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espeed commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline

espeed · 8 days ago

Rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779), Firefox should develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but it could be the only browser that does this. Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018789

espeed commented on The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy taggart-tech.com/mozilla-... · Posted by u/holysoles

cannonpalms · a month ago

You can already do what you're looking for by reading the browser cache as new data is cached. This would allow you to see the site as it was loaded originally, instead of simply fetching an updated view from a URL. The data layout for the cache in Firefox and Chrome is available online.

espeed · a month ago

Does the cache store the rendered DOM?

espeed commented on The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy taggart-tech.com/mozilla-... · Posted by u/holysoles

espeed · a month ago

Someone needs to convince Firefox rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779) to develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but they could have the only browser that does this.

espeed commented on Gemini 3 blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/preek

espeed · a month ago

I paid for Gemini Pro. Am I getting Gemini 3 Pro (https://gemini.google.com)? "To be precise: You are currently interacting with Gemini 1.5 Pro." https://x.com/espeed/status/1991333475098718601

espeed commented on Tim Bray on Grokipedia tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

espeed · 2 months ago

Grokipedia vs. Wikipedia Jesus Entry https://espeed.dev/Grokipedia-vs.-Wikipedia-Jesus-Entry

I also asked ChatGPT and Claude: https://chatgpt.com/share/6902ef7b-96fc-800c-ab26-9f2a0304af...

https://claude.ai/share/3fb2aa34-316c-431e-ab64-0738dd84873e

espeed commented on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web anildash.com//2025/10/22/... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

whilenot-dev · 2 months ago

I'm confused, do you want more than the browser history then? ...something like Microsoft's Recall? Browsers currently don't store what they've seen and for good reasons. I was with you for a sec, but good luck convincing Mozilla to propagate rendered pages to other processes then!

espeed · 2 months ago

Being able to index and own your data changes the model of the Web.

espeed commented on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web anildash.com//2025/10/22/... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

pdntspa · 2 months ago

So you're one of those people trying to attach history to everything!

Yeah I am sure lots of people want their pornhub history integrated into AI...

If that is the "future" (gag), we better be able to opt out

espeed · 2 months ago

It's your personal AI running locally on your machine, you can opt out of what you index. You own your data.

espeed commented on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web anildash.com//2025/10/22/... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

whilenot-dev · 2 months ago

AFAICS this has nothing to do with "open-source personal AI engines".

The recorded history is stored in a SQLite database and is quite trivial to examine[0][1]. A simple script could extract the information and feed them to your indexer of choice. Developing such a script isn't the task for an internet browser engineering team.

The question remains whether the indexer would really benefit from real-time ingestion while browsing.

[0] Firefox: https://www.foxtonforensics.com/browser-history-examiner/fir...

[1] Chrome: https://www.foxtonforensics.com/browser-history-examiner/chr...

espeed · 2 months ago

Due to the dynamic nature of the Web, URLs don't map to what you've seen. If I visit a URL at a certain time, the content I see is different than the content you see or even if I visit the same URL later. For example, if we want to know the tweets I'm seeing are the same as the tweets you're seeing and haven't been subtly modified by an AI, how do you do that? In the age of AI programming people, this will be important.

espeed commented on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web anildash.com//2025/10/22/... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

snorbleck · 2 months ago

This is amazing. My entire web browser session state for every private and personal website I sign onto every day will be used for training data. It's great! I love this. This is exactly the direction humans should be going in to not self-destruct. The future is looking bright, while the light in our brains dims to eventual darkness. Slowly. Tragically. And for what purpose exactly. So cool.

espeed · 2 months ago

Knowing this is the direction things were headed, I have been trying to get Firefox and Google to create a feature that archives your browser history and pipes a stream of it in real time so that open-source personal AI engines can ingest it and index it.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...

espeed commented on Are we decentralized yet? arewedecentralizedyet.onl... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

espeed · 4 months ago

The universities need to get together and develop their own open-source search engine as part of an ongoing research project. It should be hosted in a distributed fashion from the universities themselves. They have the expertise and the resources these days to do it. And much of the high quality content on the public web originates from the universities anyway. It will be like the Library of Alexandria and not subject to censorship.