8gb of RAM is completely unserviceable. A browser and 2 electron apps will have you suffering.

hammering Wikipedia’s servers and using it as a training ground.

They could just effectually download the freely available archive instead of being assholes but nooo

And this is why the “online advertising ecosystem” should not be allowed to exist

If amnezia is sus they probably added mullvad to lend credibility to the overall statement

If you don’t want to discuss something just don’t respond lol

I’m out. There is no point taking with someone that repeatedly lies to try to support their point. Look, I’m against the majority of LLM usage and implementation as well, and I’d rather most of it not be in firefox as well, but:

1. You keep making up things firefox does that it doesn’t. I’m not even convinced you’ve used it
2. You keep talking about UX and dark patterns but you’re obviously making it to as you go
3. Basing conversation on obvious falsehoods is a waste of time

It looks like this page has links, you can summarize them using a clanker” on a frequent basis.

That doesn’t happen. I don’t recall firefox ever popping up a modal while I’m browsing.

And the fact that the confirmation feels “menacing” and defaulted to cancelling the opting-off (i.e. pressing “esc” or clicking outside the window; one must click the primary-colored “block” button which, contrasted to a grayish “Cancel” button, may psychologically induce the user into thinking “block” is a dangerous action), quite similar to the about:config warning screen.

I don’t think it’s menacing at all. It gives an informative list of features, which is nice to know. I could see a lot of people wanting to turn off all AI then realizing they actually want local translate instead of sending everything to google.

And you’ve got the button intents mixed up. Primary color is always the encouraged action in that kind of design. Dark pattern would be if the colors were flipped.

Other than link previews all the features they are opt-in in the sense you’d have to actually use the feature.

1. Local translation which only happens when you trigger it I believe (and is cool)
2. Smart tab groups which i don’t think anyone cares about and only happens when you ask it to
3. Link previews which I think happens on link hover which is undesirable if you don’t want to accidentally do it (edit: see correction in reply)
4. A sidebar chatbot integration which you’d have to use on purpose
5. Someone said perplexity in search engine options which you’d have to do on purpose

You think VC is putting money into firefox? Wtf?

Look man, if it’s a good solution it’s a good solution. You’re attacking things that haven’t been proposed (by the bill in the OP).

I actually don’t think legislation in a US state is a good way to create a technology standard so I wouldn’t like to see this pass, but it’s honestly the best way that I’ve seen to provide age verification for websites.

It puts the onus on the parents to set the date correctly and takes it off of businesses to comply by doing it themselves where privacy is definitely at risk. If this is what was implemented it would not harm privacy and it would defang the “protect the children” arguments they constantly use to justify completely destroying privacy.

You can rant and rage until you’re red in the face, but those are the facts.

So you didn’t even read it before writing a diatribe accusing me of supporting things I absolutely don’t. It literally says in the fucking bill that you just input it into the device.

Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date or age of the user of that device to provide a signal regarding the user’s age bracket (age signal) to applications available in a covered application store;

Where does it say you give anyone your ID?

Iirc California had a similar proposal to this. I actually think it’s not a terrible idea at the core. It’s basically an API for parental controls. You set up a device (or account on a device) and say “this is a device for a kid” and that gets used for everything. It actually makes a lot of sense to do something in that direction. Part of the reason people are convinced something needs to be done is because managing parental controls across the different myriad services and apps is a labyrinth that tech savvy parents can barely navigate, and less savvy parents don’t stand a chance.

Or pay the price

You mean getting another job making more money than you should and making bad decisions with 0 consequences? Like C suites ever face any real consequences for the society distorting behavior they exhibit

LLM code generation is the ultimate dunning Kruger enhancer. They think they’re 10x ninja wizards because they can generate unmaintainable demos.

OCI has a very generous free tier that doesn’t even require credit card info. While for instance AWS has a free tier, the resources that are free are mostly the serverless stuff that only applies to their ecosystem, whereas OCI lets you use a significant amount of VM compute and even a decent amount of block storage. You can do a lot with it without ever paying a cent or having to learn OCI specific tech

I’ve had one running for years at this point. I got a month notice they’d be retiring the hardware it was on and I needed to restart it from the dashboard to migrate it, or it would automatically happen after the month. I had another one at one point that I had stopped running something in and forgotten to delete. They decided to delete it because it was inactive, but that warned me in advance.

No website is certainly a choice