Doesn’t Firefox do telemetry and other shady shit out of the box? Ofc you can turn it off but I don’t get the fanaticism over this browser.

Firefox and mozilla aren’t your friend.

They like to play the “user and privacy friendly” company. Meanwhile they are hemoraging users, and laying off staff needed to actually build a great browser.

Mozilla ceo pay increase + layoffs in 2020:

In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008. On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated “I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That’s too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to.”

In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, her salary had risen to over $3 million. In the same year the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic.

It is not a derivative it is transformative work. Just like human artists “synthesise” art they see around them and make new art, so do LLMs.

Brave

Nah its free software

https://github.com/brave/

Cars are useful and convenient. That is partially why they are so popular.

If you want less cars in your city car sharing services and micro mobility (scooters, ebikes) are your friend.

Cringe meme

Silly strawman caricature of reasonable argumentation.

“Well I think its OK for me to beat my wife, so you shouldn’t mind me doing so.”

Quite different in this case, yet it follows a similar logic. Things can unaffect you diferectly, yet still be wrong.

Using the obscene ice cream example is a unsophisticated attempt to discredit this line of reasoning.

So should we ban homosexuality?

No because its not morally wrong.

In the case of abortion the conservatives have some strong arguments even though I am in favour of it.

What would you consider a hospital > > staffer refusing to provide medical aid to a woman in the middle of a deadly miscarriage, because the hospital administrator is afraid of being sued or arrested for performing an abortion?

In that situation it is clearly wrong not to help, because in the case of a miscarriage the fetus would die also presumably. And many Christians would agree.

But for cases of no risk to the mother the morality of facilitating an abortion can be more dubious. The conservatives certainly have a strong position, even if I disagree with it.