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The overhead of disabling every single AI-first change in Firefox is already starting to weigh on firefox-forks.
My view on this hasn't really shifted in the last few months: unless an existing organization, with strong principles, steps forwards and commits to a hard fork I don't really see a future for Firefox.
(I think there are probably only 1-2 orgs with the combination of experience / maturity to actually pull that off, and none of them seem to be even considering that kind of future)
Post AI slop? Temporary mute.
Post AI slop again? Block.
GitHub Actions charging per build minute for *self-hosted-runners*? Shit's about to hit the fan lol
I think Matrix still has my favorite decentralized service username schema. 
@user:domain.tld makes a lot of intuitive sense to me and looks really clean. It's really clear which part is the username and which is the domain without looking repetitive. It starts with an @ so it tells clients to pull up the username lookup when you start typing, but it doesn't get kludgy like other username schemas do.
user@domain.tld makes sense for email I guess because you can't really @ people inline, but it doesn't work well for other services because it doesn't start with an @ so it doesn't indicate to the client to pull up the username lookup. I'm curious how XMPP handles this. 
@user@domain.tld that Fedi uses looks awful to me. I hate the double @'s, it just doesn't scan very well and looks silly. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like my username is being flanked by boobies. 
(Technically Fedi uses WebFinger/the email schema under the hood from the last example and the double @'s are just user-facing in order to trigger the inline username lookup, but meh, I'm including it.)
@domain.tld that Bluesky uses seems clean on the surface, but then you realize your username is (usually) just a domain name which is... weird. 
Then you're stuck making a subdomain for your username if you couldn't get a dedicated domain for it, so then it becomes @user.domain.tld or even @user.subdomain.domain.tld which is just, like, idk a lot of dots. 
It makes sense for ATProto because of how the DIDs work, but it's still not my favorite.
I know I've made this ramble before but I'm like Fedi handles where I'm hopelessly repetitive 
#Matrix #MatrixChat #Federation #Fedi #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Bluesky #ATProto
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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.
Former chancellor George Osborne joins OpenAI
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6xz1jv4ezo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Imagine if this table got flipped:
We’ve shipped more updates for Claude Code:
- Syntax highlighting for diffs
- Prompt suggestions
- First-party plugins marketplace
- Shareable guest passes
It’s interesting how many people think wanting privacy means you’re doing something nefarious. The fact is, privacy is about sharing what you want with whom you choose.
(I don’t recall who wrote these words or where I originally saw them. I only made the graphic.)
Too Fast to Think: The Hidden Fatigue of AI Vibe Coding
Link: https://www.tabulamag.com/p/too-fast-to-think-the-hidden-fatigue
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46292365
Random thought:
There should be a browser extension that replaces slop text (like "AI summaries") with Lorem Ipsum.
I have to say: 2d, drawn gfx is much nicer than any 3d for me..
在重庆转机休息了一晚之后，今天没成功约到群友。于是按照原先计划前往碧津公园开拼图。今天天气灰蒙蒙的，不过至少没下雨……这套图有足足39个问题，唯一让我折腾了一会的是问某个雕像下面的王八应该叫什么。我试了半天简体繁体的赑屃都不对（旁边的介绍牌上确实是这俩字），最后试出来了正确答案是霸下… 
拼图完成后就近找了家火锅吃，味道确实挺不错的。只不过店家 BGM 一直在放 lonely lonely christmas，搭配我一个人吃火锅也太应景了……
quite frankly i think we should all just boycott computer memory instead of worrying about the prices
genuinely wondering whether all the people saying "let mozilla die" are cool with just using chrome instead orrrr...?
Sebastian Aaltonen finally finished his "No Graphics API" blog post! Which ends with a graphics API of course :) But it is like 150 lines of "API surface". Pretty cool. https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api
What was the CPU of the first computer you programmed made of?
GitHub Actions charging per build minute for *self-hosted-runners*? Shit's about to hit the fan lol
The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.
