Chozo

It’s easy to look back at history and say “what a bunch of idiots”, but it’s important to remember that there was once a time when having plastic bags all around your home wasn’t such a ubiquitous thing like it is today. The things that seem obvious to us now were still new and untested at one time. The rise in plastic film suffocation started around the rise of dry-cleaning; until that point, there wasn’t much disposable plastic film in people’s lives, at all. Society had no prior experience to learn from, in this sense.

What we’re seeing here isn’t too dissimilar in this regard. Up until fairly recently, the concept of a globally-connected, unmoderated network that was accessible by children and predators alike just didn’t exist. That network existing in literally everybody’s pockets 24 hours a day is an even newer idea. And it’s not even just one network, it’s in almost every facet of kids’ lives these days.

We can all sit around and say “wow what a bunch of bad parents for allowing this to happen”, but many of those parents didn’t grow up in a world where this was a reality. While many of them grew up in a time where online predators existed, they didn’t grow up in a time when those predators could interact with children directly at any time and any location. They grew up in a time when you had a PC in your room, which you didn’t take with you, and that your parents could physically access; kids these days take their phone everywhere at all times, parental controls today are more useless than when we were kids, and it’s trivially easy for kids to hide their online presence from their parents now. Today’s parents, by and large, just simply do not have the experience needed to address this on a large scale.

The morbid reality is that the only reason it seems obvious not to let children play with plastic bags is because nearly every single plastic bag you’ve ever seen in your entire life says “this bag is not a toy”. You grew up in a world where that problem had already been solved, and at the cost of dozens of dead children. This is not yet a solved problem.

I mean, child mortality from plastic bag suffocation dropped after they started printing those warnings so I’m not sure why that’d be something to fear.

They ask Grok how they should feel about it.

I’ve been to court, and it never even occurred to me that the lawyers are not placed under oath. But they’re the ones that do most of the talking during a case. I wonder that the reasoning for not being under oath is.

It’s supposed to be a fee for convenience. However, their definition of “convenience” aren’t very convenient for me.

I think you may just be lucky. The McD’s in my area are still just as awful as they’ve always been.

That’s cool and all, but when can I buy RAM again?

Thanks for telling me what I believe in spite of me laying it out in plain English for you. I was confused for a minute there.

You know what? Good. I’m glad that Elon is now a valid military target.

Yes, but what was left of it after killing third-party apps was basically just advanced search functions. Nothing in the API was still usable as far as browsing/posting.

I’m also largely against opt-out in other uses, too. The fact that this is AI only makes it that much worse.

… and it was turned on by default and had misleading language as to what the button actually does, yes.

I’m pretty sure Elon misspelled his own name in his signature, too. It’s obvious that he forgot how to write in cursive and was remembering mid-way through, but he very clearly wrote his name as “Elon Muk”. Like… the last squiggle is just barely a K, but there is a distinct lack of an S, or even a space for an S.

If it’s not an opt-IN feature, then it’s malicious, anti-consumer design. Full stop.

The lengths people will go to defend Mozilla are astounding. If Chrome did this, you’d be throwing a fit.

The fact that they announced that instead of an “AI ON switch” tells you where Mozilla’s interests lie these days.

I don’t think this is the right /c/ for genuine questions.

What exactly is this disabling? Firefox’s built-in AI tools? Or is it disabling AI tools on websites you visit? Because “blocking” seems like a very misleading term to be using if it’s an internal presence being turned off. We typically only “block” remote things we know to be harmful to our experience, like harassing users on internet platforms or websites known to contain malware.

This is honestly some selfawarewolves shit at this point, Mozilla.

Helldivers was supposed to be a parody!

Yeah, but I don’t think that has anything to do with the console’s Bluetooth stack, though. If a game requires a specific controller, that’s usually so that controller-specific features (like touchpad/gyro) will work, which wouldn’t work with an otherwise-standard controller HID profile. This also wouldn’t prevent the device from pairing, which is quite specific terminology that the author uses.

But the way the author describes it, it sounds like at an OS-level that you can’t pair third-party bluetooth accessories, which is such a wildly inaccurate statement to start an article off with, and immediately makes me question the credibility of everything else they write.

Sony locks the wireless stack to their own peripherals, so your headphones or controllers from other brands simply won’t pair :/

My PS5 pairs with third-party headsets and controllers without any issues, what are they talking about?