EinatYahav to TechnologyEnglish • 10 months agoMozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefoxarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square323fedilinkarrow-up1709arrow-down133cross-posted to: [email protected]technology[email protected]
arrow-up1676arrow-down1external-linkMozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefoxarstechnica.comEinatYahav to TechnologyEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square323fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]technology[email protected]
minus-square@RememberTheApollolinkEnglish20•edit-210 months agoThis is how you lose. I only use FF. I will switch to another browser if they enshittify with AI.
minus-squareBen MatthewslinkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agoVivaldi recently posted this -vivaldi-wont-allow-a-machine-to-lie-to-you. See also vivaldi community
minus-square@demonswordlinkEnglish-5•10 months ago Which browser is not going to have AI? the ones worth using, of course
minus-squareFaceDeerlinkfedilink7•10 months agoThat was an empty answer. I assume there’ll be some niche little fork for the die-hards for whom clicking a button in the settings to turn off the features they don’t like isn’t enough.
minus-square@demonswordlinkEnglish-2•10 months agoOk. You’re entitled to have your own opinion, as I do.
minus-squareFaceDeerlinkfedilink4•10 months agoProblem is that the anti-AI folk don’t want me to have the option to have AI in my browser of choice.
minus-square@demonswordlinkEnglish2•10 months agoNot me, though. You want your AI browser, and I want my “dumb” browser, of course they can coexist
minus-square@demonswordlinkEnglish0•edit-210 months agoyou meant lynx, I suppose? it’s still useful sometimes… last time I needed it was last year, when I did a bad nvidia driver install edit: I meant elinks not lynx
minus-square@PlutoniumAcidlinkEnglish2•10 months agoYes, Lynx is the one I meant. Haven’t heard of it nor seen it since university in the early 90’s so I thought it would be fitting here.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•10 months agoWhy though? I’ve pointed out elsewhere, a browser is one of the few places an LLM makes sense. Especially if it’s local.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoToo late Firefox already contains neural nets. It’s how the inbuilt local machine translation works.
This is how you lose. I only use FF. I will switch to another browser if they enshittify with AI.
Which browser is not going to have AI?
Netscape Navigator!
Vivaldi recently posted this -vivaldi-wont-allow-a-machine-to-lie-to-you.
See also vivaldi community
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the ones worth using, of course
That was an empty answer.
I assume there’ll be some niche little fork for the die-hards for whom clicking a button in the settings to turn off the features they don’t like isn’t enough.
Ok. You’re entitled to have your own opinion, as I do.
Problem is that the anti-AI folk don’t want me to have the option to have AI in my browser of choice.
Not me, though. You want your AI browser, and I want my “dumb” browser, of course they can coexist
Lync?
you meant lynx, I suppose? it’s still useful sometimes… last time I needed it was last year, when I did a bad nvidia driver install
edit: I meant elinks not lynx
Yes, Lynx is the one I meant. Haven’t heard of it nor seen it since university in the early 90’s so I thought it would be fitting here.
Why though? I’ve pointed out elsewhere, a browser is one of the few places an LLM makes sense. Especially if it’s local.
Too late Firefox already contains neural nets. It’s how the inbuilt local machine translation works.