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To do what? They had established that he was performing activities that needed to be stopped, he’s not owed more time to do those activities in.
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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
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He was an incredibly prolific poster. Unfortunately I found him to be rather abrasive, I don’t recall any particular interaction but I do get an “oh yeah, that guy. Glad he’s not been around much lately” sense when I see that name.
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As I recall he was heading somewhere else, but the US revoked his passport while he happened to be catching a connecting flight in Russia and so he ended up taking refuge there instead.
And yet the person with the forklift is moving more stuff than the guy who did it by hand could manage. The “over” in “over-reliance” is a subjective value judgment and I just don’t agree.
I’m not seeing the problem here. Technology is developed specifically for this purpose, to remove unnecessary burden from humans and enhance their capabilities. There’s nothing noble about laboring unnecessarily hard to accomplish goals in a suboptimal manner. I could write programs in assembly language but instead I use high-level languages and compilers. Does that result in over-reliance on compilers?
John Henry died in the process of “beating” the steam hammer and then got replaced anyway. Nowadays it’d be considered foolish to do that work by hand.
And I could manually relocate all the contents of a palette, too. Just not anywhere near as quickly and easily as I can with a forklift. The analogy is still apt.
I physically can’t refactor a codebase in 15 minutes.
And ever since I got a forklift my arm strength has gone down.
Are you saying that not only do you not want to have AI-related features in your browser, you want to stop everyone else from having those features as well?
I don’t appreciate people who try to tell me what features I’m allowed to use. Especially on the basis of ludicrously overblown environmental concerns - AI is not a significant source of environmental destruction compared to a great many far more common human activities. Aim your crusade somewhere more productive.
What assumption? From the page you linked this is all that’s said about the decision to add the Perplexity search addition:
Earlier this year, we gave you more choice in how you search by testing Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine, as a search option on Firefox. Now, after positive feedback, we’re making it a fixture, rolling it out to more users for desktop.
How does this indicate that the “positive feedback” was from the forums? That seems like an assumption you’re making here.
Mozilla has added search engines to their default list like this before for similar reasons of sponsorship. Google is the default search engine because Google paid Mozilla a fortune.
How do their forums not support this? If it’s just that “it sure looks like everyone’s raging about this!” Bear in mind that social media is very bubbly, it focuses and amplifies whatever voices are the loudest and angriest. Look around one of the technology communities’ reactions to anything AI and you’d be hard pressed to guess that chatgpt.com is the fifth-most-visited website in existence currently.
Got any actual survey information? I wouldn’t be surprised if Mozilla’s got some.
“Advertised” is a peculiar way to say they added a new default search provider.
This is such a huge tempest in a teapot. It’s just a shortcut to let you put a query directly into Perplexity, like any other search engine. If you don’t want it there go to the search engine configuration menu and remove it, or just ignore it like 99% of people do with the other search engines in that dropdown they don’t use. But because the dreaded letters AI are involved and nothing baits the rage like those letters these days there’s headline after headline about this ridiculously trivial thing.
Conversion from epub to txt is a highly lossy process, there’s a lot of formatting that gets thrown away.
Regardless of how individual ebook readers may display epubs a little differently, epub is an open format so I would recommend keeping it in that form at least for archival purposes.