You’re not alone. This is pretty much a universal struggle.

I have no words other than to say I am deeply sorry that this happened to you. What a truly atrocious story. I sincerely hope you can heal from this trauma.

“Cool while it lasts” is still better than “terrible now and forever”. Hopefully Waterfox survives long enough for Ladybird to get off the ground.

Exactly my case as well. There are several Firefox-based browsers better than Firefox itself without the bullshit: Zen, Mercury, LibreWolf, Floorp… All are good options. But the dev behind Waterfox made a public commitment to keep this AI crap out of the browser. That sealed the deal for me.

Now if only I knew the best Android replacement for Firefox…

Wasn’t this widely known already?

All of the times, apparently.

They must have meant diet cocaine. As in not cut with sugar.

And what say you of the preliminary evidence suggesting that using AI is making people less capable of thinking for themselves, or people becoming emotionally attached to AI girlfriends/boyfriends, or people who killed themselves either intentionally or accidentally by following LLM advice, or the fact that an overwhelmibg majority of companies who made AI a crucial part of their functioning are losing money or going bankrupt? These are part of the social cost and they all point quite strongly towards it being a very bad idea to rely on AI for anything.

The social and environmental impact of AI training and use is what I’m referring to.

Plugins exist. There is no excuse for bloat8ng the browser with these seldom used niche features by default, espexially when they represent 5% if what the AI component is doing and the other 95% are harmful to literally every living thing on the planet.

OP, what do the names for Brazil and Peru mean?

That’s cute.

Don’t worry, we won’t learn that. Even though it’s probably true.

And other people who have no idea what SQL injection is, yes.

Except LLMs are probably at the level of a flatworm when it comes to intelligence: they learn by eating each other and have a very hard time solving simple mazes.

It’s only a lethal dose because it’s too low. 10x should be where it really starts working.

This is such a shortsighted take. After the initial hurdle of migration, you’re free of licenses forever. It won’t take long for the savings to match the initial costs, and after that it’s more money in the bank until the Sun explodes.

Not to mention the tiny insignificant issue of a foreign private company having backdoors into your government’s IT infrastructure. A foreign private company headquartered in Trumpistan of all places.

If he didn’t do it, he needs to be set free.

If he did do it, he needs to be set free and a statue of him should be placed on the sidewalk where it happened to commemorate the event.

I just hope the alternative doesn’t take too long to materialize

I actually like this idea. It provides more girth for when I make pro-Google threads on Lemmy, set notifications to vibrate and shove the phone in my asshole.