"At this time, we won't be able to comment publicly on our internal processes or tools. However, we’re aware of the conversations happening around this topic and the assumptions that can go with it."

Communications like that will work wonders on "assumptions", I am sure.

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Hope it doesn't sour them from officially supporting linux distro's.

Guess that the lesson to be learned is that one shouldn't be too quick to jump on a new distro's bandwagon.

On a completely unrelated sidenote, I am hearing good things about opensuse tumbleweed on gpdwin devices.

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If you don't find it worth spending the effort on, why even bother with an image?

It's not as if the site isn't already plastered with images. Imo, it could do with a good makeover that removes the vast majority of them. Bonus points for a cli-retro-style with all of them removed.

#stoptheslop

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On the upside, one can play the original trilogy, including multiplayer, via the native aleph one open source engine.

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Code is supposed to shove numbers around. It's outcome can be defined. And tested.

That's is like judging literature on the basis of shopping lists.

The way the numbers are juggled and how those methods affect the end result are as much part of the artistic process as any other choice of medium.

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Unfortunately, I still don't get along with plasma.

Which is weird, as more than half of the software I use is still coming from kde's stables.

For example, just today I discovered that kwrite has a vi mode.

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That, and GOG Galaxy does not support Linux.

I would vastly prefer for gog to spend the resources on officially supporting existing open source efforts such as heroic, minigalaxy, and lutris.

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Quoting: such...

Unless Kiciński truly just wants a pet company that basically and barely funds itself, and doesn't really make anything... for the good of game preservation? Uh, yeah, sure.
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I could see it being a fun project for someone who had the background and who could cough up the funds. €25 million is not all that much for the parties involved, after all.

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Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: CentrisToo late. Already got rid of FF.

Maybe I am of an older generation, but why this on/off view?
Mozilla says they going to do AI in the future somewhere, it's not clear exactly how or what this exactly means or how it will be incorporated but you drop it like a hot potato and suddenly overnight they are evil.
The world is many shades of gray, not just black and white, see how it onfolds and then take a decision.

Because "ai" was merely the proverbial straw?

For years now, mozilla has failed to truly address the issues the organisation has with corporate bloat and the addiction to their so-called ethical monetisations.

Imo, this recent carfuffle with fake intelligence is merely a symptom, not the problem.

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Quoting: LoudTechie...
Like all ML it's trained on data produced by people and thus at least subject to copyright.
Whether or not they've permission from the copyright holders to train their model with it I'm uncertain.
I would guess they've, because it's public which data they use and they've yet to be sued into oblivion.

It's the most auditable model I've encountered in quite some time, but you still can't usefully attach a debugger to it [External Link]
It's translations certainly aren't perfect, does mistranslated information count as misinformation?

Haven't got the time to search for the source, but I understood mozilla uses open datasets for their models, i.e. permission was granted or copyrights expired.

I find it amusing, by the way, that the single "ai" browser feature that is actually useful to me is rarely advertised as being such. Even the "anti-ai" vivaldi incudes it without it raising a single eyebrow.

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