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Hang on to your Firefox! (www.newsonaut.com)
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[–] 31 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I am not in the AI==bad camp because I believe in nuance. I see a lot of people shit on Firefox for integrating LLM-related features. What the blog post points out and people fail to recognize is that if Mozilla stopped maintaining Firefox, almost all of its forks would die. People make similar arguments about Canonical and Ubuntu. Would these people pay Mozilla or Canonical for their work? The corporate investors do. I'm not saying I agree with it all, but that's how it works.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Would these people pay Mozilla or Canonical for their work?

    I think we know the answer to this.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Mozilla? Maybe, but they need to step it up to be worth paying. They were captured by Google supporting them for too long and need to break from the "Yes, Daddy!" dipshittery. Dumping slopboth trash into everything while my SSD replacement is 6x what it was last time I checked just makes me want to slap you. Especiallyh if it's bloody pointless, and for those who want that crap it can run via a bookmarked site or as an extenion not part of the core fucking browser.

    Canonical? Fuck no! Not only is Ubuntu a complete joke, and was nearly twenty yhears ago when I tried and tossed it to go back to Slackware, but the only project they ever put out worth anything they abandoned and let it fall toa poorly supported community project making the phone OS.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I see a lot of people shit on Firefox for integrating LLM-related features. What the blog post points out and people fail to recognize is that if Mozilla stopped maintaining Firefox, almost all of its forks would die.

    You're misreading why people are shitting on FF. It would have been nice if Firefox had actually worked on literally any other features in the last decade, like not trashing support for PWAs. Instead, we got nothing but stupid partnerships with companies for features not one wanted, and a succession of failures in the CEO seat of Firefox.

    So, yeah, I guess I don't think it"s realistic for Firefox to have ignored the LLM craze entirely, but man, they could have managed that Google money better.

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    if Mozilla stopped maintaining Firefox, almost all of its forks would die.

    That's an assumption. You're severely underestimating the amount of work open source maintainers put into those things.

    Would these people pay [...] Canonical for their work?

    Plenty of nice distribs exist without being maintained by a corporation. Good on them, for getting to have a bunch of money of the opensource, but it's not a necessary model for the opensource projects to survive.

    I see a lot of people shit on Firefox for integrating LLM-related features

    And that's good, as it should be. They crammed this bullshit that nobody asked for, and reluctantly gave a button to opt out a year later, and it's still on by default. This is bad behavior regardless of your stance on it.

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