Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Social media is a competition for who can misunderstand what you wrote the most.

To make this competition easier and allow for more participation, set an arbitrary character limit to your writing, like 500.

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.

Let's hold silent for a minute, to pay respect to all the valid and even constructive criticism that was dismissed with a swift "you're a hater".

@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.

@depereo @Daojoan imagine a world where people had their own websites!

GNU Emacs 30.1 has been released! Congratulations to the maintainers and developers -- and thank you to them, too! Several FSF staff and board absolutely depend on it. The new version's coming soon to a mirror near you: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2025-02/msg00997.html #emacs

A quick-and-dirty observation:

All the people who are talking and posting about the "flux and ambiguity of living through the current times" are the ones least affected by it.

The ones actually affected don't have that luxury. They are busy spending every waking second trying to wade through the very same 'flux and ambiguity'...