Brendan Eich

I honestly don’t understand the hate here. I get that he supported the bill to ban gay marriage and that’s terrible, but I’ve also heard that he left his politics at the door and treated everyone with respect, including the LGBT people at Mozilla. I honestly think he would’ve been a better CEO at Mozilla because he’s interested in the tech. His largest problem was making a personal contribution with his own money to an unpopular cause, and someone dug it up looking for dirt.

Isn’t that exactly how people should act? Leave your politics at home and work well with others. I work in a diverse group with a mix of immigrants, likely gay people, atheists and religious types, Trump supporters and critics, and even a couple furries. None of that matters and we work well together. In fact, most of the turnover we’ve had has been over compensation because our company has been stingy recently, and they all say they wouldn’t have considered leaving otherwise.

You can disagree on very important things and still work well together, it’s called professionalism. I dislike Eich’s views, but I believe he had way more professionalism than his loudest critics.

I suppose, unless you’ve watched King of the Hill.

Exactly. How FOSS devs spend their time and money isn’t my business, what is my business is foundation financials and whether the software is reliable and safe to use.

I strongly disagree with Lemmy devs on politics and how they run their instances, but that doesn’t impact me so whatever.

As long as ladybird devs don’t go out of their way to be jerks to trans people, I’m good. The worst I’ve seen is rejecting pronoun changes in code comments and docs, which isn’t a big deal.

stand up against racism and discrimination

What does this mean for a browser company? I understand this being an important company value, but I don’t want them filtering the internet or anything. Their primary goal should be to foster a privacy respecting web and a high performance, standards based browser.

I don’t think eliminating profit from the web should be a goal. I don’t care if websites make money, I just care they don’t profit from my data without me agreeing to it explicitly.

I think Firefox needs to become financially independent, and that means finding a privacy respecting business model. My personal preference is a micro payment system where I can pay websites for content in exchange for no ads. That provides value to me and websites that I’d otherwise block ads on.

If AI is part of that, sure, just make it opt-in and very obvious when it’s working.

Oh sure, caution is always warranted w/ LLMs. But when it works, it can save a ton of time.

And that’s the same w/ traditional search engines, the difference is that we’re used to search engines and LLMs are new. Learn how to use the tool and decide for yourself when it’s useful.

Yeah, and that’s largely what soured me on it. I watched a few, and it basically seemed like a “I know better” type “discussion” instead of an actual discussion about pros/cons to certain things.

Do you have an alternate source that proves your point, or is your entire argument “because I said so”? Whether something avoids taxes or not has little to do with its credibility, you’ll need stronger evidence than that.

And I don’t know what you mean by “polls are not accurate.” Yeah, they’re unreliable for certain things (I.e. predicting election results) because people lie and change their minds, and elections are generally decided on a per-state basis, so just one or two “flipping” is enough to turn an election. They’re more reliable for other things, like tracking sentiment across a longer period of time.

I certainly don’t buy the “6 hours saved per week” statement here (that’s self-reported and a small sample size), but I do buy that teachers are using AI more and more to assist w/ their work. Surveys can only tell you so much, and it’s important to not read too much into them, but that doesn’t mean they’re worthless or misleading.

Sure, but the WAN show kinda sucks, it’s basically Linus spewing some nonsense and Luke trying to keep him somewhat rational.

Or for linking an LTT video. I’m also not a fan, but I’m not going to downvote a relevant post just because I don’t like the presenter.

Yup, that’s correct. What about it?

? Media bias fact check says it’s left-center w/ high factual accuracy. The poll itself is from Gallup, which is quite reputable, and The Walton Family Foundation, which is also reputable.

Are you thinking of something else?

Exactly. If anyone is going to be using AI at the forefront, it should be teachers, for two reasons:

• so they can teach students its proper use because it will come up
• education is closely tracked, so we can see the impact of teachers relying on AI in student outcomes

I think this is fantastic!

LLMs don’t use that much energy once trained. We run some models on a Mac Mini at work, and that thing sips power. Since education materials don’t change much, there’s no reason to need an up-to-date model for most subjects.

Cool! My SO played it a bit, then got tired of it. Maybe I’ll give it a spin!

Yup. There was a time when Mozilla was somewhat dominant, so browsers unlocked features based on the browser being Mozilla (as opposed to Internet Explorer).

You can based on the port.

And they moved the start menu.

Sure. If you live in an area where kids may need to reach out, sure, give them a loaner phone or something, or one of those watches that can only contact a fixed set of numbers (you and trusted emergency contacts).