Sure. And whether he was a sacrificial goat here is not for us to know. But let’s not pretend that the CEO had no responsibility.

Whether or not it was his idea is irrelevant, he’s the one who approved it.

It’s almost a philosophical question of whether I can replace us though. Because for it to be anything more than a tool it needs real intelligence, compassion, etc. Basically it would need a conscious.

I’m certain it’ll replace some jobs without that, just because being a tool it’ll make us more efficient and that efficiency will eliminate jobs. But I’m not seeing it replace or assimilate entire industries at this stage.

We are nowhere near AI writing our software unattended. Not even close. People really over estimate the state of AI.

True, but given that:

• The animal was considered healthy days prior.
• No details were released as to the cause of death.
• This happened in Brazil.

I’d say the odds are that it was human fault.

Aaaand it went extinct…

https://www.ndtv.com/science/worlds-first-dog-fox-hybrid-dogxim-dies-investigation-launched-4403007

Good job humans.

Nowadays, when I see news about some new law that’s gonna ruin the web I just have a sad chuckle. That ship has sailed. And they didn’t even need shitty laws to do it.

Yeah that’s fair. I’d say it falls into the same boat as the argument against the CEO; they haven’t done anything clearly malicious, but their bad decisions are enough to give you pause and reconsider.

Go and have a look? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

Being open-source doesn’t automatically make you secure or reputable. Especially considering the open-source ecosystem in particular is a big target for exploitation right now. And auditing a software project of this size by its source code alone is no small feat.

it is also the most private and secure, open-source, mainstream* Chromium browser

“Mainstream chromium browser” is doing most if not all the heavy lifting there. Fair enough if that’s what you’re after, but mixing “private and secure, open-source” in feels disingenuous.

That said, I primarily use Vivaldi because of its customizability and added features, something Firefox seems to reduce with every new version.

Last time I played with either Vivaldi or Brave you had to literally monkey patch the source code in order to customize things further than what the extension SDK allowed you to. You could do the same thing with Firefox, except they make it slightly harder because much of the source code is shipped in archives.

That said it’s been years, maybe this can now be done purely through the extension SDK? It’d be news to me.

Given their crypto functionality uses a third party which has been found to skirt the legal system I’d be a lot more concerned about this integration even if I don’t intend to use it.

Keep in mind the stuff you read about is only what has been surfaced so far. Who knows what skeletons are still hiding?

Personally, I don’t see any point risking it when there are perfectly viable alternatives such as Firefox. Granted the same guy infected Mozilla, but they stood up and ousted him so credit where credit is due.

You see, when someone is known to make bad choices it makes sense to approach what they do with apprehension. This guy not only has a history of bad choices, he’s also the CEO.

You’re free to do as you like of course, but I’d say it’s hardly fair to say the article is unconvincing.

If I were a mod that hadn’t left yet: this would definitely put me over the edge.

How insanely tone-deaf.

I think your original question stands. Self-hosting != federation.

Translation: Zuckerbot wants to generate some noise and there’s nothing better to do that than AI doom and gloom.

Only if your app loads in remote JavaScript it would seem. Which I imagine isn’t the case for most of them.

Aw damn… I really like how bare basic their interface is and how they’re not constantly trying to upsell me shit I don’t need. Anyone have any good recommendations for alternatives that fit this bill? Google is just giving me the worst possible options.

All great reasons! Thanks for doing this.

Always great to have more options! But this seems very similar to Mlem in terms of goals (Apollo like). Why not combine efforts?

I feel like the printing is the least insane part about that whole situation; the CEO wants to review code?! That’s a new level of micro-management…

Makes me think that they want to profit off of AI training but can’t meaningfully differentiate between API use for AI and API use for third party apps. Solvable problem of course, but you gotta do the work.