This is exactly the issue. The bar was set so low. He was barely able to put together a coherent response to the infanticide claims, which was something even the lowest of information voters know is a lie. He let Trump walk all over him on immigration even though Biden put together a “bipartisan” plan that was just a Republican wishlist. If Biden had articulated any of that we’d probably be having a different conversion.

I dunno if ‘Siri but functional’ is good enough to get points from me. That said this is definitely good for the industry

I mean the biggest innovation here isn’t the “AI” (partially “on-device” or otherwise). It’s exposing the apps action hooks to the model.

This isn’t actually innovative it is just not OpenAIs business model. This recent trend is honestly a much smaller blip than most people recognize.

Let’s be honest. They certainly plan to, but first they’re gonna see if saying “Apple Intelligence” a bunch is going to convince people they actually did something innovative.

If anybody’s interested in signing up for the rolling beta, here’s the link

I believe that’s 900 active servers, not users.

Nope. That’s 418k total. 38k active

They’re on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.

In this context or generally?

I don’t think this is a money making move. The previous CEO was absolutely overly focused on monetization and this move is a step away from that. I should’ve addressed this more explicitly in the above comment but even for the players who actively monetize, AI is a money incinerator.

Tell me this is a good thing.

Mozilla has long been the most ethical player in this space (while still producing SOTA ML). All of their datasets/models are open source and usually crowdsourced. Not to mention, their existing work is primarily in improving accessibility.

ALSO, the other half of this story is that Firefox is becoming the primary focus again. Everybody’s freaking out about the AI stuff but that’s because they’re only reading the headlines. The programs they’ve shut down are things like Hubs (Mozilla’s metaverse platform), the VPN, and the sensitive data scrubber (which was using a third party service anyway).

Though, it’s tough to pull from the headline/discussion this pivot is explicitly meant to refocus on the browser.

As far as the AI stuff goes, Mozilla has long been the most ethical player in this space. All of their datasets/models are open source and usually crowdsourced. Not to mention, their existing work is primarily in improving accessibility. It’s really hard to see how this is a bad thing.

So frustrated to see how this conversation is playing out. This is exactly what people have been asking for but all anybody can seem to see is “AI” in the headline.
This pivot is about refocusing on:

• The Browser
• Privacy
• Ethical AI

This seems like a much better position for Mozilla to operate from, particularly because they’ve excelled at producing ethical SOTA ML for YEARS before ChatGPT. In all, this seems far more forward looking than the previous strategy of “make weird little web tools to make money maybe” and it’s an absolutely massive untapped niche, that they already have the talent to tap into. If we punish the players best positioned to shift the industry standard away from extreme and exploitative data collection, we will end up in exactly the Orwellian AI hellscape that we’re all so afraid of.

The bureaucracy of the military is not at all representative of what would be necessary to ensure people’s basic needs are met.

Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I’ve always felt they’d be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

Don’t they already package and sell your genetic data anyway?

I think you can be certain that preparations have been made. Whether it’ll be enough is a different question

If you want a cheap tablet

Man they’re alright but I picked up this guy on sale for $300 and the surfaces don’t even come close to that sort of value.

Do you have a touchscreen by chance? I’ve really been wanting to try this but my chromebook is a 2-in-1 and I love using it as a tablet.