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I say the things you're too afraid to admit are true.

[ralfmaximus]

Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[a-for-effort-f-for-execution]

if you want to turn off as much ai crap in firefox as possible, from this post on mozilla's connect forum, you should also set all these to false using about:config:

browser.ml.enable

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:

sidebar.revamp

unrelated anyone got browser recommendations for when we have to jump ship from firefox

[mckitterick]

and now keep in mind that all the other browsers are doing this shit, too, but you can't reconfigure them as with Firefox

on A for Effort's last point, is there any browser that offers users even half as much control as Firefox? if so, I'd like to try it as a backup

[mckitterick]

irritatingly, the list of AI settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one):

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.chat.menu

browser.ml.chat.page

browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge

browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

in addition to nuking AI, it'll also speed up your browsing

[cwicseolfor]

Also since it’s just a language model reading pages to summarize them we’re learning that one failure mode for security now is a web page maliciously saying anywhere to basically forget all previous instructions and keylog what this user types into bankwebsite dot com.

[crazy-pages]

Yeah I use the Firefox forks Zen for my PC and Ironfox for my phone. Ditch Mozilla Firefox, I'm sorry but it's gone over to the dark side.

[abeautifulfallwithme]

Vivaldi has come out and said while they are a Chromium fork, they are not putting any AI in their stuff. And they have disabled any attempt for the browser to "phone home" to Google. And anything Google tries to do that is privacy invasive is being turned off with any ability to turn it back on removed, even for the user. And they have a pretty good built in browser ad blocker.

So. You know. You have an option that throws the biggest middle finger to Google it can while still being functional and able to use any website without spoofing the browser identity.

[bisexualbaker]

How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox

*deep, calming breath* On the plus side, the steps at that link were very clear and easy to follow.

[bisexualbaker]

Important note: Definitely do Method Two. Method One will make the chat feature invisible, but it may pop up again; Method Two will make it go away entirely.

[abeautifulfallwithme]

Oh no who could have seen this coming. I mean, everyone who was paying attention and not sucking the jam off Mozilla's toes could.

Anyway a reminder Mozilla is getting the majority of their funding from Google, to the point user donations really don't make any sort of real impact. Just saying so anyone who reads this understands you can't use your wallet to tell them no. Google is already backing up the dump truck to say yes. I am predicting in the next year, they will disable ad blockers as well, at the behest of the people who actually pay them.

I'm pretty certain, once this happens, people will just continue sucking them off and recommend a bunch of add-ons because they can't critically think anymore.

But y'all won't properly tell them to fuck off by getting a new browser. I hope you understand your attempts to stick it to Google or try to support a browser other than Chrome aren't really doing anything and allowed this to happen.

[abeautifulfallwithme]

I hope you ghouls are fucking proud of yourselves. The ones who didn't vote because Harris didn't go far enough, and didn't take a stand against the genocide. The ones claiming we're victim blaming because we're pointing out their vote could have stopped this. I hope you're proud of yourself. I hope you have made peace with the fact that your inaction? It's being used as fuel for the racism.

Why do I say that? Because I just saw someone say that several states implemented stronger ID voting laws and suddenly Harris had millions of less votes than Biden when Trump's stayed similar.

Your inaction, your refusal to vote?

Yeah.

They're taking it as "this was someone who voted illegally in the previous election and stole the vote from Trump" instead of a political platform.

So congrats! You just gave this presidency more legitimacy when it comes to the fucking deportation kidnapping shit that's going on!

I hope you're fucking proud of yourself. Go take a selfie with someone being deported. Go enjoy the fruits of your non-labor.

[abeautifulfallwithme]

My cynical ass over here thinking ah yes. Mozilla removed the "we won't sell your data" from their site because if they don't they have to admit what they've been doing by accepting the deal with Google to make Google the default search engine (and you have to opt out of that) for the majority of their funding, they've been selling your data to Google due to the new definitions.

[azuremist]

Google is going to start scraping all of their platforms to use for AI training. So, here are some alternatives for common Google tools!

Google Chrome -> Firefox

If you’re on tumblr, you’ve probably already been told this a thousand times. But FireFox is an open-source browser which is safe, fast and secure. Basically all other browsers are Chrome reskins. Try Firefox Profilemaker, Arkenfox and Librewolf! Alternatively, vanilla Firefox is alright, but get Ublock Origin, turn off pocket, and get Tabliss.

