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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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IE4 is my main target and Firefox current is my ultimate target, but Dillo, Links, RetroZilla, and SeaMonkey (last for Win98 and current, both) are proving at least as useful as Firefox's Responsive Design Mode in testing and debugging.

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I am learning so much modern CSS for features that most websites rely on slower JS to achieve, and I'm learning how to shield modern CSS's side effects from older and early popular browsers.

This is so much more labor than I expected, using every age of CSS to make CSS-free HTML layout table pages look better and responsive, but it's a labor of love. And joy. And bliss.

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blog, February 2, 2026, "AI controls are coming to Firefox": blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai

So I like that the next will have a long overdue on/off switch.

However, because like the dudebros and techbros before them AI bros never learned boundaries or consent, the AI slop still isn't turned off by default. It still isn't the opt-in this compromise should be. It still isn't the opt-in the whole AI feature set should've been from the start.

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Eve Ventually

Alright. So. A few things.

  1. The right time to give me a choice in whether or not unasked 'AI' 'features' were shoved down my throat was before you did the shoving
  2. Making everyone refer to obscure guides that involve bypassing scare warnings in order to turn those features off is phenomenally bad user experience
  3. The unasked for, unwanted 'AI' features you've been shoving down our throats behave — from a user perspective — similar to cryptojacking in that their computer suddenly performs very poorly without transparency to the user about why or a choice about turning it off (again, the wrong time to ask is after you've already done the bad thing)
  4. I am not signing up for yet another god damn thing just so I can tell you so

#Firefox

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aburka 🫣

RE: mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdev

I've been very critical of Firefox of late and one of my criticisms was I never thought they would really ship this. So, I have quibbles but credit where it's due: to the team that got this approved by AI-pilled management!

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Firefox for Web Developers

AI Controls (formally 'kill switch') are landing in today's Firefox Nightly, and will land with Firefox 148 later this month.

For the full details, see the Firefox blog blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai

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fraggle

sorry i'm sorry i'm trying to disable it

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rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

Holy shit. TIL that Janet Jackson is the only Grammy-winning artist with a CVE.

CVE-2022-38392 indicates that playing Rhythm Nation near certain hard drives will cause a crash, because the song contains a resonate frequency with a 5400RPM spinning disk of a certain diameter and construction.

Neat.

#music #infosec

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

But–but kitty!!

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

Danger kitty has a question

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I'm celebrating this Imbolc by feeling like I've set a bonfire inside my head and still feeling as cold as winter.

May yours be better, more peaceful, and more mindful than mine.

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Luisf

This mixed with that study from last year where the results were "programmers think they are 20% more efficient, in fact they were 20% slower and worse" just seem to indicate that vibe coding is uh

bad
for both the programmer, and what is being programmed.

Like, really fucking bad.

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Luisf

anthropic.com/research/AI-assi

Anthropic's own fucking study lmao

"Yeah AI coding makes you worse at it"

like
significantly so

This tracks with my personal experience in my previous job.

Rapid deskilling when they started using llm "prompt engineering" for the code they pushed.

Within weeks they basically had stopped being able to explain what they were pushing during code review.

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I'm so very tired of software that ages like milk.

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Websites should not start breaking and promise to quit working if your browser slips more than one season out of date.

Operating systems should not tie up your Internet connection for an hour with updates and prevent you from doing anything useful just because you left the device it's on turned off for a month.

Every modern website and every modern desktop and pocket OS is guilty.

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Dog with Glasses Plushie :neodog_glasses: :waow:

Just wrote a quick blog post encouraging you to think more clearly about what Twitter’s “Send to AI” button means:

Don’t Create The “Draw a Dick” Button

https://aria.dog/barks/draw-a-dick-button/

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

the computer chronicles tapes are being redigitized into a higher quality than before available. i believe i saw somewhere this will eventually include episodes previously unavailable such as the ones prior to syndication. bless

archive.org/details/@davidga/l

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Misty

Absolutely brutal headline: theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

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Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️

cw boost: travelling to the US gets *even worse* 

never travel to the US. never. even for family reasons. even for work reasons. it could genuinely ruin your life.
infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1
via @briankrebs

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BrianKrebs

We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:

"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."

"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."

PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:

-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’

-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.

privacyinternational.org/news-

The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than
February 9, 2026) to be assured of
consideration

Federal Register entry: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-202

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