yoasif

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[โ€“] yoasif@mastodon.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] yoasif@mastodon.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

@Mac Yeah, I do. ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] yoasif@mastodon.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

@TrickDacy Sorry, I missed the context here and my comment didn't make much sense.

Removing the dumb comments and sorry for wasting your time.

[โ€“] yoasif@mastodon.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

@TrickDacy In the case of AI, we are going from a good place to a worse one.

If the AI in Firefox is "the good", what is the "perfect"? More AI?

Maybe we need to agree that there is a version of Firefox with AI that is perfect before we can then agree that the implementation isn't perfect (but is good).

[โ€“] yoasif@mastodon.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

@TrickDacy I think people use this phrase to say that even if something isn't perfect, it's better than before - that is coming from my reading of the phrase on Wikipedia: "The phrase suggests that achieving absolute perfection may be impossible, and that the pursuit of perfection should not prevent someone from recognizing or completing work that is imperfect yet still valuable."

If you don't agree, I guess we can start there.

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[โ€“] yoasif@mastodon.social -1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

@TrickDacy @InternetCitizen2 That would seem to excuse a lot of damage - "locking up these protesters isn't perfect, but it is good", "removing these bike lanes isn't perfect, but it is good", "polluting in this river isn't perfect, but the chemicals we are selling is good".

I don't really think this sentiment works very well at all when defending things getting worse - I think people generally want to say that a modest improvement is better than none.

Is making things worse better than not?

[โ€“] yoasif@mastodon.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

@XLE @TrickDacy I wouldn't use a Chrome fork over Firefox, but I would also disable all data collection in Firefox.

Just the browser, please.

[โ€“] yoasif@mastodon.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

@recurse @Kenny2999 I moved to Librewolf. You need to disable some of the privacy nerdery if you aren't a privacy nerd - otherwise, it is basically Firefox.

[โ€“] yoasif@mastodon.social 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

@TrickDacy No, my contention is that if Mozilla wants people to contribute to their cause, they shouldn't stomp on the people that support their cause.

Otherwise, other people can support whatever their new cause is - since it isn't compatible with what their stated cause is.

PS: No I don't use a Chromium browser. Shockingly, I still care about the open web.

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