@thisismissem Shit, all wishes for speedy and extremely useful help for you.
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alright, after like a year of halfheartedly trying on and off, #FetchAllReplies is pretty much finished - the problem of not being able to see all replies to a post is one of the largest complaints that people have with mastodon in particular but also ...@jonny YAY thank you for all this work, fair winds and following seas for the last stretch of dev
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*clears throat*@so_treu weeping
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*clears throat*@so_treu AL ROKER
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I haven't said this bc it seemed obvious but since I was snarky yesterday: My assumption is that Mozilla is real into AI (and real not into most other things) right now is bc the potential remedies in the Google monopoly suit are an extremely real exis...@kevinriggle I mean, the Moz funding system has been such a weird fragile thing for so long.
It's wild to me how much life can flourish in what is essential a brief lil loophole.
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I haven't said this bc it seemed obvious but since I was snarky yesterday: My assumption is that Mozilla is real into AI (and real not into most other things) right now is bc the potential remedies in the Google monopoly suit are an extremely real exis...@luis_in_brief Oh no worries, zero irritation here!
The goofiest thing to me is that there is actually SO MUCH room for doing work in ethical genAI and ML more broadly and lots of people are doing it, but their experiments so far (the ones I've seen, at least) feel like part of a hermetically sealed world that accepts some really questionable assumptions as invitabilities.
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I haven't said this bc it seemed obvious but since I was snarky yesterday: My assumption is that Mozilla is real into AI (and real not into most other things) right now is bc the potential remedies in the Google monopoly suit are an extremely real exis...@luis_in_brief I mean, "and Moz has been looking for ways to diversify for a loooong time" is in the exact post you're responding to, so we agree there.
What looks different to me about now is a.) the intensity of their focus/investment and b.) the degree to which they're aligning with VC land over intense objections from the ethical tech zone the foundation side has aimed to play well with. (I wasn't an insider even when I was at MoFo, so maybe that's wrong but obvi I think it's right!)
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I haven't said this bc it seemed obvious but since I was snarky yesterday: My assumption is that Mozilla is real into AI (and real not into most other things) right now is bc the potential remedies in the Google monopoly suit are an extremely real exis...@jalcine I would pay CASH MONEY for that
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I haven't said this bc it seemed obvious but since I was snarky yesterday: My assumption is that Mozilla is real into AI (and real not into most other things) right now is bc the potential remedies in the Google monopoly suit are an extremely real exis...Lastly! (Sorry.) The portents of doom clearly aren't the only reason for Moz going so hard on AI—there's a long history of classic techno-libertarian philosophy within the org that makes a lot of it make sense—and Moz has been looking for ways to diversify for a loooong time, but I do think the intensity of focus has been bumped up by the sense that things could hit a very heavy wall quite soon.
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I haven't said this bc it seemed obvious but since I was snarky yesterday: My assumption is that Mozilla is real into AI (and real not into most other things) right now is bc the potential remedies in the Google monopoly suit are an extremely real exis...In lieu of an extremely specific reply card: I will not myself be engaging in arguments about whether or not Mozilla's initiatives are "good AI" or whatever.
Also I promise that you do not have to explain to me how Moz is funded or how browser development and/or open source works. ️
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I haven't said this bc it seemed obvious but since I was snarky yesterday: My assumption is that Mozilla is real into AI (and real not into most other things) right now is bc the potential remedies in the Google monopoly suit are an extremely real exis...I haven't said this bc it seemed obvious but since I was snarky yesterday: My assumption is that Mozilla is real into AI (and not into most other things) right now is bc the potential remedies in the Google monopoly suit are an extremely serious existential risk and they're trying to operate where the money is (AI, for now) and maybe do some good—by someone's lights—to prep for that potential doom.
Remedies coming in about a year: https://archive.ph/j13bw
On Moz risk: https://news.itsfoss.com/google-mozilla-firefox-threat/
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@so_treu For reeeeal fr fr.@so_treu For reeeeal fr fr. I think the inherent hostility of being gendered by others is why my outward expression of gender is increasingly JUST LET ME BE.
Rapidly intensifying ancient witch/sulky teen crossover vibes
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Now, while *I'm* not a gender abolitionist, I will say that I did read this one zine last year that I thought was making points, so I'm going to post some excerpts.@so_treu I heard myself saying to my partner literally yesterday how profoundly exhausted I am with gender and its effects in my life.
Like, I don't want to take anything away from anyone else who's into it. But I would personally be so happy and relieved if the whole zone just evaporated.
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Venn diagram of what indie tech people think Mozilla wants to be/should be and what Moz actually wants to be: OO@tehstu We outside Moz? I think they've made their own fate, tbh.
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@josh it's hard for me to make the stated intent and the results match up, yeah, and for closer to 15+ years@josh it's hard for me to make the stated intent and the results match up, yeah, and for closer to 15+ years
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Venn diagram of what indie tech people think Mozilla wants to be/should be and what Moz actually wants to be: OO@miah @lmorchard Yeah, the Manifesto is still such interesting reading, in both the original and slightly edited later version
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/
I'm 100% sure that a lot of senior people at Moz have felt that they're really serving those principles, and still do, and yet.
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Venn diagram of what indie tech people think Mozilla wants to be/should be and what Moz actually wants to be: OO@lmorchard For sure! And Mozilla has done some great things, especially but not only on the foundation side. (Our little Knight-funded team there got so much done, lots of the fellows have been amazing.)
But the good things seem to have been sort of to one side of what leadership ultimately wanted, and Baker's bets didn't really pay off.
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@nivex @RangerRick They're shutting down the server, not just the account.@nivex @RangerRick They're shutting down the server, not just the account.
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Venn diagram of what indie tech people think Mozilla wants to be/should be and what Moz actually wants to be: OOMy tepid take is that this gap is only partly Mozilla's fault—the rest is a combination of projection and the ol' "using the same terms to mean different things" problem.
We sure could use a big institution to be what, say, nerds like me would prefer Mozilla to be, though. (The reason we don't have one is funding.)
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Venn diagram of what indie tech people think Mozilla wants to be/should be and what Moz actually wants to be: OOVenn diagram of what indie tech people think Mozilla wants to be/should be and what Moz actually wants to be: OO