a statement from Waterfox team:

"... browsers are operating systems of their own, and a browser’s job is to be a good steward of that environment. AI, in its current form and in my opinion does not match that responsibility.

... The core browsing experience should be one that fully puts the user in control, not one where you’re constantly monitoring an inscrutable system that claims to be helping you.

Waterfox will not include LLMs. Full stop."

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/

workers: "you have so much money! you could solve homelessness for $30-40 billion dollars!"

capitalists: "We're going to spend $1 trillion dollars making people homeless on purpose."

To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

// SHAPE

helo

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

GitHub actions have GitHub consequences

We noticed a rising interest regarding the use of AI in browsers. To be clear about our position on this: Zen currently is disabling all AI features included in Firefox and will continue to do so.

Ca(r)pe diem! Advent Calendar - Door 16. 💫
✨️ Speedpainting 16122025 ✨️ -
https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-16122025-1275921138

#art #speedpaint #fediart #mastoart #fantasy #space

Damn #Bazzite allows transphobes to just be around? https://bsky.app/profile/xeniameraki.bsky.social/post/3m7nejl4qxs22

edit: Good news, the transphobe has been kicked out. https://bsky.app/profile/xeniameraki.bsky.social/post/3ma2xc76m2c2f

#Linux

Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

https://github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

Found on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joldfish.bsky.social/post/3ma24mtp5qk2e

#Furry

Was reading the comments on this article about Microsoft scaling back Copilot because nobody is using it, and one thing people mentioned was the TV ads and how batshit crazy there are.

I remember one from Meta where it was a teacher asking the AI to design a lesson plan. That one bothered me the most. If you're teaching something, shouldn't you be able to write your own lesson plan? If you can't, maybe you shouldn't be a teacher?

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot

What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/post/3m7yi4f3nkc2f

Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server. This software implements the Key Transparency specification I've been working on since last year, and is an important stepping stone towards secure end-to-end encryption for the Fediverse. You can find the software publicly available on GitHub: PHP Server software: PHP SDK (client-side):

https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/

Santa: You're either on the naughty list or the nice list.

Me: What if I'm trying to be good, but have to do bad things for good reasons.

Santa: Naughty or nice, you're either with me or against me.

Kenobi: Only a sith deals in absolutes

Santa: (hissing noise as lightsaber ignites)