chillfox's comments

On: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

[chillfox]

If the users don't want the feature, then pushing it on them is not user first. It's that simple.

[jajuuka → chillfox]

That's an impossible bar to clear though. Because there are ALWAYS features that some users doesn't want.

On: No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

[chillfox]

By not signaling you are robbing others on the road the opportunity to avoid a potential accident should you not have seen them. It's maximum selfish fuck everyone else asshole behavior.

[_heimdall → chillfox]

Did you read any of my comments? I signal when anyone is around and don't signal when there is no one to notify of my upcoming turn.

[lproven → _heimdall]

I read them all. I am especially amazed by the comment that you used to ride motorcycles and assumed you were not seen -- which is a good practice.

The point of indicating is that it's even more important to the people you didn't notice.

[chillfox → _heimdall]

Yes, I read your comments, but you apparently didn’t read mine. I specifically said for the case where you don’t notice someone.

It’s pretty clear that you believe that you are perfect and will never make a mistake. It’s at the very least arrogant if not outright delusional.

On: No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

[chillfox]

I find that hard to believe, every general/average user I have spoken to does not use AI for anything in their daily lives and have either not tried it at all or only played with it a bit a few years ago when it first came out.

On: GPT-5.2

[chillfox]

Gemini 3 Pro is the first model from Google that I have found usable, and it's very good. It has replaced Claude for me in some cases, but Claude is still my goto for use in coding agents.

(I only access these models via API)

On: Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

[chillfox]

From the outside it does look like the US is especially bad at it.

Australia has had a pretty good track record with writing/implementing regulations.

On: Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

[chillfox]

It will be politics, it's always politics. Large orgs works a lot like the feudal system.

[consumer451 → chillfox]

I would like to think that this is why higher level execs get paid the truly big bucks... to cut through all of that.

Otherwise, this sounds a lot like "impenetrable government bureaucracy." I thought business was supposed to be better.

On: Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

[chillfox]

Australia has APIs that can be used to verify ID without uploading them, but American tech companies has always refused to use them.

On: Twelve Days of Shell

[chillfox]

That's a nice little challenge.

I did have some issues with Day 11 figuring out what it wanted, but overall it was fun.

On: The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks

[chillfox]

I assume a good barista would ask some follow up questions before making the coffee.

[jama211 → chillfox]

A fair criticism!

On: Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs

[chillfox]

Last time I was evaluating different binary serialization formats for an API I was really hoping to get to use one of the cool ones, but gzipped JSON just beat everything and it wasn't even close.

[theshrike79 → chillfox]

There are some compression formats that perform better than gzip, but it's very dependent on the data you're compressing and your timing requirements (is bandwidth or CPU more important to conserve).

But in the end compressed JSON is pretty good. Not perfect, but good enough for many many things.