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House approves bill renewing FISA spy program after GOP upheaval threatened passage
The bill reforms and extends a portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act known as Section 702 for a shortened period of two years.CBS News
Since I see that a notable VC-famous jerk is now telling us that he wish he'd "stood by" Eich way back, I'd like to tell you a true fact that situation: Eich didn't lose the CEO's job for his (reprehensible) Prop-8 donation.
Everyone wants to believe that's true, because fits nicely into narratives a number of invested camps want to believe, whether it's somebody being ousted for reprehensible views the woke SJW mob somehow pulling down a great leader (tm) but that's not what happened.
After what I'm told was a few days of very difficult negotiation under extraordinary pressure, both internal and external, a deal was struck. and the plan was that Eich make an announcement, apologizing for his "mistake" and making some public-benefit commitment about inclusivity, importance of diversity, etc.
Half the board resigned.
He takes his public drubbing, and he gets his company. The structure of the organization survives, the mission lives.
At the last minute, he reneged.
Do you have a copy of that email? I don't remember receiving it, but what I'm sure is that the first versions of Brave were actually Gecko-based (using browser.html as the frontend), then Electron then Chromium, but never WebKit.
About Firefox becoming competitive only with Quantum... man, it was so cringe at the time to see the desktop team rediscovering what we learned from the work on b2g (both UI and platform) and that the desktop team fought so much against at the time.
> and that the desktop team fought so much against at the time.
Citation needed? Desktop had _no resources_. (Almost) everybody was working on b2g. We were begging for scraps of people's cycles to work on our flagship product.
@mconley That's not true. Who from the desktop team was pulled into b2g? Your "flagship" still has no good distribution channel and is losing users, not just market share. That won't be fixed by making it a better product unfortunately because *users are somewhere else*.
Killing b2g after only shipping it for 2.5 years was so stupid for all of Moz, including Desktop.
(disclaimer: Fx Nightly is my default browser).
@fabrice
Front-end engineers were being yanked in to work on Gaia. The entire Graphics team was so focused on b2g that the Australis re-theme was delayed by _months_ so we could work through graphics performance issues with them. You have no idea what it was like to work on desktop during those years.
I know you're bitter about b2g at Moz, but it happened. Take the L. Move on.
Disclaimer: I used a reference FxOS phone for a year as my primary.
@mconley I'm bitter about people defending Baker/Mayo/Bryant blindly without realizing how much damage they did, yes. Had they honored their word to keep it as a community project / Tier3, they could have reaped the India market a mere 2 years later.
Complaining about months of delay on gfx is ridiculous in the grand scheme of things, and you know it.
@fabrice @mconley
From the 1.0 push up through the disastrous Florida all-hands the majority of engineering resources were dedicated to b2g projects.
My team of about 8 was down to 1 person each working on Firefox for Android and Firefox iOS. Even then myself and Aaron would be pulled into b2g testing for weeks at a time.
Similar sort of story for our contracting team.
@kbrosnan @fabrice I remember sitting in a meeting with Mark Mayo with a graph showing us that 40% of Mozilla's resources were dedicated to b2g at its peak. The picture you and @mconley are painting sounds more like 90%. Either way this means that top management was completely out-of-the-loop both with regards to b2g and desktop.
I've always attributed our failure to mismanagement and now I'm even more convinced of that.
@gabrielesvelto @kbrosnan @fabrice @mconley
I realise this thread has strayed way off its original topic, but... hot take:
Mozilla should bring back Firefox OS.
Putting decade-old company politics aside it was the most innovative and potentially disruptive thing Mozilla ever built, before and since, and is needed now more than ever.
For smartphones maybe, but also all manner of other smart devices where owning the OS is the only effective way to disrupt the incumbents.
@benfrancis @gabrielesvelto @kbrosnan @fabrice @mconley
Counterpoint: FirefoxOS was a misguided project cancelled far, far too late. It had no shot whatsoever, and its principal utility was letting phone OEMs get an extra two years out of existing product lines at the low end. CPU performance curves made investing a ton of effort to make things work on the low end something that Apple could ignore entirely and Android could wait out, changing nothing.
