nixCraft 🐧Nov 6

End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

Source
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it

Show threadJevan
@nixCraft It's endlessly frustrating to watch Mozilla sabotage themselves like this. Doubly so when Chromium is literally the only alternative.
Nov 6 at 8:57amWeb
Show threadStrikeVonNiceNov 6
@jevanmoss I'm hoping that @servo and other browser engines turn into viable alternatives.
Show threadnotsoloudNov 6
@jevanmoss
It's almost like their leaders are paid by Google
@nixCraft
Show threadDeath the WolfNov 6
@notsoloud @jevanmoss @nixCraft It already was...
Show thread🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmannNov 6
@jevanmoss Meanwhile, I adore the Ladybug team. I know they're still light years away from a main stream browser (and so do they).
But they were approached by a company (some marketing "consent platform") and received sponsoring, realising they had the company's domain put on the make-shift ad-block list. And it remained on the list despite the sponsoring because in the words of the lead developer: "I would be a total dork if I removed them." That's literally the opposite of the Mozilla Foundation. @nixCraft
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Nov 7

@cweickhmann @jevanmoss @nixCraft

Meanwhile, I adore the Ladybug team

Do you mean the Ladybird browser team? The team who said that acknowledging the existence of women was political and had no place in their project?

Show threadTofuravenNov 7

@david_chisnall @cweickhmann
The team head specifically has since found some more holes to dig, too
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

@jevanmoss @nixCraft

Ladybird and the Controversy over Inclusivity

What people were upset about, why it blew up, and why some people are still leery of the project to this day.

Kelson Reviews Stuff
Show thread🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmannNov 7
@tofu @david_chisnall @jevanmoss @nixCraft Yup, agreed. This was totally unnecessary and frankly a dork move. No project is perfect though and just by endorsing one good move, I'm not endorsing all moves (hope that was clear from the start).
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Nov 10

@cweickhmann @tofu @jevanmoss @nixCraft

There's also this post, in which he objects to people not tolerating Nazis. It's pretty clear that this is not a project that this project is firmly pro-Nazi.

@javi

<img src="https://goblin.band/files/7b794324-1e1a-4701-8838-5530dcc3f98e" alt /><p>Uhhhm, I wonder who is that "group" that clearly upset you so much when your saw that "punch [group]" slide you mention. No one could ever know, I guess. It's a mistery why you found it upsetting. </p> 📎

goblin.band
Show thread🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmannNov 10
@david_chisnall Can't open that for now... something wrong with the instance. @tofu @jevanmoss @nixCraft
Show threadTofuravenNov 10

@cweickhmann
To summarize (apparently the link already got cached over here), the post contains a screenshot of Kling talking about excluding Nazis from projects as a "hateful rot within the industry", specifically in the context of people's reactions to Kirk's death.

Different post, but in the same vein:
@david_chisnall

Show thread🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmannNov 10
@tofu Yup, plays the same tune. Damn. Why can't we have good things... @david_chisnall