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  Mozilla's new Exa partnership: the privacy implications Mozilla recently announced a partnership with the AI company Exa. They say: Firefox is investing in partnerships with companies like Exa.ai to bring deep expertise in specific areas while sharing our commitment to user choice, privacy, and transparency. They continue: We’re picking partners for the same reason each time: people who think AI in a browser should work for you, not the other way around. This is a little...

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  tl;dr this new policy is dumb and bad. References to specific things like Antifa make no logical sense as a grounds for censorship, because there were already reasonable rules in place to handle actual problems. >In some cases, the content that Meta considers a threat signal is commonsensical. If, for instance, a user mentions bringing a weapon to an event, the company flags it as a threat signal. But in other cases, Meta’s process for identifying threat signals is more vague. Under the new...

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  There's nothing more American than destroying a Flock camera

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  Netflix has already experimented with putting [original games](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/22/the-cat-burglar-review-netflix-charlie-brooker) behind a monthly subscription and then [killing the games](https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon/netflix-removing-all-but-four-interactive-specials-in-december-2024/). I can see other companies trying this too.

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  That's causing a lot of chaos in the online world isn't it? France switched to OnlyOffice and Nextcloud, and now there's [a feud](https://www.xda-developers.com/onlyoffice-pulled-its-8-year-partnership-with-nextcloud-licensing-violations/) between the two. I can't imagine using an office suite that's possibly a dead-end fork of a company that's fighting with the cloud drive I use to upload my documents.

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  Read this entire post with the understanding that this guy is a crypto bro who created a "smart billing" platform. So when he says > The healthier model may require paying for things that used to appear free. It makes me wonder what his payment solution actually looks like.

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  I think there's a lot of confusion surrounding this app, so I'm going to make some assumptions and please correct me if I'm wrong. 1. This isn't an email app at all, but it's **a messaging app that uses the email paradigm** to display how messages are received. 2. "Deferred messages" simply wait in the app's Outbox folder until your contact comes online and then they will be delivered. (It's interesting how Delta Chat is technically an email client that p...

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  It's a rare channel because not only are the videos pretty simple and straightforward, the host is also extremely knowledgeable about the topics. Look for anybody else who's familiar with the differences of the for-profit/non-profit links with companies like Mozilla and Proton. I don't think you'll find them in many places.

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  This article implicitly references but does not specifically mention, the essay [The Network State](https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happening-right-now/), which spiritually feels like a predecessor to what Palantir decided to unleash on the world the other day.

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  Another nail in the coffin of "An Analysis of Water-Based Assumptions and Recalibration of Expectations for Evolutionary Models"

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  We're talking the same AI systems that protect children from [lethal bags of chips](https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/armed-police-swarm-student-after-ai-mistakes-bag-of-doritos-for-a-weapon-3273512/), and the same kind of premise that lead to [vulnerable women getting their info stolen](https://www.npr.org/2025/08/02/nx-s1-5483886/tea-app-breach-hacked-whisper-networks)?

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  This is one zestily written article from a website I've never heard of before. > “If people want to vent like that, then so be it,” said Wipfli, a radio broadcaster known to Australians as Wippa, speaking from his home in Sydney. Radio stations should mandate age verification /s

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  If the code was good, nothing would be wrong with it. It would be even better if the code was free. And that's my point. (In Mozilla's case, it's actually much worse because they bought private customer data along with the technology and then canned the technology while keeping the data, but that's a different story.)

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  I said it for Waterfox and I'm gonna say it again for Firefox: **this is good**. At worst, it's just fine (Mozilla just uses it internally to replace or supplement its old and incomplete Tracker Blocking system, which never gets the same scrutiny). The biggest difference between Firefox and Waterfox in implementation is **the WaterFox developers noticed this FF change early, and [committed](https://piunikaweb.com/2026/03/30/waterfox-brave-adblock-native-content-blocker/) to providing fu...