@benfrancis @gabrielesvelto @kbrosnan @mconley Google tried again recently on the low end with the "Jio Next" device based on Android Go. Guess what, it failed because Android Go is still bloated compared to b2g.
FxOS failed commercially because we could not get WhatsApp on board, and no WA meant no sales through carrier distribution channels. Then we gathered tons of ideas for a v3 that would be more "Mozilla centric" but the leadership chickened out.
@mconley @fabrice
I recall Desktop/frontend (Firefox but not Gecko) being less than 10 people at the time, though both my memory and understanding at of the time were fuzzy. Once I understood the actual team distribution it seemed totally nuts how small desktop was.
I don't know what the right way would have been to run Firefox desktop and b2g in parallel, but whatever it was that wasn't it.
@fabrice @ianbicking You're not listening. All resources were committed to b2g. We were in full-on skeleton-crew mode. There was _no budget_ to hire more people because b2g was taking all of the budget.
Complaining about Firefox Desktop not hiring enough people is ridiculous in the grand scheme of things, and you know it.
At the same time, everyone has their biases and gripes and opinions. That’s OK.
@luk1337
thats the last entry from Feb 26
#taimen: Drop EUICC support
- Temporary drop to fix SIM issues.
[OFFICIAL] LineageOS 21 for the Google Pixel 2 XL
Google Pixel 2 XL - Your warranty is now void. - You have been warned. - Use at your own risk. Sadly, this device utilizes android.hardware.radio@1.3 (or below). This means that the March...npjohnson (XDA Forums)
@Kurt
Sadly, this device utilizes android.hardware.radio@1.3 (or below).This means that the March security bulletin - known as #QPR2 - fully killed this device.
We (LineageOS) are trying to write a wrapper to make older radio HAL versions compatible with newer radio HAL versions.
With that said, we may or may not be successful and we're entirely unsure how long it would take.
So, sadly, for now, this device has 21 builds disabled - I have deployed one final February ASB unofficial build people can use in the intermediary (or you can use the final official build).
I will announce here if/when the device is re-added to the roster.
A hacker group called Cyber Army of Russia posted videos in which it tampers with control software for US water utilities, a Polish wastewater plant, and a French hydroelectric dam.
Now a report from Mandiant ties the group to Sandworm, a unit of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency. wired.com/story/cyber-army-of-…
Hackers Linked to Russia’s Military Claim Credit for Sabotaging US Water Utilities
Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin’s Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn’t dare to.Andy Greenberg (WIRED)
We updated this story with absurd news from Le Monde: The French "hydroelectric dam" Cyber Army of Russia claimed it targeted was in fact a small water mill in a village of 300 people.
More evidence this is likely not Sandworm proper, but a loosely linked junior varsity team.
Cyber War Comes to the Suburbs
Federal investigators charged an Iranian hacker with breaking into the Bowman Avenue Dam, in Rye, N.Y. The mystery is what he was after.Eric Lach (The New Yorker)
It should not be possible to hack this Dam via the internet.
Everyone involved in decision making, leading to this, needs to add to their list of questions.
Why would controlling critical infrastructure, from anywhere in the world, be a thing anyone but a bad-person needs to do?
It'd also be way too much stress to manage all the worlds critical infrastructure.
