dietrich
@burrito.space
peeking into the post-browser web
~ https://userandagents.com ~
ΔΔΔ https://webtransitions.org
runs @intenttoship.dev
me: https://metafluff.com
past: Mozilla, Protocol Labs, Sub Pop Records
he/him/amsterdam
~ https://userandagents.com ~
ΔΔΔ https://webtransitions.org
runs @intenttoship.dev
me: https://metafluff.com
past: Mozilla, Protocol Labs, Sub Pop Records
he/him/amsterdam
apropos of whatever
some numberwang:
if the avg S&P 500 company gave 0.15% [1] of annual revenue to the OSS it used
*even taking out the top 10 companies b/c market absurdity*
it'd be ~$250 MILLION PER COMPANY PER YEAR 😮
(1. avg annual IT/sw % for large companies is 3% revenue, so 5% of that, verrry conservative.)
if the avg S&P 500 company gave 0.15% [1] of annual revenue to the OSS it used
*even taking out the top 10 companies b/c market absurdity*
it'd be ~$250 MILLION PER COMPANY PER YEAR 😮
(1. avg annual IT/sw % for large companies is 3% revenue, so 5% of that, verrry conservative.)
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
apropos of whatever
sometimes, at the end of a long hot day, you just want to sit and watch the sunset, eating spicy peanuts and enjoying an ice cold can of Krud
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
sometimes, at the end of a long hot day, you just want to sit and watch the sunset, eating spicy peanuts and enjoying an ice cold can of Krud
massive thunderclaps scaring everyone here
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
massive thunderclaps scaring everyone here
one of these headlines is not like the others
-Myanmar blows up KK Park scam compound
-Yanluowang ransomware IAB pleads guilty
-US CBO hacked by foreign APT
-Singapore to punish scammers with cane beatings
-Chrome will remove XSLT support for security reasons
Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS502/
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
-Yanluowang ransomware IAB pleads guilty
-US CBO hacked by foreign APT
-Singapore to punish scammers with cane beatings
-Chrome will remove XSLT support for security reasons
Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS502/
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
one of these headlines is not like the others
A lesson learned from over a decade making general purpose software used by hundreds of millions:
People consider extreme levels of daily pain *absolutely worth enduring* for the features they care about.
They give exactly zero fucks whether their need is "in scope" in your product plan.
People consider extreme levels of daily pain *absolutely worth enduring* for the features they care about.
They give exactly zero fucks whether their need is "in scope" in your product plan.
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
A lesson learned from over a decade making general purpose software used by hundreds of millions:
People consider extreme levels of daily pain *absolutely worth enduring* for the features they care about.
They give exactly zero fucks whether their need is "in scope" in your product plan.
People consider extreme levels of daily pain *absolutely worth enduring* for the features they care about.
They give exactly zero fucks whether their need is "in scope" in your product plan.
Mozilla Alumni starter pack, thanks @slifty.bsky.social for setting it up, already found people I didn't know were on here.
(I also found people I know I'd already followed, and somehow unfollowed, so that bug on the follows list is still around...)
(I also found people I know I'd already followed, and somehow unfollowed, so that bug on the follows list is still around...)
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Mozilla Alumni starter pack, thanks @slifty.bsky.social for setting it up, already found people I didn't know were on here.
(I also found people I know I'd already followed, and somehow unfollowed, so that bug on the follows list is still around...)
(I also found people I know I'd already followed, and somehow unfollowed, so that bug on the follows list is still around...)
AI ruins everything, ep 271,824
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
AI ruins everything, ep 271,824
white sesame shake + espresso
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
white sesame shake + espresso
"i dress like i make playlists for a living"
the other one i saw today was:
"i'm in a relationship with chatgpt" 😬
the other one i saw today was:
"i'm in a relationship with chatgpt" 😬
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"i dress like i make playlists for a living"
the other one i saw today was:
"i'm in a relationship with chatgpt" 😬
the other one i saw today was:
"i'm in a relationship with chatgpt" 😬
the "invite a friend" badge is itself an old friend of many years at this point.
i like to imagine a lonely metric on a dashboard somewhere at Apple, tracking the longest living notification and someone looking at it right now wondering who can leave it so long, as i sit here wondering about them.
i like to imagine a lonely metric on a dashboard somewhere at Apple, tracking the longest living notification and someone looking at it right now wondering who can leave it so long, as i sit here wondering about them.
