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2) I am once again begging you not do do write-in protest / joke votes. No one will ever see them except the poor poll-workers who have to stay late at the polls counting them. Be kind.
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Most nuclei require X-rays or gamma rays to raise their energy levels, but it can happen to thorium-229 with a far-ultraviolet photon of 8 eV (wavelength 150 nm).
This was predicted in the 1970s, but the precise frequency was only measured recently, and it might eventually be the basis of a vastly more accurate form of clock:
Seriously though: I want (okay, demand) a version of Firefox with the "AI chatbot" functionality removed. Not disabled. Removed. I want all code which is specifically designed to connect to OpenAI removed from my computer completely. I do not care if the vampires have promised not to suck my blood. I do not want the vampires in my house in the first place.
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On by default.
A few differences with my situation. I used xfce (xubuntu) and not gnome, I never close the lid but I do lock (with Super L). I've only recently upgraded to 24.04 and not seen any problems so far. But I do have a Lenovo (it's running on as ThinkPad and an X1). I'll check the other things though mention, interesting.
@jerry1970 someone in one of the comments threads showed that it was already in (one of?) the librewolf build(s?) -_-
but enough people have mentioned it that I want to check it out
in the meantime it’s gonna be time to update my network blockers with a whoooole lot more domains and subnets
IMHO, web sites have no business asking for timezones!
For "reasons" I tend to use UTC.
Cinema websites, offering to be "helpful" by adjusting to browser timezones, instead of the timezones of the movie theater listings I am researching, is a strong argument against websites using timezones from browsers as just one example i encounter regularly.
@teajaygrey @AlgoCompSynth I don't use UTC.
I think maybe it is good when timezones get adjusted, but I h a a t e it when timezones are adjusted *without the timezone being mentioned*. How am I supposed to know if you adjusted the timezone or not.
@wtwagg @Bright5park @davidfetter
* it's hard to tell because unlike "third party cookies", the supposedly bad technology Firefox's "ad measurement" replaces, Firefox "ad measurement" does not allow you to inspect what data it is tracking or who it is being sent to. I have filed a bug pointing this out, which has been afaict ignored.
@wtwagg @JackEric How about I just configure the browser to talk to Google normal type. I think it has now been explained to me how to do that. Unfortunately I will not be attempting that today as this morning a man showed up at my home, removed my back door with an electric screwdriver, and severed my home internet connection
(I think he was supposed to be doing the thing with the door. The other thing was a mistake)
There is now a pull to remove all gen ai code. With the maintainer asking for coding help.
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@sleepyfox In addition, it's not Firefox.
I don't use Firefox because of some ideological reason, I use it because (a) Chrome bricked my £2000 computer in 2013 and I have not forgiven it, (b) vertical tabs are not enough, I need trees, and (c) Firefox's “send tab to device" feature is a core part of my system to make sure I don't forget important shit.
I am hoping that @mcc finds a Firefox fork she likes, because she's even more picky than I am.
@sleepyfox Likewise, I think.
There's people who recommend me browsers, and there's people who do their due diligence on who runs software projects they rely on. The intersection is quite small.
@sleepyfox is actually in that intersection too, but unfortunately, his recommendation doesn't work for me either.
@joeo10
I made a post on Mozilla, if you want to 👍 it.
(it may not appear yet as it has to be approved)
If I have Search Settings options limited to Bookmarks, i.e., this is the only box checked among everything else (this is the only thing I use bookmark tags for), will my keyword searches go to Mozilla for parsing ? Or do they remain local to my computer? If the answer to that is "yes", this would be a tremendous disappointment for me to learn.
Also, if I've selected DuckDuckGo as my search engine for the Address Bar, do these search keywords also still go to Mozilla in addition to DDG?
I don't remember when the Address Bar was merged with the Search Bar, but I don't think users have been able to segregate them for a fair bit of time in Firefox. I certainly don't see a way to do it now, either from the Toolbar Customization panel, or the Privacy or Search Settings tabs.
Like you stated, this whole business is the type of the that having the entire Internet taken over by data acquisition and merchandising is bs. Imho, of course.
Meredith Whittaker is right. :(
4get was removed a few months ago:
@alienghic Yeah, I am participating in the Librewolf issue discussion.
I don't think the "disabling in base firefox" options are quite good enough for me because they seem to mostly just hide the controls for a setting I've already disabled…? Perhaps I am missing something.