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53be8392ec (upstream/main) Add coverage for blocked account scenario in following/followers (#36042)
f118d61334 Emojis: Show in embedded statuses (#37272)
95432b47eb Add coverage for user model registration time validation (#35993)
dbf8d77cbb Add spec for missing username value in create account API (#37057)
e6b0cdcc83 Updates Wrapstodon footer with dedicated local server info (#37270)
7e81e03531 Reduce factory creation across `spec/helpers` (#35527)
92df1c4458 Add coverage for `Account.representative` from finder concern (#35996)
a9c84529b2 Wrapstodon: Load report data only on display (#37269)
9e97ad04d8 Fix bad contrast on disabled dropdown menu items (#37268)
8c2845906c Improve Redux Storybook (#37227)
7230c2059f Add coverage for "domain variants" consumers (#35995)
c8f608839b Use bundler version 4.0.1 (#37191)
550a6d4765 Add wrapstodon to initial state and show wrapstodon sidebar item on load (#37261)
4c679c698f Update dependency vite-tsconfig-paths to v6 (#37247)
続くよ
Anyone who has used SwiftData knows all too well that the its amazing tools do not work outside of SwiftUI views.
SQLiteData, on the other hand, works basically everywhere, including @Observable models and even UIKit!
Learn more: https://www.pointfree.co/collections/tours/tour-of-sqlitedata/ep348-tour-of-sqlitedata-querying
Pretty good post from The Verge talking about where coding models are actually sourcing improvements from... They've hired a lot of humans to feed more code in for the model to regurgitate.
I've been watching this for a bit - and I think people underestimate how much these models are still faking intelligence by just brute force pushing of code in. It also explains why models fall off a cliff - they haven't hired anyone for that use case/API yet.
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(애인도 아직 아님)
今ならもう一回寝ても大丈夫やな😆
Me too, Reddit, me too...
まだ4時過ぎだった…
Video. Rome opens new Metro C stations near Colosseum ruins
https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/12/16/rome-opens-two-new-metro-c-stations-showcasing-ancient-ruins-near-colosseum?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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> On March 1, 2026, we are introducing a new $0.002 per-minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage.
😂
Anybody out there happen to know of a good book about German resistance to the Nazi regime?
I'm especially interested in any civil resistance to Nazi policies, but obviously I'm not gonna pass up a good read about violent resistance to Nazis either.
I'm honestly still surprised when I see an organization do the right thing these days, but good: https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-sports/cp-newsalert-skate-canada-to-cancel-alberta-events-due-to-sports-gender-law-11632193
Going to start referring to people bringing ai “art” etc where it’s not wanted, as Sloperatives.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/merriam-websters-word-of-the-year-for-2025-is-ais-slop
No, you’re not a “prompt engineer”, you’re a sloperator.
We took Odin on the tram to the Christmas market. He doesn’t photograph well at night (this was the best photo), but rest assured he got so, so many cuddles from random tourists tipsy on glühwein #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #amsterdam
Well, I did get a well-lit shot of Public Transport Odin…
We took Odin on the tram to the Christmas market. He doesn’t photograph well at night (this was the best photo), but rest assured he got so, so many cuddles from random tourists tipsy on glühwein #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #amsterdam
Imagine if this table got flipped:
I’m sure it’s nothing.
AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded
Link: https://restofworld.org/2025/engineering-graduates-ai-job-losses/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291504
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ah, you've asked AI to do it. now you have two problems
An early start this morning - walking with the moon before the sun rose. Frosty and frozen terrain with only patches of snow remaining #Cairngorms #Scotland
The RustConf 2026 CFP is open! 🚀
The Rust Foundation is proud to support the flagship annual conference that celebrates the research, tools, production insights, and creative experiments emerging across the Rust ecosystem. Starting today, you can submit a talk proposal!
📅 Submit a proposal by Feb 16
📍 Montréal + online (Sept 8-11)
Learn more: https://rustfoundation.org/media/the-rustconf-2026-call-for-proposals-is-open/
#rustlang #rustconf
I think the Fediverse has room for one more button that 1 and 2 don't cover.
1) Like
2) Boost
3) Deep (e.g., your post really influenced my thinking or meant a lot to me or moved me to action, etc...)
gh-actions-lockfile: generate and verify lockfiles for GitHub Actions https://lobste.rs/s/csqubi #devops #nodejs #release #security
https://gh-actions-lockfile.net
🦖 rect()
☑️ Newly available (from Jan 2024)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Values/basic-shape/rect
The rect() CSS function creates a rectangle at the specified distance from the top and left edges of the containing block. It is a basic shape function of the <basic-shape> data type. You can use the rect() function in CSS properties such as offset-path to create the rectangular path along which an element moves and in clip-path to define the shape of …
ah, you've asked AI to do it. now you have two problems
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