The phrenology and physiognomy come along with the “race science” as a package.

I’d actually be willing to entertain the idea of plant and fungal consciousness (of a kind unlike animal consciousness) before I’d believe LLMs to be conscious. Plants, at least, interact with the world around them.

Someone who has never heard of fanfic and just had their mind blown by the worst example of fanfic ever.

some effort is also needed to become more Chromium compatible, perhaps even on a site by site basis

They actually do put quite a bit of effort into making sites behave the same as Chrome, and this does actually include site-specific workarounds. My mind boggled when I learned this.

I use Zen, too. You can get 90% of the things it offers with user.js and userChrome.css tweaks, many of which are pre-packaged by volunteers, but Zen gets rid of the annoyances out of the box and adds some quality of life features.

There’s a virtue ethics argument to be made for not doing this. It’s not bad for the LLM (because it’s not sentient, nothing can be bad-for-it), but it’s perhaps bad for the experimenter. The main argument for doing it is out of spite for the promptfondlers.

The main thing I take away from this is that KDE does not consider their users part of the community.