Even if they make it illegal, it won't stop bad actors especially from foreign countries to abuse stuff like this. It's better to build better systems that fix this issue instead of relying on government laws.
You could compare it to the concept of security by obscurity which is obviously bad.
Brendan Eich was fired for opposing gay marriage, then went on to create Brave, which is yet another Chromium wrapper just with bad crypto monetization and other scummy practices.
Couldn't imagine what Mozilla would be like today if he stayed around and tried to integrate crypto. At the end of the day, main post shows Firefox engineering is keeping up with Chrome which is a feat no other browser has accomplished.
For the record I also dislike the top brass at Mozilla for the same reasons I dislike Eich - trendchasing instead of making a good browser. Firefox is succeeding because of the engineers and despite the c-suite.
This gets really tiresome to rebuke. He supported a proposition that was supported by the MAJORITY of the citizens at the time and that was already six years old when we became Mozilla CEO. Some people wrote hit pieces even though he even distanced himself from it. He was not fired, he stepped back voluntarily.
Yes, Mozilla and I agree that I was not fired -- which would have been illegal in California under CA Labor Law 1101/1102.
Why do a relative few on HN insist on this false claim? It seems to make them feel better about Mozilla (one reply nearby in this page says so explicitly). Reaction to a guilty conscience?
The difference to OpenWebUI is that you don't have to host anything and that it's native, compiled code written in flutter. This has multiple advantages:
1. We'll be able to ship the same features across platforms while still feeling native. (Android, iOS and macOS releases coming soon)
2. You don't have to run a docker container on your pc if you don't have a server
The model selection on OpenWebUI also shows every possible model without having the ability to choose which models you want to see in the selector. We solved that in AnyLM with custom model selection (it's pretty easy to understand if you try out the app).
Not to bash OpenWebUI. Honestly they did a very good job and it's even open source but yeah
About the linux support:
You were actually the first one to ask me for this and it's definitely possible to do. I will put this in the roadmap :)
A "native" LLM chat application that looks very similar to ChatGPT but all chats are saved locally and you can use multiple providers. The reason I've built this is because I've used many "api wrappers" but none of them felt as good as for example ChatGPT's or Anthropic's interface. So the goal was to build the best "api wrapper" possible with no subscription.
https://anylm.app
You could compare it to the concept of security by obscurity which is obviously bad.