#CyberSecurity, #Russians, #CyberAttacks, #TheCyber, #TuckersBalls
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Mozilla Firefox 125 Released with Added Conveniences
You know the drill by now: a new month rolls around, and a new version of the inimitable Mozilla Firefox rolls off the release server for us all to enjoy. And bang on cue, Firefox 125 has arrived. The big-ticket new feature in this update is URL paste suggestions: Mozilla says this feature “provides a convenient way for users to quickly visit URLs copied to the clipboard in the address bar of Firefox.” How does it work? If you copy a URL to the system clipboard and then focus the URL bar (in Firefox 125, that is) you will see 
#News #AppUpdates #Firefox
omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/mozill…
Mozilla Firefox 125 Released with Added Conveniences
You know the drill by now: a new month rolls around, and a new version of the inimitable Mozilla Firefox rolls off the release server for us all to enjoy. And bang on cue, Firefox […]Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
Good #LibreOffice news:
"Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) fixed issues related to the transparency-to-alpha rework, fixed a Skia issue related to a changed default, fixed horizontal swiping and scrolling when using an RTL UI, made it possible to encrypt files with using public GPG keys with unknown Ownertrust on macOS and fixed macOS crashes"
This is item # 27 in the monthly dev / qa report: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org…
And it means that for the first time for as long as I can recall, #OpenPGP in @LibreOffice on #macOS is in an actual usable state 😮
Kudos Patrick for your persistence in addressing the nasty issues around this implementation.
QA/Dev Report: March 2024 - LibreOffice QA Blog
General Activities LibreOffice 7.6.6 and LibreOffice 24.2.2 were released on March 28 Olivier Hallot (TDF) renamed Fontwork to Text along Path in the UI while updating Help, added Help content for ExportAsFixedFormat VBA method and new Calc functions…x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
#Apple and #Google have hijacked passkeys to keep users locked into their walled gardens.
Here's how we can make #passkeys work for everyone: proton.me/blog/big-tech-passke…
Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap
Big Tech companies want to chain your passkey to their products. Enter Proton Pass, which allows you to manage and use passkeys across all devices seamlessly.Son Nguyen (Proton)
@timcappalli Are they?
Are we sure it's not just cloud sync for that vendor's platform? Ex: Apple to iCloud and Google to Google Drive?
Last I heard/read was that users would still have to create another passkey for new "custodians."
Passkeys (Passkey Authentication)
A FIDO credential that is backed up (usually to the user’s platform account; e.g., Google Account or AppleID), allowing users to restore the credential to, and use it from, another device.FIDO Alliance
We wouldn't know until they actually roll it out to be fair, I am just spitballing considering the closest thing I can think of to something similar we have now are ssh keys.
In theory custodians could never allow an unencrypted export of the key per protocol, who knows.
Edit: Meant to say I use Bitwarden so it is a non-issue currently.
@timcappalli Another interesting tidbit, thanks.
Though, to be fair that is the status quo currently with migrating secrets and password managers. 😛
I find this argument a bit problematic. Just because software like @Team KeePassXC gives users control and choice over their passkeys, which Apple / Google / ... currently don't, doesn't mean they are irresponsible. From what I can tell KeePassXC devs were not involved in the discussions around transfer of passkeys.
Big tech wanted to get passkeys into user hands, which is a great thing, as are passkeys in general. But the statement that it is somewhat of a lock-in situation currently is not false.
And finger-pointing at software that does give users the option to transfer passkeys at their desire is not helping I think. Especially when that aspect has not yet been standardized.
If transfer can happen in encrypted form, that is clearly preferable. You filed github.com/keepassxreboot/keep… which is a good thing. The discussion shows however, that the way the debate was going on so far was not ideal.
#passkeys #security #passwordless
[Passkeys] should never be exported in clear text · Issue #10407 · keepassxreboot/keepassxc
Overview Passkeys should never be allowed to be exported in clear text. There is significant work going on across the industry on a secure migration protocol for credentials like passkeys. Please c...GitHub
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Dr Tim Nicholls
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •petitevieille
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •On your side, please act in conformity with your nice discourses. European Union leaders disappoint us way too often.
Thanks.
Osma A
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Chantal Coolsma
Als Antwort auf Osma A • • •European Commission
Als Antwort auf Chantal Coolsma • • •Osma A
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •@chantal
khemaat
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Jonny
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •The possibilities are indeed great, and this emblem is uplifting as is the sentiment. But too often it is acting just for itself, not for its customers.
And right now, I would not buy its stock.
@EU_Commission
CaV
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Liaizon Wakest
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •coolesbian
Als Antwort auf Liaizon Wakest • • •J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •benni
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Zilla
Als Antwort auf benni • • •Strght
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •I really wonder if the Fediverse is the right place for you. The Commission‘s digital politics is the opposite of the Fediverse. That doesn’t match.
