I… no. No fucking way this works.

And by that I mean… I believe that this works, at 15 to 20 FPS, and I can’t believe the amount of effort that must have gone into figuring out how to make it work.

Insanely impressive that it runs at all, that its even possible.

Don’t think I’ll be partaking, myself, but god damn, very good work!

Thats a good point too.

Addict as victim vs Addict as victimizer.

Maybe thats not quite the preferred nomenclature, but yes, its very much worth considering what drives people to addiction, how to potentially help them… but the flip side of that is that addicts tend to be various kinds of awful to the people around them.

You’d ideally need a holistic solution to the entire situation, but that’s often very difficult to pull off, in practice.

Yep, you could theoretically do a similar sleeper malware as extension for Firefox based browsers.

But that is not what this article is about.

No where in this article is anything about a Firefox based browser mentioned.

So, again, go back your original comment on my comment.

You tried to put a bunch of words in my mouth, now you’re trying to argue hypotheticals based on conjecture.

Are you trying to make some kind of point?

Or just waste the time of anyone bothering to read this?

Because ShadyPanda published a malicious extension for Edge and Chrome.

Not for Firefox based browsers.

… You… can’t install an Edge or Chrome extension in a Firefox based browser.

You have to make a different version, designed for Firefox, sorta like a port of a video game; a DreamCast won’t play a PlayStation disc, an N64 won’t run a GameBoy cartridge.

Oh!

Well, I didn’t know that.

I’m too poor to be able to afford such fancy phones.

Uh, genuinely no clue what you’re talking about.

I just know that I can configure Waterfox to be both private/secure, and functional, fairly easily, and with most other browsers, that’s quite difficult, largely due to them being fundamentally controlled by giant corporations who have being a datamonger as a very significant element of their overall business model, who very much want you to watch the ads.

And… because its based on / is a fork of Firefox… it was not vulnerable to or affected by this sleeper malware.

Even if that’s not directly a result of some kind of software design/engineering paradigm type difference, and is just a kind of security through obscurity/non-popularity… thats still a very valid approach to using a computer system privately and securely.

Unless I am missing something:

Most people do not have a local LLM in their pocket right now.

Most people have a client app that talks to a remote LLM, which ‘lives’ in an ecologically and economically dubious mega-datacenter, in their pocket right now.

the ‘spoiler’ in spoiler tags actually has to start with a lower case s.

I think it also has to then be followed by at least a space, and then and enter/return/line break

::: spoiler

empty spoiler

:::

Welp, nope, ok, a spoiler has to have a space, and then some kind of title following the space

… or maybe i am using a mobile app that has slightly different spoiler rendering syntax … ?

I mean… this isn’t really silly/bad advice if you just have a non expressive face, or just… don’t often or don’t know how to make facial expressions, however you want to say that.

Its pretty common for actors to practice making various kinds of faces in the mirror.

stands in front of mirror, holding up my eye contacts lenses in their case, staring at them, not sure what purpose the mirror serves here…

Right but the point being made is that some woman who want this, who say they want this… can’t do it themselves, can’t reciprocate it.

Linus Torvalds/Ivan Drago: I must break you

I look forward to muon, neutrino, perhaps tachyon, though that last one may have already happened.

Thats a good point, but in my defense, I’d argue thst an alcoholic just is a manipulative narcissist, a flavor of them, just with worse memory and coordination.

Entirely seriously, the world would be a much better place if people defaulted to actually communicating what would be in such a proverbial instruction manual.

I’ve been toying with Qwen3.

On my steam deck.

8 bil param model runs stably.

Its’s opensource too!

Alpaca is a neat little flatpak that containerizes everything and makes running local models so easy that I can literally do it without a mouse or keyboard.

Also, don’t attempt to use the term ‘mod’ as it is used literally everywhere else, with people who play GTAV/RDR2 online.

In their weird, niche vernacular, ‘mod’ = ‘hack/cheat engine’.

Oh, huh, sucks for normie morons I guess.

This message was brought to you by entirely unprompted and uncompensated shilling for Waterfox

Well the good news is:

1. That literally is not your fault.

2. You can learn to gradually undo some of those tendencies, to some extent.

My lemmy instance has a series of random… header quotes, like flavortext in a game loading screen or something.

One of them, which ironically seems to be an apocryphal, misattirubted quote, but is still a good sentiment nonetheless:

“Before you determine that you suffer from depression or low self-esteem, first, make sure that you are not simply surrounded by assholes.”

… it tried, but i guess, the best it can is good enough.