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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Mozilla right now.

#firefox #mozilla

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
kev@fosstodon.org ("Kev Quirk") wrote:

I've been using #Firefox for over 20 years at this point, but after a stream of cock-ups, I'm thinking about moving on.

https://kevquirk.com/blog/is-firefox-firefucked/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
fabio@manganiello.eu ("Fabio Manganiello") wrote:

New #Mozilla CEO: “Blocking ad-blockers in #Firefox could bring in an additional $150M in revenue“.

Sure, even extracting and selling one of my kidneys could bring me a big revenue, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.

Firefox by now has less than 3% of the browsers’ market share, and the only folks who still use it regularly are exactly those who don’t want ads constantly shoved in their faces, nor trackers to suck up every valuable detail about them.

And they are willing to go the extra step and use a browser that is less supported than the overwhelmingly Chromium-based crowd out there.

Take ad blockers away (and, most importantly, take away Manifest V2 extensions), and those few remaining users will just dwindle away to Brave, Vivaldi, Chromium/Cromite/Vanadium, or to support Ladybird/Servo, before you even finish saying the words “profit margins”.

And of course their collective hallucination with AI has now crossed into the realms of ridicule. Nobody knows exactly what kind of new useful features will be added nor how those will solve problems that users want to solve. All we know is that “AI is coming”, embedded in a lot of low-value features that nobody asked, and that some product managers rushed to release just because someone at the top of the food chain asked to “put AI in their product”, and with literally zero chances of competing against the AI features provided by the browsers of companies like Google and Microsoft who can afford to invest into AI 3-4 orders of magnitude more resources than Mozilla.

I’m wondering why Mozilla seems so committed to this mission of firing dumb CEOs just to hire someone who is even dumber and detached from reality than their predecessor.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

I’m sorry, but I have switched from #Firefox to #Chromium
I don’t believe it could be a good browser anymore 😔
#Librewolf is still an alternative but it is now to dependant of a software going to the wrong direction

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

All I want for Christmas is a corpse in the White House…by natural causes, preferably.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/21/it/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhrQ1fgMGo

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
koala@todon.eu ("eri 🌿") wrote:

parece que vou a dar a miña primeira charla o mes que ven no FOSDEM, qué medo aaa :yell:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/NJM3KB-mathml-core

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

My photography was in a bit of a slump from 2020-2022 (for obvious reasons) but I did have fun experimenting with processing old photos using geometry-matching algorithms

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

A couple of photos from 2023 #iceland #raven #bird

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
mathieui@piaille.fr wrote:

Opinion piece: fuck the future big tech is trying to sell us #blog
https://blog.mathieui.net/this-is-not-the-future.html

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's wild to hear Martin Wolf talking about inequality this seriously. Martin Wolf!

https://youtu.be/YSQ7LY0ca0o?si=JtjPgZFUxgrcdIpq

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Ed Zitron finally calls out Hank Green for his bullshit AI videos. Love to see it. I don’t think Hank has plausible deniability anymore. He’s seen the criticisms. He can do the research. And if any money was involved he can give it back.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbusters/

#HankGreen

Boosted by jwz:
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

"Four Waymos blocking traffic in all directions" (per scanner) 12/20/25 1939PT #SanFrancisco

Boosted by jwz:
apilsetas wrote:

by Maurizio Fantini

#photography

Boosted by jwz:
Catfish_Man ("David Smith") wrote:

Oddly furious about this Waymo* thing. Like, how the fuck is your disaster response plan “idk I guess we’ll distribute roadblocks randomly across the city, focusing on blocking high traffic areas”?

It’s a good thing this is just a power outage and not, say, a larger follow-up to the four minor earthquakes in the last 24 hours.

*for non-SF folks: power is out across much of the city and waymos cant navigate it

Boosted by jwz:
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

Epstein-Trump photos "disappear."
It's a mystery!
Whatever could have happened?

Or:

Justice Department Flouts Law,
Suppresses Evidence
Of Trump-Epstein Collusion

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France, 1958

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

She has a history of choosing to work with the right-wing even when she was the leader of the left-greens, even her crime novels are written in collaboration with one of the more right-wing fiction writers in Iceland

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The person who destroyed the left in Iceland is now running an ‘AI’ centre: ‘New Nordics AI’

https://www.visir.is/g/20252819768d/katrin-ordin-stjornar-for-madur

This thing: “New centre for artificial intelligence launched to promote use of AI in Nordics and Baltics”

https://www.norden.org/en/news/new-centre-artificial-intelligence-launched-promote-use-ai-nordics-and-baltics

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
governa@fosstodon.org ("ricardo :mastodon:") wrote:

#Linux Apps Without Distro Lock-In? Explore This Lesser Known Snap and Flatpak Alternative

https://itsfoss.com/pkgforge/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
monsieurvenus@masto.es ("Silvia 🎃🕸️🎄") wrote:

Me ha parecido bastante acertado

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
iodomi@infosec.exchange ("io :anar:") wrote:

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jwz wrote:

Now that PG&E has finally pulled their head out of their ass, let's see how Monkeybrains is doing....

Oh.

Boosted by jwz:
MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams

Waymo said Saturday that it was stopping service across San Francisco after numerous online videos showed its autonomous vehicles snarling traffic during the citywide blackout. "We have temporarily suspended our ride-hailing services given the broad power outage in San Francisco," wrote Suzanne Philion, a company spokesperson, a little after 7 p.m. "We are focused on keeping our riders safe and ensuring emergency personnel have the clear access they need to do their work."

https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-waymo-halts-service-blackout/

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Attachments:

• video: An interstitial scene in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, showing one of the house advent calendar doors being opened (December 21), revealing an image of people on a sled.

Boosted by jwz:
GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai wrote:

@draNgNon @skinnylatte

If I recall correctly, when PG&E was partially privatized, which is to say badly, not that I think it should’ve ever been privatized, it was split into two divisions.

One division does all the power generation and the other division handles distribution.

The set up is similar to how private equity does this sort of thing all the maintenance in debt is pushed onto the distribution side and the assholes in the generation side line in their pockets

Boosted by jwz:
fadersolo@sfba.social ("Scott McDowell") wrote:

SF’s is having a massive power outage. We ended up having to drive across SF to find a laundromat to dry our soaking wet laundry. Here’s my two observations: every third block is a traffic jam caused by a confused Waymo that doesn’t know how to handle these intersections with no power. Why are the Waymo’s even allowed to drive right now?

Also, considering how much of our city’s budget goes to the cops, why aren’t any of them directing traffic? I mean, it’s not like SFPD is busy solving crime…

#SanFrancisco #Waymo #AI #Doom edit: I’m adding #WayMogeddon

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

These Seven Democrats Voted for Pervy GOP Bill Allowing Strip Searches of Migrant Children:

"The House passed legislation Tuesday that would allow federal agents to conduct invasive body examinations of unaccompanied children as young as 12 — alone, without a parent or guardian present" https://migrantinsider.com/p/these-seven-democrats-voted-for-pervy

#ICE