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  Predicts who? Edit: apparently a guy who hasn't made a remotely successful movie for decades, and really wants to re-live the fame as a Young Director award winner in 1995

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  Until "could" becomes a reality, I will take "did"

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  Really fiddling with the censorship dial until they hear too many complaints... Trying to boil every single frog in the pot at the same time. This is disconcerting, but we've gotten to the point where complaining is built to fall on deaf ears.

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  > Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in a recent essay, speculated on ways that we might “buy time” before the possibility that AI enslaves or destroys humanity. But meanwhile, AI companies have products to sell... Anybody want to tell them?

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  Does it matter if you don't update? I imagine they already have it on their servers, which is where I imagine the photos are mostly processed.

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  I'm not saying there's anything untoward here, but at what point do we start looking at these partnerships and start to wonder if it affects the repairability ratings? HMD partnered with iFixit and created a [very repairable phone](https://www.ifixit.com/News/97701/hmd-skyline-a-new-twist-on-repairable-smartphone-design)... Except in the software realm, where the bootloader is locked, it's still on Android 15, and allegedly the next major update will be its last (giving it a shorter...

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  I can't believe the company resuscitated a 40-year-old chip plant - with a CEO who similarly looks like he was frozen in a block of ice since the 80s - and are selling out new wafers to help such a confused industry. Neat if it works, I guess, but it's a shame these innovations aren't passing down to users (unless somehow, less energy turns into less usage and less taxpayer subsidization, but usually [efficiency increases just go the other way](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_pa...

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  The vast majority of people only heard the stories that made it to the Tech Media, which sanitized his image and pitted him against the Bad Guys. And by “him” I mean all of them

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  Tesla’s Elon Musk used to be seen as the Wholesome Tech Guy who was better than the other ghouls, then we found out the truth about him that was there all along. FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried used to be seen as the Generous Finance Guy who was better than the other ghouls, then we found out the truth about him that was there all along. OpenAI’s Sam Altman used to be seen as the Good AI Guy who was better than the other ghouls, then we found out the truth about him that was there all along. An...

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  Graphene might be marketed towards enterprises first. Look at [that leaked slide](https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/27/leak-confirms-grapheneos-motorola-partnership-for-non-pixel-hardware/) again: it mentions "**bloatware-free** interface with Business Edition." The bigger leak is Motorola acknowledging they ship bloatware, IMO

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  I'm concerned about in-system bloat because I read the linked article. > Rather, it’s more of an honesty bump. **Components that make up the distro – the GNOME desktop and extensions**, modern web browsers (and the sites we load in them) and the kinds of apps we use (and keep running) whilst multitasking are more demanding. The desktop itself isn't the only reason that you need more RAM, but it's definitely one of them.

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  Really unfortunate seeing GNOME is part of the problem here. Linux desktop environments shouldn't _need_ to be tied to large RAM requirements, never mind increasing ones, for basic functionality. For example, the Start menu key was introduced by Microsoft in _Windows 95_, but this toggle still isn't available in most "light" desktop environments like XFCE. The MacBook Neo, of all things, is chomping at the heels of the idea that pretty, feature-rich OSes need a lot of hardwar...

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  What are the chances the 10-second warning becomes a 90-second unskippable one?

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  Why is Mozilla using _their_ money to build a free product, in partnership with a company that appears to have enough money for itself? **DeepSet** raised [$44 million](https://parsers.vc/startup/deepset.ai/) in venture capital funding. It should be able to fund the project themselves, like how Google funds Firefox. Meanwhile, **Mozilla** has promised [$65 million](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozillas-biggest-ai-moments/) total, for numerous AI projects and AI advocacy... stuff... an...

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  This is a big deal because this will hit low end customers the hardest. People who shop at Dollar General for their phones. I remember when relatively speedy device unlocks were mandated. And before then, contracts would basically include the price of the phone in them. Now we have to pay extra for the phone, and it's still not ours. Very cool.

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  In my experience, Vivaldi buckles under a heavy load. It feels clunky, like the team tried to develop a browser within a browser\*, and all the added features like an email client inside of it probably don't help. \* I'm pretty sure the whole UI is like an Electron app in there, which might explain the bizarre behavior that's usually handled decently by other forks: Tab handling, keyboard shortcuts, etc