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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 01:49:39 JST Aral Balkan

   “AI you can trust”

   Do fuck off, Mozilla.

   https://orbitbymozilla.com

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     delProfundo (delprofundo@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:10:34 JST delProfundo

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     @aral I think it’s time we write to the Unicode consortium and have a new fire emoji introduced, that and a guilotine.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:12:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Droid Boy :coolified:

     @droidboy Oh so many reasons why:

     - Purport to protect privacy while existing due to half a billion dollars a year from Google.

     - Jump on every fucking Silicon Valley bandwagon/grift from cryptocurrency to Metaverse to AI (to their credit, they skipped NFTs afaik)

     - For being a not for profit that owns a for-profit and paying their CEO $7M while having the audacity to hit people up for donations.

     Or, as their then head of public policy once told me at a conference we were both speaking at while asking me to go easy on them: “I don’t understand why you’re holding us to such a higher standard; we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”

     It’s true. But that’s not what you tell people, is it, Mozilla?

     (And there’s no such as “trustworthy AI” — at least insofar as LLMs are concerned. These are statistically plausible bullshit generators.)

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     Droid Boy :coolified: (droidboy@social.cologne)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:12:06 JST Droid Boy :coolified:

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     @aral Inam missing information here. Why fuck off?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:19:17 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Reg Braithwaite 🍓

     @raganwald Buh, buh, they’re Mozilla!

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     Reg Braithwaite 🍓 (raganwald@social.bau-ha.us)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:19:18 JST Reg Braithwaite 🍓

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     @aral If a salesperson says, "Trust me, _____," do you trust them? Or does saying this make you realize that they spend a lot of their time being distrusted, to the point here they're now trying to pre-detonate criticism of their ethics?"

     I get the same vibe from "AI you can trust." They're literally telling me that AI can't be trusted, but I should take their word for it that they're different.

     Without being given any reason to trust them.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:20:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Droid Boy :coolified:

     @droidboy TL; DR: Because they’re hypocrites.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:25:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     • delProfundo
     • waem

     @delProfundo @wa__em I wouldn’t look too closely at the gold sponsors of the Unicode Consortium, it I were you :)

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     delProfundo (delprofundo@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:25:09 JST delProfundo

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     • waem

     @wa__em @aral something tells me the guillotine is gonna be the number one +1 of 2025

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     waem (wa__em@framapiaf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:25:10 JST waem

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     • delProfundo

     @delProfundo @aral guillotine.. +1

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     Tingo (fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 04:50:38 JST Tingo

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     • delProfundo

     @delProfundo @aral

     Ahhhh, guillotine emoji. Don't you just love the future?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 19:27:25 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Droid Boy :coolified:
     • Louis Derrac 🇫🇷 🇬🇧

     @louisderrac @droidboy The browser situation is one of being a sewer… as a web dev, I use them all, if only for testing in (but Chromium, not Chrome and Firefox with all the privacy settings I could find set to the more private settings instead of the non-private defaults).

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     Louis Derrac 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 (louisderrac@framapiaf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 19:27:26 JST Louis Derrac 🇫🇷 🇬🇧

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     • Droid Boy :coolified:

     @aral @droidboy i totally agree.... On a very pragmatic side, which browser do you use nowadays ??? I feel like dropping Firefox for all this nonsense... Thanks

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 01:57:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Droid Boy :coolified:
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     • scaro

     @scaro @louisderrac @droidboy Are you implying I have a work/life balance? :P

     (Mostly Safari these days.)

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     scaro (scaro@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 01:57:09 JST scaro

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     • Louis Derrac 🇫🇷 🇬🇧

     @aral @louisderrac @droidboy and for your personal usage ?