Reminder to go to your local library and volunteer to speak on their behalf. Let them know that if folks try to come and ban books that you'll speak publicly against them.
We found out folks were going to be commenting at our library calling for banning books.
So.
We all went and spoke out against them.
Only one person got up and called for a ban. She went first. Everyone after her started calling out her behavior and telling the library staff to keep the books.
The first woman and a couple others soon left before the end of comments.
Drive them out. Protect our libraries.
Repeating this. I’m Muslim. I don’t feel attacked when people condemn Taliban b/c Taliban do not rep Muslims & I proudly take the lead in condemning Taliban terror.
If you’re MAGA white & feel personally attacked when we condemn white supremacy terror—you’re telling on yourself.
In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite launch date in early September, ...
In response to Google's monopolistic implementation of Web Environment Integrity, I have a modest proposal:
Open source JavaScript libraries should add bugs which only occur when they find "navigator.getEnvironmentIntegrity" is being used.
Go into a "while(true)" loop. Start throwing exceptions randomly. Just fuck up the page. Make the lives of every developer who is in the origin trial who uses your library completely miserable.
If they want to fork, they have the freedom to do so. But then they're taking on the maintenance that they would prefer to outsource to their community.
If you have enough big libraries doing this, it might make a dent.
We are heartbroken by the loss of the Vim boss.
Rest in peace, Bram