Reading through Mozillas jobs page: "Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI", "Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads", "Program Manager, AI 360", "Principal Product Manager, Generative AI","Sr Staff Fullstack Engineer, Anonym", "Senior Manager, Sales (Anonym)"
I see they have fully pointed the ship towards a future of AI and Ads.
The goal of the CAQ is to make public transportation inaccessible... that's not cost saving anything.
3 commuter train lines in greater Montréal might shut down in cost-savings plan: cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/3-… #polMTL #MTLpoli #assnat #polQC #QCpoli #CAQASTROPHE
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📨 El cliente de correo #Thunderbird y los correos spam 🚫
🛠️ Thunderbird tiene algunas herramientas para hacer que los mensajes no deseados sean menos dolor de cabeza 🛠️
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Believing in everything and nothing at the same time. As a former Mozillian, I feel that you have totally lost the plot and only represent despair. Despair that the org doesn't believe in its mission.
But I know you never listened to people anyway, so what's the point?
Venn diagram of what indie tech people think Mozilla wants to be/should be and what Moz actually wants to be: OO
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Honestly, one of the things I appreciate most about Mac OS is the fact that a new OS version came out, and I had an opportunity to talk to a friend, who is using a lot of the same software as me, to ask whether anything broke accessibility-wise.
Everything seems to be ok this time and I'm probably going to upgrade either today or tomorrow, but if there were any deal-breakers, I could hold off for as long as I needed. Windows does not give me that luxury.
@x0 Yeah, I'm aware of that, fortunately I don't think I'll have a need for it anytime soon.
It's right up with Rogue Amoeba in the "incredible technical feat, I almost can't believe anybody actually made this work on Mac, but God will it break" territory.
@zersiax No, because it forces updates on you and there's little you can do about it without going "off the beaten path", piracy, or both.
Yes, I know Windows can be fixed with third-party utilities of dubious provenience, which are probably safe, probably won't crash your system and will probably keep working for a while.
@zersiax and with that said, I should look into Nix more.
After all, if I need to make changes, I'd rather make those changes to a text file that I can keep in git, properly version and document with copious comments, and then let some piece of software make my system reflect that file.
puri.sm/posts/the-liberty-phon…
#LibertyPhone #SecureGovMobile #MadeInUSA #SupplyChainSecurity #OpenSource #PureOS #EndToEndEncryption #HardwareSecurity #GOTSSolution #CyberSecurity
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #aws
#Inklusion ist #Thema meines Gespräches mit Gabriela Hund von der
#Seelsorge mit seh-beinträchtigten Menschen der Ev. #Kirche in Hessen und Nassau.
Demnächst in der #Blindenhörzeitschrift "Das ABC-Journal" und im #Podcast des @komin@bildung.social
kom-in.de/kina-podcast
... übrigens, @gabrielahund@hessen.social würde sich bestimmt über eine ordentliche Begrüßung im #FediVerse und ein paar #Follower:Innen freuen 
#blind #Sehbehinderung #Selbsthilfe #Behinderung #FediKirche
I’m currently working on a new Python WebKitGTK browser for GNOME. I’m aiming for it to be a better foundation to work on than Epiphany which has a huge C codebase and some outdated UI patterns. 
As the project is growing, I'm deliberating whether Vala could be a better option for the project as it's more GObject oriented, it has stricter typing, and it's compiled. What do you think? 
- Python (30%, 9 votes)
- Vala (70%, 21 votes)
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Please stop demonizing “AI”; the stuff you have a problem with isn’t AI research or AI tech, it’s a very small subset of that domain that (a)has ethical issues with training data sourcing and (b)is being horribly misused/way overly trusted
AI research is valuable and important, and MOST of it doesn’t have these problems. It’s doing things like increasing the reliability of cancer screenings, helping astronomers make better observations, improving assistive technology, accelerating medical research, etc.
Not all AI is “train a chat bot” or “train an image generator” for nefarious or stupid purposes
Just got word that my former employer and former team just got hit by layoffs 😢😢😢
Great people. Shitty timing
> Gamma is a free AI tool that can automatically convert your documents or PDFs into visually appealing presentations in minutes.
Okay, so I understand that AI is cool. I understand that we can make AI do a lot of things. But seriously. First, there's a model that turns HTML into Markdown. And granted, I haven't tried that one, and I probably should. And now this? Like, no one has heard of Pandoc anymore? Like I can literally write a Markdown file and pandoc -i presentation.md -o presentation.pptx. Something like that anyway. And get a presentation out of it. Or just import a Word document into PowerPoint. Or just use a Markdown file and arrow down through the bullet points if I don't *need* to be fansy.
I'm starting to kind of understand how wasteful people are with this kind of stuff.
#ai #presentation #llm
It is very rewarding to see that after just 1 year of my ethnography on data centres in México (when nobody talked about this country), more people are now interested:
"En Querétaro, Microsoft no tiene uno, sino dos centros de datos. Baptista descubrió a través de registros públicos que a uno de los centros de la firma que encabeza Satya Nadella se le concede acceso a 25 millones de litros de agua, aproximadamente una 1/4 del agua asignada a Colón para su uso público."
@treefit the primary goal of Akira is to offer a fast and stable UX and UI design tool. No prototypes or dev mode at first, what Sketch used to be at the beginning, built with native code and targeting Linux.
The rebuild in Rust comes from a performance and inheritance necessity, as well as safety and a more appealing codebase to onboard more contributors.
For how much I love Vala, it’s still a niche language and lacks a lot of the standard libraries and tools compared to others more widespread
Any blind folks, or sighted folks too for that matter, have a favorite non-WYSIWIG resume formatting tool that actually looks good? A good LaTeX template is fine, as is something markdown-based. Hesitant to use Word, where I may not know if margins are bad or if I didn't close a bold or something. Also hesitant to use a web app that may be accessible today but may not be tomorrow.
Other suggestions welcome, I'm just not seeing a path forward that isn't LaTeX/Markdown-adjacent. And maybe I'm unnecessarily afraid of Word but it seems too easy to throw the formatting off or to not understand what's actually going on with a block of text.
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in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •Genuine question.
There's a risk (it may be somewhat small but it exists) that Google might be forced to cut their funding to Mozilla due to antitrust. This would affect over 90% of their revenue.
What else are they supposed to do? Just let things happen and abandon Firefox once Google's AI and ad money stops flowing in?