Chronic enthusiast. Technology should be about improving people's lives. Automation is a double edged sword.
I might be oblivious to some trending issues. I rely heavily on mute lists for my mental health and to have energy where I can be useful.
Broken English, existential crises, and dad jokes.
I wanted to write a more nuanced follow up but @anildash already wrote it. I’d recommend everyone who boosted this to have a read.
The TLDR for me is
- Numbers say people do want AI
- Mozilla has a role to play in educating people about AI, to protect their privacy
- Mozilla is terrible at announcing such features, and seems to lack coordination overall
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
(www.anildash.com)
Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.
Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.
People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.
Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.
AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.
(blog.mozilla.org)
Bit late for April Fool's Day, Apple
ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
Apple Newsroom (www.apple.com)
@joeycastillo I could be the audience for this project!
The main unknown: Do you budget time to work on the OS?
To be usable by the less savvy, the Linux desktop lacks stability. Not software stability, but organizational and human stability.
I want maintainers to have a stable income. I want apps to last a decade, instead of having to chase the next rewrite of an abandoned project.
The Linux desktop is a beautiful accident that only exists because people devote part of their lives to it, for better or worse. We ought to support it financially, as a public service.