Emanuel [comrade/them]

You have no idea how right you are

Yeah, I’ve been following it’s enshittification for some time, but idk, this AI stuff really struck a nerve with me. With ads, I can somewhat understand that they want to make their business more sustainable, which sucks for the end user, but at least it provides a way for Firefox not to die and we could leave the work to its numerous forks to not be shit. But the AI stuff is really nonsense, not useful at all, just a way for the company to follow the hype of the AI bubble, instead of making itself sustainable.

I can only hope that turning off the AI stuff at a code level is something sustainable and easy. I’ve used Librewolf for some time now and it sucks knowing that this will only add work for the project to remove Mozilla’s new shiny toy from the code.

Edit: maybe I’m just coping is all lol

So this is how I find out. This sucks balls.

Usually, I pride myself in having nuanced opinions. When generative AI was gaining ground and hype, and receiving pushback mainly from artists, I was sceptical, but optimistic. “Maybe this technology can be useful”, I thought, not eager to discard a tool only because people could use it badly.

Now, I can say that I hate what “AI” has become and that I hope that this bubble bursts before it can grow any larger. Not only it’s yet another huge useless drain for energy and water, but it’s actively fucking up yet another project that I care about. I get that Firefox wants to stay competitive, but it’s the worst watching it divert its limited resources towards useless AI and not to other much more needed areas.

Try out Vintage Story

Build magma mines (I guess they become lava by then). Always wanted to do that, have never had the patience to do so.

I wish I was less of a Dwarf Fortess poser. I love it so much, but I always find it difficult to sit down and play.

Wild guess, but probably because most have been tamed enough in public discourse to be seen as vague icons for “good” which they [right wingers] want to be identified with, especially in order to enable policies that go directly against what these figures were for