You can be against the US’s tipping culture while at the same time being someone who donates to things lol

But yeah, definitely. For a lot of these things the funding has to be coming from somewhere and there’s no way donations are enough.

It’s not a strawman. You complained about Mozilla’s AI… That is Mozilla’s AI.

You asked who asked for this stuff… I told you.

It’s not biased towards “my views”. It doesn’t seem to be biased at all. Which questions do you take issue with? Can you elaborate?

What’s your issue with offline translation, or better screen reader functionality? That’s what Mozilla’s AI does, and you clearly have an issue with Mozilla’s AI. I’m giving you the opportunity to say what’s wrong about it (and so is Mozilla).

People have been asking for translation in Firefox for years, they add it in a way that works well and is completely private, and people cry about it.

It IS optional and it ISN’T bundled by default.

If anything, they’re a bit annoying to enable, because you currently have to go into the settings to look for it.

I don’t think privacy or usability for blind people is a waste.

What do you mean who asked? People were complaining about lack of proper translation in Firefox for a long time. People were definitely asking. Google translate was (and still is) one of the most downloaded Firefox extensions.

And if you’ve ever used or seen someone use a screen reader on websites, you’ll know it’s awful. So Mozilla are right to focus on making the web better for blind people.

Yes, I’m aware most people aren’t blind, but that doesn’t mean those people should receive zero accomodation. Part of Mozilla’s mission statement is making the web accessible. That’s in their ‘mandate’, if you will. If people don’t want an accessible web, I’m sure there are browsers out there that make zero accomodations for the disabled.

And the survey is not written in a way to direct you towards answers that Mozilla wants. Did you even look? They give plenty of room to criticise.

Mate, that person hates Mozilla with such a passion they talk about it in their account bio.

40% of this person’s entire personality is “I hate Mozilla btw”. There’s nothing you can say to reason with him.

There’s nothing sketchy about their AI implementation.

Private, locally-run, offline language translation that doesn’t send data to Google translation servers is a good thing. I don’t see how that’s sketchy.

Or their alt-text generation for images to assist blind people in using the web. I don’t see how that’s sketchy at all.

What’s positive about Mozilla having private, offline language translation?

Gee I dunno. Maybe that you get to translate web pages without sending that data to Google?

What’s positive about Mozilla using image recognition to generate alt-text for images

Gee I dunno. Maybe blind people being able to browse the web better?

What’s the positive about Mozilla using AI to flag fake product reviews?

Gee I dunno. Maybe to stop people being scammed?

E: I’m assuming you downvoted because you hate privacy, blind people, not being able to scam people with fake reviews, or some combination of the above lol.

Private, offline language translation is not “no tangible benefit”.

Neither is alt-text generation for images to assist blind people in searching the web. That’s a massive feature.

E: idk whether you’re down voting because you don’t want privacy or because you don’t like blind people lol

It’s opt-in already, in fact you have to go out of your way to do it. And it’s currently only used for offline, private language translation, to my knowledge.

That is a very good usecase considering the alternative is to send it to a Google translation server.

I feel like people need to actually read beyond the “Mozilla adds AI to Firefox” headlines.

There’s nothing wrong with using an LLM for offline private language translation. It literally preserves privacy by not simply sending all that data to a Google translation server.

There’s nothing wrong with using offline image recognition to aid in helping blind people know what’s on their screen.

As for their “advertising” - you should look up what they actually did. It completely preserves privacy while at the same time not completely destroying the economic model that content creators rely on. It’s a good thing. With any luck, regulators will enforce it.

But their AI helps protect privacy? The main thing it’s currently used for is offline private translation that doesn’t send data to Google’s servers.

The other main AI feature they’re working on is AI-generated alt-text for untagged images, so that blind people can better use the web.

I feel like you’re doing the classic Lemmy/Reddit thing of seeing the letters “AI” and automatically freaking out, before looking into what they’re actually doing. We aren’t talking about ChatGPT integration here…

Helping blind people use computers is a good thing.

Private, offline translation is a good thing.

If they had called these features “machine learning” instead of “AI”, it would make zero function difference, but you wouldn’t be reacting in this manner.

I’ve never heard of that, but assuming that’s a real thing and you’re telling the truth, it still doesn’t mean you get to decide what the “point” of poetry is for everybody else.

You aren’t the arbiter of what people are allowed to enjoy or see value in. If ‘Poem XYZ’ resonates with a bunch of people, but you hate it on principle because of how it was created, that doesn’t make their viewpoint invalid. To think it does is extremely arrogant.

AI is 100% being trained using Lemmy.

I remember that too. I also remember reading a headline about a Brazilian far-right group travelling to the US to join a KKK meeting, then being upset that the KKK weren’t particularly welcoming towards them.

The stupidity is absolutely incredible.

Republican

advocate for people’s rights

You really can’t be both at the same time.

Of course you can, you’re just missing the subtext:

Advocate for people like me’s rights

Right wing beliefs have always been about empowering the “I’m alright, Jack” types (I don’t know if that phrase is known in the US, but here is an explanation if not). Purely for helping the powerful stay powerful, at the expense of everyone else.

Yeah what on earth? It’s not a health monitoring ring alternative, and doesn’t try to be. It’s a watch in ring form.

Smart rings/health monitoring rings are not the norm, I don’t see why any other ring would be automatically compared to them.

It’s not like many people have heard of that brand of ring, so it’s not even the kind of clickbait that would attract people, like mentioning an Apple product would be, or when anything about any EV would have to have Tesla in the title (e.g. “Is this EV a Tesla KILLER???”)

I’m not much of a ring wearer, I don’t even wear my own wedding ring, but this one actually looks pretty neat to me. I hope the battery is as easy to replace as they claim it to be.

Because it shows that a sizable amount of people are at least anti-nazi enough to move platform.

Yes, it would be nicer if they moved to mastodon, but nobody even knows what that is, nobody is there (classic chicken and egg problem), and people get confused by the whole “choose an instance/server” thing.

Is it not ok to have a small celebration of people moving to a better, more positive platform, even if it is far from perfect?

No shit? It’s run by ex-Twitter people, and Musk has brought a flamethrower to TwitterX.

Ok that’s actually pretty funny

I’m usually a defender of opt-out telemetry in Linux, what with it usually being trivial to untick in the installer, the telemetry not being invasive, the telemetry being private and not being able to identify people, it being used to actually benefit Linux rather than make money, and because opt-in telemetry is useless (as repeatedly stated by multiple Linux projects that I trust, such as KDE and Gnome)…

That said, holy shit this telemetry collects stuff it really should not be collecting. This is not what Linux telemetry should be. Doubly so from a distro with a troubled past in terms of management and security. This is a red flag.