@fasterandworse @duke_of_germany let me be absolutely clear, yet again: I do not consider the arguments being presented here to be irrational or crazy.

One guy directly compared me to a rapist today. I felt that was irrational, but I don't think that's what we're referring to

@liquor_american @jaffathecake @duke_of_germany @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard

What Jake has done here — perhaps this was his goal — is change the topic of the discussion from "Does AI belong in Firefox?" to an increasingly recondite and trivial row over who said what and why are they acting this way. I guess one might call this artful deflection. But it actually looks like somebody ducking the hard question. "Naa naa naa, I can't hear you!" crowed Jake's subconscious. Verbatim.

@giacomo @alextecplayz ok. Some features of video calling (watching, chatting) are available without granting microphone access, but maybe location access is a better example.

@firefoxwebdevs Question: did Mozilla heard and considered 966 answers (on their own blog, so not so fedi biased) and why not?
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/m-p/113012

@giacomo @firefoxwebdevs I detailed how Mozilla uses dark patterns in Link Previews to get people to enable AI: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/01/06/architecting-consent-for-ai-deceptive-patterns-in-firefox-link-previews.html

You may enjoy reading it.

@nieuemma @ambiguous_yelp @firefoxwebdevs Well, unlike what they are doing elsewhere, there is an edit history. They could go back.

@firefoxwebdevs Make it an optional extension.

@da_667
Wow, this quickly became a shit show.

@ddelemeny @jaffathecake @froztbyte Why do these creeps routinely weaponize users with accessibility needs to make their case when those users on balance are also *against* this shit?

This is so damn intellectually dishonest. Every time I see it in some AI Bro's socail media thread, youtube comments, etc people who use accessibility tools state definitely to not use them to make their case.

And yet you assholes won't stop. And you get furious when someone supposedly puts words in your mouth!

@reflex @ddelemeny @froztbyte There's no dishonesty here. Using a local model to help with alt text in PDFs is one of the features controlled by Firefox's AI control, so it's relevant to the topic.

I asked a clarifying question and got an answer.

@reflex @ddelemeny @jaffathecake @froztbyte they want to keep framing this as a deliberation over the merits of individual features instead of a, pretty straight forward, push for a separation of concerns between a web browser and extensions

@jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny jake, I want to make a bit of a weird comparison here (and I beg that you please understand that this is not a threat or anything but a comparative reference)

do you _get_ that if all these conversations were happening in, like, a bar or something, a number of people would by now have asked to have you thrown out? your persistence in reply framing and what you take from posts comes across.... "obstinate" is the best word I can think of

@jaffathecake @ddelemeny @froztbyte It is dishonest to repeatedly frame your points from the view of marginalized people who did NOT ask you to champion them, and who have an entirely different set of concerns that Mozilla has barely ever recognized or focused on.

If Mozilla actually cared about accessibility, they would focus on accessibility, not scapegoat it as a marketing tool for something else they have decided to do against user wishes.

#accessibility #ai #FakeAlly

@froztbyte @reflex @ddelemeny hm. I'm replying to people who are engaging with me.

I wouldn't personally ask for someone to be kicked out of a bar for dialogue like this, when I'd directly engaged with them, even if I didn't agree with their point of view. If I didn't want to continue the chat, I'd simply stop chatting.

Your position here is alarming to me, but maybe there's some cultural difference going on that I don't understand.

@jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny I'm talking about your attitude and style of responses across, well, all the threads the last couple of weeks

a number of people have expressed displeasure and frustration, and (it comes across as though) you just shrug them off

sure, there may be cultural differences, but this dynamic appears as a running theme (and _reinforces_ why people are frustrated)

again, don't mean this as an attack or whatever, but I ... wanted to bring it to your attention

@jaffathecake @fasterandworse @duke_of_germany where did someone compare you to a rapist, jake?

@froztbyte @reflex @ddelemeny is this something you've done personally? As in, you've engaged someone in conversation in a bar, and they've said something, not abusive, but just something you disagree with. They've made no attempt to talk to you without you talking to them first. And you've asked for them to be removed from the premises?

@angelfeast https://mastodon.social/@sotolf@polymaths.social/116007043594704517 pretty grim.

@jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny yes, I have

it's usually pretty clear when it's necessary (everyone the person speaks to goes no-expression and tries to cut conversations short and/or get away from them)

@jaffathecake @froztbyte @ddelemeny Um, you are being abusive, though. You are straw manning people's arguments, white knighting things nobody asked you to, and refusing to answer very direct questions, usually while deflecting.

In other words you are not engaging in honest dialog, you appear intractable and dismissive of the audience. If you really believe Fedi is the space you describe it as, nobody is keeping you, or Mozilla here.