Just a dude on the internet, looking for content and fun! I love Linux, gaming, writing, reading, music, anime, walks, and occasionally movies too. Chronically ill and anxious too, that makes life quite interesting…At times.
Sealioning to quote Wikipedia: “Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity, and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”, and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.”
I tend to only block people that are either being really hostile, sealions, trolls, far right weirdos, tankies, bigots, AI chuds, or if they are arguing in bad faith. I also block any straight or lesbian porn instances because that isn’t what I want to appear in my feeds.
I did mistype, as I meant W2. As for the other part of your post, I’ve set-up my W4 so that I pay the right amount in taxes…My tax return tends to be in the 300 dollar range. That is not very much money being held hostage by the government, Kansas State taxes are weird, but at least I don’t own them much anymore these days. It used to be that I owed them money, but, I’ve dialed it in to make sure they own me a pittance that isn’t even worth sending me to my bank account.
Oofta, you have a job ahead of you then! As you’d have a lot of information to gather before actually getting the process started. I do my taxes via FreeTaxUSA, and they make the process pretty easy. As I can use an import code on my W2 to get it started. I make sure to have all the required documents before sitting down and committing to plugging in all the information (correctly, of course).
I try to do it as soon as I get my W2, I still haven’t done my taxes…However, I will be doing that on Saturday!
LOL If it is so dangerous, just destroy Claude and throw it in the trash…Stop being a Doomsday Dan, Anthropic, a tactic you use to scare-impress investors into fueling your strange addiction to your own fiction!
Personally, I would straight up refuse and hunt for another practice that does not utilize LLM services. As anything that techbros call “AI” is an absolute shitshow. These techbros have a plan to absorb a lot of personal information from others in order to ‘train’ their models. Given that LLMs can never think, feel, make shit up confidently, and are geared towards being sycophantic…
They should never be used for the purposes that techbros and deluded CEOs are trying to make fetch. I would rightfully be suspicious of any practice that is willingly using this tech. I would ask for clarification from the practice in question, get shit in writing, and hunt for another practice if the meeting is unproductive.
LOL MAGA is such a fucking joke…
Exactly, it should never be bundled into software without explicit user consent.
It’s still a problem because users are opted in, as I’ve mentioned in many replies…If users don’t push back, we get situations like Microsoft and their insane LLM shit being shoved in all their software/services/OS. It’s the same “normalize and numb” tactics used by corporations to make end users more compliant to their forced integration of features in software, that aren’t the best or helpful to that end user. It’s not okay, nor is this an ordinary new feature. LLMs are being used to do a lot of disgusting things in the world by the ultra-wealthy and techbros wanting to control/influence the masses.
It’s still opt out, not opt in because on first install that LLM garbage is enabled by default. The kill switch should’ve been for people that chose to try LLM garbage and found it lacking; needing an easy way to disable it all.
I won’t stop complaining until Firefox makes their LLM nonsense opt-in, letting a user choose at first boot if they want that shit or not. That would be the most ethical and user respecting way to handle their LLM shit.
Big yikes, I could imagine this won’t stay in Windows Insiders for long. Given how Microslop doesn’t understand the meaning of restraint. Glad that I switched to Linux before a lot of their damaging decisions could settle down in my PC and fuck it up!
So far, I main Vivaldi, with a back up of Mullvad Browser when I am doing research and don’t want to be fingerprinted easily!
Users needed to be able to choose if they wanted those LLM features from the very beginning, opt-in is the only sane way Mozilla could’ve handled this push towards LLM integration in Firefox. You are being “All Hail Corporate” by refusing to hold Mozilla accountable for their user hostile behavior. In this case, insane defaults and not respecting user choice is the bad behavior on the part of Mozilla. The only respectful choice would’ve been allowing the user to reject LLM features when first starting Firefox. A kill switch cannot be considered enough in this case and never should be!
Still not the point, if Mozilla wanted to implement LLM features, they needed to do it right! Opt-in is the ethical and user respecting way to handle it. We can all use Forks, but if you let a corporation get away with insane defaults…It will get worse.
LLM features should be opt-in by default, full stop. Just turning it off without being given a choice to refuse is very scummy behavior on the part of Mozilla. What if they wanted to use the default Firefox? Shouldn’t a user be allowed to opt-in and have LLM features off by default on every fresh install?
It’s nice having options that respect your freedom of choice and don’t force their deluded ideas upon you…I feel that mainline Firefox, made by Mozilla should do that as well! By not holding Mozilla to higher standards, you get another Microsoft Edge or Chrome situation all over again, this time in open source spaces.
Any LLM features should’ve been opt-in by default if Mozilla actually gave a shit, asking the user if they wanted that useless bullshit before installing. As this technology isn’t polished and can introduce vulnerabilities due to it’s inherently insecure nature. A kill switch is useful if a user decided that LLMs weren’t it and wanted to disable everything wholesale at the click of a button; only after they originally consented to LLM features being enabled.
Mozilla are only adding this feature because users made their LLM by default installation look pretty grim, I was one of those many dissenting voices about that. They wanted to jump on the LLM hype and cash in on some techbro attention, not considering that some of their user base would outright reject the idea.
Eww, that’s the worse trade that one could possibly do. ROFL Given how much of a fail “AI” is at the moment, they could never deliver anything substantial with such a trade.
You’re welcome! Since you were chill, I simply replied in kind. As that’s just what people should try to do!
LOL Of course this bastard would try to worm his way out of liability. As LLMs cannot be held responsible for any actions, since these hallucination engines cannot think or feel. However, OpenAI can and should be held liable when their product is directly responsible for causing something horrible to happen on both a small and critical scale. If they can create the “tech” they can accept responsibility when the shit goes south and causes a lot of destruction/loss of life.