Leon

I don’t think it’s the right approach at all. Mozilla has been taking some incredibly dubious steps these past few years, when we need them to be the bastion of the free and open internet. They shouldn’t be refocusing on a bullshit technology they don’t have the resources to keep up with.

The goal of the big AI companies isn’t to provide a good and helpful product. They’re jamming it in every nook and cranny hoping they’ll find a niche where users get hooked on it. Then once they’ve become essential, and they control it, they can do whatever they wish.

My biggest worry here is not OpenAI. It’s Google, with Meta a close second. Google holds a significant stake in so many markets. They control one of the most used operating systems on the market. They control one of the biggest email services. They control the most used search engine. They control the browser with the highest market-share.

Google effectively has the ability to fully control information. All the way from how you access it, to what you access. This thought should be terrifying to anyone.

Firefox isn’t entirely under Google’s control. If Google decides to do something shitty with Chromium, like oh I don’t know, phasing out Manifest V2, Mozilla and Firefox isn’t beholden to follow suit. Unlike every other Chromium based browser. Now, that’s just one example of things they could do, but they could do literally anything to the web-standard, and if they’re the only player on the market, the open web is fucked.

Without the web, what do we do? The web connects billions in ways both meaningful, and not. It democratises information. Wikipedia for example would be entirely impossible without the web. This platform we’re on right now wouldn’t exist without a free and open web.

That’s what Mozilla should be working to protect.

It looks to me like the European Commission already has a Mastodon instance, and so I question why her account isn’t on there rather than on mastodon.social?

The problem is hierarchies. The entire point of feudalism was to create a caste system where the ruler of each segment won’t be touched by the people below them. That’s exactly what modern society by and large looks like.

Until everyone’s equal, no one is. Hierarchical systems are antithetical to peace and equality.

The U.S. kidnapped a head of state and has hijacked a nation of 30 million people, the world is doing nothing about it. Do you really think anyone would step in to do anything about a patch of ice with 50k non-white people living on it?

Stranger things literally already happened this year. It’s not even been two weeks.

I don’t mean “normal” for the U.S., I mean normal for the rest of the world. I legitimately don’t care how this transition ends up going for the U.S. I just want to be rid of them.

The U.S. was never a good country. The colonisers were religious extremists who left Europe because their views were too extremist for us, even way back then. It’s built on a foundation of genocide and murder, and it never grew past that. It’s never cared for its people. It was always an oligarchy, that was literally the entire point of the U.S. gaining independence from the British crown.

Trump being in charge isn’t really that different from before. He’s unhinged and less political, but he didn’t set all of this up. All of the systems that enable him were already in place and used by those before him. The U.S. was always a conniving and manipulative country, it’s never really had allies, just tools. It’s sad that it took this long for so many to realise, and even now our politicians are hedging their bets that things return to the old status-quo when really they should be severing all ties and leaving the U.S. to collapse in on itself.

You say that, but I’m ready for all this to be over and behind us.

Aye, my mother’s a nasty piece of work, for various other crimes not related to gastronomy. I’m a bona fide son of a bitch.

Right, so DeepSeek proved that you can make slop more efficiently and at a lower cost than what the American companies are doing, which obviously is a threat to the massive amounts of money that they’re pretending to throw around. If you can make it more efficient you won’t need billions for data centres, or trillions for GPUs.

So I can see how this is a problem for Big Slop.

Die mad about it.

I mean at this point the U.S. set some precedent that it’s okay to just kidnap heads of state, so long as you can claim self-defence. Somehow, with his threats of nukes and actual invasions into Europe I feel like that self-defence claim would be warranted in our case. Moreso than the fucking U.S. at least.

I want Donald Trump’s neck in a guillotine. It’s psychologically important to me.

Again, be the difference. I harass companies over mail because I don’t want to fucking use Discord to get project or order status updates.

“Thanks for the update. You know, it’d be really prudent to post this kind of thing on your website, or even send out updates via newsletter.”

How much meat does one need to eat? I’ve eaten one bite of a flesh hotdog in my entire lifetime, as well as a handful of things that have been cross-contaminated. I’ve made it to my 30s, so clearly the required meat dosage is very low.

This just pointedly isn’t true. There are good alternatives, there’s just not a single drop-in replacement for the role that Discord fills.

For the most obvious drop-in replacement, you have Stoat, previously called Revolt. It’s basically Discord but self-hosted. For text and voice chat you have things like Matrix or Signal, both having the added bonus of being end-to-end encrypted so your shit is private. There’s also the old-school options like Mumble and IRC.

For forums there’s Discourse, or if you want to go traditional phpbb is still around.

The big problem is that not all your friends are gathered on a single platform. This was always the case before Discord, and will be the case again after Discord. Be the change. Encourage people to switch away, and move your communities. Prune those that you don’t need any more.

This is on .world, so I want to preface this by saying; I don’t promote violence, and this isn’t a call to action for anything violent. I’m merely dropping a note about historical events.

Women didn’t get their rights to vote by peacefully protesting to their husbands, fathers, or parliament. Of course, they did all this. They engaged politically to the extent they could. They wrote letters and protested. They were mocked and ridiculed for their simple requests that their voices should be heard too.

More than that though, some people decided that they needed to be so loud that their voices couldn’t be left unheard. Historically, rights have been taken away from people with ease. People clawing rights back from their oppressors is rarely as easy, nor as peaceful.

People have died and gone missing. Peaceful days are already over, and anyone who believes otherwise is lying to themselves.

Back when I was a kid, I once decided to cook potato salad. This particular recipe calls for mayonnaise, so I decided to make some mayonnaise. My go-to acid is apple cider vinegar, and I thought it looked a bit darker than usual but I didn’t think much of it.

Once the mayonnaise was finished, I tasted it, and it was weirdly disgusting. I tried saving it, but gave up and re-did the whole thing. Which again turned out vile. I couldn’t figure out why exactly it was gross, but it had this really off-putting heady flavour that just didn’t work at all. Called on my mother to test it, and she also went “yeah that’s pretty gross.”

Turns out this skank had fucking poured some old red wine she’d found in the back of the pantry, into an apple cider vinegar bottle, because she figured it was on its way to become red wine vingegar and somehow the apple cider vinegar bottle is more suited than the red wine bottle it was already in? I guess it had started turning into vinegar, on account of it having soured and worked perfectly well in the mayonnaise emulsion, but it was still vile.

Tjosan! :) Vi har ju haft det som kärnämne sedan 50-talet. Min mor är i 70-års åldern och är yngre än engelska som kärnämne. Så om vi inte var bra på engelska måste ju något ha gått fel någonstans.

They’re doing this again, pushing to be a kind of market place and data gathering tool for games.

Yes, finally! I’m ready for this shitty platform to fucking die already.

Hardly a surprise.

Honestly it’s not Trump. It’s the U.S. If Trump wasn’t president the U.S. would be up to the same bullshit just more quietly.