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While I think it's good that more mainstream publications do more on the #fediverse the Search Engine/Hard Fork episode on the #forkiverse is a bit ... well it could have done with a bit more research. And "oh look how yanky it all is but we didn't read the manual to run this service but has an LLM Agent just do something" is cringe at best: You're not reading the manual but you want to run a platform for a few thousand people? That's not cute but shows a lack of care and willingness to take responsibility.

Great plan to take a train from Berlin to Amsterdam tomorrow. It's gonna be a wild ride.

This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices. (Original title: Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life)

Ars Technica

Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

If companies insist on bricking gadgets, this is a better way to do it.

Wow, #Gentoo moving from GitHub to Codeberg is cool. Haven't run Gentoo for years now but still have a soft spot for it (I learned so much running it as main driver). I also use Codeberg für my code (and joined the association) but we can't just "move everything to Codeberg". That's neither sustainable nor a good model. We should have more associations like Codeberg to offer those kinds of services. Create a whole web of forges for collaboration while we can watch GitHub go to hell.

Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are. Offer people all the slop extensions in the world and see who will download them.

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Firefox for Web Developers (@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social)

Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation. They're not LLMs. They're trained on open data. Should ...

A Killswitch should of course kill all ML/AI functionality and people could then reactivate certain specific features of they want to, it's really not that hard. Just cause you consider a feature"better" than others does not override consent practices. View quoted note →

"In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works and what doesn’t." (Original title: Exiting the Billionaire Castle)

Smashing Frames

Exiting the Billionaire Castle

In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist (that Venn diagram is becoming more of a circle each and every ...

I spent the last year migrating off of US billionaire controlled platforms and services. But there's very few clean ways and I am not 100% happy with all solutions. Might still make sense to make a short post on what I went for and why

Can't get sanctioned by other governments when you can just order Microsoft to sever their access to MS 365 thereby removing their access to email, document storage etc.

I wonder if any company has ever ruined their core product and reputation as much as Google did with search.