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@dividingbyzero
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I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the
former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the
former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "
advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!



edit: Bradwood has been promoted to Chief Business Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, not Chief Financial Officer, my bad

edit2: as
@[email protected] pointed out, even if Graham Mudd's title is "SVP of Product", the bio in his page talks about him as the SVP of Product for the Mozilla Ads division specifically. So it may be the case that he hasn't been promoted and he's just on top of the ad division. That being said, Mozilla doesn't have a Chief Product Officer anymore, and that makes Mudd the most senior product person in the entire Mozilla organization, outranking the VP that seems to be org-wide.
Mozilla Leadership

Mozilla

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.https://youtu.be/Zgxb...

YouTube
Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/tags/abortion
abortion | Jeff Geerling

The EU’s prototype age verification app is under fire for planning to use Google’s Play Integrity API 🔍

Critics say this could restrict non-Google Android users, harm digital sovereignty, and contradict the EU’s own antitrust stance 🇪🇺

Developers are urging alternatives like Yivi, which work without Google’s ecosystem 🛡️

@EUCommission
@neowin

https://www.neowin.net/news/eus-new-age-verification-app-faces-criticism-over-google-dependence/

#EU #Europe #Privacy #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #AgeVerification #Google #Antitrust #TechPolicy #Cybersecurity #Freedom

EU's new age verification app faces criticism over Google dependence

The European Union's in-development age verification app has attracted criticism over plans to use a Google API that would harm competition.

Neowin

Signature collection for the #StopKillingGames initiative against planned obsolescence of video games is ending in a few weeks. If you're from Europe, please sign the petition and support game preservation!

For EU citizens: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

For UK citizens and residents: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

Why we support it: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2024/12/02/dolphin-progress-report-release-2412/#whats-up-with-the-blue-banner

Dear product people: I just want to be REALLY clear here:

If your product
forces me to engage with your LLM
I will not use your product.

I don't want your summaries,
or your suggestions,
or your chats,
or your sparkle icons,
and I don't want to program browser extensions to forcibly hide all that shit.

It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.

The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know

Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Wenn die Polizei offenbar schon mit solchen kriminellen Schwerpunkten überfordert ist und nicht einschreitet – was soll dann die Massenüberwachung der Bevölkerung mit Chatkontrolle und Vorratsdatenspeicherung bringen?
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/geheimer-beschluss-paedokriminelle-inhalte-bleiben-trotz-kenntnis-der-polizei-im-netz/
Geheimer Beschluss: Pädokriminelle Inhalte bleiben trotz Kenntnis der Polizei im Netz

Vor mehr als drei Jahren wurde bekannt, dass Polizeibehörden pädokriminelle Inhalte kaum melden und entfernen. Die Politik gelobte damals Besserung - und entschied sich geheim anders. Dabei wäre die Löschung einfach und wirkungsvoll, zeigt jetzt eine Recherche von Panorama und STRG_F.

netzpolitik.org