If you haven't already abandoned Firefox, Firefox Forcing LLM Features has some notes on configuration, including ways to replicate these things across machines.
Firefox Forcing LLM Dan Lyke / comment 0
If you haven't already abandoned Firefox, Firefox Forcing LLM Features has some notes on configuration, including ways to replicate these things across machines.
Sandwich guy acquitted Dan Lyke / comment 0
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sandwich at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
Via @GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Who noted...
Just desserts!
and
2/ I think we all knew this one was in the bag.
3/ The DOJ lawyer should be sacked.
4/ Sandwich Guy's lawyer ate DOJ for lunch.
5/ ... because DOJ just couldn't cut the mustard.
Okay, I'm done.
6/... because my jokes are getting stale.
AI translation drives contributors away from Mozilla Dan Lyke / comment 0
Mozilla's SUMO Japanese translation community ends their support over botched machine translation:
They are all happened on the product server, not on staging server. I understand that this is mass destruction of our work and explicit violation to the Mozilla mission, allowed officially.
Via nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social, in the replies David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange has some notes on how, yes, this is the result of a bug, but...
That bit bothers me the least. Lots of systems have bugs. The issue here for me is that they have a load of experts who understand the problem, and someone who does not understand the problem has mandated a tool that does not solve the problem and entirely disregarded the value of the experts.
Machine-assisted translation tooling primarily focuses on building, maintaining, and using a term dictionary: a set of prior translations that ensure that you consistently translate terms of art in the same way. If you don't do this, you get something that is technically a valid translation, but which is completely useless because the same term is translated in different ways throughout the document (based on surrounding context and translator preferences) and so it's impossible for a reader to tell that they're the same term.
It sounds like the Japanese translators have put a lot of effort into solving this problem. LLM-based translation is infamous for not doing this. It will translate terms based on how, across the training corpus, that term was translated when adjacent to other words. This is completely fine for short, low-stakes translation. If I want to translate a menu while travelling, for example, an LLM will typically give a good output (maybe don't trust it if you have serious allergies, but for the rest of us it's fine). But for something where you want to communicate technical content (in any domain), they're (at best) a good first approximation. And translators have repeatedly reported that cleaning up LLM translations is more work than doing the translation well in the first place.
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You know what I love about modern Dan Lyke / comment 0
You know what I love about modern software? Slack is adding "AI" features and can't get my unread workspaces or messages right.
New features trump core annoyances.
Facebook scam ads Dan Lyke / comment 0
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’
I am actually surprised that the number is that low. I assume that any ads on Facebook are scams. I wonder if they've A/B tested out exactly what proportion of scammy ads they can get before users stop engaging and advertisers stop buying ads?
Selling Zohran Dan Lyke / comment 0
Charlene is now reading Carter Lavin's If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy and is all fired up about advocacy and messaging. I was super impressed with Zohran Mamdani's videos and campaighn generally, and ran across Corey Atad in Defector: Selling Zohran, and thought it was worth sending along to her and saving here.
killing fishermen Dan Lyke / comment 0
Kay Leadfoot @ FuelArc News @kayleadfoot.bsky.social
I had the regrettable realization...
The Caribbean boat strikes are our "dropping dissidents out of helicopters into the Atlantic" moment.
The regime has tipped into extrajudicial killings against perceived opponents.
Only, instead of Pinochet's cloak of secrecy, we live-tweet videos of it.