• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    1 year ago

    Omg just be a browser please. Desktop PWAs are still not a feature in Firefox. Search input elements still don’t have a native “clear” button. Hardware acceleration on Linux is only like a year old feature. Etc.

    I love you Firefox, but you’re losing focus. If I wanted built-in gimmicks I’d use Edge (okay probably not but you get the idea)

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      1 year ago

      I’d argue that fact checking can be more important today than anything that you’ve mentioned. Modern problems require modern solutions and it’s natural that browsers extend their feature sets. I’d agree with you had they announced that they were planning to merge Firefox and Thunderbird.

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        I’d rather use a PWA that uses my firefox install than use an electron app which bundles chromium. And PWAs are standard, and can work on mobile too…

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        PWAs are great. Half the apps in app stores are just packaged browsers, we should take away the need for that bloat…using the engine of your choice would be a bonus. Plus they create the option of skipping app stores entirely, which is another step away from the Google/Apple oligopoly.

  • Samuel Proulx@rblind.com
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    So who are they sending our product browsing data to in order to provide this service? At least I know what Microsoft and Google are doing with my data (nothing good). But Pocket and cloudflare and there VPN provider and whatever other random companies Firefox partners with? Who knows! How do I opt out? Who knows! How secure are these companies? Who knows! At least using Edge or Chrome I only have to hand over my data to one evil corporation, instead of several. Plus I actually get things I want in return (for me: automatic image descriptions, reader mode, read aloud, and AI based page summaries). Nothing I get from the companies Firefox works with are things I even want.

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    Seems Interesting. I hope this will also be a local feature and not dependent on a cloud service but since the Company behind this is using some AI and ML I doubt that it will run on the computer especially since firefox is known to run on basically anything

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      With Firefox’ recent addition of “offline” translations I wouldn’t rule out that they’ll run this locally as well.

      Not sure whether that’s a more complex model though.

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        I know about that, and I love that it runs locally. I just hope that they will keep this mindset, I would love to have such tool available at all times Edit: Personally I also agree its a bit weird that it will be a native feature, maybe an official extension would be more adequate

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    I installed the Fakespot extension and then went looking through my past purchases. It seemed to work really well and called out things as shady for products that I can say, first hand, were actually kind of sketchy.

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      I tried Opera on a few of my devices lately and frankly I’m impressed by the responsiveness. I still can’t get rid of Firefox but I find myself moving over to Opera more and morem

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        Opera is just chrome with a different skin these days, they no longer maintain their own browser engine

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      That is already done, as a way to improve AI, in a technique called Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANN).

      One network’s task is to produce fake content. The other network’s task is to detect it. These networks then evolve together, each getting better and better.

      What that means is that if we develop a means to detect AI-generated content, then that mechanism becomes the stepping stone to better AI.

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        I’m reminding of the humorous attempts to build a bear proof trash can. Ends up a bear proof trash can is also human proof for some humans.