Your toot is in the blabla-style of IG a.o. Here it’s about credibility, individuality and integrity.
Think.
Sharina D McCullough CFA
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •European Commission
Als Antwort auf Sharina D McCullough CFA • • •Andrés
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •What if they are Citizens of EU but doing school outside EU?
Zilla
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Helma 🤗
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Will Hall
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •mihira🍉
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •If you care so much about the fediverse, you could at least add a link in your website pointing to here.
To show the world that we exist.
Second you can confirm your profile as authentic.
joinmastodon.org/verification
Verification
joinmastodon.orgPetra van Cronenburg
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Participate, interact, vote - your rights | European Union
European UnionPetra van Cronenburg
Als Antwort auf Petra van Cronenburg • • •2/2 nor do they know the programs that help developing their region/nature (LEADER, Natura 2000 etc).
Unfortunately, the extremely poor findability and old-fashionedness of the websites do not contribute to the information/motivation of citizens; the design only makes bureaucrats happy. 😉
Therefore, your communication here, beside nice slogans and the website's administrative language, is so important! Tell us, what the EU does for us and what we can do for us all in the EU!
European Commission
Als Antwort auf Petra van Cronenburg • • •Petra van Cronenburg
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •jonburr
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Stop supporting the genocide of Gaza.
fucking hypocrites
bent
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •"Love does not increase after the first day, but it deepens."
What in the holy name of shitty AI copy is this?
Dmian
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied:
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Let me start off by saying that I love your coverage of topics related to this social network such as the Digital Markets or Services Act! I think it hits right home with what people on here are interested in the most and the almost live coverage of specific steps (identifying gatekeepers, having them contacted, explaining the consequences of this law, etc.) made this historic piece of legislation all the more engaging, educational, and made me feel as if I was part of the process!
Through analyzing those great posts and what I've liked about them I have made some suggestions about what I believe would help future coverage of new legislation or the EU overall:
Suggestion 1: Generally keeping people up to date
I think keeping people up to date about important legislation such as that is a great way to get people to understand why the EU exists and the importance of participating in elections.
Suggestion 1.1: Legislation Recaps
When it comes to the supply chain act (CSDDD) or the minimum wage directive I'd love similar updates! Additionally
... mehr anzeigenLet me start off by saying that I love your coverage of topics related to this social network such as the Digital Markets or Services Act! I think it hits right home with what people on here are interested in the most and the almost live coverage of specific steps (identifying gatekeepers, having them contacted, explaining the consequences of this law, etc.) made this historic piece of legislation all the more engaging, educational, and made me feel as if I was part of the process!
Through analyzing those great posts and what I've liked about them I have made some suggestions about what I believe would help future coverage of new legislation or the EU overall:
Suggestion 1: Generally keeping people up to date
I think keeping people up to date about important legislation such as that is a great way to get people to understand why the EU exists and the importance of participating in elections.
Suggestion 1.1: Legislation Recaps
When it comes to the supply chain act (CSDDD) or the minimum wage directive I'd love similar updates! Additionally, once legislation passes it'd be nice to have some sort of recap of it, such as “this is when the legislation was originally proposed by this working group or this party” and “These reforms, changes, etc. were made over time during this meeting by this or that party”. Just to generally have the majority of people get an understanding of the EU legislation process, the different institutions involved in it as well as a transparency about what parties do what when elected in government! I could see this being done as a thread where a new post gets added when some important change happens with every user being able to scroll up to see all former posts regarding this topic. Replies to your own posts (Threads) are also regarded the exact same as normal posts, so it will be sent to all your followers and show up on your account feed just like a non-thread post.
I know that's a lot of work, especially it's hard to figure out what legislation will interest most people (as there are hundreds of things voted on each day) but generally that'd be a service I'd enjoy!
Suggestion 2: Interactive Posts
Also maybe interactive posts such as polls would be lovely! If there's a legislation you can ask about people's agreement to that legislation with a small explanation what it was and why it was introduced.