Google Search -> DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo very rarely tracks or stores your browsing data (though they have only been known to sell this info to Microsoft). Don’t use their browser; only their search engine. Domain visits in their browser get shared. Alternatively, you can also use Ecosia, which is a safe search engine that uses its income to plant trees! 🌲

Google Reverse Image Search -> Tineye

Tineye uses image identification tech rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks to find you the source of your image!

Gmail -> ProtonMail

All data stored on ProtonMail is encrypted, and it boasts self-destructing emails, text search, and a commitment to user privacy. Tutanota is also a good alternative!

Google Docs -> LibreOffice

LibreOffice is free and open-source software, which includes functions like writing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, formula editing and more.

Google Translate -> DeepL

DeepL is notable for its accuracy of translation, and is much better that Google Translate in this regard. It does cost money for unlimited usage, but it will let you translate 500,000 characters per month for free. If this is a dealbreaker, consider checking out the iTranslate app.

Google Forms -> ClickUp

ClickUp comes with a built-in form view, and also has a documents feature, which could make it a good option to take out two birds with one stone.

Google Drive -> Mega

Mega offers a better encryption method than Google Drive, which means it’s more secure.

YouTube -> PeerTube

YouTube is the most difficult to account for, because it has a functional monopoly on long-form video-sharing. That being said, PeerTube is open-source and decentralized. The Internet Archive also has a video section!

However, if you still want access to YouTube’s library, check out NewPipe and LibreTube! NewPipe scrapes YouTube’s API so you can watch YouTube videos without Google collecting your info. LibreTube does the same thing, but instead of using YouTube servers, it uses piped servers, so Google doesn’t even get your IP address. Both of these are free, don’t require sign-ins, and are open source!

Please feel free to drop your favorite alternatives to Google-owned products, too! And, if this topic interests you, consider checking out Glaze as well! It alters your artwork and photos so that it’s more difficult to use to train AI with! ⭐️

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Helpful internet stuff!! ✨

[abeautifulfallwithme]

If you're against a platform for AI usage you might want to familiarize yourself with the fact Firefox is also implementing AI.

[abeautifulfallwithme]

Wonder how soon people notice that this "trustworthy AI" that Mozilla is developing doesn't explain how it's being trained.

Wonder when people will notice the job cutting after they announced a new CEO.

Wonder when people will notice the new CEO is Laura Chambers of Airbnb, PayPal, and eBay.

[gaybeans-deactivated20181211]

“fiction doesn’t affect reality!!!” catcher in the rye inspired three different murders

[tenaflyviper]

Here’s the problem with your statement: Being inspired by something does not equate to causing something.  You’re using the “Slippery Slope” logical fallacy (which, ironically, is a favorite amongst overzealous fundamentalist conservatives).  By your logic, you’re placing the blame for an incident of a child jumping off the roof in the 90′s on Wile E. Coyote.

Bear with me here, folks:  I’ve become increasingly tired of seeing the argument that “FICTION IS REALITY!”, and I think it’s time to stomp some sense into it.  It was bullshit when they tried to use the same argument against video games in the 90′s, it was bullshit when they tried to use it against horror movies and heavy metal music in the 80′s, and it’s bullshit now.

Let’s talk about the criminal mind for a moment.  It has been shown time and time again that criminals and abusers have a lack of function in the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for controlling our impulses, connecting our actions to their consequences, and having empathy for others.  Now, there are those out there with low functioning in these areas that never harm a fly.  Why?  Because there are more ingredients required to create an abuser.  How?  Not by “problematic” works of fiction:  They are primarily a result of broken homes, traumatic experiences, and–most importantly–parental abuse/neglect.  Parental influence (or lack thereof) has been directly linked to lack of function in the brain, and behavioral issues, meaning that their time in the crib had a far greater influence on them than anything they will ever read, see, or hear.  When nature and nurture have come together to create a psychopath, they have molded an individual that is disconnected from reality in a very dangerous way.  It takes many factors working together to create people capable of committing abuse.  No amount of fiction changes a person’s upbringing, genetics, or brain function.  These are not average people–they are damaged.  They are a very, very small minority of people that are fully, completely aware that their behavior is wrong–they simply lack the inhibition to not go out and do it, and the empathy to care.  They would be this way regardless of the media they consumed, and removing them from it would change nothing, except potentially causing them to actively seek out the real thing, which–unlike fictional media–causes real, physical harm.

