From those projects, which ones are out of scope for the Mozilla Manifesto?

The African nuclear reactors might need more explaining, but the rest seem to be right on the goals:

• Anti-cendorship groups
• Lobbying EU AI regulations
• Tool to reveal censorship on ISPs
• Coding/operations related carbon footprint and pollution, which can be used to prevent people’s access

Is there more information about that nuclear reactor?

Pollution related to computing and coding, seem relevant to the mission statement.

What would be the proper advocacy groups? Would you’ve ever heard of Mozilla without some advocacy group?

Ollama has the best GDPR compliance: my hardware, my data.

https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt

Archiving communications is not optional (yet).

I’m still “using” Facebook, if by “using” we mean subscribing to some groups, sending birthday greetings to old friends, and rarely posting anything. It doesn’t feed me political content, any time it tries to push anything controversial, it gets blocked.

I do get political content on Threads though, but that’s my choice.

Keeping in mind it’s an advertorial for their apps…

Not sure what they mean by “weird characters”, but chatbots add zero-width Unicode characters as a watermarking mechanism, and LLMs output their own tags to mark different sections.

(the “stochastic parrots” expression is already a contradiction, but whatever)

Fun fact: you can get a machine to do that, for about the price of 3 games. It will even last longer than the games.

Let me know when stuff is no longer locked behind a “Battle Pass”.

I got pretty much all the cosmetics in OW1 without paying for a single lootbox, and definitely refuse to pay for the privilege of FOMO.

Why is this article “critical with China”? From the sound of it, the Tianfu Cup is clear about its goals, that’s a surprisingly high level of transparency. All hackathons are geared towards finding and hiring hackers, both by companies and by governments. This way, people can decide whether they want to be recruited by the CCP or not.

• ❌ Phone - com.samsung.android.dialer
• ❌ Messages - com.google.android.apps.messaging (Samsung)
• ❌ Chrome - com.android.chrome
• ❌ Camera - com.sec.android.app.camera (Samsung)

The thing is, I keep them there as a “last resort”, not as main use.

what do people use discord for exactly?

Too much.

It’s a chat platform geared towards gamers, with voice chat, screen sharing, and streaming options… that’s been coopted by vloggers… but most unsettlingly, it’s being used for customer support and documentation.

A lot of knowledge bases are buried in the walled garden of servers, and a labyrinth of chat rooms.

Seems like it hasn’t been updated for 2 years. Is it abandoned?

The ecodesign requirements will include:

* resistance to accidental drops or scratches and protection from dust and water

* sufficiently durable batteries which can withstand at least 800 charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity

* rules on disassembly and repair, including obligations for producers to make critical spare parts available within 5-10 working days, and for 7 years after the end of sales of the product model on the EU market

* availability of operating system upgrades for longer periods (at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model)

* non-discriminatory access for professional repairers to any software or firmware needed for the replacement

Finally! 🎉

Customer replaceable batteries would be nice too — those 800 cycles are not all that much — but I guess it’s a tradeoff for dust and water resistance increases with wireless charging and possibly no ports.

Nonsense, it still refuses requests as usual:

Sometimes, it doesn’t even propose a viable alternative (like, evacuate the building first):

The article sounds like it lifted the headline from some comment I’ve seen:

The comparison to 𝕏 doesn’t seem fair:

You can self-verify by setting your domain as your username. We highly encourage official organizations and individuals to do this

Additionally, through our Trusted Verifiers feature, select independent organizations can verify accounts directly.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification

It seems like both the data server (PDS) and the data aggregator (AppView) have been released:

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

What am I missing?

From Ladybird’s website:

No code from other browsers. We’re building a new engine, based on web standards.

Except… Chromium is the living standard for the web. They’ll have the same problem as Firefox, playing catch-up to whatever happens in Chromium.

Right now, the viable browsing experience is a combination of browsers:

• Chromium derived - latest compatibility
• Firefox with extensions - daily driver
• Tor Browser - actual chance of privacy

And a VPN and/or Pi-hole.

one-time payment

Is Canva going to keep that? In the purchase announcement, they stated that their plan was to add the features of Affinity to Canva, which only has a subscription option.

rely on creative software by Adobe or other companies, for which there is no comparable alternative with Linux support

Corel has comparable features with a single purchase option. Too bad they removed the Linux version.

As for alternatives, Krita, Inkscape, or Blender, are not a 1:1 equivalent, but include features that Adobe is missing. When I used to do visual stuff, they were a good set of tools to complement an Adobe subscription.

How does Affinity compare to that?