Mozilla CEO writes about "AI":

"In a world where companies are forcing AI on users, the most compelling thing Firefox can do is stick with what we do best: give users choice and agency."

No. The best thing you can do is build a browser that works best for the user, that does not alienate them from the Internet and the people building it. This is a dumb attempt to do more "Mozilla does the good AI" PR. But there is no "good AI". And translations are not what people talk about when they say "AI" which that guy knows.

He didn't learn shit from the backlash. This is just "we will do more AI, good AI, until you like it".

https://aed.me/articles/turn-it-off/

I'm gonna watch this on nebula.tv but for those of you without subscriptions its on youtube with any ad money going to support Dolly's charity 💕

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuKN0chAZk

My kind of café

For those of you trying out the lovely Afterglow After Dark emulator app from @halcyon - if you're trying to get the screen saver portion to work on any recent version of macOS, you may need to decouple your wallpaper choice from also being your screen saver

After enabling the screen saver module from Afterglow itself, you can split out screen saver configuration from: Settings -> Wallpaper -> Screen Saver ...

and then switch "Use Screen Saver" from Automatic to Custom

Then if you scroll all the way down, you should see Afterglow appear under "Other"

Once you've selected it, you should be able to see the "Options..." button appear letting you pick which module(s) you're running with what configurations

#curl does HTTP/3 uploads *a little* faster in the next release thanks to @icing

@urlyman

Last week I was camping with my family, very close to the construction of the first offshore wind farm in Poland: https://balticpower.pl/

That's the spot we've been visiting for years, so it's easy to notice the changes.

It's also where the Poland's first nuclear power plant will be constructed: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrownia_J%C4%85drowa_Lubiatowo-Kopalino

Quite a lot of forest has already been cut down, now visible on satellite images. There's more road construction east of here as well.

@hipsterelectron wait, when did that happen? I thought they had an anti-ai contribution policy?

Friends, as ridiculous as it is that we even have to do this, I think Ghent should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This is a letter created by academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist fraud now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk.

You can add your name.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenkE7wxDRTjgT5XArgRqIPipLPP-Ibb7LkmXya5ZuxfotTKg/viewform

@gabrielesvelto

And because of #enshittification , the output will keep getting worse and more expensive.

@Pepijn nicely done. Definitely not the arsehole.

I know it’s easy and cool to dunk on EU red tape but this is actually sexy af: https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/right-repair-new-consumer-rights-easy-and-attractive-repairs-2026-07-31_en

For the last decade (or maybe more actually) hardware engineering has leaned heavily on proprietary screws, anti-repair software pairing, and literal buckets of industrial adhesive.
This piece treats the EU Directive as a tactical defeat for aggressive silicon anti-features.

Actually I think the right to repair is vital. We’ve got too much e-waste as it is so I welcome such efforts to make and mend.

Silicon Valley won’t like it but honestly, they are the problem in most cases

@librarysquirrel @davidgerard You're missing the point: if you run a general campaigning organization, can you afford to risk it being shut down by a malevolent enemy who obsesses over a single issue? Bear in mind AA campaigns for prisoners of conscience everywhere, against genocide, etc. Yes, the TERFs-backed-by-neo-nazi-money stuff is a huge problem, but is it bad enough to justify losing the ability to fight against criminalizing Palestine genocide protestors? Etc.

(There is no good answer.)

Question about train etiquette:

I'm in an ICE. Basic zone (not silent zone / mobile phone).

There's ten people. Mostly individuals. Some have conversations.

The man of a middle aged couple was using his phone to loudly play modern Greek folk music 🎶.

After 10 min I went & asked "Excuse me, can you please use headphones?". He waved as in "I don't get it" but turned it off as his wife smacked him.

Two people gave a thumbs up but no-one else had said a thing. Was I the rude one?

#bahn #train

oh damn, Dolly Parton passing away contributed to why we had a Wikipedia outage

@navi hello navi

I know it’s easy and cool to dunk on EU red tape but this is actually sexy af: https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/right-repair-new-consumer-rights-easy-and-attractive-repairs-2026-07-31_en

For the last decade (or maybe more actually) hardware engineering has leaned heavily on proprietary screws, anti-repair software pairing, and literal buckets of industrial adhesive.
This piece treats the EU Directive as a tactical defeat for aggressive silicon anti-features.

Actually I think the right to repair is vital. We’ve got too much e-waste as it is so I welcome such efforts to make and mend.

Silicon Valley won’t like it but honestly, they are the problem in most cases

@sinituulia to put my fear in perspective, I have a filter called "serpents of evil" for any mention of the word snake, so I don't see pictures of them. I took a gamble that being in northern Finland, your toot didn't have a photo of a snake. So clicked on the CW.