I don’t think this author has any idea what she’s talking about. The italic paragraph near the top attempts to justify her ignorance, but she’s very clearly drinking the AI CEO Kool-Aid. AGI is not a stop down the road that LLMs are taking us on, it’s a hypothetical destination that we don’t even know if we’re driving toward. We can’t even define what causes consciousness yet, so there’s no way for us to model it digitally. It will happen eventually, but even the non-PR quotes in the article are hedging based on rough estimates and general trends. It’s totally possible that we go another century before true AGI, and that’s ignoring the real potential for big losses in scientific progress given current political happenings.

Have you tried recently? We’ve been pretty much at parity for years now. Almost every game that doesn’t run is because the devs are choosing to make it that way.

I think we all know this, but it’s the exact same argument for Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. Getting off centralized, corporate, for-profit cloud services should be a priority for anyone who is philosophically aligned with FOSS.

The books are way better if you care to try.

Yeah SteamOS is nothing special. Any of the big distros can give you a similarly solid gaming experience these days.

I’ve been enjoying Tauon, it does the things I want

No, but that’s a local program processing and saving data entirely on your system. It’s a world of difference from what a web browser does, which is oversee a whole suite of protocols connecting you to remote servers and transmitting data back and forth in requests that build on and reference each other. With the complexity of modern web interactions, there’s a ton of reasons why a browser might need to store your data and share it with others, even ignoring profit-seeking motives.

And let’s remember that the last thing Mozilla got heat for was the introduction of a method to anonymize bulk user data for sharing & selling purposes, as opposed to the granular, extremely invasive tracking that 99% of websites are doing these days.

I see a company that needs to make a decent amount of money in a crazy competitive environment, that’s trying their best to do so in the way least destructive to user privacy and choice.

I more meant that the average user actually wants a significant amount of data collection and telemetry, as part of their normal web usage. There are some true privacy geeks who are actually maintaining near-anonymity on the modern internet, but there’s a lot of people who get riled up about things like this while using Android phones, or signing up for loyalty programs, using corporate social media, etc.

Deluge is another good client – I’m not sure why but its defaults gave me much better download speeds than transmission or qbittorrent

You’re not totally wrong here, but the fact is that these updates are a complete non-issue that has only resulted in so much backlash because of the self-selected Firefox audience of people who know enough about tech and privacy to care, but not enough to understand what’s actually threatening. The updates were a minor change in language that didn’t change the status quo, but idiots like the guy who thinks that incognito mode somehow stops a site from gathering information on you flock to these articles and start crying doomsday.

Mozilla is the only big web company that’s even close to on the side of consumers and it’s sad to see them eat shit for no reason.

Which is a ridiculous thing to want for most users and exposes how little so much of the self-identified “techie” crowd actually understands about how this stuff works.

What do you think a browser does?

The terms were never actually bad. This is them responding to the backlash, yes, but that’s just because everyone freaked out over nothing. They’re not “rolling back” anything, and this comment is just more disinformation.

What in the terms is concerning? They still have the bulk of the language in the old data privacy guarantee as well. This seems like they just got a more circumspect legal department who wants to cover their ass.

It’s always been the case that Mozilla could decide to just make Firefox suck ass. Again, I’ll be worried when they actually change the terms to something unacceptable.

Okay mr “I love Linux but clearly have not used it in 15 years”

No thanks

Still Firefox. Every time Mozilla does anything the entire privacy community goes insane. The terms of use they published seem entirely benign, and the only thing anyone can actually point to is the “direction being worrisome”. Well, I’ll get worried when they update the terms to be actually onerous. Everything even possibly annoying can be disabled, and it’s still the only browser engine offering competition against Chrome ruling the web.

It sucks ass, it’s just chrome plus some crypto bullshit.

You people are insane. Languages with meaningful whitespace are my personal hell. Don’t you value being able to space/tab/newline as you please?

Yeah the rust book is fantastic, you can learn directly from that.

I like learnxinyminutes.com for quick reference.