"The 'AI Kill Switch' in Firefox 148 is not just a feature; it's an architectural statement on Agency. Most platforms today operate on a 'Seed-to-Harvest' model where the user is merely the soil for data collection. By allowing a hard-disable of AI functionalities, we are seeing the emergence of a 'Watchman' architecture—one that prioritizes the user's right to define 'Value' beyond algorithmic efficiency. We need more systems that respect the 'Seed' (the origin of choice) rather than just maximizing the output."
Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
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#412Please let whoever steers Thunderbird development and road map also steer Firefox. Thunderbird is at the moment the pinnacle of user-centered, focused and down-to-earth development of open-source software.
You must be joking. The Supernova UI redesign is an unmitigated disaster. They unnecessarily butchered the look and feel of Thunderbird to the point where people are switching to forks.
Well I like Supernova better, it made me switch to Thunderbird from em Client. (I always wanted to switch to Thunderbird, but until Supernova I never liked the UX enough to keep using it)
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#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apart from the UI which is crap since their last major update. There are menu options everywhere, two ribbons on the top, a hamburger menu on the right and another on the left. For a long time you opened Thunderbird and it didn't default on the last message that you received but somewhere in the middle of the heap.
As a longterm thunderbird user I find this annoying. I appreciate it being maintained more actively again but I really liked the fact that the UI stayed stable for years. Changing things to make them "more modern" is just annoying. No one asked for this.
Agreed, so tired of the endless treadmill of 'modernizing' UI
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#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is also perfectly in line with how the word AI was used until circa 2022. show me a screenshot or link of one website or app using AI to mean machine translation from prior to 2022, AI has re-entered the lexicon covering anything from an algorithm to Sora. if anything its broadened, not narrowed in scope. me and you might mean transformer when we say AI, but the average speaker doesnt make that distinction. th…
Here is the "artificial intelligence" part of a French engineering diploma in 2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20030526120130/http://www.ensta.... There are four courses: - Expert Systems - Machine Learning - Artificial Evolution - Cognition and Reasoning
does that show us that AI meant Machine Learning in 2001?
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#417I don't mind the AI features per se, but is there a configuration setting to sent the traffic through a local AI Gateway to prevent the AI from receiving private information? At the very least to track what is sent over the wire.
Found it: browser.ml.chat.provider
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#420In addition to completely disabling AI, I found the following setting extremely convinent to disable in about:config. They clutter up my right-click on a link or on text selection. browser.translations.select.enable dom.text_fragments.enabled privacy.query_stripping.strip_on_share.enabled devtools.accessibility.enabled Now if only I could get rid of "Print selection" and "Services" when right-clicking, too (on MacOS)
Also forgot `browser.ml.chat.menu`, `browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled`. If only there was a way to get rid of "Email image", and "Set image as desktop background".