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
the "invite a friend" badge is itself an old friend of many years at this point.
i like to imagine a lonely metric on a dashboard somewhere at Apple, tracking the longest living notification and someone looking at it right now wondering who can leave it so long, as i sit here wondering about them.
i like to imagine a lonely metric on a dashboard somewhere at Apple, tracking the longest living notification and someone looking at it right now wondering who can leave it so long, as i sit here wondering about them.
cool job alert
We're #hiring a new Head of the Sovereign Tech Fund! 🚀
The #SovereignTechFund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical #opensource infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS powering the web—to strengthen #digitalsovereignty. 1/3
The #SovereignTechFund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical #opensource infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS powering the web—to strengthen #digitalsovereignty. 1/3
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
cool job alert
"🚨 MUSLIM SOCIALIST ELECTED 🚨" - The Guardian
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"🚨 MUSLIM SOCIALIST ELECTED 🚨" - The Guardian
Street Coffee Crew, single origin and vinyl all day
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Street Coffee Crew, single origin and vinyl all day
"grandma's firewood chicken" took me out last night
an interesting mix of Yunnanese and Sichuan - everything was familiar but put together in unfamiliar ways
an interesting mix of Yunnanese and Sichuan - everything was familiar but put together in unfamiliar ways
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
"grandma's firewood chicken" took me out last night
an interesting mix of Yunnanese and Sichuan - everything was familiar but put together in unfamiliar ways
an interesting mix of Yunnanese and Sichuan - everything was familiar but put together in unfamiliar ways
Bellingcat Open Source Challenge
Test your open source research skills.
challenge.bellingcat.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Reposted by dietrich
Last week I met with a local NGO to talk about their digital strategy as a new entrant to the social web. This got me thinking about the notion of "mobilizing vs organizing" and the interplay of feed-centric vs place-based means of communication in the Atmosphere.
blog.muni.town/digital-stra...
blog.muni.town/digital-stra...
Digital Strategy for Organisations
Digital power is created through the interplay of mobilizing and organizing.
blog.muni.town
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Last week I met with a local NGO to talk about their digital strategy as a new entrant to the social web. This got me thinking about the notion of "mobilizing vs organizing" and the interplay of feed-centric vs place-based means of communication in the Atmosphere.
blog.muni.town/digital-stra...
blog.muni.town/digital-stra...
to keep maximum browser history in Firefox, set/create about:config pref places.history.expiration.max_pages to 2147483647.
the pref does *not* sync across profiles, and apparently not all history syncs either.
"don't delete my stuff" should not be so hard.
the pref does *not* sync across profiles, and apparently not all history syncs either.
"don't delete my stuff" should not be so hard.
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
to keep maximum browser history in Firefox, set/create about:config pref places.history.expiration.max_pages to 2147483647.
the pref does *not* sync across profiles, and apparently not all history syncs either.
"don't delete my stuff" should not be so hard.
the pref does *not* sync across profiles, and apparently not all history syncs either.
"don't delete my stuff" should not be so hard.
"programming is like Taco Bell, an infinity of menu options are all made using the same seven ingredients"
(me helping my daughter learn Python for a class)
(me helping my daughter learn Python for a class)
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"programming is like Taco Bell, an infinity of menu options are all made using the same seven ingredients"
(me helping my daughter learn Python for a class)
(me helping my daughter learn Python for a class)
sounds a bit like Latcho Drom but Nepali
🎥 Nepal’s mountainous villages are isolated by their terrain. The musicians in Kiran Krishna Shrestha’s ‘Bhedako Oon Jasto … In Search of a Song’ (2006) transport you there – screening November 1-8 for Screen Southasia (@himalistan @filmsouthasia). Sign up to watch: bit.ly/ScreenSoutha...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
sounds a bit like Latcho Drom but Nepali
beautiful rainy leech-ridden hike
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
beautiful rainy leech-ridden hike
this post demonstrates that I was wrong by orders of magnitude, and that @piss.beauty was right.
openai.com/index/buildi...
(unless someone surprises us in the next two months)
openai.com/index/buildi...
(unless someone surprises us in the next two months)
October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
this post demonstrates that I was wrong by orders of magnitude, and that @piss.beauty was right.
openai.com/index/buildi...
(unless someone surprises us in the next two months)
openai.com/index/buildi...
(unless someone surprises us in the next two months)
always be friends with a baker
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
always be friends with a baker
Reposted by dietrich
Nostalgia level: 💯
(yeah this is a working music player & browser)
Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org
(yeah this is a working music player & browser)
Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nostalgia level: 💯
(yeah this is a working music player & browser)
Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org
(yeah this is a working music player & browser)
Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org