I love star wars but fuck I hate it too so much.

an AI ‘rebel alliance’

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This sounds like a distraction from making Firefox good. 

Might be imagining it, but I think there is enough proof somewhere that some Mozilla board members were paid or extorted by google to sabotage the organization

Cope slop for those still on firefox. I finally got around to downloading waterfox and it runs great.

I wouldn't be against it but... You don't need to support companies or nonprofits, we already got DeepSeek and Qwen which are open source, they don't need money, but they're also not going to go that way because they're Chinese. So they basically want some Western alternative, sure, whatever.

The big companies are burning down the planet building datacenters to run pointless AI so we're going to combat that by... building datacenters to run AI?

If they actually wanted to rebel against it they would build low energy tools to detect and remove AI spam and encourage people not to engage with this shit at all.

How I interpret this :

• Oh no, the very trend and thus powerful corporations are doing something stupid that does not work, let's copy them!

instead of just watch the sideline as they keep on pouring more resources with nothing to show for it except the buzz they keep so hard on trying to maintain.

Servo and Ladybird can't come fast enough man. I hope, that they are mature before Mozilla inevitabley crashes into the fucking ground.

!waterfox@programming.dev seriously, jump ship to a fork that's not actively trying to kick itself in the nuts as hard as feasibly possible

The truly rebellious action would be to make it so you can turn that bullshit off.

…I actually wouldn’t be against this.

But it isn’t even genuine. They’ve forked llama.cpp into a broken clone like about 500 other corporations, instead of just contributing to shit that actually works and is used, and… that’s about it.

That's about par for the AI industry.

and still no gecko firefox for ios.

Congrats Disney, you did it.

You have obliterated the original message of Star Wars.

Don't blow all the money on GPUs Mozilla, we need you to keep developing Firefox at least until Servo is ready to take over.

By that, they mean they're forming a group to oppose AI, right?

...Right???

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It’s amazing to me how so many supposed capitalists (the folks that should be at the forefront of smart investing), are throwing money straight into the fiery pit that is AI. It’s like watching an arms race between Fallout corporations.

I'm overdosing on the cringe ☠️

Let me know when they create an alternative to transformers, pytorch, and create a tokenizer without the Open AI QKV hidden layers of alignment. That is where all the fuckery is happening. This is standard and used for all models. It is totally proprietary and a primary reason why they are "open weights" but not Open Source.

That sounds gayer than 5 guys having sex with 6 guys.

All we want is a really good FOSS browser and email client...

So .. a company that despite decades of effort, can't make a competitive web browser with all the help in the world, is now going to distract itself with even more non-essential rubbish with absolutely zero chance of success .. can't wait to hear what the excuse is going to be when this CEO leaves to pursue other opportunities.

Meanwhile the Assumed Intelligence Ponzi scheme will have collapsed, taking with it a significant portion of the economy, let alone the ICT industry.

This timeline needs some tweaking..

Ffs stop with this AI crap, nobody wants it, the only ones that care are those morons that invested trillions into a project that nobody said they need before they started building it up, you don't make something and then look for demand, you create an idea and then if there is demand then you try to make it to fulfill that demand.

How about you make a browser instead

Deploying its roughly $1.4 billion worth of reserves to support “mission driven” tech businesses and nonprofits, including its own

I mean, how else can you deplete a non-profit's reserves?

What does Mozilla doubling down on AI and becoming less appealing to core users mean for Firefox forks going forward? How independent of Mozilla are the biggest ones in practice?

remember the good old days when firefox was the better alternative to pretty much all browsers?

Fuck off mozilla.

They are trying to destroy the last credible non-shit browser engine. How do we rescue Mozilla from their board and management?

Nice, I look forward to a more privacy centric approach to this AI nonsense. Let's see how they do.

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Well. That's cute.