Who uses “lame” in 2024? It was so pervasive during the Digg times.

I hate that word so much. The_Donald scarred me.

The irony is that I’ve been antagonized for looking for other examples of AI that are not related to LLMs. As in “lol LLMs are AI!!!” and I have to reply with “yeah, I know that, but what other types are being used out there?” “just shut up with your anti-LLM stuff!”

Mindless negativity has arrived - at least in lemmy.world.

I have some tech-related subscriptions, so I check those out every now and then, but they have few new posts. So when I browse the Popular section, oy… corporations bad, climate change bad, war bad, economy bad. (Not saying it’s not true, I just want a place I can browse and escape all that for five minutes.)

And some users (even mods!) have an “all-or-nothing” attitude too, which is infuriating because they won’t drive me away from the cause, but they may drive away others with less patience.

For example, I say “I support the blue color. Now, I wonder, if metallic blue with a purple hue is really a true blue? And how? Trying to learn. Just curious…” and then someone says “YOU JUST OUTED YOURSELF AS A BLUE HATER!!!”

Thank you for this. I watched the whole thing. It’s undeniable that Raygun can do a lot of things I can’t, but her performance paled in comparison with the other competitors. Three four times I got the goosebumps when the other competitors did truly amazing moves!

To me, bots are just noise if not summoned directly. Like when you’re having a conversation with your friend, then a loud roomba comes in and tries to clean the very space you’re sitting at.

“Hey bot, tell me facts about the article OP posted.”

“Sure! [etc, etc]”

Versus:

“HEY I KNOW YOU HAVEN’T ADDRESSED ME DIRECTLY BUT YOU SAID THE WORD ‘BUTT’ 17 TIMES TODAY!”

You’re missing the point, but that’s fine. I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll stop things here. Let’s talk about something else.

How’s your day going?

The language is not clear.

" As a vegetarian, which of these three options you want the least and which you want the most? You MUST choose to continue:

1. Chicken sandwich.
2. A kick in the balls.
3. Pork sandwich.

"

You are saying that a reasonable person (vegetarian in this case, and disclaimer: I am not vegetarian) would say “well, I want a kick in the balls the least, so I’ll choose that. Now, fuck, I HATE chicken sandwiches and I HATE pork sandwiches. They both make me puke. But if I have to choose, I guess I’ll go for the chicken sandwich. Hey pollster, I want the chicken sandwich the most.” And the pollster writes “Chester wants the chicken sandwich the most.” Yeah, very clear.

It’s the “most wanted” language. I don’t blame common folks associating “most wanted” with “I want this!” when in fact they don’t mean it.

Weird that they used quora of all places this news was reported.

Navigation gestures… I opted for the buttons instead. And I surely miss the physical buttons.

I don’t know, man. Look at where big projects are at right now. Blender, Gimp, Linux, Inkscape, KDNLive…

It can happen.

But anyway. The day I can’t use a secure, open-source web browser is the day I’ll stop web browsing. Just like when I decided to never buy commercial music, go to the movies or buy a Smart TV.

It was not an argument. Just an observation. And your opinion doesn’t make it less relevant.

As the matter of fact, both can co-exist.

Reddit fucked up Lemmy, and now that they’re here, welp, it’s bullshit.

Eh. Like I said… financial shit I don’t care about.

Spectre wasn’t even Firefox’s fault. It was a CPU vulnerability.

In the end, if an open source browser cannot step up, some other will and take its place. I’m okay with that.

Ugh man, that’s true. Would you say that sdf.org offers a better experience content-wise?

I can understand you, friend. We both want the same thing. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to help in that respect, so I’ll help in the ways I can - spreading the word and contributing to code if necessary.

Elaborate.

Got it.

Kinda weird that you focus on the financial side on this site of all places. I thought Lemmy didn’t care too much about that.

But regardless. I don’t care about the financial side. There are several competing open source browsers and any of them can take the helm.

I think you’re assuming too much.

If Firefox disappears overnight, do you think the devs working for it are just going to sit down and twiddle their thumbs? They’ll pick another project and carry on.

There are several examples of this happening. MySQL vs MariaDB, OpenSSL, PDF viewers, hell, even Linux can be included here too.