AuthAuth (u/AuthAuth)

AuthAuth commented on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features mastodon.social/@firefoxw... · Posted by u/twapi

pessimizer · a day ago

Crypto has proven that it can bribe governments into pouring tax money into it. It still hasn't shown any use.

AuthAuth · a day ago

Thats not a reason for crypto being useless, anything can bribe corrupt governments to pour tax money into it.

Crypto has shown people are willing to use it as a currency for investment and day to day transactions. Its held value for a significant amount of time. The tech is evolving still and people see a lot of value in having a currency that operates outside of Governments in a decentralized way even if some people will misuse that freedom.

AuthAuth commented on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features mastodon.social/@firefoxw... · Posted by u/twapi

tsimionescu · a day ago

That doesn't mean anything, it's just a name change. They're the same kind of unit.

And whatever accelerator you try to put into it, you're not running Gemini3 or GPT-5.1 on your laptop, not in any reasonable time frame.

AuthAuth · a day ago

Also it does mean something. An NPU is completely different from your 5070. Yes the 5070 has specific AI cores but it also has raster cores and other things not present in an NPU.

You dont need to run GPT5.1 to summerize a webpage. Models are small and specialized for different tasks.

AuthAuth commented on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features mastodon.social/@firefoxw... · Posted by u/twapi

e2le · 2 days ago

Of all the AI features added recently, local translations is one that I would be OK with being enabled by default. It's useful, and its value proposition is much less dubious.

AuthAuth · a day ago

What about voice to text, text to voice, alt text generation for images that dont have them. Search suggestions, auto correct, malicious website detection.

Those are all features using AI and features I consider to be useful

AuthAuth commented on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features mastodon.social/@firefoxw... · Posted by u/twapi

tsimionescu · a day ago

> When you click it, the locally running LLM gets a copy of the web site in the context window, and you get to ask it a prompt, e.g. "summarize this".

I'm also now imagining my GPU whirring into life and the accompanying sound of a jetplane getting ready for takeoff, as my battery suddenly starts draining visibly.

Local LLMs for are a pipe dream, the technology fundamentally requires far too much computation for any true intelligence to ever make sense with current computing technologies.

AuthAuth · a day ago

Most laptops are now shipping with a NPU for handling these tasks. So it wont be getting computed on your GPU.

AuthAuth commented on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features mastodon.social/@firefoxw... · Posted by u/twapi

andrepd · a day ago

> Without AI enabled features + agent mode being first class citizens, this will be a non-starter in 2 years.

The confidence with which people say these things...

s/AI/NFT and I've heard this exact sentence many times before.

AuthAuth · a day ago

NFT was always a meme and crypto has proven its staying power.

AuthAuth commented on Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? · Posted by u/jannesblobel

AuthAuth · a day ago

I'm new to HN so I am just taking a guess based on what i've observed so far.

HN works by posting things you are genuinely interested in and that the other people here are genuinely interested in.

You have to be honest, people arent interested in your chatgpt wrapper or whatever flavour of the month tech is being pushed. There is more interest in someone showing off an pi project they spent a few weeks working on than someone showing a fully working ready to ship product.

So show us the product in a real and interesting way. If you are working on an app dont just post a link to the web page with some SEO slop written, write a blog where you talk about how you solved a specific technical problem.

AuthAuth commented on Finland gave two groups identical payments – one saw better mental health scottsantens.substack.com... · Posted by u/2noame

mytailorisrich · 2 days ago

> and satisfy bureaucrats

That's an unnecessary quip as that's not the point of checks.

It's not surprising that if unemployed people receive benefits with no strings attached their "mental health" is better since it removes pressure to find a job.

> It was the unconditionality itself—the simple act of trusting people with resources, without surveillance or judgment, without hoops to jump through or forms to fill out—that created these dramatic improvements in psychological well-being.

It not about trusting people with the money they are given.

The usual checks are because people are expected to earn a living by themselves and unemployment benefits are only meant to help them while they can't and are looking for a job. It is not meant to enable a life-style, which is what unconditionality can lead to.

> the conditions we attach to welfare aren’t just bureaucratic inconveniences. They are active harms. They create stress, anxiety, and psychological damage that persists even when the financial support is adequate.

Oh dear... This reads like a parody at that point.

An useful measurement would be to see which group, if any, found a job quicker. A finding that conditionality does not speed things up would be noteworthy and helpful, a finding that people feel better when they get money every month unconditionally isn't.

AuthAuth · a day ago

Getting psychologically damaged by receiving financial support while you looked for a new job is such a wild statement.

AuthAuth commented on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features mastodon.social/@firefoxw... · Posted by u/twapi

AuthAuth · 2 days ago

I'm glad to see some mozilla employees standing their base in the comments. That guy trying to make the point that Mozilla was wasting resources chasing trend only for an employee to say it was a few people checking it out while 1000 people continued work on the normal stuff is nice to see.

The non mozilla people in that thread are so petty. Maybe it'd be better to have them go use another browser and stop dragging down firefox's reputation.

AuthAuth commented on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h... · Posted by u/MrAlex94

lioeters · 3 days ago

> Firefox is trying to diversify their revenue

Nobody wants a browser that's focused on diversifying its revenue, especially from Mozilla which pretends to be a non-profit "free software community".

Chrome is paid for by ads and privacy violations, and now Firefox is paid for by "AI" companies? That is a sad state of affairs.

Ungoogled Chromium and Waterfox are at best a temporary measure. Perhaps the EU or one of the U.S. billionaires would be willing to fund a truly free (as in libre) browser engine that serves the public interest.

AuthAuth · 3 days ago

Mozilla the browser doesnt pretend to be a non profit. Mozilla corporation which runs the browser is a for profit company they do not solict donations and NEED to make money to survive. Its just that Mozilla corporation is owned by Mozilla foundation which is a non profit.

>Nobody wants a browser that's focused on diversifying its revenue I want a browser that has a sustainable business model so it wont collapse some time in the future. That means diversifying its revenue stream away from google's search contract.

AuthAuth commented on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h... · Posted by u/MrAlex94

mindcrash · 3 days ago

They are not "wanting" to introduce AI, they already did.

And now we have:

- A extra toolbar nobody asked for at the side. And while it contains some extra features now, I'm pretty much sure they added it just to have some prominent space to add a "Open AI Chatbot" button to the UI. And it is irritating as fuck because it remembers its state per window. So if you have one window open with the sidebar open, and you close it on another, then move to the other again and open a new window it thinks "hey, I need to show a sidebar which my user never asked for!". Also I believe it is also opening itselves sometimes when previously closed. I don't like it at all.

- A "Ask an AI Chatbot" option which used to be dynamically added and caused hundreds of clicks on wrong items on the context menu (due to muscle memory), because when it got added the context menu resizes. Which was also a source of a lot of irritation. Luckily it seems they finally managed to fix this after 5 releases or so.

Oh, and at the start of this year they experimented with their own LLM a bit in the form of Orbit, but apparently that project has been shitcanned and memoryholed, and all current efforts seem to be based on interfacing with popular cloud based AIs like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Mistral. (likely for some $$$ in return, like the search engine deal with Google)

AuthAuth · 3 days ago

All your complaints can be resolved in a few seconds by using the settings to customize the browser to your liking and not downloading extensions you dont like. And tons of people asked for that sidebar by the way.

We have to put this all in the context. Firefox is trying to diversify their revenue away from google search. They are trying to provide users with a Modern browser. This means adding the features that people expect like AI integration and its a nice bonus if the AI companies are willing to pay for that.