Orygin
@Orygin@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 14 hours ago:
Please never develop any software for other humans without first developing any kind of compassion or empathy for others.
You are the stereotypical nerd that doesn’t understand people may have different needs than you, so I have to justify how a feature relating to accessibility can be useful… - Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 day ago:
Being technically something implies it’s not really or to be considered apart from the group.
The “gimmick” is proposing alt text based on the image when editing PDFs. I don’t see how it’s unhelpful. I’m not into editing PDFs in firefox, but I do use it to read them.
Inciting editors to include an alt text for accessibility seems like the ideal use case for this tech. The human still has to review and approve the generated text.
Unless I missed something as I cannot try the feature now, it seems to me a great application of ai, to augment humans in their work, and to a useful cause.
Image classification and description is “old” tech now, and I already use it in my work to auto tag images for editors to find more easily later. Nothing crazy. - Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 day ago:
It is really difficult to implement in the first place, and the standards evolve constantly.
Some argue it may not be possible to build new browsers anymore - Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 day ago:
Not all these arguments no.
You’re defending your position that this AI feature is not really AI so it’s ok, but the others are all bad because of the two letters of the devil.
Still AI is a marketing term, always has been. AI in the form of machine learning has been around for more than a decade, and lots of things already use that.
The knee jerk reaction of tech circles saying mozilla will sell their soul because there is no “kill switch” is so fucking dumb. Even more dumb is thinking no other users may want any of these features. Unless you work at Mozilla, and/or do product research for browsers, chances are you most likely have no idea how people will want to use these features in their day to day.
Even working on one’s own product in a company, few really understand the users needs and wants, especially tech persons. - Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 day ago:
And?
Because the term AI was not in vogue at the time, even though it’s clearly the same technology, it doesn’t count? It’s literally packaged under the same umbrella now.Anyway, the big issue is still tech ppl thinking their viewpoint is the only one valid, and that every generic user will have the same exact needs as them.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 day ago:
What a load of horse shit. You don’t have any clue what you’re talking about and it shows.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 day ago:
Ssshhh don’t say that too loud or the “no one wanted this” crowd may hear you. They would be very scared if they could read.
- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 6 days ago:
He’s probably more of a Linux guy than windows
- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 6 days ago:
The title of the photo is:
Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay in his work station
So it follows that it’s his room?
- Comment on it's just science 1 week ago:
There’s even the manual for bash since it was probably installed somewhere on his machine/servers
- Comment on it's just science 1 week ago:
Was he implicated in nefarious shit?
Afaik Epstein had a thing for physics and other physicists are in the files because he liked the subject. - Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
Afaik the files exfiltrated were photos that the on device detection could not identify and were uploaded to verify server side. That would mean not all pictures are sent to the backend, and that corroborates why “only” 70k photos were stolen when discord has millions of users verified.
Of course you have to put your trust in a closed source system so best not to upload, but if true it’s still a far cry from openly lying about it. It’s probably explicitly stated in their ToS that they may upload the file if the verification fails client side. - Comment on Fake moo 5 weeks ago:
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So I guess it’s backend problems? Why rewire the game client if the server needs rework…
- Comment on How the AI ‘bubble’ compares to history 1 month ago:
I doubt the transistor on a GPU wafer break after 100k cycles, as they run at gigahertz frequencies, some cycle billions of times a second.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
And you can take approximately 3 seconds to click on the kill switch if you so desperately need not to see an AI button somewhere.
Like I can understand (and I agree) the stance on AI in general, but this is just a knee jerk reaction. Your browsing experience is 99.9% unchanged even if there is a button somewhere… - Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
Nobody wanted AI as a feature
This is false, you don’t speak for everybody and represent a small vocal minority of users.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
It already is a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Have you looked at what is inside a modern browser? It’s not 1999 anymore, and tons of related stuff is embedded in a browser.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
So if you never press the AI button, it’s never enabled. It is opt-in in the strictest semantic sense.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 2 months ago:
Tauri doesn’t automatically make apps perform good. Easy and common pitfalls still can make it go to a crawl just like electron.
Yaak is an example of a tauri app that performs horribly, and that can’t reach a satisfactory 30fps on modern hardware. The issue is within how tauri interacts with the js world and syncs state. - Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now 2 months ago:
I can understand some duplication but they removed nearly 6 times the amount of data the actual game needs. It’s insane that this was published like that…
- Comment on steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? 2 months ago:
Some games you have bought on gog would also not launch if the publisher decides it. Not all gog games are DRM free.
OTOH, some games have no DRM on steam (not even the steam DRM), and can be kept on your machine forever. - Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 2 months ago:
I saw a listing for 1370€ for 96gb. Prices are truly insane
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 3 months ago:
Well, their customers are PC gamers so it makes sense to target them. Not all gamers build their PC themselves (I’d say most don’t as I have built most of my friends pc). Having a plug and play solution, without risk of hardware/driver/software issues, can be attractive to some. The market for these is not hardcore gamers, but couch gaming.
But if the hardware is more expensive than a pre-built, no one will buy it. - Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 3 months ago:
They didn’t invent them. The Xbox 360 already had achievements years before them.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 3 months ago:
I would guess lower than 800 for the base model. The steam deck entry price is low and they probably will try to have it affordable. They know no PC gamer that can build their own PC won’t buy it if it’s not competitive.
Since they’re OEM integrating parts, I can guess around 550-650 for the base model but that will also depend on the US tariffs that week. - Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 3 months ago:
Watch the gamer nexus video if you want more info on the cooling. Iirc they use phase change TIM for the CPU and paste for the GPU.
They also talk about how they designed the case to avoid it being choked - Comment on Edible Wood 3 months ago:
That’s the Thought Emporium
- Comment on Steam News - A new way to discover new & upcoming games: Personal Calendar 4 months ago:
Pretty sure this must have been in development before when the bug was discovered. You don’t make new features like this within a month.
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 5 months ago:
You mean the security team that got pwned here?