Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This included data about advertising within Firefox’s New Tab page, along with a lot of other technical information about the installation of Firefox. The Firefox preferences UI makes no mention of usage of this technical data for advertising purposes. Mozilla has also recently shared that they share data with their advertising partners “on a de-identified or aggregated basis”. Mozilla has given no indication that this is a new occurrence.

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/03/12/mozilla-has-been-sharing-aggregated-firefox-data-with-advertisers-since-2017-when-it-enabled-telemetry-by-default.html

*old man voice* back in my webdev days, every website was just bootstrap2.css, now everything looks like this

bruh

Skype is shutting down in May. I've been using it to speak with my grandmother, and I am looking for an alternative, with the following features:
* can do live subtitles (in French)
* works without a phone number/sim card
* can call your contacts and be dialed (i.e. not only invite by email/calendar/url…)
* simple UI/UX (with big buttons) is far more important than feature rich.

I know various things that do some of the above, but I'm not sure what (other than Skype) does all of it.

Any help?

Just another Waymo picking up in the bike lane on Townsend and 3rd. They programmed them to do this on purpose. But sure, tell me again how cyclists should worship robocars as our traffic-safety saviors. 😒 #bikeTooter

MacOS Command Line Tip>

If you kicked off a job and it turns out it’s going to take a lot longer than you thought, and you don’t want to throw away your progress:

^Z
$ fg; say done

This will pause your program, then resume it, but this time you’ll get an audible notification when it completes. Unblock thyself.

The semicolon is important because it’s analogous to a finally block. You’ll get a notification for either success or failure. You can also && say yay || say oh no.

it has been 0 days since I've had No space left on device

There’s more to #Ottawa than manicured lawns and pretty petals.

Thanks to multiple grassroots efforts, Ottawa’s bountiful greenery is getting more sustainable as #rewilding efforts are on the rise. Here are four projects that deserve attention and support.

#urbanrewilding #cities #seeds

https://www.rewildingmag.com/4-ways-ottawa-is-rewilding-and-your-city-can-too/

If you think "some people will always want to exploit each other" is an argument against anarchism, why is your immediate solution to give those who exploit others power?

🦝Guys??? The lesbian toggle made it to Polygon LOL

(special shoutout to Ian Walker for being super respectful to our plurality in emails and addressing us by alter name)

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/538959/blobun-lesbian-toggle-steam-lgbtq-option-setting

#explainYourUsername

Gaff tape is an essential part of theater tech shenanigans. A social gaffe is an awkward interpersonal mistake.

Felt like a fun twist on the phrase, as someone who likes to bring people together through theater. (Who is also neurodivergent enough to sometimes make some major missteps in social settings)

Fun Movie Facts: In Breaking Bad (2008-2013) Walt Jr. has trouble hitting the brakes. That is because he's braking bad

It has been [0] conferences since I last mentioned #hopepunk in a talk.
Spreading the word of catalysing hope, bringing people together to build a better world, despite (or because of?) systemic forces of dehumanisation.

Today I’m hanging out with the fine folk at @drupalsouth, hearing about open source and documentation.