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The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 week ago by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 week ago

spoilerthey are not

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Software like Firefox is designed in a modular way for humans to be able to reason about its correctness. It is complex, but not arbitrarily complex.

So take out the free VPN and Pocket and it'll be less complex! ¯\(ツ)/¯

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They killed Pocket (they didn't just remove it from FF) some time ago.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

We got the worst of both worlds. The Pocket functionality got Ship of Theseus'd: The original functionality is all gone, and what remained became a Mozilla-run ad/news network. They removed the Pocket label last.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Complex but not arbitrarily complex"? I need more coffee this morning already because I'm burning through my patience for idiotic things at an accelerated rate.

This is an arbitrary sentence, not structured to communicate any information.

See how I had to have that final comma clause so you could understand what the fuck I was even saying?

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Firefox Forks (Waterfox/Librewolf/Ironfox) my beloved

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, let's all use a fork that doesn't patch those AI slop vulnerabilities.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... You do realize that security patches are upstreamed, correct? These forks just don't include the ads, AI, or built-in VPN.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't some of those promise not to merge AI slop? I guess I misunderstood.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Depends on the fork. The MPL largely allows the forks to do as they please, so feel free to check their blog posts and patch notes for reference.

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes, nothing wrong with vibe coding security fixes in a browser.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 1 week ago

InfoSec is actually one field that AI can be useful for.