This is how I feel about Firefox too. There's no alternative. No, really, Librewolf is Firefox, who exactly do you think you're sticking it to? And Vivaldi is a proprietary browser built on Google's engine, you're sticking it to nobody but yourself. Oh, you're switching to Servo? Not this decade you're not.
Mozilla CEOs have always been incompetent, but there's no other alternative outside of the direct control of people who are many orders of magnitude worse. We support Firefox or we lose the web.
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I don't think I'll stop using Firefox anytime soon.
Yes, their management are fucking idiots and it's annoying that I'll have to disable new AI features whenever they release them..But the alternative is to use something Chromium-based, which would make Google's domination of web technology absolute - and Google is 100x more evil than Mozilla ever could be.
I hope this fucking bubble pops before Mozilla fucks up Firefox so badly that it becomes completely unusable
Hey #Mastodon people, the #blogging hashtag is pretty cool because I get to see blog posts from folks I would otherwise not meet. Can you recommend any other hashtags where people share their essays or fiction?
PS: I don't really want a hashtag where people share their thoughts about writing and such. I am inundated with those lol. I want actual pieces so I can find new folks to read ✌️
"Here used to be one the most innovative workstation companies. Now it's an advertising company."
"Here used to be another of the most innovative workstation companies. Now it's also an advertising company."
30 years ago I was viewing SV as a sort of place to go on pilgrimage. (I grew up in Europe)
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 mil…annas-archive.li
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Don't want AI in web browser? Alternatives having not (or will not) put in AI:
librewolf.net
floorp.app
zen-browser.app
vivaldi.com
alohabrowser.com (Android)
waterfox.com
mullvad.net/en/browser
dillo-browser.org
falkon.org
wolvic.org/en (XR)
torproject.org (privacy)
Upcoming new:
github.com/LadybirdBrowser/lad…
github.com/servo/servo
gitlab.com/verso-browser
#browsers #noAI #Linux #desktop #mobile
Truly independent web browser. Contribute to LadybirdBrowser/ladybird development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
a statement from Vivaldi team:
"Today, as other browsers race to build AI that controls how you experience the web, we are making a clear promise:
We’re taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship. Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting."
vivaldi.com/blog/keep-explorin…
Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over…Jon von Tetzchner (Vivaldi Technologies)
Come to terms with this: you are owned. You are a slave. I am a slave. We're all slaves. Our owners are the ones whose names appear in newspapers, and on our ballots, and on our receipts.
Understand that you are bought and sold, and your wishes are as relevant to public policy as my cats' opinions on free software.
Only when you begin to understand this (and that I am not joking in any way at all, I am 100% deadly serious about this) will you grasp how fucked we all are, and will be, until we either die or fix it.
Which do you want?
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GUADEC comes back to Coruña next year!
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We are happy to announce that GUADEC 2026 will take place from July 16th to 21st, 2026, in A Coruña, Spain. As in recent years, GUADEC will be held as a hybrid event, allowing attendees to participate either virtually or in person at our venue.GNOME Discourse
This is my big Fuck You to Christian Dubé, the former Québec health minister for wanting everyone to die from COVID. The same one that decided to run Doctors out of the province.
Just to clarify, he is the one that made it so we don't have general free COVID vaccine.
"Subject: New financial contributor to curl: CarGurus ($3,000.00)"
I don't know what CarGurus is, but I love it.
Asked Google about the results of last week's Steelers game and it confidently informed me that they next play on Dec. 28.
(In case you rely on me for the Steelers schedule: They also play tomorrow, the 21st. And they won last week.)
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Interested in creating your own synthesizer sounds, or maybe just learning about how that is done? Check out my How to Synth guide for practical, easy-to-follow info and lessons on the major synthesis methods used today!
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#synth #synthesizer #SynthProgramming #SoundDesign #HowToSynth
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This is my main issue with all the LLM ("AI") use. I don't even care if people use it for their own projects, but so many people use it to offload their critical thinking to maintainers.
If you use LLM to generate your code that someone else has to review you're not saving time, you're *offloading* the time you "saved" to the reviewer who has to figure out if it is correct.
*You* as *submitter* need to be sure it is correct. Using an LLM does not absolve you of your responsibility to research.
Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖
in reply to Aleca • • •I haven't heard terrible things about GitLab. GNOME and KDE host their infrastructure on it.
I guess you can't immediately say but I imagine large scale projects can thrive on GitLab (decent CI/CD and container registry they got)
Adam Honse
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in reply to Francesco Lodolo • • •Decently sized in terms of community engagement and participation for issues and PRs, with good reviewing and moderation tools.
"Safe" as in avoiding things like "we're now charging you 10 times more for runners" or "we're sponsoring ICE".
I know the second point is mostly impossible to account for in perpetuity
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