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[thebelfry]

Hi, I’m here to propose that A.A. Milne’s distinctive syntax in the Winnie-the-Pooh books is a major origin of modern Capital Letters Used For Emphasis On The Internet. Observe:

(in which Pooh wryly self-deprecates)

(in which Eeyore masters modern sarcasm)

(in which Eeyore is vagueblogging)

(in which Owl says something i would absolutely type in the YOOL 2017)

(In which Eeyore continues to be a shining example to us all)

(in which Pooh describes a Big Mood)

(in which Piglet has a Relatable Experience)

I could go on, but you can read the books and find your own. It’s a weirdly modern-feeling layer to an old, thoroughly enjoyable story and most of the original Pooh books are online for free. I cited from this online text upload of the book. Enjoy!

[shipburner]

holy shit i think you just cracked the linguistic case of the era

[redsatinsheets]

feminism never taught me to hate men but it did help me realize that i shouldn’t prioritize them over women & it turns out that alot of men consider that to be hatred lmao.

[empty-left-deactivated20170928]

So if you were in a room with two prisoners; a man and a woman, you’d never met, and the gender neutral soldier with the big gun told you to kill one of them, you’d automatically shoot the man?

[ozten-deactivated20171022]

tag yourselves I’m the gender neutral soldier with the big gun

[saxophonechihuahua]

im the completely off the wall reaction to a fairly mundane post

[bogmonstergirl]

Your soldier with a big gun looks gnc af

[arry-alleged-catgirl]

another graveyard banger

[doubleca5t]

[hirtenstar]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the thing that really cheeses my cake about flies getting in my house is they clearly don't want to be there anyway. like at least the ants trying to steal cereal from my pantry had a goal and a plan. you are just here because you're too stupid to use a window twice

[siratonin]

"I CANT HANDLE THIS" *handles this*

[siratonin]

"I CANT TAKE ANOTHER DAY" *takes another day*

[qqueenofhades]

More and more often these days, in what is surely a sign that everything is just absolutely fine, I find myself recalling the wise words of the prophets written on the subway walls:

[nikoanesti]

Real shit

[notecardpasta]

I think when you correctly identify a trauma that is the base of a woe of yours it should just disappear. It should be like "aaahh. you got me" and vanish and leave 100 dollars behind

[countthelions]

#if you line up several neuroses and identify the interlocking connections between them they should all vanish like clearing a line in tetris (via @karliahs)

[gtx950]

getting mixed signals

[mihidesuntverba]

@official-poland-mention

[official-poland-mention]

Official Poland Mention

[panteneprovcommercial]

[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.

[ailurinae]

Sigh, let me copy and past from my other correction post I attached elsewhere on the chain...

Let me correct some misinformation. browser.ml.chat.enable is to enable or disable the sidebar connection to LLM chatbots. That feature just gives you a chat interface to an LLM of your choosing on the side without opening it in a web page. It has nothing to do with local inference or with naming tab groups. And only requires as much energy as any other page, as LLM chatbot pages don't do local infernence. Anyway this would only be active if you have that part of the sidebar open, and have clicked to agree, and selected an LLM from the list. But if you turn off browser.ml.chat.enable then you won't see it all.

Firefox also has a couple ML local features that don't involve connecting remote ML system, which means that when they are used you are doing local inference, which could be a power draw. On the other hand it means all data processed or produced is private and no third parties see it. These include:

Generating missing alt text for images, for now limited to PDFs being displayed in browser

A built in web page translation option, currently only a few languages

Enhanced tab groups, which can auto name a tab group, and can offer to put more related open tabs into the the group

Enhanced link previews, summarizing pages on the other end of links when you hover over them (I think this is only turned on in developer/nightly builds still for now?)

The first two are not terrible ideas IMO. The second two are pretty silly I think.

These local ML options can be fully turned off with browser.ml.enable (that might also turn off the chat option above, but not positive) Or they can be turned off with individual options:

pdfjs.enableGuessAltText

browser.translations.enable

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

It is worth noting that I believe all of these except maybe the alt text (not sure about it) ask if you want to use them. Of course if something weird pops up a lot of users just try to get rid of it and might end up agreeing. You can see this opt-in requirement with the existence of preferences like browser.ml.linkPreview.optin which record if the user has opted in. You can change that if you like, but note that setting the "enabled" version of that pref to "false" will disable the feature even if "optin" is set to true.

[pillowspace]

kicking my legs and giggling at the sleepover. can my OC who I've never drawn or talked about play with your OC who you've never drawn or talked about

[charlesoberonn]

Medieval nobles arranging political marriages for their unborn children.

[calicotisane]

Would you like to pet me?

[calicotisane]

Thank you

[calicotisane]

PPL aren't reblogging this version so the chuzzle is generally stuck in the eternal present moment with the question unanswered. Eyeing the symbol that will never change

[bonni]

I just saw a gifset that split the word "beautiful" into 3 gifs and I think this one may be the new t hanos

[kineticpenguin]

You’re laughing. She has a urinary tract infection and you’re laughing

[hndwrttn]

[chuplayswithfire]

[burglarsonarceny]

[bgm05]

[queenofcarrots]

(x)

[lilsugarbush]

[bondingthroughmutualhatred-blog]

is anyone else concerned about the spelling of Doritos here?

[geminiagent]

[helloitsbees]

is that a fucking gif from Vampyr (1932)

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[sandmandaddy69]