"We’re now at a strange stand-off, where it is extremely clear it is unacceptable what X is doing, and governments make a lot of noise about how upset they are, without daring to pull the trigger on taking action. Everyone is waiting on everyone else to take the first move."
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/a-power-problem-not-a-platform-problem/

No thank you I’m very happy with my feelings 😑

@krosylight @gabrielesvelto I think it could still be thermal paste. A CPU can easily heat up that fast if the heat isn’t transferred away.

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.

We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.

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finally got around to scanning my vintage cat polaroids

Why American trucks should be kept out of Europe.

Probably no one here needs convincing, but still, good to raise awareness here and elsewhere about.

There is a real risk that more of these dangerous trucks get access to our market, for stupid and short sighted political reasons. We can't have that, as it *will* kill people if it happen, especially children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--832LV9a3I

@notjustbikes

@altbot Thank you Altbot! Your description is so much better than what I have for alt text on my site... I need to improve these!

Hmm.. no image preview on Mastodon... either I'm missing tags or Mastodon doesn't like AVIF.

Anyway, here is how the url preview looks on Discord.

Spent half of the day figuring out how to do social media image previews for my website's photo gallery.

Turns out it's a bit tricky to do when your photo library is all JS, but the servers fetching the preview metadata don't run any of that!

I've ended up with generating one html file per image as part of my Vite build step and inserting the "og" meta tags there. Is that a bit wasteful? Maybe. But it saves me from doing any server side logic.

Example url: https://emz.im/photos/groceries

Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time

Link: https://coffee.link/vodafone-germany-is-killing-the-open-internet-one-peering-connection-at-a-time/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848484

New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is/archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure

https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/

@Mossop nooo don’t fix my favourite bug!

Just in time for #caturday. This one carefully peeked out of the window as I was walking by.

@Techaltar from today 🙃

Don't you love it when streets get cleaned, but only until the bike lane? After all, bikers are way more likely to slip on leaves and fall so they surely don't need cleaning

The new multiple profiles feature is rolling out in Firefox 144! Stronger data separation than containers, easier to use than about:profiles.

I led the work on this feature and I really think it's great. I'm so proud to see it ship.

You can enable it by flipping browser.profiles.enabled to true in about:config, or wait for the rollout.

You can ping me with questions/feedback or share your thoughts on https://connect.mozilla.org.

(Blog posts coming soon on the internals and how we built it)

My bank recommends me to regularly change my password. What year is this!?

Earlier this year, we wrote that the privacy sandbox was already dead, but now Google has all but confirmed it by discontinuing essentially all sandbox work. This is yet another reminder that far too often protecting user privacy yields to companies’ economic incentives. https://cdt.org/insights/googles-privacy-sandbox-is-dead-the-fight-for-real-online-privacy-continues/

„The Berlin-based researchers found that as the far right moved from fringe issues in the late 1990s to topics such as integration and migration, mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate.“ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds