago:
They couldn’t. Domains and SSL certificates can be obtained very easily anonymously and thus wouldn’t let Google identify the developers of malicious apps, which is the goal of this
- Comment on Good boy 6 months ago:
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 6 months ago:
That’s called science
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 8 months ago:
As much as I hate Elmo, I still value truth more. There is 0 evidence he’s behind that account. And given that the account claims to own Twitter (= claims to be Elmo), it’s far more likely to be a troll than a secret-but-not-secret account by the richest fuckface in the world
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 10 months ago:
Google Maps shows the translation of Gulf of America in parentheses in all languages, everywhere. That’s like if Mexico renamed the gulf to La biblioteca and they changed it for everyone. That’s objectively wrong.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 1 year ago:
I rarely buy games even on sale (don’t remember when I last bought a game, must not have been this year) but I’m definitely getting that one! That’s a steal. Just… how do I set a reminder to buy it in the morning? (okay I added an event in my calendar, I think I’m good)