On 2026/10/19 14:21, Leah Rowe wrote: > just turn it back on. again, i don't think translations are disabled, just > AI-based translations. you're not going to be running AI locally in lw/ff, > unless i'm mistaken? i think they just use external chatbots and if so it's > the same argument.
firefox lump all those features together, there's no separate settings block for GenAI vs what-used-to-be-called-machine-learning / natural language processing. on-device translations are certainly regarded as AI by firefox. (IIUC some of the ones in Firefox that are hard-disabled in config won't work at all, for example I didn't check but I think the speech-to-text stuff may use whisperfile which depends on cosmopolitan libc, which wants its own syscall access, some others may need llamafile) > also, use of language services isn't required. you can use a human > interpreter if necessary, or learn the language yourself. i started learning > german last year. yeah, I can read a bit of german, french, spanish, but if I'm trying to quickly make sense of an article etc to see if I want to spend more time with it, a quick machine translation is a big help. and I am no good at non-latin scripts (and if you're trying to make some kind of sense of current affairs you surely want some of those news sources). yes it's going to be coloured by the training corpus but no human interpreter is going to be exactly neutral either. > but yeah, just modify it. > > or idk. i mean, i'm in change of stewarding this port, but if the other > peeps in puffyos want it, they can turn stuff back on. we're all team > players right? > > -- > Company director, Minifree Ltd > Registered in England, No. 9361826 | VAT No. GB202190462 > Registered Office: 19 Hilton Road, Canvey Island, Essex SS8 9QA, UK >
