doubledealer [none/use name]

Consider https://www.waterfox.com/ as an alternative. Anyone who wants a fair and free internet is probably still fucked in the mid-term unless a new FOSS engine falls out of the sky or a bunch of Mozilla devs jump ship with a hard fork because Waterfox is still downstream of Mozilla, using their engine, and reliant on them maintaining code. But Waterfox is not a bad option at present in a sea of terrible options, and it’s what I’ve switched to.

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/

Waterfox exists because some users want a browser that simply works well at being a browser. The UI is mature - arguably, it has been a solved for problem for years. The customisation features are available and apparent. The focus is on performance and web standards.

In many ways, browsers are operating systems of their own, and a browser’s job is to be a good steward of that environment. AI, in its current form and in my opinion does not match that responsibility.

And yes, yes - disabling features is all well and good, but at the end of the day, if these AI features are black boxes, how are we to keep track of what they actually do? The core browsing experience should be one that fully puts the user in control, not one where you’re constantly monitoring an inscrutable system that claims to be helping you.

Waterfox will not include LLMs. Full stop. At least and most definitely not in their current form or for the foreseeable future.

Anyone who believed the shitty Escapist article is at best a fool who was easily duped, and any opinions they express should be considered accordingly.

If they are so successful that it actually becomes a redefined word with social understanding that it’s used as a reference to somebody who is Republican or fascist or Nazi or has those tendencies, that could be awesome.

Most cases in my experience is partly because STEM study is divorced from study of Humanities. Wanna know how many STEM students were in my 300s Eng Lit class where we had analysis on Neuromancer and how fucked that all was? ZERO. It was the same people from all my other Humanities courses.

It seems like the rules clearly stated no AI could be used to be considered for any awards for this contest. Sandfall could have withdrawn, they’ve won enough other awards, and it probably wouldn’t be a big deal. But Sandfall instead proceeded through the nomination process, and only had the award stripped from them when it was discovered they were lying about not using AI.

Setting aside the fact that AI is a tool of capital to oppress and steal from labor, not disclosing the use of AI to win an indie award is tacky. The dishonesty to win a low-stakes award is why this is a bigger deal. Especially with the nepotism, budget and capital behind Sandfall vs. the much smaller studios that were in contention this year and created art, by hand, that deserves to be celebrated.

They had some AI generated “placeholder” textures that were quietly patched out.

I have a dream that the US citizens will elect a socialist administration that will drop the liberalism and punish this corruption

The next DOJ can have such a sweet job with how this is all being setup. They’ll just need to copy the official press releases to evidence and dump admin officials at the Hague. While it’s been very difficult for this DOJ, I don’t imagine it would be too hard to abstain from commenting on active cases.

Highway 2 got wrecked by landslides, and last I heard they don’t even know when it will reopen. I-90 EB was shut down for a day during the atmospheric river event, so it’s totally susceptible. Feels like getting across the Cascades could be a real challenge if things go badly enough.

Common Side Effects

Well, he’s already ripped off Clear and Present Danger, so why not

“I’m truly sorry I went on all those shitty podcasts and I promise I will do better. I’m going to be a candidate worthy of your vote for president.”