Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

I think the desire to get immediate answers to your current problem, as opposed to developing a broader understanding of the tools you're working with, is part of what led to the LLM chatbot brainrot we're seeing these days.

And I think practicing the skill of actually reading the manual start-to-finish removes some of that temptation, makes you less prone to being misled by some LLM, and is a tiny step towards making those AI companies have less power over people.

@alice I don't want neighbors to exist tho

not a fair comparison, TBH, because /bin/cat is running privately, whereas the interactions Mozilla writes about are presumed to be with third parties

comparing with GnuPG or GNUtls might be more fitting: suggesting that using it to send encrypted data to third parties would grant GNU access and permission to use the (plain-text) data you sent would be insane and outrageous

but it's very troubling that Mozilla might consider itself entitled to see and use your end of E2EE information, even the information that use send only to your own servers through it

Real weird how the Free Software Foundation doesn't need a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to all of the information I input into /bin/cat.

10 years ago when I told people that systemd will make Linux systems more crappy, people called me crazy. Now, everyone is wondering if this was a good idea.

Here are more things to be careful about, in case you missed my prev messages:

- PulseAudio / Pipewire
- Gnome
- GTK4
- Wayland
- dbus
- NetworkManager
- A messaging system that’s not federated
- Linux-specific software (e.g. Docker)

I know this not because I am smart, but because others don’t think critically.

https://mstdn.social/@jschauma/114076781784299928

@ids1024 @sarahjamielewis

You don’t need to transmit any info for automatic updates.

You simply need an api to request the current version number.

The app should be able to decide if it is current or not.

>> "We've seem a little confusion"

There is no confusion, the usage and privacy policy are both incredibly clear and broad in what they say.

>> We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible.

They do not. This is incredibly condescending. Nothing about the "basic functionality" of a browser demands a "royalty-free, worldwide license". That is absurd.

@nixCraft

Headless start:

There is a head, just not attached.

"Why isn't someone stopping this?"

I don't know. Why aren't you?

Alright. Probably the same reason they aren't either.

It's happening. Recover from the shock. Adapt and overcome.

Invite your friends over for dinner. Put all your phones in the laundry closet and turn on the drier. Then brainstorm things you can do to resist.

Then do it.

@mttaggart

Please do not forget that Firefox is a Google product.

@mttaggart @copiesofcopies The way Mozilla has been going recently, and the way it's worded, I'm having two hunches.
1. This is required for their new advertising initiative. Mozilla wants to collect (presumably anonymous) data about shown ads and conversion.
2. This can be used for some kind of AI thingy. Like, imagine a local neural net that'll get trained on sites your visit and images you upload.

This is your hojillionth reminder that non-profits are corpos that figured out how to avoid taxes. When the chips are down, most will readjust the "mission" toward revenue.