What's New for Mozilla Firefox Release 147.0
Examine that latest new features, improvements and fixes for Mozilla Firefox version 147.0 broken into easy to follow headings.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/mozilla-firefox-whats-new-147/
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Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?
#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273
#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity
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FediCon kicks off tomorrow in Vancouver 💫
And... our co-founder @michael is making the trip across the Atlantic to be there - that's over 7,460 km!
We wouldn't make these trips if we didn't believe in the Open Social Web and how it can be used to better the world.
In particular, Michael is looking forward to meeting all the amazing faces we speak to regularly online in person.
If you're there, say hello!
#FediCon #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb #Tech #Event
For anyone using the @surf beta and enjoy the #WorldOfWallpapers posts that I do, you can now enjoy those via the Surf app itself by using the link below.
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jjdephk6vybfwxe5v61h25c4
You can also contribute to that Surf feed by simply using the #WorldOfWallpapers hashtag in your posts and that content will then show up in the Surf feed.
If you haven't gotten an invite to the Surf beta yet, feel free to DM me as I have invite codes I can provide to get you invited quicker!
#SurfApp #Feeds #SurfFeeds #Beta #App #iOS #Android #Tech #Technology #AllThingsTech
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How to Solve Spotify Public Key Unknown Error
A full explanation of what the Spotify public key unknown error message means along with a step-by-step guide on how to resolve the error message.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/solving-spotify-public-key-unknown-error/
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Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
"#DOGE did NOT reduce spending – at all. But it did reduce federal employment; 271,000 people lost their jobs in the federal government"
#StartMakingSense talks w/ #SashaAbramsky, author of #AmericanCarnage: How #Trump, #Musk and DOGE butchered the US Government
https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-012026/
#USpol #USpolitics #DOGEbags #SiliconValleyRight #austerity #tech #BigTech #TechBros #books @bookstodon
Who's ready for even more slop on their YouTube feed?!
YouTube CEO promises more AI features in 2026
#YouTube #CEO #AI #ContentCreation #Tech
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"My Year of Fediverse explorations"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/
with shout-outs to @pixelfed @dansup @pfefferle @gotosocial @yunohost @phanpy
#tech #Fediverse #BigTech #socialmedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #GoToSocial #YunoHost #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Wordpress
Hello, I created a new Website
URL: https://portal.thebigbonlinux.tn
Enjoy!
(I wanted to host #Loops but it requires #S3 which is unavailable in #Tunisia)
#Tech #Internet #OVH #Debian #BanisraeliContributors #Palworld #TheBigBonLinux #ClaudeAI
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I put the text below on LinkedIn in response to a post there and figured I'd share it here too because it's a bit of a step from what I've been posting previously on this topic and might be of some use to someone.
In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.
If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.
In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.
If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.
It's nonsense to say that coding will be replaced with "good judgment". There's a presupposition behind that, a worldview, that can't possibly fly. It's sometimes called the theory-free ideal: given enough data, we don't need theory to understand the world. It surfaces in AI/LLM/programming rhetoric in the form that we don't need to code anymore because LLM's can do most of it. Programming is a form of theory-building (and understanding), while LLMs are vast fuzzy data store and retrieval systems, so the theory-free ideal dictates the latter can/should replace the former. But it only takes a moment's reflection to see that nothing, let alone programming, can be theory-free; it's a kind of "view from nowhere" way of thinking, an attempt to resurrect Laplace's demon that ignores everything we've learned in the >200 years since Laplace forwarded that idea. In that respect it's a (neo)reactionary viewpoint, and it's maybe not a coincidence that people with neoreactionary politics tend to hold it. Anyone who needs a more formal argument can read Mel Andrews's The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal, or Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics (which argues, among other things, that this is a nihilistic).
I wonder if there's a psychological price that a web developer has to overcome to make a non-trivial web page with no pop-ups of any kind. It seems like a compulsion.
At least in the way I use computers as a low vision person, pop-ups are extraordinarily anti-accessibility. Yes, even tooltips and alt-hovertext, depending on how they're done. Some websites are close to unusable because of these things.