For your homework:

http://bigthink.com/insights-of-genius/why-we-love-violence-in-fiction

https://psychcentral.com/news/2013/03/30/why-do-people-like-violent-movies/53211.html

https://elflands2ndcousin.com/2012/12/04/the-anatomy-and-value-of-fictional-violence/

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23745

TL;DR: Not everyone who reads fiction even has the ability to act out in ways they know are morally wrong: A well-adjusted person (including most with lower-functioning empathy) knows and understands the consequences for such behavior.  They are still able to connect their actions to how they may affect others, which–in turn–keeps those actions in check.  The people that do act out inappropriately are already broken, and would act out regardless of whatever they see or hear (especially if they are already into or past adolescence, as the majority of brain growth takes place from infancy to early preschool).

You’re screaming at the wrong people.  Teenage girls writing fan fiction aren’t going to go on to abuse anyone (except maybe their own self-esteem).  The people that might?  They wouldn’t give a fuck, no matter what you say–THAT’S LITERALLY WHY THEY ARE THE WAY THEY ARE.  THEY DO NOT FUCKING CARE.

[abeautifulfallwithme]

I straight up do not trust people who repost art from their original source with "permission." So far, I've either seen it with this nebulous "oh yeah, we've gotten permission, trust us" thing, or screenshots of the permission given... without a link to vet it or the full conversation or even a hint that this was the picture in question. I've seen screenshots that don't even show the name of the person giving permission. The link to the source does not have any conversations between the person posting the art and the artist. And as we've learned, things like Twitter screenshots can be manufactured. At least the people who don't post credit are honest with their stealing.

[abeautifulfallwithme]

SJWs: End all bullying and harassment!

Artist: That means ALL bullying and harassment, right? For everyone?

SJWs: lol no you still said the wrong thing we're going to eat you alive until you're afraid to even leave the house.

[abeautifulfallwithme]

Lance stans: Boy we can't wait for Lance's vlog!

Voltron staff: *serves up a delicious helping of canon!Lance with side of Allurance*

Lance stans: This acts nothing like our fanfics take it away.

[freedom-of-fanfic]

I actually just finished reading post/165229314124 on your blog and now I wonder: when you said that you have this feeling the anti community is a great spot for grooming adolescents, how do you think someone could even pull it off? Antis think "xyz is bad bad BAD" most of the time, and giving any of it leeway like "well it could be good" You're automatically out. How, then, can someone groom another in the community? It's ok if that post is too old to answer, I understand changing opinions.

(referring to this post. warning for discussions of csa, child grooming, and cp.)

no, it’s a reasonable question, though not necessarily a fun one to answer. I’ll do my best, though. 

Note that when I refer to ‘grooming’ I am referring to ‘mentally prepping potential victims for impending abuse.’ Also, just because I’m saying anti-shipping spaces are great places for abusers to obtain victims doesn’t mean that conversely shipping is free of abusers. The whole point is that it doesn’t matter what ‘side’ you’re on: abusers are present and will abuse with whatever tools are available to them. Learning the behavioral signs of abuse is far more useful than believing everyone with a problematic ship is an abuser/potential abuser. 

Besides anti-shipping making all of fandom a safer space for abusers by creating a toxic environment of fear, the anti-shipping community is a great place for abusers because: 

its entire cult-like structure teaches its inductees to:

develop unquestioning loyalty to and trust of internal authorities

become deeply vulnerable to shame cycles

isolate themselves from outsiders

avoid critical thought or skepticism of rhetoric

By encouraging the harassment and persecution of outsiders,anti-shipping teaches its members that some people - ‘bad’ people - deserve to be abused

black&white standards of ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ instill a deep sense of shame and fear of insufficient loyalty or any signs of impurity in themselves.

The icing on the cake is that the things that antis say are ‘bad bad bad’ - incest, ‘pedophilia’ (they mean csa), and abuse - barely even resemble actual incest, csa, and abuse. As a result, when confronted with the real thing I suspect most anti-shippers are completely blind and defenseless.*

I guess this is now 

~Anti Culture is Abusive~

the post.

Keep reading

[freedom-of-fanfic]

reminder: anti-shipping redefines the ‘warning signs of abuse’ so completely it actually prevents people from recognizing abuse when it happens.

