I think that this is symptomatic of a much larger issue at Mozilla, leadership, or rather, lack of leadership. AI, tracking, privacy, funding, the list of crazy coming from there appears to be just ballooning.

I see no evidence that they deal with actual bug reports, no evidence that they care about users and no clear path being forged, unless they want to enshitify their business, in which case, that appears to be going swimmingly.

… and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux …

I’m using Firefox Focus with AdGuard DNS, which has stopped most, if not all advertising, but this site is something else, I’ve never seen anything like it.

Wow, the advertising on that site is relentless, to the point where I can’t even read the article.

Vent away!

Why are you telling us?

The link you shared is to Anubis, there’s no information on who changed from one instance to another or why., other than your comment about Cloudflare.

It’s been on my radar for a while and I’ve been looking around for alternative platforms for the obvious reasons.

I haven’t figured out how I’d deal with existing podcast episodes that refer to “my GitHub repository”. When I migrated away from Reddit, at least there weren’t specific references, but that’s not the case with GitHub.

So while I’ll admit that I am aware of my inertia, it’s not without cause.

Ideas and suggestions welcome.

I miss my Centronics port.

Add sensor motion detection lights to your driveway.

And John Smith rejoices.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

We have a former raw onion eating Prime Minister who would call budgie smugglers the superior choice and wear them in public just to prove it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Abbott_onion_video

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/budgie-smuggler-abbott-unaustralian-of-year/rdeerx6kc

This is GOLD!

Source: Debian user for 25 years.

While reproducible builds are a good thing, for a bunch of reasons the whole stack is built on top of someone else’s microcode running on someone’s CPU, running someone’s BIOS, etc.

During an Linux Conf in Australia I attended a talk discussing the chain of trust and the point was made that when you buy something from a manufacturer, it is assumed that it comes to you unaltered, but the question is, how would you know?

In other words, you need to trust something somewhere and build on that.

If you’d like to see a working example of a backdoored compiler, because to compile something, you need to also trust your compiler, here’s a good discussion and show and tell:

https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM

“I asked my cat and it said …”

Came across a suggestion the other day, using the Microsoft Office swear word filter, replace “AI” with “my cat”.

Now I can’t unsee it…

According to my cat the answer to that question is …

Here’s some code written by my cat.

I was not familiar with this music. Orgasmatron has a completely different meaning here … pretty sure I’ve had one of these for decades:

https://orgasmatron.com.au/products/orgasmatron-original

(For scale, you fit your head inside the tines, and slowly massage your scalp.)

https://xerbo.net/posts/investigating-transit-pt1/

My phone is on silent, calls divert to voicemail, I get a transcript of the message, if it’s interesting enough, I’ll call back, if not, life goes on … no low battery shenanigans required.

ProTip: You can set your default ringtone to none, so if your phone suddenly decides to disable Do Not Disturb, it still doesn’t ring.