Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

i don't mean to spend multiple days ragging on mozilla, but reading this:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/internet-policy/amicus_brief/

and it's hard for me to express how i both feel for them and do not love the idea of firefox revenue going to zero, but also can't help but laugh at how this is pure slapstick and they are the clown trying to beg the rakes to stop hitting them in the face.

ok in this RPG you are mozilla. the federal government pursues google for antitrust finally (this is good). the federal government zeroes in on exactly your funding mechanism as one of the major remedies it seeks (this is bad). you are in a pickle. you need to hedge, you need to diversify, you need to abandon ship. everyone who cares about you knows that, but what do you do?

do you:

jump directly into the oncoming traffic of the market dominance strategy of that very same google, trying to compete on the sheer accumulated goodwill associated with your brand (which is evidently massively overestimated, internally) as "the good AI." Zigging while everyone else zigs. Late and dad cringe in a crowded market. But not only that, you take the bold strategy of specifically and directly alienating the only people that care about your flagship product or soul as an organization. You make a truly bizarre and hard to read amicus plea to the courts to save your soul: "we hate the monopoly power of google too, but this particular monopolistic behavior is paradoxically good for reasons that we won't explain except to say that google has been so successful in building the browser monopoly that we barely even exist. and by the way google is very good! and if we somehow make it out of this alive, they should keep paying us!!"

or....

recognize that it's do or die, and you have a small but dedicated group of people that are very clear about their reasons for using your product being antagonism to the tech monopolists. you come out guns blazing and say to the courts "yeah that's right fuck Google. Their browser monopoly has put us in this position we absolutely hate where we are dependent on exactly the company that has crushed the life from our organization and keeps us alive as a corporate human shield to deflect accurate claims that they have swallowed the internet whole. The only way out is to cut them to ribbons, but since we doubt the court will have the courage to do that, we now need everyone who wants to see a free internet to put their money where their mouth is and fund us as we go to the mattresses to keep the internet alive. No AI bullshit, no bizarre doublespeak, pay up or we're dead." It's not unprecedented. Meredith is over there giving the finger to surveillance capital every day and ramping up the donation nagware for Signal users, which they gladly do, because Signal fucks. and Mozilla used to fuck.

> Be me, 21 yo MTF
> Both phones start dying really fast few months ago
> New battery in one of them doesn't help
> I get dus about government spyware
> Look up "how to know if your phone has spyware>
> Be me 1 day later
> Both phone batteries die significantly less fast, even when using hotspot etc

"friends to lovers but nothing changes when they become lovers they just kiss sometimes"

this reminds me of this conversation I had with a mono girl once.

me: yeah and one cool thing about having a polycule like this is like, there's one girl who's great at photography, another who has power tools and knows carpentry, another who can handle bureaucracy, another who speaks Finnish… so any time I need any kind of support I can usually find it from the girls

her: isn't that just like, a friend group

me: I *guess* but I get to like, collar and leash them and stuff

Btw! Not everyone’s accessibility needs are the same! What’s accessible for a blind person might not be accessible for me, someone who’s sighted & definitely hard of hearing but hasn’t went to a doctor about it…….

The same applies for every disability! Ik this is well known in disability-centered spaces, but the fedi isn’t directly disability-centered so it felt relevant to make a PSA about.

Unfortunately the #OpenStreetMap wiki is very slow today. We are fighting an aggressive web scraper bot. 10,000 of IPs involved. Randomised User-Agent. Ignoring robots.txt #aibot #ddos

Update: Fixed. We've been able to mitigate the bot traffic. #fail2ban

My start-up's business model is taking one million euro from every billionaire, every year. If this is made illegal this whole industry will die.

Kunnen alle apps die ik nodig heb er op? (Ook van mijn banken en bijvoorbeeld MoneyBird en eventuele apps van de middelbare school waar de elfjarige straks heen gaat?

Tips en ervaringen zijn heel welkom, en dan dus specifiek van mensen die net als ik diep in het Apple ecosysteem ingebed zitten :/

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#fairphone #e_OS

Dus een belangrijk moment om te kiezen (komt er aan).

Ga ik overstappen en hoe complex is dat dan? Hoe zorg ik er dan bijvoorbeeld voor dat al die notities in een andere app komen en alsnog met m’n Mac gesynct worden?

Hoe krijg ik alle contactpersonen uit m’n Iphone in die Fairphone met e/OS zonder gek te worden (ik ben herstellende van post-covid)?

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#fairphone #e_OS

Zijn er hier mensen die de stap hebben gezet van IPhone naar e/OS?

Ik werk al meer dan tien jaar op Mac en IPhone en alles is er op ingericht (privé, maar zeker ook m’n eigen bedrijf).

Notities die met elkaar syncen (als schrijver heel belangrijk), en alles zo gebackupt dat het met één klik op een ander apparaat kan worden opgestart).

Maar ik wil graag los van de grote Amerikaanse bedrijven en mijn zes jaar oude Iphone begint een beetje gammel te worden.

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#fairphone #e_OS

this is what's at risk with LLM-generated content, and we badly need some kind of guidelines and a project to archive original, human-produced knowledge before it's too late and it becomes impossible to extract it from an ocean of random language.

if you have a library of 10,000 precious books containing thousands of years of human knowledge, and that library burns down, it's a tragedy. and it's the **exact same effect** if, instead of burning them, you mix those 10,000 books into a sea of 1,000,000,000 books that look exactly like them but contain fabricated content with no traceable record of who created them or why.

when biologists cloned sheep in the 1990s, it was a red alert for bio-ethics, and some pretty strict rules were set for what you can do with a human genome, because everyone knew that once some lab-created horror made it out into the population, there was no way to fix it.

i feel like we are at a similar moment with the ecosystem of human knowledge and no one is talking about it like the civilizational emergency it is.

Maar ik ben gek en stel me aan omdat ik luchtreinigers gebruik...

https://nos.nl/artikel/2569167-rijnmonders-op-de-vlucht-voor-de-vieste-lucht-van-nederland

Is this true fedi?

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