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koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

Seems like a mean thing to say when the subject they were replying to was AI in general and not just the dumb tab grouping feature.

koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/waterfox-in-2023/

Looks like their independent now, nice.

koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

The new AI Tab Grouping feature says it. I've never tried the AI chatbot feature but that makes sense. Would be fun to somehow talk to the local AI translation feature.

koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

I wish there was a Horizontal solution instead of vertical tabs. Maybe someone could mod their AI system with a non-AI backend.

koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

How do you disable the telemetry in Waterfox? It looks like they get their funding because they partnered with an Ad company. Do I just need to change the default search?

koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

This is probably their plan to monetize this. They will partner with a AI company to 'enhance' the browser with a paid cloud model and the local model has no monetary incentive not to suck.

koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

Is it really in all 4 of those places? Just need to change it in the first two, right? I hate the new AI tab feature and wish they had a non-AI option.

koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

The harm to me is the implementation is terrible - local or not (assuming no AI based telemetry). If their answer is AI then it pretty much means they won't make a non-AI solution. Today I just got my first stupid AI tab grouping in Firefox that makes zero intuitive sense. I just want grouping not from an AI reading my tabs. It should just be based on where my tabs were opened from. I also tried Waterfox today because of this post and while I'd prefer horizontal grouping atleast their implementation isn't stupid. Language translation is a opaque complex process. Tabs being grouped from other tabs is not good when opaque and unpredictable and does not need AI.

koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

Pay for what? It says it's a local AI model so how will AI companies be giving Firefox revenue from this?

koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

I'm ok with Translation because it's best solved with AI. I'm not ok with it when Firefox "uses AI to read your open tabs" to do things that don't even need an AI based solution.

koolalaon Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

Got my first change in Firefox today that says "Nightly uses AI to read your Open Tabs". Says its local but I really have zero trust for telemetry on this kind of stuff.

koolalaon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

Did Firefox already add AI into Tabs? Today I just got my first 'Tab Grouping' and it says "Nightly uses AI to read your Open Tabs". That's the worst way to do grouping ever... just group hierarchically based on where it opened from...

koolalaon alpr.watch

AR / AI glasses will be this.

koolalaon Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

Would you pay $20 a month for it? Like Cursor but for your browser?

koolalaon 40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity

They were being sarcastic.

koolalaon Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards

Could this easily represent a Kalman filter and other typically complex control problems?

Makes me imagine plotting a inverted pendulum and other real time systems. Could a cell variable be set to Time?

koolalaon 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay

Why not both? Why can't something be source available and open source? Or fair source and source available? It isn't this complicated.

koolalaon 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay

"Source Available" is "follow whatever my rules are or I will sue you". That could include something as crazy as a license that says "be a dick and I will sue you". For normal people that can't afford legal fees or lawyers that gives "source available" a big range of abusive possibilities.

koolalaon 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay

I edited it to be more specific while you were typing that.

The entire point of copyright is a legal mechanism to sue people. "Source-available" at a minimum is someone sharing their code under their own copyright and terms of use.

Yes the term is designed to trick outsiders. Most people don't even know that code is copyrighted by default when it is posted publicly and freely on the internet without a © symbol.

koolalaon 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay

Why does that require there to be 'less open source'? Nothing is stopping that already today. Impact wise, everyday people can't use build tooling so this kind of thing only effects people that are 1 keystroke away from modifying the code and not being allowed to share it.

koolalaon 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay

I'm amazed how many people don't like open-source... Imagine the hellscape computers / the internet would be today if Linux was 'Source available'.

koolalaon 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay

Control language and you control people's expectations. Like the shift from 'Private Message' to 'Direct message'. 'Open Source' to 'Source Available' would be just as massive of a shift in control and power.

koolalaon 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay

These terms are designed to trick people exactly like you. "Source available" means you can sue anyone that shares a modification of your code for any reason you want to make up.

koolalaon 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay

Why? What is meaningful about sharing code with the threat of a lawsuit if someone copies it? Is sounds like you want the term to be erroded?

koolalaon 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay

Source available isn't a license, it is the lack of a license. It's the legal default state for all art. It can include whatever made-up rules the author wants you to follow but your just as well off if you don't read them and just treat it as copyrighted.

koolalaon Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go

I can't wait till this will be able to run in WASM on the web. Looks cool.

koolalaon Using LLMs at Oxide

I disagree with LLM's as Editors. The about of — in the post is crazy.

koolalaon Tunnl.gg

Could a cacheing service let static sites be cached when offline? I'm not sure if caching sub-domains like this would work but if its a tiny fee to cache maybe that could be a paid feature if your designing those. Like $1 per month could give you a static domain and XX monthly cache updates? As opposed to uploading somewhere like Github Codespaces or a Cloud-Flare service.

Direct real-time connections could be a path like nl.gg/# or a private key that someone could change. Some way to have a public site thats hosted globally for 'nearly free' while also being able to locally host a private url to the dev version for sharing temporarily while your connected. Maybe even a totally different domain.

koolalaon Why we can’t quit Excel

Wish it had interesting alternatives like all the C++ alternatives today. Imagine a spreadsheet that could be 'compiled' into a full stack program.

koolalaon StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels

Could this be good for compiling as a small Wasm OS for the Browser? Instead of Alpine Linux or things like that?