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#Mozilla is basically rebranding Firefox to Insanity Wolf.https://mastodon.social/@adamsaidsomething/115732865030224018

Cats ARE allowed to have comfy wheelchairs #CatsOfMastodon

Italia, Piemonte, Torino, Piazza Castello.#travel #night #photo #photography @foto

Sure, let's give it a shot. Most of the answers will probably be written but maybe I'll get inspired. (And maybe this will make me get some of my OCs out of my head and onto the screen. We'll see.)

Quando Hal 9001 viene smantellato, ecco, quello siamo noi

Ma le @ChieseBrutte sono situate su linee di ley?

Un'altra notte a deturpare la notte coi miei pensieri Ma la notte non è silenziosa in città Un rumore di sottofondo, un respiro di macchine, la bestia è in attesaNon si sente il silenzio del cielo, solo la presenza dell'infernoEssere vivi significa esserci, negarsi il sonno Il dolore è una persistenza

Wolf Lake, overcast, at 70mph #chicago #photography

30 years ago, Shining Force on the SEGA Genesis set the bar for me. Deep systems, clean pacing, real tactical weight. It made me a lifelong strategy RPG fan.Plenty of good games followed. Persona included. None of them ever felt like Shining Force.Until Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga.This is the closest thing to a modern Shining Force. It is not a grind-first RPG. Positioning matters. Formation matters. You decide whether to press forward or bait the enemy into a bad engagement. The map actually matters.The art style lands exactly where it should. Clearly 16-bit inspired, but far more detailed. Strong character portraits. Strong battlefield readability. The music does its job without getting in the way.It runs flawlessly on the Steam Deck. Low overhead. Long battery life. Perfect for short sessions in a coffee shop or long stretches on the couch. It feels designed for handheld play, even if it was not.A genuinely great strategy RPG. One of the best in the genre.

Mozilla is abysmally run. It has been abysmally run. The AI plan is asinine and shortsighted. It won't work. Mozilla is just not going to exist in ten years at this rate.At the same time, I don't think people understand how much it actually costs to build and maintain a browser with a custom engine. Ten years ago the estimate was $100 million... annually. Every competitor of theirs other than Google and Apple gets to build their browser without this burden.Mozilla's problem is critical to solve but I don't get how it can be solved.

5 practices that are considered ‘common wisdom’, and why it’s worth reconsidering them.1. Don’t reinvent the wheel - find a package2. Every PR must be reviewed3. 2-4 week sprints are how modern teams work4. Every code change should be behind a feature flag/gate5. If a comment is needed, the code is too complexhttps://newsletter.manager.dev/p/5-engineering-dogmas-its-time-to

Meglio non usare tutte cifre diverse per il pin @matematica - Almeno se avete paura che qualcuno sappia quali cifre avete digitatohttps://wp.me/p6hcSh-93n

Mozilla's core value proposition was trust. They weren't Google. They weren't going to sell you out. They even listened to feedback sometimes. Now their destroying all that is left of that value by going all in on adtech and the A.I. bubble for a short term cash grab. But the A.I. cash will dry up and the trust will stay gone. And who's gonna pay for a V.P.N. subscription, email forwarding service or any other "privacy" add-on run by a company they've learned not to trust?#mozilla #firefox #AI

At the top, U.S.-China tensions run hot. Inside government offices, things look familiar. A new analysis shows bureaucrats on both sides respond to the same pressures and manage difficulties in similar ways.https://theconversation.com/2-superpowers-1-playbook-why-chinese-and-us-bureaucrats-think-and-act-alike-266305

🔥 take: Mozilla’s challenge isn’t leadership or AI. Virtually no one wants to “browse” or to have a “browser”. They want to search, scroll, or use a webapp—if they think about the renderer’s UX something has gone wrong. So as long as Moz self-identifies as a “browser company”, they’ll lose.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007

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A volte non resta che constatare l'amarezza delle cose, e trangugiare quest'erba amara

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt-hour of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer

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