- > Make me CEO of Mozilla instead of Anthony Enzor-DeMeo [...] I would start by acknowledging the problems Mozilla is facing: [...], a lack of revenue generating ideas
Yet in his whole post there is not even a single idea about a new 'revenue generating idea' just criticism that AI is bad direction.
Edit: In my opinion focusing on AI and privacy for mozilla is a good direction. They don't have to make some expensive model training just make a good integration. They don't have to focus even only on desktop and browsers.
I wish mozilla would team up with Raspberry Pi / OpenWRT / Home Assistant / UmbrelOS and make a nice affordable devices that is:
- smart router
- start tv box / streamer
- smart speaker with on device TTS / STT
- smart tv cast (airplay / miracast / chromecast)
- home backup / cloud
- home adblock / vpn
All in one device that can be easily fixed and updates (like framework laptop) with user friendly interface.
- another option is MacWhisper if someone is on macOS and doesn't want to pay for subscription (just one time payment) - pretty much all of those apps these days use paraspeech from NVIDIA which is the fastest and the best open source model that can run on edge devices.
Also haven't tried but on latest MacOS 26 apple updated their STT models so their build in voice dictation maybe is good enough.
- It seems we in EU got the worst implementation for apple malicious compliance. It should have been similar like this one Japan from the beginning.
- Yeah also I thinkc they rewrote it in some crappy way because app got so bad and laggy and irresponsible that I had to remove it.
- I think also we cannot measure wealth in GDP or even by salary. Someone who earns $2k e.g. in vietnam and lives in Danang will have better quality of life than someone who earns $4k and lives in SF.
- > Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
I mean that's definition of top 10% that top 10% is better than other 90%. Journalists should prove read titles before submitting
- I did tried as well few months and also uninstalled. Application didn't at least back then have update feature and for each new release you had to reinstall again. UI experience was also very poor comparing to many other open source projects - would expect they at least hire some designer
- > Devstral 2 is currently offered free via our API. After the free period, the API pricing will be $0.40/$2.00 per million tokens (input/output) for Devstral 2
With pricing so low I don't see any reason why someone would buy sub for 200 EUR. These days those subs are so much limited in Claude Code or Cursor than it used to be (or used to unlimited). Better pay-as-you-go especially when there are days when you probably use AI less or not at all (weekends/holidays etc.) as long as those credits don't expire.
- also Gemini:
> 8. Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)
- > We mainly build small closed-down AI compute-chips we can control, sell them for-profit to individual consumers and then orchestrate data-processing on those chips, with setup and operational cost all paid by the consumer
I wish they did but they don't. They have been for decade so stingy on RAM for iPhone and iPad. There are at current point that only small percent of their userbase have iPhone or iPad with 8GB RAM that somehow can run any AI models even open source and be of any use. Not mentioning they don't compare to big Models.
They don't even provide option to sell iPhone with bigger RAM. iPad can have max 16GB RAM. Those mainstream macbook air also can have max 32 GB RAM.
And for the current price of cheap online AI where e.g. perplexity provides so many promo for PRO version for like less $10 per year and all ai providers give good free models with enough rate limit for many users I don't see apple hardware like particularly bought because of AI compute-chips - at least not non-pro users.
If the loose AI though and because of that won't have good AI integrations they will loose also eventually in hardware. e.g. Polish language in Siri still not supported so my mum cannot use it. OSS Whisper v3 turbo was available ages ago but apple still support only few languages. 3rd party keyboard cannot integrate so well with audio input and all sux in this case because platform limitation.
- > And not very long after, 93 per cent of those horses had disappeared.
> I very much hope we'll get the two decades that horses did.
Horses typically live between 25 to 30 years. I agree with OP that most likely those horses were not decimated (killed) but just died out and people stopped mass breeding them. Also as other noticed chart shows 'horses PER person in US'. Population between 1900 and 1950 increased from 1.5B to 2.5B (globally but probably similarly almost 70% increase in US).
I think depends what do you worry about:
1) `that human population decrease 50-80%`?
I don't worry about it even if that happen. 200 years ago human population was ~1 B today is ~8 B. At year 0 AD human population was ~0.250 B. Did we 200 years ago worry about it like "omg human population is only 1 B" ?
I doubt human population decrease 80% because of no demand for human as workforce but I don't see problem if it decrease by 50%. There will short transition period with surplus of retired people and work needed to keep the infrastructure but if robots can help with this then I don't see the problem.
2) `That we will not be needed and we will loose jobs?`
I don't see work like something in demand. Most people hate their jobs or do crappy jobs. What do people actually worry about that they will won't get any income. And actually not even about that - they worry that they will not be able to survive or be homeless. If there is improvement in production that food, shelter, transportation, healtcare is dirty cheap (all stuff from bottom maslov piramid) and fair distribution on social level then I also see a way this can be no problem.
3) `That we will all die because of AI`
This I find more plausable and maybe not even by AGI but earlier because of big social unrests during transition period.
- > If they then defeat Poland, they will enslave the Poles and send them to fight against the next European target, and so on.
I think the author completely don't know history of Poland and haven't even spoken to any Poles.
- I don't think you can just take tesla supercharger and scale it that easily to use in ships. You have to think how thick charging cables you have, how many of those you need to connect to your ship, how heavy they are, how long they are, how much heat the generate. Remember such battery would be many orders of magnitude bigger than in tesla. Tesla charger cable is many times order thicker than your usb charging cable. Now imagine many times order thicker ship charging cable and how heavy it is, how less elastic it is, how much heat generates, how much isolating cover needs (for heat, protection, magnetic field).
- I think another problem is how fast you will be able to charge such a huge battery and how expensive such ship battery charger will be and if you expect to have such charger at most ports (ideally for every docked ship). Will you even need a power plant at every port?
- - if you change to metric system suddenly you get numbers like 453,59 grams fusili pasta - its quite demotivating
- instead of grams I would like also tell me how many americano coffee cups more or less than looking for scale.
- I wanna scale down - if serving is for 6 people i want to scale down to to servings
- > Where did it all go wrong?
Just landscape changed significantly comparing to 2010.
Before you didn't have current smartphones and tablets. On desktop you could just support windows only (today probably have to macOS as well). On browser you didn't have to support Safari. You didn't have to worry much about screen DPI, aspect ratio, landscape vs portrait, small screen sizes. Your layout didn't have to be adaptive. There was not much demand for SPA. Back then there was much less people worldwide with access to internet.
- Opus 4.5 is not living in vacuum. It’s the most expensive of models for coders and there is Gemini 3 pro - with many discounts and deepseek 3.2 that is 50x cheaper and not much behind.
- Ok but node is even more stable and mature - compare node api parity in bun and also issue of bun vs node
- The did explain a little bit:
> We’ll be able to do things like run fast models on the edge, run model pipelines on instantly-booting Workers, stream model inputs and outputs with WebRTC, etc.
Benefit to 3rd party developers is reducing latency and improving robustness of AI pipeline. Instead of going back and forth with https request at each stage to do inference you could make all in one request, e.g. doing realtime, pipelined STT, text translation, some backend logic, TTS and back to user mobile device.
I don't think their real intention is to stop criminals, it's just the smoke screen similar to ChatControl and other similar legislations prohibiting privacy elsewhere.