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Enough of this. Men followers. Attack

: 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.

beardedmrbean

Nothing could be dryer than a jolly caucus race.

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littlekitchenboy

For anyone who doesn't get it:

If you're in the USA keep an eye out, look up your state's policy (do you need to catch and report it or just kill it?). This infographic is a few years out of date, their range has since expanded as far south as South Carolina and as far west as Michigan. I'm unsure of their range on the west coast. Here is a better guide to their life stages:

The best way to prevent spread of invasive species is by taking precautions not to move things that they might be living in/on, such as firewood. This goes for any invasive species regardless of your location.