Renames might be the quickest way to accrue technical debt :P

I’m very happy they’ve got polls now though, that’ll streamline a lot of communication. Live location sharing would be good too.

Really depends on your infrastructure, but I’d set up some snapshot tests that just make calls to the APIs with known responses, and run that in a cronjob and have it alert you if it fails.

Also sounds like these were just municipal elections, or am I reading that incorrectly?

The main problem with CSAM is not you encountering it, the problem is children being abused when producing it. Whether the material produced reaches a wide audience doesn’t impact their suffering. So what’s relevant is the scale at which it’s being produced, which I think is fairly independent of the likelihood of you encountering it without looking for it.

My fix for those sites is to never visit them again. Horrible.

We got vertical tabs, that’s a good first step. I imagine full-on tree-style tabs is more work, though in combination with (non-AI) tab groups it has already replaced my use of Sidebery. A tree of tabs would be nice though.

There’s some more information about this and some other cases in this Dutch article from a while ago. It also mentions that they are still likely to have the option of migrating as a skilled worker or entrepreneur, but they considered requesting political asylum to be the correct route for now.

Hmm could be different commenting styles; I, and I think the thread started as well, regularly broaden a topic in response to an article. So my interpretation when they spoke about people having “AI as a trigger word” was that they were referring to people with concerns about more than just agentic AI. But if you want to limit it to that, feel free to ignore my original reference to search engines.

It was my impression that the thread started wasn’t just talking about agentic AI. And I think a lot of the “anti AI folks” here are also angry about recent non-agentic AI additions that Mozilla added, such as e.g. tab recommendations for tab groups.

It’s interesting that so many of those privacy-focused individuals use Windows and don’t have a single extension installed though.

The algorithms to determine which pages are most relevant to your query are traditionally seen as AI too. They’re just not labelled as such (which was the point), and predate the current AI hype.

I hadn’t even thought about the “AI modes” that search engines are incorporating nowadays though, so I get the confusion.

See my reply to the sibling comment - I wasn’t referring to the “AI summary”.

Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but how can you be aware of this fact

I don’t know whether the negative reactions reflect the majority of Firefox users or are just a noisy minority. Mozilla, after all, likely has a clearer view of the whole user base.

and then still assume that nobody wants something based on a non-representative sample of 52 comments?

Using a search engine would be one.

You can’t, it’s no longer end-to-end encrypted. The way proponents say it works is by “client-side scanning”, i.e. an app scans messages before they are encrypted. Of course, that just redefines one of the ends of “end-to-end encryption” - instead of you, the scanner is now one of the ends.

So previously, one end of a message trajectory’s is where you type it, it then gets encrypted and sent to the receiving party (the other end), who can decrypt and read it. After Chat Control, you type it, it then goes to the scanner, which scans it and potentially notifies a third party of the content, and then afterwards it gets encrypted and sent to the receiver, who can then decrypt it.

Yes, calling that end-to-end encryption is indeed a perversion of the term.

I believe it mostly does translations of Dutch news articles, usually nos.nl, but FD in this case it seems.

Ah, I see now, that’s tagged as “Via OM”. Neat, thanks both!

Anyone know if CoMaps and OrganicMaps integrate each other’s code changes, where possible?

I believe it was already required to disclose data collection, except you had to build the UI for that yourself. This makes it easier to comply, and more recognisable for us users.