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The problem, my dearest Mozilla Foundation, is that donations to you do not fund the development of Firefox, which is the primary reason Mozilla has ... (files.alpaca.gold)
 

The problem, my dearest Mozilla Foundation, is that donations to you do not fund the development of Firefox, which is the primary reason Mozilla has influence regarding Internet and technology issues. Firefox is the invitation to the conversation and the demonstration of your ideals being viable.If you are going to open a donation request tab on my device, at least be truthful.Screenshot source: mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/welcContext: jeremiahlee.com/posts/mozillas#Mozilla #Firefox

Screenshot of Firefox welcome tab. Text: You power Firefox. Now donate to make good tech the default. Mozilla Foundation — the non-profit behind Firefox — is building a future where technology serves people, not power. Your donation to Mozilla Foundation keeps the internet open, private, and built for people. Donate today to make good on the promise of the internet. Button: Donate to Mozilla Foundation
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🤯 I do not understand Sveriges's support of increased government surveillance (alpaca.gold)
 

🤯 I do not understand Sveriges's support of increased government surveillance.On October 1, police and security police will gain the power to monitor calls, texts, and online activity of children under 15. Many of the new rules are set to expire automatically in 3 or 5 years. The rule was voted through parliament on September 17, with the S, C, SD supporting the government parties, and only L voting against the measure. MP abstained. thelocal.se/20250923/a-kassa-c#SVPol #privacy

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The EU ** # ChatControl ** proposal is back! (alpaca.gold)
 

The EU #ChatControl proposal is back! 🤬 We must keep demanding the human right to privacy extend to digital communication.I wrote speculative fiction to explain the proposal and its societal harm.Journalists and activists translated it to DE, ES, IT, PL, and SV. Message me if you can translate it to another EU language.jeremiahlee.com/posts/after-ch#privacy #activism #SvPol #EUPol

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I do not want to install any NPM package without an organization namespace (alpaca.gold)
 

I do not want to install any NPM package without an organization namespace. I can evaluate the security practices of an organization more easily than every commit on a repo (especially in monorepos) to evaluate a package.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-xorindex-malware-hidden-in-67-malicious-npm-packages/?ref=activitypub

#security #JavaScript #programming

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Another unnecessary macOS global keyboard shortcut change inspired a bad change in Firefox (alpaca.gold)
 

Another unnecessary macOS global keyboard shortcut change inspired a bad change in Firefox.

Apple hijacked ⌃↩ to open a context menu. Firefox used that to normalize input text to a .com URL.

⌘↩ in the address bar used to open a new tab. Firefox thought adding .com was more useful than opening a new tab, so moved new tab to ⌥↩, inconsistent with ⌘ + click opening a link in a new tab.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1949999&ref=activitypub

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/?ref=activitypub

https://lifehacker.com/tech/right-click-with-your-keyboard-in-mac-os-sequoia?ref=activitypub

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255829818?sortBy=rank&ref=activitypub

#Firefox