this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
91 points (91.0% liked)

Technology

60342 readers
5176 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
91
Orbit by Mozilla (orbitbymozilla.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
23 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

New Mozilla AI project. Put "trust" and "privacy" in the title and subtile but doesn't support locally hosted model.

Exists as an add-on today. Model is Mistral 7B hosted by Mozilla in GCP. Claims won't save data long term. Promises won't use personal information to train models and not share queries with Mistral or any other services.

Am I going to use it? No. Not without local model supported.

Note: the mobile version of the page is broken (lack of many content). Best to view the desktop version for complete details.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What's anti-power user about developing this extension?

My argument against that extension is just that it takes money and developer hours to program it. Resources that are taken away from other (more useful) things.

And I like some of the Mozilla products very much. And I think as a company, they're not too well off. They have a limited amount of money and developers. They can now choose to invest that time in useful things, or things that attract money, or start 500 random side-projects. But then they can't complain if that takes away from like Thunderbird and the translation tool I would like to see some attention given to.

I'm not opposed to this addon, I just don't think it's a wise decision to invest the limited resources in that.

I wholeheartedly agree with the rest of your comment. Linux has come a great way since then. But that means people have put in a lot of work to polish things. Directly opposed to what happens here, starting more half-baked projects and adding features, without polishing the existing ones and making them more useful or attractive to regular people.