If you've ever wondered why you need so many people to write a browser... It's shit like this.
https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently (by @denodell@mastodon.social)
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Vincent Tunru
@VincentTunru@fosstodon.org
mastodon 4.7.3Dutchie who likes to rant about (front-end) engineering, civil rights, and the intersection between those two.
@mozilla@mastodon.social, https://plaudit.pub, https://solidproject.org, @ToSDR@mastodon.indie.host, and a never-ending stream of unfinished side projects — though Toots are my own.
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@_elena@mastodon.social Only slightly related, but to make it easier to redact parts of screenshots, I once wrote this extension that might be helpful: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/obfuscator/
(Idea came from this Mastodon post: https://chaos.social/@maris/108379392423588799)
I just crossed Germany by train and suffered no delays, AMA.
Neat! If you follow this link on Android, you get Firefox *with* uBlock Origin installed.
https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/ublock-origin/?utm_campaign=amo-fx-android-qr&utm_content=ublock-origin&utm_source=addons.mozilla.org
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@pojntfx@mastodon.social Same, props to Martin Stransky!
https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/firefox-gtk-emoji-picker/
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@iris_meredith@mastodon.social @tomi@mamot.fr That indeed is the issue. You should be able to edit them in to make them clickable.
How long until Google offers an API to sell your products directly from the Google Search/AI UI? Free at first; later for a mere 30% cut, of course.
It's a bit hard to see because it's still a small percentage, but as far as I can see, the share of Linux use among Firefox users is growing steadily: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware#operating-system
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And if any conference organisers are reading this: please let people self-identify as being open to talking to new people!
I don't mind walking up to existing conversations too much, except if I'm potentially intruding into an existing in-group, like colleagues or friends visiting together.
On the train to FOSDEM I quickly but finally bashed out a long-planned post on the Solid app I wrote that allows you to post to the Fediverse from your Solid Pod.
Main takeway: cool experiment, but @activitypods@fosstodon.org have the more feasible approach for now.
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@konstruct@woof.tech It's always neat when the alt text does a better job conveying the horrors we're witnessing than the picture itself.
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@mgifford@mastodon.social It sounds like you're going for something that building owners/lodgers would publish themselves, so probably not quite what you want, but possibly relevant is OpenStreetMaps' accessibility data: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_map_for_the_needs_of_people_with_disabilities
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@Starcross@mk.absturztau.be It would honestly be wonderful if someone else, preferably a non-profit, had the resources to maintain a modern web browser. Unfortunately, it's unclear where those resources are supposed to come from.
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@Mer__edith@mastodon.world @ck@chaos.social @dalias@hachyderm.io @signalapp@mastodon.world
Corporate surveillance *is also* (indirect) government surveillance. And with a bit of luck, it's not a government you are able to vote for.
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@happyborg@fosstodon.org @activitypods@fosstodon.org I haven't extensively tried it myself, but AFAIK it's just a Solid server with some extra capabilities. Except that it doesn't support all of Solid yet, but that's being worked on: https://activitypods.org/our-roadmap-for-2025#solid-compatibility
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@GIMP@floss.social Just a note that you linked to what I assume is the testing site :) You probably meant https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html
Congrats on the release!
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@theruss@mstdn.social Keep in mind that you're still trusting the instance if you're just looking at the "verified" badge. Bad actors can relatively easily set up their own instance with a fork of the Mastodon code, and add that badge without requiring actual verification.
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@mhoye So when's Firefox adding back ALSA support?
Surely by now people realise that it's extremely widely used, but only by people with telemetry disabled?
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@dannycolin@floss.social I'm fairly sure it's at least on someone's todo list, along with a bunch of other editing tools. But of course, that todo list is probably overflowing already...
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I don't think the vote happens in the European Parliament, so contacting your MEPs doesn't do much, no?
AFAIK, the vote is among the local governments, so people should be contacting those. And then in particular citizens of countries that are set to vote in favour.
(That said, even if the vote is accepted, Parliament I believe would still need to agree as well, but that would happen down the road.)
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@contrasocial@mastodon.social @bodil@social.treehouse.systems *And* those still need Mozilla to stick around.