I don’t see any inherent problem with the two things you say are problems: neither DoH, nor the idea that a browser can override default settings.

I’m not a fan of defaulting to Cloudflare, but this seems more like a case of picking your poison. Somebody’s going to get a crack at the domains you’re visiting, are they not? It seems better to encrypt these queries than to allow a middleman to intercept them.

Regarding override default system settings, is this really a problem? I prefer browsers that give people extra options, and I would find it worse if they suddenly took this option away.

The judge was so moved by a call for forgiveness that he increased the recommended sentence… Or if that’s not the case, that’s some poor writing in the article

An AI version of Christopher Pelkey appeared in an eerily realistic video to forgive his killer… “In another life, we probably could’ve been friends. I believe in forgiveness, and a God who forgives.”

The message was well-received by Judge Todd Lang, who told the courtroom, “I love that AI."

While the state asked for a nine-and-a-half year sentence, the judge handed Horcasitas a 10-and-a-half year sentence after being so moved by the video.

Pre-internet, there would be no doubt that the California courts would have specific personal jurisdiction over a third party who physically entered a Californian’s home by deceptive means to take personal information from the Californian’s files for its own commercial gain. Here, though Shopify’s entry into the state of California is by electronic means, its surreptitious interception of Briskin’s personal identifying information certainly is a relevant contact with the forum state.

Established norms for things like privacy and consent should have carried over into the online space. They didn’t, unfortunately - maybe this is because people viewed the Internet as “not real life,” but it is now clear that was a huge legal and cultural oversight.

Muhlheim, the finance chief for the organization’s for-profit arm — which in turn helps fund the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation.

I’m looking and not finding

But Plohman (via the last link) is. According to this (PDF warning), that’s $415,519 total.

On the for-profit side, who knows! It’s anybody’s guess.

The post got removed a year later, by Reddit filters?

wtf

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You might want to avoid “total anything death” phrases

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tnd-kill-behead-roundhouse

By all accounts, this sucks.

I tried the link preview feature on a link to the English Wikipedia article about Touhou Project, and the LLM’s key points are just hilariously bad. For some reason it’s focusing too much on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch (which the LLM “thinks” were both released on August 15, 1997). I have a screenshot 6 days ago when it wasn’t a Firefox Labs feature yet in my Misskey:

https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/a6d86p8n26

Tried it today in an updated Nightly and the key points are still the same lol.

Source

Recently, they made a blog post triumphantly proclaiming creating two divisions for AI. To me, that sounds like two divisions that are about to get laid off.

Amazing how your post history illustrates you only care about one topic. Like the last time I saw one of your posts:

These articles are getting so obscure, that you probably had to peel through a good amount of stuff that people here would find way more relevant.

And based on other articles from this same website, they are American exceptionalists. And not competent about technology. Here is another article of theirs, “how autocrats weaponize AI”, which was published last month and refuses to mention the Trump administration among their list of autocrats.

The article is also extremely stupid, misrepresenting how Signal works.

Encryption apps like Signal use AI to ensure secure communication and protect activists from government surveillance.

I don’t know what the author was smoking when they wrote that, but Signal does not use any AI.

Edit: …a decentralized Monero exchange

There’s the Monero shilling I expect in every comment

How does this affect people who upgrade? They just have Firefox plus a second browser?

I think the purpose is to find a source of revenue so that they don’t have to ruin their product. There’s a lot of potential good here, in addition to the unfortunately undeniable potential bad.

Until the lawsuit between Steve Teixeira and Mozilla reveals the truth, I’m going to withhold my judgment about how fascistic Mozilla was internally.

Teixeira claimed Mozilla conducted an audit that found them pretty lacking in the equality department IIRC, and Mozilla’s own lawyers disputed many things but not that.

You can close a group and reopen it later.

I thought tab groups on the desktop were neat but ignorable… Until browser vendors started implementing stuff like this. Now it’s basically a halfway point between an open tab and a bookmark. Excellent for organization.

Pebble was from a time when enshittifiaction wasn’t as terrible as it is today, and died (post acquisition) before it could really be implemented in its products. Eric Migicovsky is an odd duck in that regard. Between this and Beeper, privacy has always been “not great, not malicious (yet)”, and before enshittifiaction could set in under his watch, the company gets bought out by a bigger one with a truly lousy CEO.

Under his watch. Heh.

Pebble was possibly one of the last great tech innovations before AI, in its desperate attempt to sell our stolen data back to us in a thoroughly butchered format. Which means it pains me to read

Upgrades to the hardware will include a speaker alongside the microphone, which Migicovsky teases will be used for talking with AI assistants (ChatGPT being one example).

Personal home labs might be able to go much further with this, I hope.

Considering how popular this product originally was with hackers and open source enthusiasts, I really hope the hardware has as much longevity as its predecessor. And considering that was closed source and got so much mileage, I have the feeling that this will be better simply by how open-source works.

I miss those old images that would show you your IP address and ISP name, which were generated dynamically based on the request. They were designed just to be a bit frightening. But, because they were rendered on the server side, there was definitely nothing stopping them from recording your IP address too.

https://imgur.com/aYxadwg

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/

Read about Kagi’s origin story and The Age of Pagerank is Over blog post, which serves as our manifesto.

https://blog.kagi.com/age-pagerank-over

Previously posted at kagi.ai on a page titled “Our Manifesto”

https://archive.is/PtPdj

Kagi doesn’t just add optional AI features, they are an AI-first company that wants to turn search into an AI agent. They wrote a manifesto about it.

Maybe manifestos aren’t worth much anymore, what’s with Mozilla abandoning theirs, but I tend to believe a company when they tell me what they are.