“Mozilla has been adding in llm & ai related features to Firefox for a while, enabling them by default without asking the user… The main problem with this is users are having this forced on them with no gui option to disable these features.”
Article contains instructions for disabling the LLM through about:config.
I really wish they wouldn’t. Firefox is one of the last good browsers.
It’s the last good browser base but all the good browsers nowadays are forks of that base.
Hopefully something other than Ladybird comes to take it’s place so we aren’t so reliant on Mozilla in the future…
There’s the Servo browser, which has a lot more going for it than Ladybird.
Ladybird doesn’t have any real financial power. If Firefox dies, so does every fork… And have a little faith in Mozilla. Just a little - not blind, just a little.
Yeah that’s fair.
Why do you say other than ladybird?
Because we need a lot less fascists and their software in the tech space.
Nitter Link & Bigger writeup on it
Thanks for the links. I’ve always gotten the ick from Kling and thus I’ve been skeptical about Ladybird. It’s good, albeit sad, to receive confirmation.
I had no idea about Cloudflare though. sigh I use it for DNS for my domains, and also for DNS challenge for Let’s Encrypt. Do you know of any free alternatives that aren’t run by fascists?
I ain’t really knowledgeable in network stuff. I’m already a Mullvad VPN customer so I use their DNS but I’m not hosting anything public.
Sadly it’s kinda hard to avoid all fash software at the moment. It’s why I don’t want even more gaining prominence.
I’m sure there’s people working on better alternatives out there. Hoping we’ll see them pop up in time.
Ah, it’s a shame that we can’t just have cool software. But such is the world now, it seems. I’m honestly a bit surprised at there being much of that in FOSS, I thought it was really quite commie-coded, but it seems every second project I think is interesting is somehow problematic.
I’m on Hyprland at the moment, which I’ve heard a couple things about, including in that article, but I’m looking at Niri. Are they less controversial?
I’m also reluctantly on Hyprland and I tend not to advertise it because of the problematic maintainer and the culture surrounding the project, but unfortunately there aren’t any good alternatives on Wayland. I haven’t heard anything bad about Niri, but unfortunately the workflow didn’t work for me. Another alternative might be River, or a more recent project called MangoWC. I have no insight into the maintainers and culture of either project though.
But yeah, I really want to move away from Hyprland.
The ladybird team is one of those “we don’t respect people’s identity and sexuality because we don’t do politics” type of people. Also racists.