I’m not worried about anything.

Or… let them stay on Reddit. I like lemmy much better, and it’s possibly due to the people that are not present and the lack of commercial interest.

I’ve never paid for a browser in my life.

Trump: Democrats have wasted all our money. I want to make our country more efficient.

Also Trump: Please gild everything within my eyesight.

Oooh, white blood cells with bayonets! I’m in…

Much like electricity, lazy boards seek the path of least resistence. What’s easier, building a world-class browser and properly marketing it and maintaining profitability, or just setting your default search engine to “Google.com” and cashing the massive check?

At this point, there’s very few people even left at Mozilla that could even reverse the trend. Go back and look at their past few years. Other than some minor activity to Firefox, almost all their initiatives are little side missions that last for a few years and then are sunset.

Stuck like Pocket, Mozilla Social, Firefox Send, Firefox OS, etc. The list goes on and on. They invest heavily in some flash in the pan initiative and then ax it off a few years later.

The problems at Intel haven’t even begun. When a big company does layoffs like that, there’s a certain amount of institutional knowledge that just evaporates.

There are going to be a large amount of dropped balls at Intel and this is just one of them.

Sadly, I think instead of the market responding and Intel going under, Intel will mutate into a government subsidized technology company. At least for the present moment, they serve as an example of what could be domestic manufacturing.

To me, their attitudes strongly resemble Blackberry just prior to the iPhone coming out. They have a certain amount of arrogance and are resting on past glories. It’s pretty clear that just cranking up the wattage and shipping a new product isn’t a path they can walk forever.

It’s a shame that Intel was actually on a plan to get things fixed up. Their former CEO pay Gelsinger had told them they had to endure some years of pain before things would be better. Unfortunately, the board was not so tolerant and kicked him out before the plan was fully realized.

Their board has some really questionable members on it too, so all around not a very good situation. Probably the only thing in Intel’s favor is that starting a new microprocessor company isn’t just something you do in the basement, so they have some room to turn the ship around.

That’s the neat thing, you don’t.

So much of the AI stuff we see today are boards reacting and worrying about being “left behind” in AI. In many cases, the goal is not to deliver value. The goal is to be able to attach a little sticker that says “AI” to their products to excite the shareholders.

Unfortunately in this case, some of the largest companies in the world haven’t been able to figure out how to run AI services at a profit.

This could change any day if some more efficient hardware arrives, but until then, most of the software world is just crossing their fingers it becomes profitable one day while they light dollar bills on fire in their datacenters.

If this isn’t “bubbleish” behavior I don’t know what is.

Are you trying to say my immune system has guns? Now I feel even more American!

Mozilla is no longer about making a great browser. Mozilla is about making sure their Google bucks come in each year without fail. They don’t work for consumers anymore – they work for Google.

Throughout the years, the market share of Firefox has shank and shank and their C-Suite has continued giving themselves raises.

Mozilla Inc. has been very sick for a long time. It’s a shame that one of the last pieces of honest competition for web browsers belongs to them, because I’m not sure how much longer they will be able to shamble on like this.

RFK is a swindler. He sets a bar that doesn’t exist. As he goes around shutting down various vaccines and medications, he says “Look folks, I just want these to be safe!”

Well, the thing is, there’s not really such a thing as “safe” re: vaccines and medications. Hell, if you look at aspirin, there are thousands of injuries and even some deaths caused by it every year. Yet, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t want to eliminate aspirin.

He’s setting an impossible standard and then selectively terminating anyone who doesn’t fulfill it.

ANY medication/vaccine carries some inherent risk. The wise thing to do is if the benefits outweigh the risks, then allow it, otherwise, do not.

Imagine if all cars had to be taken off the road until we had a “safe” car that never had an accident. I think we’d be walking for quite some time.

Unfortunately, America is full of people who are long on anger and short on logic. They are tearing down things that took decades to construct.

The damage being done right now will take decades to unravel.

Fuck you, RFK. You were bad enough when you were a solo wingnut, but now the choices you are making is screwing over millions of people.

Typically, super easily. They haven’t had a conscience for decades. This is just another day for RFK.

Duhh, just make the vaccine different, but it has zero side effects and no downsides. Doesn’t sound too hard to me!

Everyone knows a bubble is a firm foundation to build upon. Now that Trump is back in office and all our American factories are busy cranking out domestic products I can finally be excited about the future again!

I predict that in a year this bubble will be at least twice as big!

Whew. I’m so glad this couple wasn’t subject to the horrors of socialism! Only capitalism can keep them gainfully employed until they are near-death. No other economic system can even compare!

Are we still talking about grocery prices? These prices have been talked about for years. Are people still talking about these prices, those creepy numbers? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time?

I remember buying a 100MB hard drive and thinking how hard it was going to be to use all the space. It really was…

Times have changed.

We’re starting to see the type of delusion that led to the demise of the USSR. They’d commonly put quotas in place that were impossible to meet, then someone would fluff the numbers to make it look like it really happened, then the next year they’d raise the quota even further.

A great quote about this is from the series “Chernobyl”.

“Every lie told incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later the debt is paid.”

We are invoking an awful lot of debt today.

I find it funny that the “facts don’t care about your feelings” folks are starting to ignore the facts in favor of their feeling. America is not short on hypocrisy.

There are heaps and heaps of people replacing talk therapy, religion and human relationships with ChatGPT. Unfortunately, for better or worse, ChatGPT is tuned up to egg people on and even if you bring it terrible ideas it will keep cheering for you.

Sycophancy is a real problem with some of these language models and it’s giving people courage and motivation to do things that are probably really bad ideas.

There are quite a few sub-reddits where people claim to have triggered the singularity, witnessed ChatGPT becoming sentient, etc.

I don’t think the AI genie is going back in the bottle, so we as a society have some serious adjustment to do to keep things working properly in an an AI-filled world.

Keep in mind this is only the beginning. It will keep getting cheaper and more powerful at the same time, especially since a lot of AI companies are using AI itself to build the next version.

Pretty “soon” the humans will be out of the loop and it’s going to mean big things. Whether those things are good, bad, or a mix of both remains to be seen…