Sarah Jamie LewisFeb 26

With all the discussion around detecting when a code repo contains commits authored by an LLM, I think it is important to note commits like the following in Mozilla Firefox from 2 weeks ago:

"Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author"

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a400dbd434e4df37087960d94b764791

I don't think it's a good thing that Mozilla seem to be explicitly encouraging unattributed LLM code in Firefox.

Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author r=ai4… · mozilla-firefox/firefox@71cc24b

…dev-reviewers,suhaib DONTBUILD Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D279515

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Show threadJason Bowen 🇺🇦Feb 27

@sarahjamielewis
Yet another reason to abandon Firefox and Mozilla in general.

Edit: Use NetSurf or Lynx. Or just curl or wget.

Show threadSkylar Caulfield Feb 27
@jbowen @sarahjamielewis we need a new browser, its kinda ovbious, both the major browsers are horrible companies now. We need a new browser, we need it to be big, and paid devs to work on it. Volenteer based projects are cool, but there needs to be money behind if
Show threadgkrnoursFeb 27
@skymtf @sarahjamielewis @jbowen
Have you heard of https://servo.org/ ?
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

Servo
Show threadJason Bowen 🇺🇦Feb 27
@gkrnours @skymtf @sarahjamielewis I have and in writing this reply I realized I conflated the Verso browser project shutting down with the Servo project. I need to become reacquainted with Servo :)
Show threadgkrnoursFeb 27
@jbowen @skymtf @sarahjamielewis I don't know if you noticed, they now have an app you can download and use, which is a bit more useful to most people than a library :) Also they announced a couple month ago you could use mastodon web frontend with servo
Show threadJason Bowen 🇺🇦
@gkrnours @skymtf @sarahjamielewis
I saw it yesterday when I started looking into it again :)
Feb 27 at 3:49pmWeb