(Foreigner here) Could this be related to DOGE’s defunding of the three-letter acronym agencies and all that? It seems like proper testing and reporting weren’t being carried out. They say this has been happening since the 80s, but seven deaths is a little too much.

I was thinking of upgrading my RAM this year, but I know I don’t have to. It’s their loss, not mine.

Also, “AI could be used to to replace my job. Not that it’d do a good job at it, but it’d be a great excuse to lay me off.”

You mean terrorist organizations?

Same here! Some guy I worked with randomly started telling me about a guy he murdered. He framed it as self-defense, but I’ve always wondered.

Yes, he told me he did it in self-defense, in an “it’s either you or me” kind of deadly dispute, and was not caught. It was an interesting story of drugs, gangs, revenge, and a dramatic ending involving a kidnapping where he was held at gunpoint by the kingpin. Sometimes I wonder if he was only testing my trust by retelling a movie, though.

Another time, I met an old-looking guy who was kidnapped by cartels and held captive for two years. He told me he had been starved and tortured and showed me a before-picture of himself where he looked incredibly built and handsome. In an effort to survive, he became one of their best assets with his ability to convince and negotiate, helping to kidnap other people until he was set free. I guess he was trauma-dumping on me.

Interesting.

Once again, I’m humbled just when I think the universe can’t create a brand new sentence.

why is every lemming so fucking hostile for no fucking reason

Why is this is all too common?

So many commenters come at you like you owe them money for the stupidest inconsequential shit on Earth.

“Well ackshually…” stfu it was a joke, a subjective observation, someone sharing their experience, a different take. Whatever you want to call it, we don’t need your lemmsplaining when you missed the point, random commenter on a mission.

We have some serious cynics who think everyone else is stupid who deserve the disrespect and it really irks me.

/rant

Afaik, some characters do have meanings but are sometimes used for their readings, so their literal meaning is gibberish.

保 — to protect — bǎo

加 — to add — jiā

利 — benefit, profit — lì

亚 — Asia / secondary — yà

I think this is part of why some people end up with weird gibberish tattoos when they translate things literally, because some made up alphabets try to map Western letters to some Chinese characters, but it doesn’t work that way.

I don’t wish him death, but I also don’t wish him a calm and peaceful one.

Whoa, that’s mind-blowing. I always wondered what kind of jobs there would be for me if I suddenly lost my vision.

The AI bullshit features as you call them are completely non invasive,

And yet I had to turn them off in about:config, not even in the regular settings. Why are the settings hidden? Why can’t I turn them on if I want them? Why isn’t opt-in and transparency their standard approach with such a controversial feature? Those are some serious dark patterns for a company advertising itself as user-friendly, that they had to backtrack on when they saw the community uproar.

Now it’s happening again, but on the developer side.

Stop the bullshitting and complaining over things are completely irrelevant

Irrelevant? I can’t afford AI threads running in the background, hogging my memory and processing power away from my productivity apps for whatever bullshit they decide to add that barely relates to what I use a browser for. I don’t live in a “first-world country” with standard hardware. That’s the whole reason I use Firefox, for the respect for their users that I have grown accustomed to, which they now seem to want to ignore. It’s a huge violation of trust that you’re downplaying when they want to add things first and apologize later.

The bottom line is that their approach has shifted recently, and I have every right to criticize them for it when they say one thing and do another.

I still use Firefox every day, but I don’t trust the corporate overlords to do what’s right long term. They seem to be getting greedy instead of listening to the user base. They’ve started including AI bullshit features for the sake of it, like grouping tabs by content that nobody asked for and that barely works for me. I’m not anti-Mozilla, but I sure am weary of it and would welcome an alternative.

I haven’t come across any open source comments, but those seem pretty clueless.

Lawmakers Have No Idea What They’re Doing

Sounds like a headline for literally every issue regarding technology.

On the bright side, banning the auto pen means he would have to sign hundreds of pardons by hand if he needed to, and I think he’s just too lazy to do that.

Right? What else could he possibly be celebrating with that but death? “Oh, these turkeys will not escape ME!” Uh, good for you, you Machiavellian shit stain.

All part of the political circus.

I want to slap the living daylights out of him every time he does that stupid “I’ve got them in the palm of my hand” handshake.

I still don’t understand how that shit is possible to do so willy-nilly. Do these lawmakers and MBAs not see the endgame on this one? Has it not been clear where this leads?

Ugh, I speak as if they care.