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Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:24PM (#49730204)
I think youre right. The least techy people I know where the first to ditch Mozilla when they started to see ads in Firefox.
Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:58AM (#49729021)
Wheb the company is hellbent on shoving ads in their products and also blocks my adblocker from working on their site, I'd call that comically evil.
I never thought I'd live to see the day when goat simulator lost its crown...

You should add the christian extremists who think the rest of the passengers want to suffer through a bullshit sermon.

Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:28AM (#49728539)
Uninstall Mozilla's spyware "browser" and install LibreWolf would do it.

https://librewolf.net/

Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:09AM (#49728246)
Same here. Nice to see the malware company has disabled ublock from working on their site.

JFC, Mozilla is just comically evil at this point.

Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:05AM (#49728175)
I wouldn't be pissed at the knuckle dragging fuckwits who run and work at Mozilla if they'd done this how you suggest in the final paragraph.
I use Foxy Droid.

It's unfortunate the official f-droid client is an unusable mess. (I stopped using it years ago, maybe they fixed it.)

There's also f-droid classic, can't remember why I use foxy droid over it.

I'd love to see people distribute their apks directly.

Itch.io is an option for people who don't want to set up a site or handle payments. While they focus on games, they're cool with distributing non-games:

https://itch.io/blog/32835/itchio-isnt-just-for-games-check-...

Re:Has anyone made any money/successes making SaaS's with AI? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:43AM (#49727813)
Dude, I've already put more effort into your site than you have. If you want to know which bits are slop, look at all of the prose. It all reeks of clanker.
Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:26AM (#49727548)
Palemoon doesn't embed clankers as far as I know.

SeaMonkey exists. But, I'm sure Mozilla will fuck it up if they ever remember it exists.

Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:23AM (#49727499)
This announcement pushed me over that edge.

I get asked about stuff like browsers all the time, part of the fun of being the token nerd in a small backward town.

From here on out, my response is going to be that both Chrome and Firefox are malware. But, if you're going to use one, go for chrome so your shit at least kind of works.

Mozilla, if you're reading this: Enough is enough. I've had it with these motherfucking clankers in your motherfucking browser!

Re:Has anyone made any money/successes making SaaS's with AI? on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:02PM (#49720038)
Why would anyone pay monthly to use those sites when they too could make their own version for $20 in tokens?

Each of the three sites look like bog standard slop, both in design and prose.

The pages kept going blank any time I attempted to scroll.

The game was super laggy.

Re: on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:49PM (#49707086)
My thoughts on looking at the page:

First thing I saw when I opened your site was a dick over pushing me to sign up. I always close the tab the instant a dick over pops up.

The page design is slop. It feels like every other ai built site I've seen.

You contradict yourself. First you say it's unlimited, then you mention credits and a usage limit. You're not AT&T, you can't get away with calling a limited plan unlimited.

It's shady to advertise a monthly price in big text with tiny text telling you it's actually annually billed.

Your terms are awful. Cannot cancel a subscription, credits dont roll over.

I dont see any value added. Why would someone pay your unknown company* an uncancellable yearly fee rather than just go straight to the source clankers?

* I didnt see enough info to tell if you've even got a real company registered. What jurisdiction is it incorporated in?

Also, your previous post is about a different ai service. How am I to know that you won't just abandon this one and move on to something new?

> Tan is particularly enthusiastic about Vice President-elect JD Vance

Wow, this dude really is delusional.

I've never donated $150,000 to a politician. If I did, I dont think I'd feel hopeful about the other candidate winning. (Though, if I had that kind of scratch to donate, it'd go to animal rescues or food banks.)

Can't you be ordered to pay the legal fees of the person you sued if you lose badly enough?
They're gonna get to the Epstein stuff right after they get the guy that called Kash Patel names.

https://newrepublic.com/post/215320/texts-kash-patel-order-s...

I'd rather see executives and investors charged.

I'm also in favor of charging engineers so long as rich scumbags also get theirs.

My god, this has been incredibly entertaining.

I wouldn't touch WordPress with someone else's keyboard at this point. But it's still fun to watch.

> Trump and his allies, like Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan

In what way is Tan a trump ally? (I genuinely don't see it.)

A quick search on the FEC website only seemed to show him donating to democratic groups. Hell, he donated $125,000 to the "Harris Victory Fund" in 2024

https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202505079760108065

Re:Neo Emacs – Emacs from the Future on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:34PM (#49703553)
I'm interested in a multi threaded emacs.

This landing page made sure I lost interest in this attempt.

JFC, who wants animations in their editor?

Also, I set prefers reduced motion on my browser. Pages that are filled with useless animations in spite of my preference tells me the dev is either incompetent as they cannot handle basic accessibility or an asshole because they just don't care.

Why would google serve malware and scams in their ad network?

Google is a dodgy company. Placing any trust in them is foolish.

Yes, I have seen deli meat. The friend that told me about arby's loaf has also worked in delis.

Have you never seen a company lie about something?

The food is pretty vile. Friends that worked their described the "beef" as being a weird loaf of pressurized mewt-like protein before its sliced.

I used to eat there occasionally because it was cheapish many, many years ago.

There's an episode of Archer where Archer and another dude have to battle to the death to determine who the new pirate king is.

Maybe Mullenweg killed the interim CEO in combat?

I'm not about to trust a google branded device. Even if the Graphene folks are on the up and up, google sure as hell isn't.
I've found that asking a clanker something like, "you sure about that? Sounds like you're wrong" will usually get it to change its answer.

How people trust any output from these things is beyond me.

I really liked silence. I stopped using it when f-droid said the source code was no longer available. Fossify messages is the best replacement I've found.

(I dont bother with encrypted messenging apps. I prefer to assume that anything I do on my phone is doubleplus unprivate. If I want privacy, I head over to my computer.)

Re:Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:58PM (#49689612)
Man, if I'd interviewed with FB and even heard the word "integrity" I'd have started laughing my ass off till I was covered in a puddle of my own piss. Not a single person at facebook has integrity, it's been that way since day one.
Re:GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released on Saturday September 12, 2026 @05:54PM (#49677604)
That sounds like a feature to me.

I don't know anyone under 70 that even has their voicemail set up.

Re:GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:50PM (#49667845)
All of fossify's apps I've tried have been better than the stock apps.

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