#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #accessibility
At least in the way I use computers as a low vision person, pop-ups are extraordinarily anti-accessibility. Yes, even tooltips and alt-hovertext, depending on how they're done. Some websites are close to unusable because of these things.
#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #accessibility
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"Supporting the Fediverse, one small act at a time"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/supporting-the-fediverse-one-small-act-at-a-time/
with shout-outs to: @elduvelle @nacly @nclm @thek3nger @docpop @angie_marie2 @frank @dansup
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog
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TikTok's transition to U.S. ownership involves collecting even more data about its users, including precise location and AI interactions. It's also likely that the new privacy policy will lead to you seeing more targeted ads. Here's the lowdown from @WIRED.
📣 Calling all Activist & Communicators! ❤️🔥
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🎙️ @rootschangepodcast is on @spectra
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🧰 #RootedResources are on @protonprivacy
🌱 #RootedNews to skip the social algorithms & outrage
Subscribe or become a member for our private podcast at
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#activism #communications #tech #organizing #fascism #bigtech
New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
#surveillance #tech #SocialMedia #GregAbbott #police #border #privacy #security #USpol #politics #news
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This is probably fine, right? @ProPublica reports on how Trump's transportation department plans to use Google Gemini to draft regulations. The agency's remit includes practically all transportation safety. "We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ," said Department of Transportation general counsel Gregory Zerzan in a meeting. "We want good enough."
#Technology #Tech #USGovernment #TrumpAdministration #Transportation
Nowadays programming in a programming language I don't use daily seems to always require an upgrade cascade of editors, tools, plugins, dependencies, libraries, my DNA, ??? I put some effort into keeping my environment static but all it takes is one autoupgrading thing I missed to kick off one of these cascades, and it feels like whack-a-mole trying to find and lock down every possible cause. This time it looks like a newer version of scala metals might have stopped supporting Java 11 and somehow got updated without my knowledge (maybe? I'm guessing).
P.S. This is not an invitation to post critiques about any of these technologies or recommendations about what I should be doing instead.
#scala #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #coding #programming
P.S. This is not an invitation to post critiques about any of these technologies or recommendations about what I should be doing instead.
#scala #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #coding #programming
Here is the beginning of the 3rd #thread on Elon Musk's takeover of the US government:
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/
"Musk’s team, known as the Dept of Govt Efficiency, has already thrown entire swaths of the federal #government & its programs into disarray — programs that serve millions of #Americans.
#Musk himself has made no secret of his intentions, saying that #DOGE is a “wood chipper for bureaucracy” and that he is “deleting” agencies."
How the Terrorgram Collective’s Neo-Nazi Influencers Groomed a Teen to Kill
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The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by online extremists.
https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders-neo-nazi-online-hate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
In an effort to create and provide better articles on my blog, especially those related to cybersecurity and tech, I want to get your feedback on what type of articles y’all would like to see.
So, let me know below the types, series, etc. that I can write about.
Feel free to share to help spread across the #fediverse.
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#Google Calendar users no longer see default entries for events like #Pride, #BlackHistory Month
#nazi #hate #TrumpCoup #whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #Heterosexism #MaleSupremacy #law #CivilRights #tech #SearchEngine #techbros #technocracy #plutocracy #broligarchy
https://apnews.com/article/google-calendar-pride-black-history-month-8c499cfbe399b1eccc436032b3c4ced0
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
#PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)
mentioning @Framasoft @peertube @fedihost @fedihost@video.fedihost.co @paige @veronicaexplains @ewen @docpop @hikingdude
P.S.: this is the 20th article for The Future is Federated 🤗
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #ActivityPub #video
Little Bits: Issue #22 for February 2025
Exciting times are ahead, a motivational message and loads of new curated bits found in February 2025 while surfing the Internet for you to enjoy.
Sometimes I get frustrated with my open source choice. Some days I'm like "yeah let's make X work" and others I'm like "I just want to do X and not make X work". I'm sure I'm not alone, but man sometimes... yeesh.