I’m mRNA B^)

You have no idea how right you are

Yeah, I’ve been following it’s enshittification for some time, but idk, this AI stuff really struck a nerve with me. With ads, I can somewhat understand that they want to make their business more sustainable, which sucks for the end user, but at least it provides a way for Firefox not to die and we could leave the work to its numerous forks to not be shit. But the AI stuff is really nonsense, not useful at all, just a way for the company to follow the hype of the AI bubble, instead of making itself sustainable.

I can only hope that turning off the AI stuff at a code level is something sustainable and easy. I’ve used Librewolf for some time now and it sucks knowing that this will only add work for the project to remove Mozilla’s new shiny toy from the code.

Edit: maybe I’m just coping is all lol

So this is how I find out. This sucks balls.

Usually, I pride myself in having nuanced opinions. When generative AI was gaining ground and hype, and receiving pushback mainly from artists, I was sceptical, but optimistic. “Maybe this technology can be useful”, I thought, not eager to discard a tool only because people could use it badly.

Now, I can say that I hate what “AI” has become and that I hope that this bubble bursts before it can grow any larger. Not only it’s yet another huge useless drain for energy and water, but it’s actively fucking up yet another project that I care about. I get that Firefox wants to stay competitive, but it’s the worst watching it divert its limited resources towards useless AI and not to other much more needed areas.

Tbh that’s a good one too

I don’t remember other years’ choice of word, just mild disappointed with some of them. However, this one I’ve gotta get behind. “Slop” is such a good word for dismissing a ton of stuff, not just but mainly AI slop. It’s such a widespread blow to the legitimacy AI “companies” and grifters.

Try out Vintage Story

“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela — a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually,” Trump said during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House.

He’s such a parody of himself lmao

Of note in this article is the mention of nel0x’s fork of Syncthing-Fork, which is, as much as I’ve gathered, and old contributor to Syncthing and more trusted member of the community than researchxxl, as well as much more transparent about the whole changing of hands of the Syncthing-Fork project.

This issue on researchxxl’s fork might also be of interest, as it documents the (lack of) response to the whole sketchiness of what is happening, as well as more discussion.

I would buy a copy of a game you pirated but liked very much, just as a way of giving thanks

Hm, I don’t think this was quite the one I was thinking of. Thanks so much, though, it is very much in the same vein as the one I’m trying to remember

No, I think it sounds fine. I’d just add back the “você” to the second question and say it sounds right to me, though now I feel maybe some other regional versions might be more inclusive. I’m not going to do that work though lol

Also, weird is cool, so keep being cool

Hmm sorry, I reread the first version and I can definitely see that I was just off of work and had my language wired to formal. This is better.

Though I’m tempted to argue that some changes look somewhat superficial and due to some regionalisms. For instance, I phrased the second question as: “Por que você escolheu este nome de usuário?”, while you omitted the pronoun “você”. Where I’m from, specifically, it’s very common to make the subject explicit, instead of in ellipsis.

I say this because, from my point of view, your version sounds a bit, uh, alien. I say this not as criticism, but to state that your comment brought to my attention that: 1- I speak very formally sometimes lol; 2- Portuguese, as many languages, has a lot of regional variation to how it is written and spoken. This means that you probably speak and write a different regional version of Portuguese compared to mine. For instance, some other speaker might entirely omit the “você” and speak with “tu” (“Como tu descobristes Hexbear, e por que queres fazer parte da comunidade?”). Which means I don’t know which variation of the language to use and could use an opinion :) (not implying that this is my decision to make, just that I want an opinion of a fellow lusófon@)

Hey, I speak Simplified English lol, Portuguese, a bit of Spanish and can somewhat read Latin (I know).

My unreviewed translation (feel free to, other Portuguese speakers) to the application form is the following:

"Como você ouviu falar de Hexbear, e por que você quer fazer parte da comunidade?

Por que você escolheu seu nome de usuário?

Qual é sua visão a respeito de minorias sexuais e de gênero / direitos LGBTQ, justiça racial, liberação de animais e movimentos similares?"

Some terms are somewhat hard to translate, so I’d thank suggestions and corrections.

Build magma mines (I guess they become lava by then). Always wanted to do that, have never had the patience to do so.

I wish I was less of a Dwarf Fortess poser. I love it so much, but I always find it difficult to sit down and play.

Wild guess, but probably because most have been tamed enough in public discourse to be seen as vague icons for “good” which they [right wingers] want to be identified with, especially in order to enable policies that go directly against what these figures were for

Why would you bring my attention to this

This is great. I hope early access to quarterly releases comes soon