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Good! I do not want nor need AI in every single aspect of my life. I mean, I've seen AI hygiene products out there. How does that even work? Don't answer that ... I know it's a marketing scheme, akin to the "HD" craze of five to 10 years ago.
What "HD craze" was there from 2015-2020?
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So is the appearance of any modal window something that justifies filing tickets with Firefox? It doesn't sound like that's PaulHoule's motivation anyway — he knows that these tickets are not going to be fixed, just closed — the point is to "pour just a little bit of sand in the gears".
If usability tickets are closed because the company doesn't want to bother, then maybe these gears deserve to have sand put in them. I generally approve of subversive actions which are naturally damaging if and exactly if the accusation they are based on is true. That is, the logic is something like "well, either it gets fixed, in which case it's a victory for good, or they're hypocrites who don't really care, in whi…
Is the point to target Mozilla, or to actually make a difference in accessibility?
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Actually it already exists. My microwave have a button labeled “AI” which suppose to run the microwave until it determines the food is ready.
If it has a humidity sensor it'll likely work, but doesn't need "AI"
Good! I do not want nor need AI in every single aspect of my life. I mean, I've seen AI hygiene products out there. How does that even work? Don't answer that ... I know it's a marketing scheme, akin to the "HD" craze of five to 10 years ago.
Good! I do not want nor need AI in every single aspect of my life. I mean, I've seen AI hygiene products out there. How does that even work? Don't answer that ... I know it's a marketing scheme, akin to the "HD" craze of five to 10 years ago.
It feels like we are going to need a lot of volunteer effort to help remove all the AI garbage out of all these projects that insist on jamming AI into themselves.
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> This is wasting the time of accessibility engineers If only Mozilla felt the same about wasting people's time. We wouldn't be having this discussion.
It's the same as you screaming at a McDonalds worker for not serving all day breakfast.
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"Nooooo, you need to use FF no matter how much it pisses you off, since we can't let Google be a monopoly (even though it already is and it's the government's job to crack down monopolies)"
You put that in italics and quotes, presumably to mock the people saying this but...yes, you should! Google does much worse things and is effectively a monopolist, so not using Firefox necessarily means using Google, which only entrenches their monopoly further. Bitch at Mozilla, sure, but don't stop using it.
Why? They're actively hostile to me as a user and nor catering to my needs and desires.
>Google does much worse things and is effectively a monopolist
Monopolies are the government's job to tackle so talk to your representative about Google, but leave suers alone to use what they like. When cars polluted we had the government force them to lower emission, not shamed users for buying cars.
>Bitch at Mozilla, sure, but don't stop using it.
How is bitching more effective tool than not using a product I dislike? Not using their product is my only way of protest as that shows in their statistics and analytics while they can and do ignore bitching.
Mozilla is a major corporation not a 15 year old with cancer sewing Knick-Knacks for donations in his bedroom, so it will only improve if the user base goes elsewhere, otherwise if people keep using it out of spite, they have no reason to ever improve.
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If usability tickets are closed because the company doesn't want to bother, then maybe these gears deserve to have sand put in them. I generally approve of subversive actions which are naturally damaging if and exactly if the accusation they are based on is true. That is, the logic is something like "well, either it gets fixed, in which case it's a victory for good, or they're hypocrites who don't really care, in whi…
Is PaulHoule filing tickets with other browser vendors? Is the point to target Mozilla, or to actually make a difference in accessibility?
And my whole point is that a strategy can have multiple effects. As I understand it:
- Firefox care about usability => the issues get fixed or at least considered.
- Firefox don't care about usability => sand in the gears.
So it's a hybrid strategy whose purpose depends on the situation.
Good! I do not want nor need AI in every single aspect of my life. I mean, I've seen AI hygiene products out there. How does that even work? Don't answer that ... I know it's a marketing scheme, akin to the "HD" craze of five to 10 years ago.
It feels like we are going to need a lot of volunteer effort to help remove all the AI garbage out of all these projects that insist on jamming AI into themselves.
Good! I do not want nor need AI in every single aspect of my life. I mean, I've seen AI hygiene products out there. How does that even work? Don't answer that ... I know it's a marketing scheme, akin to the "HD" craze of five to 10 years ago.
Reminds me of the story of the ice tea company that changed their name to include "Blockchain" and saw their value shoot up a few years ago