RE: https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628866

All we wanted was a browser. All you had to do was build a browser. You had one job.

@a2_4am "You are absolutely right..."
@a2_4am It's been effectively an inefficient host for virtual machines for years now.
@foolishowl @a2_4am I honestly think we should re-do the Web as this. It would be a lot simpler.
@a2_4am ffs Mozilla what are you DOING?
@a2_4am kind of like that Moltbook atrocity?
@a2_4am One word (is is that 3?) : @Vivaldi
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@milagemayvary Back to #Lynx then I guess, lol!

@AlexBlock

Lynx is alright.

This codeberg repository contains a list of Free/OSS software that contains signs of slop with added alternatives.

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

open-slopware

Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

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@AlexBlock @milagemayvary Those were the days! Loved that browser.

@milagemayvary @AlexBlock That's something they need to address. Chromium being upstream, they can't block all of it. And honestly, AI is AT WAR with the Open Web.

I use Vivaldi for their choice of no LLMs running in the browser. But that is not an endorsement out of me. https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

Again, my hopes lie with Servo.

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@a2_4am

"Stack Overflow's corpus genuinely did nourish the LLMs. The question is whether the next generation builds something sustainable or just moves on to the next host.

Jokes aside..."

Peter Wilson of Mozilla everybody, he is a laugh a minute... 😮‍💨

@davidhanzlik @a2_4am I know. He lays out one of the main reasons people hate LLMs, and calls it "poetry" and a "joke". What was he think....

...ohhhhhh. He got an LLM to write this, didn't he?

@a2_4am Things I never thought I'd say a couple of years ago.

#FuckMozilla, goodbye Firefox, and viva Vivaldi. (And Waterfox until Servo is mature enough for daily use.)

@milagemayvary Thanks for that.

Replied in that thread, in short: praise for no LLM bundled, AI slop code is a fight, and my hope is Servo keeps the fight alive that Firefox started.

@a2_4am #Mozilla #Firefox Its days are numbered it seems.
@a2_4am We also wanted not to pay for it.
@urig they make $680 million a year
@a2_4am of you're not paying for it, then you're the product.
@urig
This ignores all the cases where your consent and privacy are ignored even when using paid options.
@a2_4am
@urig @a2_4am So, you are saying Capitalism ruined Firefox via Mozilla?

@BoydStephenSmithJr @a2_4am I am saying that we need a browser that is a product paid for directly by its users.

If #Mozzila offered a version of #Firefox that respected privacy and net neutrality and shunned AI, for a monthly fee, I'd pay it.

@urig @a2_4am I don't think that would be viable, but I don't know that it's been tried recently.

If it's under a FOSS license, I'd probably neglect to pay for it, as I would acquire it from the Debian repos.

@a2_4am This makes me sad. Can't even explain how.
@a2_4am Zen is a pretty new, but in a very good state, Firefox fork, born mainly to modernize the UI and add new features. Give it a try! It’s been my daily browser for a while and I’m preeetty happy

@nullbuilt @a2_4am I second this reply.

Zen has been my daily driver for over six months at this point, with Waterfox being the alternative for machines that don't have Zen available.

@a2_4am Mozilla has always been the cancer killing FireFox. Even the Debian Project had a big trademark problem with them.

For people looking for alternatives, WaterFox is the most promising one.

@libresoftwarelover @a2_4am Has WaterFox improved its track record on patching security issues?

Also, do you know of a particular reason to choose WaterFox over LibreWolf, or vice versa?

@a2_4am

Agent A: how many r-s are there in Strawberry ?

Agent B: 2

@a2_4am I have Konqueror in 2000 PTSD about what is coming as the corpos turn the new tech against FOSS like SSL... to be avoidant of the panopticon I will once again need to have 99% of shit not work and use some alpha-ass community browser that doesn't work like Nautilus.
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@a2_4am evergreen post

@a2_4am @philpem

We are going to have to take every single aspect of development into our own hands right down to the silicon