A Side Blog

for reblogging and random thoughts

[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.

[catcrumb]

[faustandfurious]

My lukewarm take is that one of the greatest privileges of all is the ability to exist as the «default setting», being seen as just a person, and not as a representative of a group of people who share your gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or cultural/religious background. Which is why the «not all men» pushback against any mention of structural sexism was what it was. Because suddenly people who were used to being the default setting were being made into representatives of their gender, having to prove that they were better than the stereotypes forced upon them. And they did not like that one bit.

[faustandfurious]

Probably also why the words «cis(het)» and «neurotypical» make some cis(het) and neurotypical people lose it completely. You’re used to thinking of your way of existing as the «normal» one, and suddenly the «weird people» are giving you a label that puts their weirdness on equal footing with your perceived normality.

[uptownthots]

shocking amount of people on this website literally do just think women hating men bc they’ve had bad experiences with men is irrational and evil but men hating women bc they’ve had bad experiences with women is understandable and acceptable

[sapphling]

you kind of have to be genuinely insanely isolated from even thinking about real world racism to be seeing these ""slurs for robots/AI users 🤪"" and not have alarm bells going off about how clearly they're based on real world violent slurs for people of color. the fact that you didn't think about it is itself a problem, not a defense!!

[girlnephew]

[transmutationisms]

us politics posts are so funny "this legislation has bipartisan support" oh ok so its bad

[maidthings]

I guess the idea of a companion animal that would eat your flesh is supposed to be upsetting but critically she doesn't do that while I'm alive. which I'd argue is the most important factor here.

[etrosgate]

started watching code geass

[asterrisms]

as a pink lover. The ""universal""" hatred of the color pink by young girls is due to the heavy expectation of femininity forced on them. It is an expression of frustration at gender roles. It is not internalized misogyny. No you will not inevitably start liking pink as an adult and if you do that is not healing your inner divine feminine or whatever we're saying now. Its a color. 😁👍

[nofilter-cory]

Dog

[adz]

screenshots from my favorite movie, Stalker (1979)

[txttletale]

yknow i mean obviously at some point you have to just say that someone Doesn't Get It--but i think 'bad media literacy' is like, y'know, so often just a dodge to avoid acknowledging that the thing that the people who idolize walter white or whatev are responding to is v. much there in the text

[txttletale]

you can say "you're supposed to think tyler durden is bad" until you're blue in the face but they cast brad pitt to play him and gave him a cool jacket. ultimately you have to bite the bullet that to do 'Cool Masculinity actually sucks' you have to put some Cool Masculinity in your art

like, sure, rick and morty has a therapist show up literally just to say rick sanchez sucks and is miserable because he is constantly putting his family down. and that's subversive or whatever. but they Also do 20 minutes every week of rick getting to deliver the punchlines to all the jokes--you can't go all shocked pikachu face when people connect to that on that level, right?

& the same goes for don draper and bojack horseman and dr house and yknow, everyone on the 'you missed the point by idolizing them starter pack' memes. like i think there is very much a combination having cake and eating cake at play with how the creators and fans of these things discuss them and their reception

[sayruq]

Northern Gaza has been starving for 2 months now

[ajloun]

Please donate to the Sameer Project and Dahnoun Mutual Aid. Many NGOs and nonprofits have ceased operations in the north due to danger and lack of supplies — these are two Gazawi-led grassroots initiatives that buy food, water, clothes, and baby supplies in bulk to serve the most vulnerable people in their communities in the North at no cost.

North and Central Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza fac

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

We are Dahnoun Mutual Aid. We are a group of volunteer organizers working to provide life-sustaining aid to Palestinians in Gaza. 

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

lolita fashion by 暗中添加防腐剂

[ankle-beez]

the dragon prince franchise should count as a scam and i am not being hyperbolic

[ankle-beez]

to recap the history of this damn thing:

the show initially gets greenlit for 3 seasons

showrunner actively encourages the fans to hound netflix for more seasons to finish the story

netflix greenlights 4 more seasons, showrunner thanks fans and says the full vision for the show will be completed now

the show. mostly fucks around for those 4 seasons, leaving everyone pissed because it ended unfinished and downright shittily

showrunner, again, demands fans to hound netflix for more seasons to finish the story

netflix does not want to make more because. it's netflix

they're asking fans to fund the show now

[nilovalentine]

in this fantasy world, theres no homophobia or sexism! but the governments are still patriarchal monarchies and everyone still adheres to the standard nuclear family, two things that have absolutely no relation to homophobia and sexism whatsoever