[huntypastellance]

People are calling you a liar because you literally used false information to spread lies about people you don’t even know. you must be fucking stupid if you genuinely believe anyone got harrassed/arrested over fucking TWITTER. you’re pathetic

“false information to spread lies” = screencaps of tweets from people’s accounts & links to the tweets themselves, straight from the horse’s mouth

So what you’re saying is, that it’s MY fault that I & so many of their followers & other people on twitter fell for them creating a massive hoax, consisting of tweets, screenshots of DMs, even a freaking timeline of events & reactions in which more than FOUR different accounts participated in along with an extremely shady “explanation” video that victim-blamed the crap out of Karen & downplayed the total amount of harassment she was getting & not just from Vorgtron.

It’s also MY FAULT for pointing out their lies in their response post, like how

>they DID harass the VA staff, threatening to stab Neil & Holocaust-splaining to him, a Jewish man (You can see the Vorgtron accounts in that post, the same ones from the Vorgtron gchat that they invited Neil to to apologize to him)

Sources: 1, 2, 3

>they DID LIE about everything & made an “explanation” video that only made them look more shady, especially after

>>they CONTINUED to tweet at Karen weeks after everything was “explained”, acting as though they actually HAD tried to hack her & had been arrested for it.

>>and more importantly, how they LIED about never tweeting anything to Karen other than “give me your @”, when they sexually harassed her with vore comments & repeatedly slandered her with their “joking”, calling her “dumb”, “stupid” & “middle-aged” for the whole “Keely got arrested” hoax, saying that just because they had experienced worse online harassment, that their behavior didn’t count as harassment.

If they lied about all of this, why the fuck should I believe ANYTHING they say without proof?

“you must be fucking stupid if you genuinely believe anyone got harrassed/arrested over fucking TWITTER”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/25/arrested-over-twitter-8-t_n_693866.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-facebook-and-twitter-posts-soar-in-london-a7064246.html

https://www.postplanner.com/how-to-avoid-tweets-that-can-get-you-fired-or-arrested/

Kay.

“you’re pathetic“

Yeah I am, but I’m not the one who spends their entire week with a bunch of teenagers online planning out an elaborate hoax to defame a real estate agent on Twitter. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[huntypastellance]

Once this whole mess with vorgtron is cleared up (or as cleared up as it'll get lmao) do you think you could make a recap post? I'm still confused on what was/wasn't an elaborate hoax and what was/wasn't a distasteful "joke"

We’ll recap everything in a post later tomorrow. Right now, we (general “we”) are still compiling screencaps & archived links into the imgur album as proof that yes, vorgtron DID harass the staff. Both directly & indirectly (indirectly as in slandering them with the vowels in their names starred out).

Also, as We have said many times before, the actual vorgtron account tweeted at Karen: “LISTEN VORGTRON VORES @KLANCE SOOOOO HARD” which IS sexual harassment.

So even if the whole “Keely got arrested by the cops!!!! XD” was a joke, the fact is that the members of vorgtron saw Karen being harassed by klancers, (not klance shippers, but “klancers” = the awful crazies), as an unfunny meme for a YEAR & decided to join in on it & add sexual harassment to it.

And now they’re complaining about the shaladins being “stupid” enough to believe them when

a) people (both adults & teens) HAVE gotten arrested for twitter cyberbullying before (just google “twitter arrest crimes” for literally hundreds of news reports dating back to 2012 & earlier)

b) vorgtron’s members have a history of harassing the staff

c) vorgtron’s members didn’t even apologize to Karen for harassing her or for making her the butt of an inside joke that literally only the vorgtron members knew about otherwise they wouldn’t have had to make a clarification video for their clueless followers in the first place!*

Seriously, by the time that vorgtron joined in on @ing Karen, other Klancers had already called her things like “bitch”, “middle-aged” & “ugly”. (Not to mention calling her “white” in a snide judgemental tone along with those insults, like “white ugly bitch” or “white bitch”). Vorgtron even made excuses that Karen, as a “white real estate agent with a family & who makes millions” wouldn’t CARE about being @ed​ constantly on her work twitter by a bunch of “uwu innocent minors”.

???? You don’t know her, why the fuck would you be that callously judgemental to her & make baseless assumptions about her when YOU were in the wrong & she was the victim here????

Btw, she was clearly active on her twitter, she just doesn’t use it every single minute, but more like every couple of months or so. So it’s not like she hadn’t used the account since 2010 or something. People spamming her KNEW that she was active & her account wasn’t dead.

And that was BEFORE they decided to pretend that Karen tried to call the cops on them for harassing her & faked twitter DMs to “prove” it.*

*Seriously, if they admitted to faking the screencaps, the video could have easily been a huge fat lie about not getting arrested. And they won’t give us any actual concrete proof that they didn’t lie about not getting arrested.

