yoasif
@yoasif.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-Moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit.
Into #retrocomputing #firefox #haikuos #ux […]
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RIP Stewart Cheifet.
Anyone who covers tech owes a mountain of ink to that guy. He was the trailblazer in a way that few others were.
Anyone who covers tech owes a mountain of ink to that guy. He was the trailblazer in a way that few others were.
December 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
RIP Stewart Cheifet.
Anyone who covers tech owes a mountain of ink to that guy. He was the trailblazer in a way that few others were.
Anyone who covers tech owes a mountain of ink to that guy. He was the trailblazer in a way that few others were.
RE: https://frontrange.co/@raineer/115815475729968072
Kind of the most amazing use of a chatbot. #llm
Kind of the most amazing use of a chatbot. #llm
frontrange.co
December 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
RE: https://frontrange.co/@raineer/115815475729968072
Kind of the most amazing use of a chatbot. #llm
Kind of the most amazing use of a chatbot. #llm
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A friend moved from the Bay Area to Minneapolis recently and has told me how amazing Tim Walz’s programs are. Free school breakfast and lunch literally gives the parents of small kids like 2-3hrs of their lives back not spent making school lunches every morning.
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A friend moved from the Bay Area to Minneapolis recently and has told me how amazing Tim Walz’s programs are. Free school breakfast and lunch literally gives the parents of small kids like 2-3hrs of their lives back not spent making school lunches every morning.
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One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss […]
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mastodon.social
December 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss […]
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The CBS 60 Minutes CECOT segment showed up in Canada's Global TV app and then quickly disappeared. But a direct copy (not a screen recording) is now archived online: https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The CBS 60 Minutes CECOT segment showed up in Canada's Global TV app and then quickly disappeared. But a direct copy (not a screen recording) is now archived online: https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
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Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed
https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/
#elementaryos #opensource #linux
https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/
#elementaryos #opensource #linux
elementary OS 8.1 Available Now
Everything you love, made even better
blog.elementary.io
December 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed
https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/
#elementaryos #opensource #linux
https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/
#elementaryos #opensource #linux
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I added a sentence to the #curl hackerone submission page:
"Please present your case briefly and to the point. Do not use an AI to help you blab hundreds of line that will exhaust us to death instead of making us understand your claim."
"Please present your case briefly and to the point. Do not use an AI to help you blab hundreds of line that will exhaust us to death instead of making us understand your claim."
December 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I added a sentence to the #curl hackerone submission page:
"Please present your case briefly and to the point. Do not use an AI to help you blab hundreds of line that will exhaust us to death instead of making us understand your claim."
"Please present your case briefly and to the point. Do not use an AI to help you blab hundreds of line that will exhaust us to death instead of making us understand your claim."
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Try as little as possible to buy into this failing system. Buy second-hand whenever possible. Pay cash, under the table. Eat healthily and exercise. Do things with your friends. Read books or watch a good old movie. Cancel all your subscriptions and get everything you need via VPN and torrents […]
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norden.social
December 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Try as little as possible to buy into this failing system. Buy second-hand whenever possible. Pay cash, under the table. Eat healthily and exercise. Do things with your friends. Read books or watch a good old movie. Cancel all your subscriptions and get everything you need via VPN and torrents […]
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Here is my early Christmas gift to everyone who left Google Calendar behind: a Firefox add-on that transforms link to create new Google Calendar events into ICS files you can import in your favorite calendar application
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/google-calendar-links-to-ics/
#degoogle […]
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/google-calendar-links-to-ics/
#degoogle […]
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toot.community
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Here is my early Christmas gift to everyone who left Google Calendar behind: a Firefox add-on that transforms link to create new Google Calendar events into ICS files you can import in your favorite calendar application
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/google-calendar-links-to-ics/
#degoogle […]
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/google-calendar-links-to-ics/
#degoogle […]
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Since the last Android release @CoMaps allows using a custom server from which to download map files.
This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks.
To make […]
This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks.
To make […]
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scholar.social
December 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Since the last Android release @CoMaps allows using a custom server from which to download map files.
This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks.
To make […]
This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks.
To make […]
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Just saw the take that waymo shouldn't be expected to have tested for an edge case like unpowered stop lights.
That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.
That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.
December 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Just saw the take that waymo shouldn't be expected to have tested for an edge case like unpowered stop lights.
That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.
That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.
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This is Bryan. Once a week, he takes a shelter pup on a New York City adventure in his ‘Adopt Me’ backpack, hoping someone will fall in love. He films their big day out, and almost every dog he’s featured has found a forever home […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is Bryan. Once a week, he takes a shelter pup on a New York City adventure in his ‘Adopt Me’ backpack, hoping someone will fall in love. He films their big day out, and almost every dog he’s featured has found a forever home […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Good news for #transit #subway fans in #nyc -- Hochul vetoes bill mandating two-person crews on NYC subways, saying that it would "cost as much as $10 million annually, reducing service, and limiting the MTA’s ability to benefit from capital investments in modern rolling stock and signals".
Yep […]
Yep […]
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mastodon.social
December 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
For people who are exploring #firefox alternatives, I want to point out one lesser considered option: Firefox with enterprise policies to make it behave.
I wrote up a tutorial a while back, and I just updated my example policies to disable telemetry.