Suggestion 2.1 Polls
For example:
“Do you think the DMA would have a positive or negative impact on your daily life?”
“[Explanation of the DMA/DSA + Link to further reading]”
“Poll Option 1: Positive”
“Poll Option 2: Negative”
...and maybe you can ask “what would you change about this law/the EU/etc.”
Suggestion 2.2 Ask me Anythings
Possibly you can get important EU institutions, parties, figure heads, to do “AMAs” (ask me anything) so for a certain time period they'd try to respond to every question sent to them by people on here!
These are a few suggestions and idea I had to make the fediverse both more attractive, the democratic process more transparent, as well as the EU more engaging for people!
@EU_Commission
European Commission
Als Antwort auf Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied: • • •Zilla
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •coolesbian
Als Antwort auf Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied: • • •Sir Toootenstein
Als Antwort auf Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied: • • •vladcampos.com
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Veranderwens
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •mastodon.nl/@veranderwens/1122…
Veranderwens (@veranderwens@mastodon.nl)
Mastodon.nlFluse
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •I would like to read about the EU taking a more decisive turn towards climate protection, sustainability, data protection against mega-corps and states, taxing of the rich, and Human Rights for people who turn towards the EU in hope of bare survival.
I don't need to read about it here in the Fediverse - I'd celebrate news about a change towards these goals anywhere, be it on your homepage, Twitter.
But I guess they'd have to happen more often so that you could write about them?
Nickname
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •And also on how to make the #EU more independent in regards to big tech companys(especially those that violate the #GDPR).
Nonbiner
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Can you toot about how you are going to make the consumer services better and faster? I liked Consuwijzer for this a lot more. It was easier to file a complaint against a seller, I could email them directly, and it was a lot faster.
I do appreciate European consumer law.
Dario Zanette
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •EduPassos
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •pedroapero
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •I'm interested in legislation update topics.
Would like to see more public profiles here too (Ursula von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde etc), especially now that X is in cash grab mode.
Alnotz
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Déjà deux ans ? Le temps passe vite.
J’ai aussi l’impression que le compte de la Commission européenne est plus un relai de diffusion qu’un moyen d’échanger avec ses membres.
Je me demande qui parmi les membres connaissent le Fediverse.
#Europe #Fediverse
Grégory Gutierez
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Great to have such official accounts on the #Fediverse!
Main topics IMHO:
✅ reinforced public health and concrete answers to the #ClimateChange crisis
✅ Better protection of workers and better #wellfare against precariousness
✅ To welcome #migrants according to European values and its #humanist principles
✅ A more combative Europe against racisms, especially antisemitism and muslim-hatred politics
✅ Protection of #Ukraine from #Poutine's agenda
#Européennes2024 #LesEcologistes
Anton
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •2. A sanction committee to keep track of sanctions, in particular against Russia and Putin's cronies (cooperation with the Anti-Corruption foundation would help)
3. A regular live podcast with high-ranking officials talking about current events and taking questions from the audience
Mark Vanderbeeken
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Atrapado🌴🍫
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Elijah Moore
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Nobody باچیز नास्ति (he/him)
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Ja, be less racist today and lesser still tomorrow. The European problem is racism and resurgent fascism.
Friendly banter.
Mark Pospesel
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •gunstick
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Djembro
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Cyastis
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •The EU's federated accounts are very useful to me; I don't use most other social media so I stay up to date here.
I like to see how the EU has come together and how it has spent funds; for example, I liked the black hole research post a few days ago and I would like to see more posts showcasing EU-funded projects (such as NGEU-funded projects).
European Commission
Als Antwort auf Cyastis • • •Peter Brown
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •Luce
Als Antwort auf European Commission • • •"If Putin is weaponizing migration, then Europe, in a very real way, is channelling ammunition to him."
opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr…
I think that the European Union has to accept migrants coming through the southern border. There will be more and more people coming as climate changes. We have to accomodate them.
Ignoring it doesn't make it go away. It only makes it worse for everyone.