• Mbourgon everywhere@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 hours ago

    Actually, their new AI thing is actually useful: stays on-device, and summarizes web pages and videos.

    But yes, they could stand to spend more money on the browser, and less on their CEO and other non-browser things.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 minutes ago

      Yeah. Offline translation (i.e. that doesn’t send data to Google to translate), better screen reader functionality for blind people? Sign me the fuck up.

      People are just seeing “AI” and getting upset about it. Absolutely stupid.

      • Mbourgon everywhere@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        8 hours ago

        I’ll be honest, when I first heard that Mozilla had come out with an AI I figured it was on the back of them trying a couple different ad scenarios, and assumed the worst. Pleasantly surprised by Orbit.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        8 hours ago

        it’s a good idea to not look to deeply into the historic actions of the creator of llamafile. she’s pretty polarising.

          • lime!@feddit.nu
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 minute ago

            she was the face of the occupy wall street movement, but her views back then were more ancap than anti capital. while working for google she tried to petition the us government to shut itself down and hand the reins over to the tech industry, with google’s ceo as president.

            the base of the APE library that powers llamafile is called cosmopolitan libC, iirc in direct reference to the old soviet term.

            to give credit she’s mellowed out a lot in recent years.

        • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          5 hours ago

          I don’t care who they are or what their Xitter history is.

          The tools is great, the tool is not backdoored. I ruthlessly use effective tools that I can get my hands on.

          Using open source software on its own does not even entails economic support for its creator.