I haven't made any AI specific policy […]
I wrote up a tutorial a while back, and I just updated my example policies to disable telemetry.
I haven't made any AI specific policy […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
For people who are exploring #firefox alternatives, I want to point out one lesser considered option: Firefox with enterprise policies to make it behave.
I wrote up a tutorial a while back, and I just updated my example policies to disable telemetry.
I haven't made any AI specific policy […]
I wrote up a tutorial a while back, and I just updated my example policies to disable telemetry.
I haven't made any AI specific policy […]
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Looks like #bazzite is having another well-deserved moment!
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/gamers-are-installing-bazzite-instead-of-sticking-with-windows
#linux #fedora #gaming
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/gamers-are-installing-bazzite-instead-of-sticking-with-windows
#linux #fedora #gaming
Thousands of gamers are installing Bazzite instead of sticking with Windows — and the reasons behind the shift are surprisingly compelling
Bazzite’s recent growth highlights how far Linux gaming is coming, even as anti-cheat limitations continue to hold it back.
www.windowscentral.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Looks like #bazzite is having another well-deserved moment!
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/gamers-are-installing-bazzite-instead-of-sticking-with-windows
#linux #fedora #gaming
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/gamers-are-installing-bazzite-instead-of-sticking-with-windows
#linux #fedora #gaming
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New #mozilla CEO: “ _Blocking ad-blockers in#firefox could bring in an additional $150M in revenue_“.
Sure, even extracting and selling one of my kidneys could bring me a big revenue, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.
Firefox by now has less than 3% of the browsers’ market share, and […]
Sure, even extracting and selling one of my kidneys could bring me a big revenue, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.
Firefox by now has less than 3% of the browsers’ market share, and […]
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manganiello.eu
December 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Here's the document release you were waiting for today!
The UNIX V4 tape!
https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw
#retrocomputing
The UNIX V4 tape!
https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw
#retrocomputing
UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah (raw) : Computer History Museum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
UNIX V4 tape from the University of Utah, received by Martin Newell circa June 1974 around when he modeled the Utah Teapot.This is the raw analog waveform and...
archive.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Here's the document release you were waiting for today!
The UNIX V4 tape!
https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw
#retrocomputing
The UNIX V4 tape!
https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw
#retrocomputing
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"The reality is stark: If the advertising market, venture capital, and legacy institutions won’t invest in truth-tellers, then communities must invest in — and support — one another." https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-year-we-stop-pretending-the-industry-has-changed/
December 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"The reality is stark: If the advertising market, venture capital, and legacy institutions won’t invest in truth-tellers, then communities must invest in — and support — one another." https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-year-we-stop-pretending-the-industry-has-changed/
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> In the world of open source, community contributions are the norm. That’s why Mozilla’s recent decision to overwrite community contributions with an AI-powered bot feels like such a betrayal.
Youssuff writes about Mozilla's betrayal.
#Mozilla #AI
Youssuff writes about Mozilla's betrayal.
#Mozilla #AI
Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla
TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.
www.quippd.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
> In the world of open source, community contributions are the norm. That’s why Mozilla’s recent decision to overwrite community contributions with an AI-powered bot feels like such a betrayal.
Youssuff writes about Mozilla's betrayal.
#Mozilla #AI
Youssuff writes about Mozilla's betrayal.
#Mozilla #AI
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@yoasif
Blimin' heck! An UX designer at Firefox telling that a feature right below “Open Link in a New Private Window” is opt-in, when you need to explicitly disable it manually.
This is confusing, to say at least.
@mozilla
Blimin' heck! An UX designer at Firefox telling that a feature right below “Open Link in a New Private Window” is opt-in, when you need to explicitly disable it manually.
This is confusing, to say at least.
@mozilla
December 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
@yoasif
Blimin' heck! An UX designer at Firefox telling that a feature right below “Open Link in a New Private Window” is opt-in, when you need to explicitly disable it manually.
This is confusing, to say at least.
@mozilla
Blimin' heck! An UX designer at Firefox telling that a feature right below “Open Link in a New Private Window” is opt-in, when you need to explicitly disable it manually.
This is confusing, to say at least.
@mozilla
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Of course that there is a “AI” setting that should be disabled by policy, that isn't. Despite what @mozilla 's documentation explicitly says.
It's Link “Previews”.
Documentation: https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#generativeai
#Mozilla #firefox
It's Link “Previews”.
Documentation: https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#generativeai
#Mozilla #firefox
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Of course that there is a “AI” setting that should be disabled by policy, that isn't. Despite what @mozilla 's documentation explicitly says.
It's Link “Previews”.
Documentation: https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#generativeai
#Mozilla #firefox
It's Link “Previews”.
Documentation: https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#generativeai
#Mozilla #firefox
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«LLMs are copyright removal devices - copy open source (or proprietary!) data into it, and you get copyright free data on the other side that you are free to plagiarize into newly copyrighted works. While this process robs all copyright owners, it is particularly damaging to people involved in […]
Original post on scholar.social
scholar.social
December 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
«LLMs are copyright removal devices - copy open source (or proprietary!) data into it, and you get copyright free data on the other side that you are free to plagiarize into newly copyrighted works. While this process robs all copyright owners, it is particularly damaging to people involved in […]