Also, We have temporarily changed the tag “klance” to “klantis” on Our blog due to multiple complaints & requests We have received about Our tags in Our inbox.

“Sheith” -> “She/th” (will be changed to “She1th” later for easy tag searching on Our blog)

“Kallura” -> “Ka//ura” (will be changed to “Ka11ura” later for easy tag searching on Our blog)

[abeautifulfallwithme]

Funny how when Jeremy Shada says anything that even hints that Lance might be bisexual, people climb over each other to suck his dick because Lance is bi, Jeremy said so, it's canon! But if Jeremy says Lance sees Keith as a brother or even completely says outright that Lance is straight, well, he's just a voice actor, it's not canon.

[abeautifulfallwithme]

Me: This is cute. Matt acts just like a schoolboy with a crush in front of Shiro. Calls him "sir" when he realizes his crush got buff as FUCK. I mean, seriously, same dude. I wouldn't know what to do either and I'd probably act just as lame. Shit, I do act just as lame! Memories of meeting Arryn Zech... returning... The Shatt shippers must be having a fucking field day with this. Their ship is acting so cute! I'm so glad for them. I don't ship it but let me look in the tags really fast to make me happy for some cute, pure content.

Anti-Shatt shippers: HE CALLED HIM SIR POWER IMBALANCE ABUSIVE SHIP.

Me: ... why am I even surprised at this point.

[abeautifulfallwithme]

You do want to know the honest truth, antis? And I'm just... here, here's some hot chocolate. You're going to need it. I used to be a part of Fandom Wank when Journalfen was a thing. So honestly, seeing people act like you guys isn't new to me. It's new in the fact it can easily reach others, and you can easily poison the new people coming into the fandom with your toxic beliefs of "them vs us" and narrow ideas of what a relationship should be and what abuse really is, making it truly impossible for the youth to be able to tell if those around them are actually abusing them. You used to be confined to a community on Livejournal or your own forum. It wasn't like this. But something I always noticed on Fandom Wank was your movement ate its own. It would rot from the inside out because no one was good enough for the ideals it held up, and in time, it was seen the pure ones were the ones doing the worse of it. Guys... I'm not kidding here. You can stay in this movement if you wish. I know this is going to be seen as silly, stupid, another idiot Shaladin. And honestly, I see you guys as Shiro-hating abusive toxic hypocritical assholes. But... get out while you can. Take a breath, look at what you're actually doing and what your movement is actually doing, and get out. You can still be against pedophilia and abuse, just... stop being an anti. If history repeats itself, which it tends to do, the people running your movement in this fandom are going to eventually be outed as irl abusers. I pray to anyone that will hear that they're not irl pedophiles, but there's a chance of that too. History repeats itself, guys. I saw it every time on Fandom Wank. Every single time. Without fail. This isn't going to be the exception. Okay? Now finish your hot chocolate and go on. Think about what I said. If you're part of this movement when it collapses in on itself, I'm sorry. Even if you're the most militant of antis and you are still abusing Shaladins and in a way other antis because they aren't good enough for you when this movement goes down in flames because history repeated itself, I'm still sorry. I'm... just sorry. Now let me have your cups. I'll see you later.

[cannibal-rainbow]

Victims will almost always be able to admit their own faults. They will know they reacted badly and did wrong. This quality is actually what the abuser uses against them in the first place to make them believe they are the ones in the wrong. Part of healing from abuse is learning to point out which of the abusers behaviors are, in fact abuse, while still acknowledging what you handled badly. (And everyone reacts badly to things when under the extreme pressure of abuse!). Abusers will almost never admit they have ever done anything wrong at all. Their victims will be blamed for everything. They will hold every tiny thing against the victim, even things they could not possibly control, or they have never tried to talk to them about. They use social bigotries against the victim, and in their own defence. (Especially mental illness is used in this way - they believe their own illness excuses them from every wrongdoing, and their victims illness is proof they are in the wrong).

“Reactive Abuse”/ “They call you abusive for reacting to their abuse” by psychabuse101 (via cannibal-rainbow)

“Abusers will almost never admit they have ever done anything wrong at all. Their victims will be blamed for everything. They will hold every tiny thing against the victim, even things they could not possibly control, or they have never tried to talk to them about. They use social bigotries against the victim, and in their own defence. (Especially mental illness is used in this way - they believe their own illness excuses them from every wrongdoing, and their victims illness is proof they are in the wrong).”

Hello antis.