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mcjiggerlog commented on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features   mastodon.social/@firefoxw... · Posted by u/twapi
tgsovlerkhgsel · 5 days ago
Why?

Imagine you have an AI button. 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".

Imagine the browser asks you at some point, whether you want to hear about new features. The buttons offered to you are "FUCK OFF AND NEVER, EVER BOTHER ME AGAIN", "Please show me a summary once a month", "Show timely, non-modal notifications at appropriate times".

Imagine you choose the second option, and at some point, it offers you a feature described as follows: "On search engine result pages and social media sites, use a local LLM to identify headlines, classify them as clickbait-or-not, and for clickbait headlines, automatically fetch the article in an incognito session, and add a small overlay with a non-clickbait version of the title". Would you enable it?

mcjiggerlog · 5 days ago
> Imagine you have an AI button. 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".

They basically already have this feature: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-link-previews-firef...

mcjiggerlog commented on Codex Is Live in Zed   zed.dev/blog/codex-is-liv... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
mcjiggerlog · 2 months ago
I tried it out this morning and it felt really rough, unfortunately.

It was super slow (thought I think that applies to CLI Codex too), it wasn't outputting any text explaining what it was trying to achieve, and it started off down a path that made no sense. Claude Code in Zed has some rough edges but it's at least usable.

In terms of GUI agents, Cursor is still a lot nicer experience, IMO. Though I do still prefer just using Claude Code cli, personally.

mcjiggerlog commented on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised   aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug... · Posted by u/universesquid
marifjeren · 3 months ago
Definitely sounds like spear phishing targeting you specifically.

Kudos to you for owning up to it.

As others have said, it's the kind of thing that could happen to anyone, unfortunately.

mcjiggerlog · 3 months ago
I also received the same phishing email and I only have packages with a few thousand downloads per week.
mcjiggerlog commented on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised   aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug... · Posted by u/universesquid
hunter2_ · 3 months ago
I agree, and this is arguably the best reason to use a password manager (with the next being lack of reuse which automatically occurs if you use generated passwords, and then the next being strength if you use generated passwords).

I generally recommend Google's to any Android users, since it suggests your saved password not only based on domain in Chrome browser, but also based on registered appID for native apps, to extend your point. I'm not sure if third party password managers do this, although perhaps it's possible for anti-monopoly reasons?

mcjiggerlog · 3 months ago
I actually also received this phishing email, also read it while half-asleep after a 6 week break and clicked on it. Luckily I was saved by exactly this - no password suggestion made me double check the domain.
mcjiggerlog commented on UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse   bsky.app/profile/tupped.b... · Posted by u/JoshTriplett
dustincoates · 4 months ago
Without passing judgment on the act, this is incredibly misleading. I found the source of the original quotes[0], and they are taken quite out of context.

From the article:

>First, we are told, the relevant secretary of state (Michelle Donelan) expressed “concern” that the legislation might whack sites such as Amazon instead of Pornhub. In response, officials explained that the regulation in question was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but was about regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”, a phrase that rather gives away the political thinking behind the act.

From the source (emphasis mine):

> On 18 March 2024, the Secretary of State was provided with a Submission which made it clear that Category 1 duties were not primarily aimed at pornographic content or the protection of children _(which were dealt with by other parts of the Act)_. Rather, the aim of Category 1 was to capture services that have a significant influence over public discourse. The submission offered, as a possible option, requesting information from Ofcom as to _how content recommender systems function on different types of service_.

The quote leaves out "which were dealt with by other parts of the Act" and the fact that the subject was specifically "Category 1 duties" not the Act in its entirety. It also doesn't mention that the subject was on content recommender systems.

_Again_ this is not a judgment on the Act itself, but providing the full context, which does change the message.

0: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_v_Secret...

mcjiggerlog · 4 months ago
There oddly seems to be a concerted effort online to paint the UK as some kind of failing police state recently. This narrative seems to have really taken off with some Americans, who now seem completely convinced that the UK government is some kind of totalitarian oppressor who are snatching people off the streets.

Meanwhile, Brits just look on at this narrative wondering what the hell they're talking about. Look, I'm against this legislation too, but if you actually live in the UK or even just consume mainstream British media, you'd soon realise that this narrative that's being pushed is a distortion that doesn't match day to day reality.

mcjiggerlog commented on What is HDR, anyway?   lux.camera/what-is-hdr/... · Posted by u/_kush
esperent · 7 months ago
This page crashed Brave on Android three times before I gave up.
mcjiggerlog · 7 months ago
For me this crashed in android webview, android chrome, and android firefox. Impressive.
mcjiggerlog commented on Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news   app.fluentsubs.com/exerci... · Posted by u/ph4evers
ph4evers · 9 months ago
That's a bit unfortunate, sorry about that!

I only checked English, French, Dutch and German and assumed that Spanish would be OK. Was this for drag & drop. And do you maybe have the video? Maybe I need to tune the quality threshold specifically for Spanish videos.

mcjiggerlog · 9 months ago
I actually did the same video on desktop and the same answers worked fine! Screenshots of it failing in an android webview, but passing on desktop firefox: https://imgur.com/a/vALlFdH.
mcjiggerlog commented on Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news   app.fluentsubs.com/exerci... · Posted by u/ph4evers
mcjiggerlog · 9 months ago
Really cool idea! I tried a few Spanish ones (I speak Spanish) and unfortunately it was marking things as incorrectly wrong on 2/5 videos I did!
mcjiggerlog commented on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed   scientificamerican.com/po... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
yakhinvadim · a year ago
I tried to solve this problem by making AI rank the stories by significance and rewriting the news titles in a boring, factual style.

I think it worked quite well, there's only about 10 headlines a day (out of 15k+) that get a significance rating higher than of 5.5 out of 10.

It also helps avoiding the overfocus on western issues and actually learn what's happening around the world.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/

mcjiggerlog · a year ago
I did the same too, but by ingesting Wikipedia's current event portal. The result is a decent balance of world events, but without the sensationalism.

https://detoxed.news/

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/detoxed.news/

mcjiggerlog commented on The company behind Arc is now building a second, much simpler browser   theverge.com/2024/10/24/2... · Posted by u/gregdoesit
mcjiggerlog · a year ago
I'm glad I stuck with Firefox. At least you know it's not going to be abandoned.

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