I’d like to urge you not to use GitLab for your source code due to the ridiculous numbers of severe CVEs. I don’t think they have any idea how to write secure code and I don’t think they care to learn.

Here is the most recent one I know of. The article mentions it’s the fourth in a year. Here is the most egregious one IMO, how are they so bad at coding they would accept unverified inputs to send emails to?

LibreWolf is great as long as they’re able to pull out malicious advertising.

I hope some of the completely independent projects start taking off. Chrome is cancer. Manifest V3 is metastasized cancer. Mozilla is basically taking up smoking.

I miss the days when we had functioning software without telemetry whenever we wiggle a mouse and ads in every corner.

Can a scorpion be trusted to behave himself on a ride across the pond?

It needs to be opt-in to be acceptable. Opt-out is not acceptable.

“You dimwitted plebs are too stupid to meaningfully opt-in, so we made it opt-out.”

• Mozilla developer

It has not been the alternative for a while now IMO. I have been using LibreWolf.

Oops, nope, I was thinking of the wrong country.

This sounds like it could be a combination FCC and FAA felony.

This is a really helpful perspective, thank you. I’m already getting some of the easy wins you wrote about, like using an AI prior to web search to get a more specific query and skip the SEO garbage. Another thing I found they’re good at is reverse dictionary lookup, give it a definition and it can help figure out a good word.

The most complex prompts I have tried out were telling the AI what role it is supposed to be, and the format of the output. I don’t think I have done one that specified what I or the audience is supposed to be. But that would factor in to what the model thinks it and I shouldn’t know, right? You’ve given me a bunch of interesting new angles to try on these.

This is pretty cool! Am I reading correctly that it isn’t so much about collecting a corpus of data for it to browse through as much as it is understanding how to do a specific query, maybe giving it a little context alongside that? It sounds like it might be worth refining a smaller model with some annotated information, but not really feasible to collect a huge corpus and have the model be able to pull from it?

Do you have a setup that collects your interactions to feed into those? The way you described it I imagined you are automatically collecting data for it to infer from and getting good results. Like a powered-up bash history or something.

Thank you, I was curious if they had a system set up to watch their interactions. I should have specified better.

What’s your offline open source AI?

Is there a problem other than Nazis and other far right idiots spamming their hot takes? That’s certainly a culture problem but hopefully most instances just ban Nazis instead of letting the cancer grow.

That’s really fascinating. Now Google wants to do this same thing on your computer hardware to ensure people are forced to look at ads.