Are they? What have they actually done to make it a bad choice? From my memory the last year or so they’ve:

1. Added some AI stuff that I don’t use but isn’t in my way
2. Added tab groups and sidebar tabs which I use constantly
3. Clarified some legalese that didn’t change anything but caused everyone to say the sky is falling for no reason
4. Refused to deprecate manifest v2

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying Mozilla is perfect and does everything I want. I wish they weren’t funded by google and I wish they didn’t waste so much money on executives, but not only do you need them to stand up to google by continuing to develop firefox (all the downstream gecko browsers would collapse), you need them to continue to participate in web standards committees so google doesn’t get to run away and do whatever the fuck it wants (no other non-big-tech entity has a seat at the table or would get one)

I swear there is astroturfing for anti-mozilla sentiment to undermine their importance in the ecosystem

Edit: I just remembered they are using LLM to replace human written documentation. That is the worst thing they’ve done by far :/

I’m usually a firefox defender, because usually people are blowing everything they do out of proportion, and straight up making up negatives.

That said, I don’t know what a “modern AI browser” is but I know it’s something I don’t want. Hopefully “AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.” Is a serious statement.

But also, the AI features they’ve added so far have been out of my way and haven’t bothered me, and if what you’re calling for is to use chromium based browsers (gecko down stream is fine) then you are making the wrong decision for the future of the internet. Firefox, chrome, edge, and safari are the only browsers which have a snowballs chance of being accepted in corporate environments, and supporting google over Mozilla is a losing proposition.

I find it interesting that all these low participation/new accounts have come out of the woodwork to pump up AI in the last 2 weeks. I’m so sick of having this slop clogging up my feed. You’re literally saying that your vibes are more important than actual data, just like all the others. I’m sorry, but its not.

My experience btw, is that llms produce hot garbage that takes longer to fix than if I wrote it myself, and all the people that say “but it writes my unit tests for me!” are submitting garbage unit tests, that often don’t even exercise the code, and are needlessly difficult to maintain. I happen to think tests are just as important as production code so it upsets me.

The biggest thing that the meteoric rise of developers using LLMs has done for me is confirm just how many people in this field are fucking terrible at their jobs.

It does increase productivity, given enough training, learning its advantages and limitations.

People keep saying this based on gut feeling, but the only study I’ve seen showed that even experienced devs that thought they were faster were actually slower.

Linux doesn’t use semver.

Funny how they have huge successful lobbies for everything but this eh

Running those power hungry gpu based data centers is going to cost beaucoup bucks regardless of the usage.

They started in the first page and hit fill force on 2 lol

We believe that AI is no longer a hype cycle, which is why we’re writing blog posts hyping us up for using AI instead of what we actually provide

I don’t use retro achievements because games are supposed to be fun rather than about checking boxes.

There are plenty of cross platform frameworks and libraries that don’t involve web tech

I still prefer perl over either tbh

Finally. This was what was keeping me from using ntfs on Linux

1. I like having the upstream versions of software instead of it being patched by package maintainers.
2. I like having up to date software. It means that issue trackers for software I use are relevant
3. Doing distro upgrades when they end support never works gracefully and i have to completely reinstall. I’d rather just use a rolling release which in practice works and is supported indefinitely
4. I do like bleeding edge updates. For wine for instance

In the 90s, a lot of c++ and Java code was giant trees of inheritance and everyone always talked about design like all real code fit neatly into hierarchies like the examples about animals and whatnot. There are always fashionable ways to overengineer and for a time it was OOP abuse, and the sane people that had to live through it honestly have some trauma over it and difficulty explaining just how bad it was because newer people have never seen the insanity.

Information good. Hiding information bad. Nefarious intentions.

Illusion of Gaia on SNES maybe?

Or you look on fdroid…

To be fair, dual booting is not really for people that aren’t very tech savvy. Just thinking about trying to explain partitions to some people I know is giving me a headache

People like to recommend immutable distros like bazzite because in theory they’re much harder to break, but in reality they are a niche community and are nowhere ready for primetime for casual users