C.Announcing the new Copilot Biscuit: distasteful, never goes away, nobody wants it, and the brass in your org keep trying to cram it down your throat.
#PilotBiscuit #hardtack #copilot #AI #LLM #CopilotBiscuit #NobodyWants
#Firefox just keeps getting worse.
I don't know exactly which version this started with, but for the last few months Firefox has been a #CPU hog for me. Even when not interacting with any browser windows, the CPU usage of various processes - the main firefox #process, the content-sandboxing #processes, the WebExtension processes - will be taking significant CPU in bursts. There's frequently an Isolate... process using ~100%, and the main process will sit at 90% for a while before jumping to 160%.
It's significant enough that it makes actually using the #browser #annoying. Pauses for one or two seconds while typing or scrolling as it does ... whatever it's doing while chewing CPU, and these happen every few seconds. Like 3 or 4 times for each line I'm typing in this window right now.
There's nothing obvious to account for this workload. There are no videos playing, or animations, or sound. There are no continuously-updating pages or web apps running. I have uBlock Origin (adblocker) and Privacy Badger running, which significantly reduces the amount of work the browser does because there's no ad scripts to screw around in the background. The only thing I'm actively doing in Firefox at the moment is typing this toot. And yet still it pauses constantly.
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"Well, sure, all our sandwiches now come with shit. Shit is a very popular topping with our customers, so we thought we'd make it easy for all of you to get what you want. We determined it was too confusing for customers if some sandwiches came with shit, and some didn't, so we simplified our menu to make sure you could find exactly what you need. No, you can't order a sandwich 'but hold the shit'. After all, if you're that dead-set against eating shit, you can just order your sandwich and then eat around the shit."
This is a post about #Microsoft and #Google.
#Microslop #ShitSandwich #shit #EatShit #CoPilot #Gemini #AI #LLM #NobodyWants #bubble #GoodhartsLaw #Goodhart #metric #software #users
Microsoft: AI is great! AI should be in everything! AI is so capable, it can write code for you! In fact, 30% of the code we ship is now written by AI! AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI. Line goes up forever. AI AI AI AI AI AI.
Also Microsoft: Here's a trivial little AI helper for Github repos to manage labels on issues, which will happily argue with itself indefinitely, here doing and un-doing the same action more than 5200 times before someone stopped it by closing the issue.
https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16723 [1]
Wonder if it was written by "AI".
[1] Bonus points because the repo is, itself, for an "AI" tool.
#AI #CoPilot #NobodyWants #useless #LineGoesUpForever #LineGoesUp #Microsoft #Microslop #slop #Github #agent #fail
allow exit and quit commands without leading slash (/) Β· Issue #16723 Β· google-gemini/gemini-cli
What would you like to be added? This is feature request - someone can point it as bug as well but I will not. Ask / Request ππ½ Implement exit and quit as standard commands with a simple confirmati...
@lwn [1], in their weekly edition today (at https://lwn.net), included their usual start-of-year predictions for the coming year. Among many other things was this item about Firefox, which perhaps sums up the Mozilla/Firefox situation better than most:
> This will be a make-or-break year for the Firefox browser. For years, longtime
> Firefox users have hung on while Mozilla has pursued random directions,
> added advertiser-friendly features, and tried repeatedly to jump onto
> the AI bandwagon. But all those users want is a reliable, standards-compliant
> browser that gives them control over their web experience and protects
> their privacy. The result is that Firefox's usage has been declining for years.
>
> Mozilla now has a new CEO who has one last chance to turn things around.
> A refocused Firefox determined to protect its users from an increasingly
> hostile web environment could regain users. A Firefox that continues to
> chase buzzwords or appease advertisers will sink without a trace. The
> world desperately needs an independent browser project that serves its
> users; one can only hope that Mozilla rediscovers its old mission to fill
> that need.
Well said. @firefoxwebdevs take note.
[1] If you use Linux and do anything software-related, you should consider subscribing to LWN. Or even better, get your employer to take out a subscription.
#Mozilla #Firefox #browser #NobodyWants #AI #WakeUpMozilla #management #mismanagement
If you follow #Firefox news at all, you will have seen the recent announcement of Mozilla's new CEO. And being a Fediverse denizen, you probably experienced a wave of disgust, nausea, betrayal, anger, and / or shame, because the new idiot is all-in on "AI" / LLM integration in Firefox.
The best brief summary of the announcement I've seen is this:
https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115730935437271047
If you prefer your hot takes a little saltier, this is another entry in the apparently unending series of self-inflicted injuries:
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115732207063445044
As others have noted, it's one of the clearest examples of a company getting their own customers' wants completely ass-backwards ever seen. And that includes topping all the "AI" announcements #Mozilla has made over the last couple of years, so it's really saying something.
There are community/volunteer #forks of Firefox that remove the #LLM #junk, but many people, including me, don't believe that's a particularly #sustainable model.
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#browser #community #independent #NoAI #NobodyWants #AntiFeature
ploum (@[email protected])
Mozilla has a new CEO who: - Has been at Mozilla for less than a year - Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate") - Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma") - Is all-in on AI Thatβs exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.
Also, if the phrase "AI-first" comes out of your executive pie-hole, you've already lost. You drank the Kool-Aid and there's very little hope you'll ever decide to put the users' wants over the advertisers/AI-bundlers/swindlers/what-have-you. [1]
And since the guy they announced as CEO has already been the head of browser for a while now, it's clear when he says "AI-first", he really means it.
I'm torn between Vivaldi, or putting up with Firefox (on a *very* short leash) long enough for Servo to become a usable browser.
[1] Another way to say "AI first" is "users second" [2] .
[2] If at all.
#AIFirst #UsersSecond #NoAI #NobodyWants #Firefox #Mozilla #KoolAid
"How to get started with Rufus" is not a particularly relevant search result when the question was "How to completely totally and permanently disable this Rufus bullshit 'AI' nonsense?".
Just sayin'.
#Amazon #AI #LLM #BS #bullshit #marketing #annoyance #NobodyWants #GTFO #YeetIntoSun #yeet
Mozilla: We're going to start listening to our users!
Users: Don't put any more "AI" in Firefox.
Mozilla: Not like that.