Ah, I missed that alt text specifically is local, but the point stands, in that allowing (opt-in) access to a 3rd party service is reasonable, even if that service doesn’t have the same privacy standards as Mozilla itself
To pretty much every non-technical user, an AI sidebar that won’t work with ChatGPT (Google search’s equivalent from my example previously) may as well not be there at all
They don’t want to self host an LLM, they want the box where chat gpt goes
There’s plenty of situations where even a contextless generated alt-text is a huge improvement on no alt-text at all
Mozilla isn’t in charge of the extension API, it uses Chromium’s WebExtensions API
The alternative is only supporting self hosted LLMs, though, right?
Imagine the scenario: you’re a visually impaired, non-technical user. You want to use the alt-text generation. You’re not going to go and host your own LLM, you’re just going to give up and leave it.
In the same way, Firefox supports search engines that sell your data, because a normal, non-technical user just wants to Google stuff, not read a series of blog posts about why they should actually be using something else.
It’s difficult to quantify, but I think there is a compelling argument to be made - just off of my head, WW2 led to:
It’s crazy that this isn’t even the first comment I’ve seen this week arguing that the Ukraine war is somehow a conspiracy by the West to sell more weapons, as if Russia didn’t just roll up and invade them, illegally and unprovoked
How is turning it off an improvement over lockdown? I was under the impression that the security impact is basically the same
Super+X, I gang
Ooh I didn’t know about the systemd integration, that actually sounds like a really smart approach.
To be honest, until right now I’d pretty much written off podman as docker 2
I’ve heard very good things about wireguard-easy to simplify the config and management, too
I use LoL champs, there’s at least one for every letter of the alphabet
walks onto building site
“Where are all the doorknobs?!”
“Trimmed down” is probably not the best way to put it, as it’s not a limited version of X but an entirely separate protocol, so it’s growing from zero rather than shrinking from where X was
Afaik the Nvidia issues are pretty much resolved now, though it may depend on exactly which GPU you use.
It’s definitely worth using Wayland if it’s not having issues, and switching back is absurdly easy, so I’d recommend using Wayland and going back to X if you’re encountering issues.
Tldr: it’ll probably be fine, give it a go and see
That’s not what Wayland is like these days - screenshots etc have been implemented for years now
The point they’re making is that, as a totally distinct project, every single feature had to be implemented from scratch. It’s not a fast process, especially relying on volunteer labour
You took longer than that to be a useful human, don’t hear anyone saying that about you though
Because they said they are fixable…? Or because you think a minor, temporary wlroots bug is severe enough to merit binning the entire Wayland project?
Not sure I can think of anything I’d enjoy less than trying to build a web app in cpp
As far as I’m aware, twitter has actually been a lot smaller in terms of users than you might imagine from its influence.
It has a relatively low number of active users, but the fact it’s designed to be a centralised public forum (rather than users being selective who can follow them like Facebook) means it is/was very attractive for businesses, celebrities and politicians.
Pack it up lads, the internet is complete
Yeah, just create an entirely new, incompatible extension engine from scratch for this one feature specifically!