@jjcelery @luna Even "machine *learning*" though is such a propaganda term for what is mechanically nothing but particular techniques for efficiently building and storing a statistical model of some data. It was chosen as a marketing term targeting obtaining funding (academic & venture).

@wesdym @noodlemaz Yes. He's a puppet but they need their puppet to do what they're doing.

@firefoxwebdevs Said translation should be an opt-in extension you can install if you want it. Not a core component at all.

@anthropy @astraleureka This sounds very much like it was an employer-requested "feature" for Azure.

@anthropy @astraleureka Ok, this is very much a malicious hosting provider oriented misfeature. Normally they'd have to explicitly modify something in a domain you nominally own and where it'd be a CFAA violation to do so in order to bypass your access controls. But this kind of backdoor gives them a gray zone channel to make alterations or inspect contents of your hosted system.

Same concept to how lots of providers give you their own distro images that pull configuration or keys from the control panel, and you have to upload your own ISO to get a safe unadulterated system. systemd has made it so now even stock ISOs are unsafe against the hosting provider's meddling.

@anthropy @astraleureka What configuration/credentials does it use? That's what determines if it's safe. This sounds like a backdoor channel for hosting provider to get into the system when network & ssh configuration otherwise wouldn't allow that without explicitly malicious poking at memory/fs contents.