start putting up the money to make their support no longer required

There’s no way individual donations from ordinary people could match Google’s. They’re also likely to be less reliable.

Mozilla doesn’t even ask for donations from users a whole lot, and the money they receive mostly doesn’t go into development of the browser:

These funds directly support advocacy campaigns (i.e. asking big tech companies to protect your privacy), research and publications like the *Privacy Not Included buyer’s guide and Internet Health Report, and covers a portion of our annual MozFest gathering.

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/donate/help/#frequently-asked-questions

vintage 🤌

And the privacy policy states data may be used “To create aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data, which we may use and share with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Kohler Health Platform and our other products and services, to promote our business, and to train our AI and machine learning models.”

They’re literally using people’s shitting and pissing to train AI.

But isn’t AI already shitty enough by itself??

[email protected] -ahh title

Sony’s lawyers also highlight an email from a Cox manager overseeing compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, who told his colleagues: “F the dcma!!!”

Fucking based*

*ok, objectively it is a manager who’s just in a conflict with an another business, but I still decide to enjoy it

It’s surprising the music industry is still trying to put an end to piracy at all, it seemed like a lost cause already a decade ago.

Now it’s updated, you’re human again :)

Hmm, you’re still marked as a bot on my end. Maybe it takes a while to update outside of your native instance.

My impression is that for ordinary non-power users it was supported from the start (i.e. the commonplace image viewers and editors could open it - at least I personally had no issues), it just felt annoying at first because it seemed forced upon the user.

Unsurprisingly, it’s crap.

Him talking about a 3rd term was already quite enough of a giveaway.

Might be a hot take, but I truly don’t care about the design of the room where the US president shits, and neither should anyone else care (except maybe the US president himself).

Lemmy itself is a good example of this. Most of the userbase heavily disagrees with the main developers’ political opinions, yet the software works well for everyone.

He also gave the example of a German Wiki community member who wrote a program to verify the ISBN numbers of books cited, and was able to trace notable mistakes to one person. That person ultimately confessed they had used ChatGPT to find citations for text references and the LLM “just very happily makes up books for you,” Wales said.

Well this won’t be a problem with Grokipedia, because it only uses sources that are available online as pure text (I’m pretty sure not even PDFs are used by it).

Wales thinks the public and the media often give Wikipedia too much credit. In its early days, he says, the site was never as bad as the jokes made about it. But now, he says, “We are not as good as they think we are. Of course, we are a lot better than we used to be, but there is still so much work to do.”

Amen, it’s nice to see the level-headedness.

You’re proving the point, though. People’s ability to write by hand has indeed deteriorated. Literacy has indeed reduced the need for and intensity of memorisation - and having stuff memorised is useful. What skill will AI cause to atrophy? Is that skill merely like handwriting, or something more?

As a Wikipedia editor I can comfirm - we regularly say that napalm sticking to objects in water is POV. I do it at least twice a week. I’ll try making a bot to do it automatically so I’ll have more time for holocaust denial.

You can check old versions of any article by clicking ‘history’. And yeah, the standards used to be pretty low.

The problem might be that Google will argue this isn’t a downgrade at all, but an upgrade (for “security” reasons). I don’t want to be a pessimist, but the tech illiterate judges could eat that up.

This is just avoiding the issue of having a short attention span.

I used to be easily distracted during online lectures yet had little difficulty following live lectures. It’s a fundamentally different experience, for whatever reason.

Also, the attention span has to be trained. And training it by working without a distracting computer sounds like a good idea.

It’s been moved to the archive but is linked on top of the talk page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&oldid=1310806574#Including_the_video / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Killing_of_Charlie_Kirk/Archive_2#Including_the_video

Looks like they’ve decided against inclusion. It’s also unlikely the video meets “fair use” standards so they’d have to delete it anyway…