People not realising (or not caring enough about) the irony that more than 80% of open source projects are hosted in a platform which is a) not open source and b) owned by M$ has always been a mistery to me.

FFS will people ever use “it’s” and “its” correctly ?

Because of this, I’ve always had ‘mixed feelings’ (to put it mildly) towards Mozilla, and sometimes I really struggle not to hate them. They’re (yet) not Google or Microsoft and that’s cool, but besides that, I also cannot think of more than a handful of good decisions against a ton of pretty awful ones, so right now I’ve settled for ‘a necessary evil’, which is pretty sad considering their potential.

What they are doing is not much different than leaving a bunch of 6th-graders to supervise themselves…

‘AI vegan’…

Where I come from, saying something that stupid will get you killed.

“Managing agents to achieve outcomes may sound unfulfilling to many”

No shit, man.

Since that happens to the best of us, I envision writing a wrapper script around {n,}pfctl that asks for confirmation upon detecting that you’re logged in via ssh through a specific port AND detecting that the new rules would block that port.

I’ll just throw in the mandatory ‘always on the wrong side of history’ cliché.

Exactly. Only small businesses and individuals have to honour the GDPR, not them.

In Briar, it’s only possible to send images - not any other file, as of this writing.

They have a very clear stance on not rushing releases, and focusing on security and stability rather than features, which is laudable, but on the flip side that means one must probably wait for months, if not years, for new features.

I still find it hard to believe just how few people even ask themselves the obvious : Provides services ‘for free’, but is one of the world’s biggest companies. Where is the money coming from ?

If being a corporate hoe taught me anything, it’s that you should NEVER sacrifice your health, including your mental health, for a company.

If you burn out, no colleague is going to care for you. If you fall ill, no boss is going to visit you. If you die, oh, you’ll very much have someone from the company go to your funeral : they need to be sure you’re indeed dead so that they can stop paying your salary.

Try Mojeek. I don’t like, at all, that it’s based in the UK, but at least it’s not Gringoland. Easy-to-use, own web index, truly independent company with own ad syndication (no Bing).

I have a similar issue with people panicking about AS ‘taking their jobs’, or even the world. I’m like, dude, that might happen, but idiots delegating important decisions (i.e., decisions that should DEFINITELY be taken by humans), to the AS is something that’s a) at least as ominous b) at least as relevant and c) already happening

Put even another way, correlation is not causality. Even IF everything were true, the most interesting/relevant information is missing: does AS cause these behaviours? Or does it simply act as a catalyzer?

I’ll just throw in the mandatory ‘He didn’t choose Orange Life. Orange Life chose him’.

Well, now that y’all put it that way, I think it was pretty naive from me to think that these companies, whose business model is basically theft, would honour a lousy robots.txt file…

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What advantage does this software provide over simply banning bots via robots.txt?

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I first thought this article was about their self driving cars and I was like who tf gets in a self driving car with their baby. It’s not. It’s about Tesla cars in general. Scary stuff.