It is off by default.

The alt-text tagging is pretty amazing according to my sister (blind), too.

That stuff is commonly included in the AI umbrella.

Does anyone even talk about what the “AI features” are?

The one I use the most is their offline translation. I don’t have to send my data to Google Translate.

My sister (blind) uses the new screen reader stuff a lot.

Mozilla is certainly adding good AI features, but the chatbot integration isn’t something I have much use for.

Not implementing any AI is stupid.

I for one appreciate having offline, private language translation. Sending it to a Google Translate server is a privacy nightmare.

My sister appreciates the better screen-reader functionality.

Plenty of people do want AI features.

This has been part of the news since the very beginning.

That’s literally not true, though? They’ve spoke about it for ages.

I work in IT and have since 2011… most people are buying $800+ phones for no reason

I do actually agree, but it’s funny you say this in a post where you’re glazing the Galaxy S4.

Adjusted for inflation that thing would cost $876 today.

But yeah, people spend way more than they need to on phones. Midrange or used is perfectly fine.

Unless the dataset, weighting, and every aspect is open source, it’s not truly open source, as the OSI defines it.

Oracle recently put out a ridiculously optimistic forecast that had them matching AWS within a handful of years. At first the market loved it.

Now I think people are beginning to realise that was a load of bollocks and that they were just overhyping the stock.

The UK has among the lowest road deaths in the world.

I’m not quite sure why that is (although anecdotally as a pedestrian, you seem to be treated like royalty in the UK in comparison to other places I’ve been - so much as glance at a zebra crossing and cars come to an immediate stop).

Given how UK drivers often use summer tyres year-round, the weather is dark and cool, and the roads are usually damp, you’d logically expect poor results, but we see the opposite.

Perhaps it’s due to the rather strict yearly MOT safety check? Who knows.

Love this.

The more I’m hearing about the Pebble Time 2, the more I’m liking it and looking forward to my delivery.

But fuck the 30 day warranty. Stuff sold in the UK is usually 6 years of cover (albeit only 5 for Scotland). 30 days is actually pathetic.

Because they’re a lot less capable than these companies are telling us they are.

Don’t get me wrong, you can frequently get some excellent results with them… but you can also get some really shit ones.

So not only does the bulk of this work require someone to do all the prompts, they also need to thoroughly check the work afterwards, meaning you’re not really gaining much, if anything at all.

Sooner or later, the venture capital propping up AI will realise that these enormous savings from laying people off en-masse isn’t going to materialise, and they’ll want their money back. The market correction will be huge.

Good. Honestly it’s staggering they’ve supported it for this long. It’s hard to envisage such an old system browsing the web using Firefox, the modern web is so bloated that any 32-bit system will seriously struggle.

It’s much better to have that developer/testing effort spent elsewhere. Mozilla doesn’t exactly have the infinite resources that Google has.

If you have a problem with it, tell us why.

Not surprised a user from a tankie instance is angry about a western country imposing rules on a domestic company for reasons of national security, but is completely fine with China allowing barely any western countries in their market at all and, when they are, enforcing that they must be run by Chinese and have a close relationship with the government.

It’s bad when the west takes an inch, but it’s good when China takes a mile.

I get the frustration, but it does actually cost money to make content, especially high effort content like this.

Add on top of that the fact that the people involved need to be able to eat, have a home, provide for their families, have a life.

People would complain if they were sponsored by some shitty VPN provider or the like, and also complain about them trying to sell merch. I certainly wouldn’t work for free, so I don’t see why they should have to.

It’s not really that hard to do a couple of key presses to skip ahead, either. It’s what I do.

For a while, but only people that closely follow Linux news would know about it.

I didn’t say they have to like it, that would be silly.

I’m criticising them for making an incorrect statement, being corrected on it, then acting extremely proud of being ignorant of the facts, and committing to not informing themselves.

Imagine being this proud of ignorance. I can’t wrap my head around it.