Though I don't have a lot of experience with it yet librewolf claims to be a privacy focused fork of firefox and they're discussing removing the genai feature.
codeberg.org/librewolf/source/…
Also some information about disabling the ai feature in base firefox.
meow.social/@Alkaris/113098734…
And firefox-esr doesn't have it yet.
There's also pure FOSS community browsers like epiphany on gnome
apps.gnome.org/Epiphany/
or konqueror or falkon on KDE
Some of the settings look like they also set what api endpoint it will try to talk to.
browser.ml.chat.provider and browser.ml.modelHubRootUrl look like defining where it will attempt to talk to.
I set provider to empty string and root url to http://localhost
yeah I only have firefox 129 right now, and all I was able to do so far was those disables which are shipped in the firefox. I haven't found anything better yet.
I'm also looking at librewolf.
It is also a difficult question...
goes back to wondering how do the patches even work?
@alienghic Aha.
Well now *I'm* unqualified to discuss this, as I am a Mercurial user, and the operation of patchquilt is a mystery to me.
Well here have too much detail.
In this case the question is more how the heck does
git clone salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/… -b release/master
have it's quilt patches committed to git?
I thought you were supposed to leave them uncommitted? Is this some strange git-buildpackage pq?
Is there another branch that you're supposed to be using for adding patches?
If you download the librewolf patch from their repository it's a patch that adds a patch, so you've got to remove the outer discussion and then remove all the + from the inner patch.
After doing that this runs
patch --dry-run -p 1 < ../librewolf-disable-ai-81.patch
but I don't know how it's supposed to get incorporated into the Debian packacing.
ha-ha take that strange git pq magic.
I turned you back into a more familiar quilt archive... Now how long will this take to build.
@wtwagg I’m reminded of the time I had to write an HTTP 1.0 server for a university assignment, so I took a 1.1 server, found all the new features, and ripped them out. (It got a perfect mark, and to this day I’m not sure how to feel about it).
Clearly rolling your own Firefox — forever — is much harder, but shouldn’t it be … well, easier?
@Reiddragon Here is a screenshot of LibreWolf I took on my computer two days ago.
mastodon.social/@mcc/113099961…
They are having a discussion in the Codeberg about whether to remove it again tho.
@wtwagg you used to be able to add search engine options to Firefox by URL, but they seem to have dropped that from the UI
support.mozilla.org/en-US/ques…
Ecosia now requires Javascript to show results, so is unusable
It seems now search engines have to be added to Firefox via extension/add on
@castironflower @gdorn I was thinking about making that firefox fork at least as a proof of concept, ofc the sensible place to start is ESR and that has no ai chatbot anyway.
However, a fork of firefox ESR 128 with the "ad measurement" removed is a good first step.
@gdorn but mozilla is never going to do that. ive been looking at floorp lately
i think the only way forward is to
- hard fork firefox
- rip out all of the bad
- cherry pick changes until it all becomes to hard/ out of sync
and hopefully by that point its got enough community backing that a large foss collective could keep up with web standards changes
Across the U.S., roughly 6 in 10 business owners plan to retire or sell within the next decade, yet only 20% of listed businesses sell and only 15% of businesses are passed on to the next generation.
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It always bugs me we people call people bots or Russian shills or whatever without any evidence.
So I'm very excited that I can now say that Dave Rubin and Tim Pool are Russian Paid Shills.
No flinching. Just how it is.
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Eight days straight later, the stunt engine is now fully supported on the subframe by nothing other than things I have stuck onto the subframe, in the place it wants to be (+/- a mm or two).
It gets easier now, because with the mounts in position setting everything up doesn't take three hours as it did yesterday. Hoping to finish off (most of) the new rails tomorrow, but plans rarely go to plan and that's OK.
I based it on the original engine in the P5: I matched the position of the front face of the front pulley of the original 3 litre (that face aligns with the middle of the front crossmember). There are merits to other ways; this one was easy to hold in my head.
To get that right I made a stunt pulley to clamp onto the stunt engine. It sticks out the same 5" as the real one, and when the marker lines align with the rectangle cut-out it'll have the same centre-line too.
@scudderfish This, by the way, means that it's further forward than it really needs to be; I could get better weight distribution by shifting it back. I actually have room for this without cutting the bulkhead.
But...I think that's fine. A P5 is never going to corner well. This is similar weight distribution to the 3 litre but less weight to distribute.
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Other consideration but not 100%
Downspout, Downpipe,