Dad, married with children, dog in profile picture. Developer, he/him, Dutch, prefers plant based food (flexitarian).
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature Opinion Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users.…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-software-saving-the-internet-from-ai-bot-scrapers/
UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/06/uk_puts_out_tender_for_deorbit_mission/
Britain's space agency is looking for a supplier to build a robotic spacecraft to capture and de-orbit two defunct UK-licensed satellites from low Earth orbit.
Epstein 'client list' doesn't exist, Justice Department says, walking back theory Bondi had promoted
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/justice-department-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-washington-fbi-b2784251.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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⚠️Today Gemini starts scanning your phone ⚠️
We've updated this blog post with recommendations from the @Mastodon community. Learn:
👉 How to disable Gemini
👉 How to deinstall Gemini
And why @GrapheneOS @LineageOS and others are better in the first place.
Stop #Google now: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
Steady improvement. I think this one is my strongest so far.
💗😽Every year, in #Minneapolis, cat people tour their neighbourhood to see each other's cats!
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Caturday #EveryDayIsCaturday
Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistakes C suits are the worse ones. They just think one quarter and how much stock is going up. That is all.
"Which means that the number of people detained in ICE facilities — numbering 56,397 as of June 15 — will likely grow dramatically. A four-fold increase in the detention budget could mean a quarter of a million people locked up.
Don’t fall for the Trump regime’s lie that these people are criminals. As of now, 71.7 percent of ICE detainees have no criminal record. Some have been hardworking members of their communities for decades. "
For all the Elon-funded trolls fucks out here showing up again all of a sudden to say that Dems are as bad as Repubs, GET FUCKED.
Harris, for whatever flaws she has, is a statesman. She wasn’t going to cut Medicaid, food stamps, the weather service, and veterans’ benefits. She wasn’t going to send ICE out in unmarked uniforms with masks to kidnap any brown person they find. She wasn’t going to build literal concentration camps. Republicans have done all of that in 6 months.
Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.
Reminder: The effing OCEANS are way to hot.
"The more we burn fossil fuels, the more excess heat will be taken out by the oceans, which means the longer it will take to stabilize them and get them back to where they were." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66387537
End fossil fuels! Climate crisis. Let's fight!
This is like if Nazi's sold Auschwitz merchandise to their base in 1941.
It's beyond sick. The clinical term is sadistic psychopathy.
Dismantling an advanced weather system that saved lives and watching your family drown and everything everyone in your community owns be destroyed to own the libs.
Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/hurricane-science-noaa-cuts/683398/
Beautiful artwork by Todd Fisher for the jerseys and tshirts at his year's Tour de Lavender in Sequim, WA.
https://tourdelavender.com/event/tour-de-lavender-2025/
Why you MUST pay for AI through your use of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and your Google search results starting with a GPT response…
#platformization #costRecovery #regardlessOfNeed
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-feeding-of-ai-on-an-unwilling
Teaching my son about right to repair by explaining why Nintendo chose to have like 8 Triwing screws, and 6 different fasteners to get into the DVD drive we had to replace on our old Wii.
He said "do they just want you to like buy another one or something?"
He learns quickly.
Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.
THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.
I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.
