Too many products use AI now to close the gate, just like you can't uninvent nuclear bombs. Compilers were the first AI back in the 1950s, you lost and if you disagree never use computers again.

If it's not actively patched and supported, it's a sitting duck to coding AI and botnets of vulnerability scanners. Like it or not if you don't want to update something, disconnect it from the internet AND the sneakernet by disabling inputs as well.

There are still 0.4% of people in denial and still running Windows 7 as well according to Statcounter, they are going to get just desserts if they don't install Linux or force an upgrade to Windows 11.

I've been on both sides of the argument when it comes to legacy systems, but the old ways are obsolete and AI has caused what I call "naked computing", where all vulnerabilities are found almost immediately.

No physical media and AI slop games, might as well just use your PC. AI has proven that all games are playable on PCs anyway so you are just paying for a proprietary app store. The game industry is going to get 1983'd with no Rob the Robot to save you.

Which will help improve the overall health of the internet in the long term.

More urban planning departments to help solve the housing crisis, more environment one to help solve climate change and more political science schools to help solve the political turmoil in the world.

They need to fix long standing bugs that keep power users (who influence large amounts of browser installs) and offer real control of themes again (without unofficial css hacks) without forcing themes like a fashion show (Four theme refreshes in a decade). I am fed up of reporting bugs to bugzilla and not see them fixed for years. Once Mozilla is competitive again it will naturally outcompete Microsoft on its own merits. I know a large amount of people who "put up" with Firefox bugs purely because of ublock origin and not because of other features.

Mozilla is exasperating, I've used Firefox on and off for over 20 years now, but currently using Vivaldi since Firefox no longer meets my needs.

It has caused splinters similar to systemd, wayland, gtk/qt and rust. Meanwhile people are silently reinstalling Windows or buying Macs due to the constant flamewars. The amount of dead distros on distrowatch from protest forks that last a few months is shocking, "stick shift coders" will become a minority and the vast majority will just vibe and be happy. Fortran, Cobol and BASIC were seen as vibe coding today in the 1960s.

If it's entered on a computer of any kind or in any scannable or recordable medium, assume an AI will train on it somewhere. Face the reality that all humans are now naked when it comes to their thoughts, and adjust society accordingly.

Firefox is less reliable and compatibility tested than Chromium at this point, by a wide margin. There are lots of missing standards that Firefox hasn't implemented, many deliberately due to misguided "standards positions". This all leads to enterprises standardizing on Chromium. Also Firefox has not enough people (or AI agents) triaging the increasing backlog on Bugzilla. (I have reported lots of bugs and they have languished for years in many cases). Instead of coming up with slick marketing (I've seen their new "Kit" mascot and it's childish) and changing designs for the sake of change, they need to work with real enterprises to fix their compatibility gap and they need to deal real battle testing on laptops with 4GB or less of RAM (Still sold everywhere because of the ram crisis causing Moore's law to go backwards and also means that 8GB is still considered high end in many countries).

I'm also concerned that Firefox will just be known as the "ublock origin browser" and not compete on actual technical merits, Firefox should promote other manifest v2 extensions and how they are more flexible, but they already broke extensions before with the XUL big break and the signing certificate screw ups as well.

I have been using the internet for 27 years now, and have been aware of Mozilla for 25 of those years. I've seen whole browser empires rise and fall. If Mozilla wants to be relevant for the next 25 years then it needs to stop doing cheap redesigns and focus on the tech, because people who care about browser tech are still the main target audience for a non Chromium/Webkit (And non IE back in the day) browser.

Trying to still rebel about AI in September 2026 is like still trying to use horse and carts in the 1940s at this point. The car and truck had won and there was no going back. The fact that Linux users have to be dragged kicking and screaming to new tech (Wayland, Rust, Systemd, etc) every time should tell you something about the mentality of some of the developers. Steve Jobs would have embraced AI if he was still alive, in fact Siri was added to the iPhone on his last day.

There are plenty of useful alternative payment systems now making its use as currency redundant and Bitcoin was obsolete from day one because anyone can irreversibly steal your money if your private key gets leaked (of which it is very easy with AI-found security flaws in operating systems, see Coldcard and MTGox). You can't even get "rich" with Bitcoin anymore as all the "cheap" coins have been cashed out it lost in a landfill.

The only reason Bitcoin still exists is because people don't take real economics classes anymore and think they can generate "value" by "hodling". Same goes for all those stupid Pokemon cards where low wage retail workers get harassed by scalpers. Slashdot should have a topic ban on Bitcoin so we don't keep having the same "number go up" posts.

Back in the 2000s they said its no good learning CS because it will all be done in India, in the 90s they said its no good learning it because everyone will just use visual basic to write software. In the 80s they said everyone will just use generic DOS PCs instead of expensive minicomputers and mainframes. The list goes on.

They should have done it back in the 2010s, instead of trying to make everything a web app. But you get Google Accounts instead of Microsoft/Apple accounts, so you're still "in the system", just with a different intake valve. But trying to stay out of the system (Non-Android Linux or BSD) gets you classified as "not human", a "cheater" or "unknown age" these days, so you are forced into the machine one way or another.

When too many companies merge together and the conglomerate becomes an unwieldly mess.

You go to school to "distil" the teacher's expertise, you distil from the books and websites you read. The actual main problem with distilling from an another AI is model collapse due to recursive slop training. With all human knowledge sources already scraped, they only have got themselves to train on.