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Rob Connolly 🇳🇿 🇬🇧

@nixCraft FFS, #mozilla. It's like you're actively trying to piss off your users.

Yes, machine translation is wonderful, but only for things that would never get translated otherwise.

I'm reminded of a conversation with a Swiss Italian collegue over the British English slang 'stingy'. The Italian equivalent translates literally to 'short arms' (as in can't reach their pockets). This does not compute for an AI model.

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Rihards Olups

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This is something OpenStreetMap community has gone through, and keeps going through.

Some ML generates stuff, it is pushed in OSM, found to be of very low quality, community members spend time cleaning it up.
If there was some "OSM leadership" which supported widespread ML usage, it would kill OSM.

"AI" in projects is like lead kitchenware.

A screenshot of support.mozilla.org Forum name: SUMO community discussions Title: End of Japanese community Text by user named marsf that reads: Hi, I am a locale leader of SUMO Japanese community. I have contributed to the Support over 20 years, before the beginning of support.mozilla.org. Today, November 4, we decided to end our SUMO Japanese community. In October 22, the sumobot was introduced to Japanese KB articles. I cannot accept its behavior and no words. * It doesn't follow our translation guidelines. * It doesn't respect current localization for Japanese users, so they were lost. * It approves its direct English MT immediately for All archived KB articles. * It approves only in 72 hours after its updates, so we lost our work to train new contributors. * It has been working now without our acceptance, without controls, without communications. * Over 300 Knowledge Base articles are overridden by sumobot. 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. Therefore, I (marsf) declare: * I quit to contribute to support.mozilla.org. * I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for SUMO bot and AIs. * I request to remove all my translation from learned data of SUMO AIs. However, individual Japanese contributors may want to work in their responsibility. It is their choice, we don't care nor support. Bye.
MastodonnixCraft 🐧 (@nixCraft@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation. The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support. This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry. Source https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446 Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it
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Dan 🌈

I find myself in Barcelona hanging out with 40 or so ex #Mozilla employees from various areas and eras. With every discussion and discovery, a simple fact keeps getting reinforced: Mozilla managed to attract, often retain, and occasionally empower, some of the best and brightest minds the tech world could ever hope to encounter.

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Friendly Neighborhood Chuck!

Hoy estoy derrotado a muchos niveles. Lo de mozilla es que ya me enerva.

Tú ahí, como desarrolladore web, dejándote el puot lomo para hacer las cosas mejor, insistiendo a compañeres como si les hablases en klingon y mientras súper mozilla, pasándose por el puot forro todo lo pasable.

¿Que hay que quedarse con un chromium? Pos nos quedamos.
¿Que Safari tampoco es tan bien? No lo es, pero por lo menos no van de salvadores de internet.

Iros a la mireda.

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@Bongolian Quote: "Stopping tracking URLs in #Firefox
Hats off to #Mozilla, which has introduced automatic tracking URL blocking in its browser. It’s part of a wider suite of tools for limiting the amount of data that websites are able to collect on you, and once you’ve enabled the feature you’ll see that Firefox removes the extra information from the URLs that you visit. The company calls it Query Parameter Stripping[…]" source: popsci.com/diy/remove-tracking

Check #mac #macos 9to5mac.com/2022/06/29/trackin

Popular Science · Websites use URLs to track you. Here’s how to stop them.By David Nield
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