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Firefox for Web Developers (@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social)

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch...

I like that Firefox is (through @npub1dpjj...e0jl) communicating. But the point is not really if you can disable the features TBH. I think the problem is how Firefox/Mozilla is perceived: Putting a whole lot of resources into AI gambles (that the community does not seem to be too thrilled about to say the least) while seemingly losing all focus on the Open Web as something to work on, strengthen and defend. Especially with Google/Chrome's dominance. The new CEO coming in and just hammering "AI" while never talking about how exactly those systems can only exist by harming the open web is a bad sign. It's not so much about distrust of the engineers working on Firefox and them adding a switch or not. It's about a communicated vision that seemingly pushes aside all the things people want Firefox to exist for. View quoted note →

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tldr.nettime

tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)

I think this piece from January was my favourite thing I wrote this year. In which I argue that "scale" is a brain work that makes it harder for u...

What was your favorite thing you made or did this year? Let's make some space to share cool things we all made or experienced. View quoted note →

I think this piece from January was my favourite thing I wrote this year. In which I argue that "scale" is a brain work that makes it harder for us to built a humane Internet.

Smashing Frames

Against scale

Some of you might have heard the phrase “corporations don’t want to make money, they want to make all the money” (I think I heard...

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David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)

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) also fun:

Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea – OSnews

"Digital Sovereignty" as a term always has the implicit danger of fueling nationalist narratives. We should be finding better terms, I like @npub1vj2t...xpte 's "resilient infrastructure" framing.

"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true." (Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)

Garbage Day

Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on

Read to the end for the only place you should go when your wife becomes a sex addict and starts cheating on you with everybody

I think that one thing that kicked "being an AI thought leader" into higher gear than what happened with "the cloud" or whatnot is that to be an "AI expert" you literally don't have to know or be capable of anything.

I just got a "Decomputing" talk accepted by a very tech-focused business conference (as a Keynote even) and a labor rights organization who wanted me to propose a talk instantly went for the "The Luddites were right" suggestion. Two things that a few months ago would not have been possible I think. Things are changing, the dire state of the world sometimes allows new narratives to punch through.

It is an interesting data point that the "resonant computing" thing was pushed on Bluesky by a lot of people and it's basically non-existent on the Fediverse.

But if AI is so userful and everyone wants it, why does Microsoft have to cut its AI sales targets in half? (Original title: Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas)

Ars Technica

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying.