#FreeBSD’s entry-level ee(1) text editor recently gained full #Unicode support 🎉
Huge thanks to @_bapt_
- much appreciated!

One more step toward making FreeBSD even more welcoming… #GenZ, we’re ready for you 

Inspired by a discussion elsewhere:

I've been on the Internet since 1987, started a career building the commercial Internet in 1995, and have spent the last 25 years writing books about how to build foundational Internet infrastructure. I've consulted for and worked with any number of dot-coms, and the one lesson I've gotten over and over again?

The Internet's business model is betrayal.

We have no smart lights. No voice assistants. No Alexa or Siri. No video doorbell. Our thermostat and appliances constantly complain about their lack of Internet. None of this stuff is safe.

The Internet tech I do use? A desktop PC. Email on my phone is for travel only: airplane tickets, hotel reservations, hockey and concert tix. Location on my phone? Nope, we use a dedicated non-networked GPS in the car. The microphones are off.

How can a light bulb betray me? I don't know. I do know that the vendors have put a LOT of thought into it, though, and I can't out-think all of them.

Heads up for Firefox users on #OpenBSD -current, landry@ the mozilla port maintainer has committed a new policy configuration file which changes some (annoying) default behaviour.

landry@ modified ports/www/mozilla-firefox/*: Install a policy configuration file

mostly taken from https://justthebrowser.com/firefox/, Disables:

• Firefox Studies
• Checking if firefox is the default browser
• Sponsored stuff on the home page
• GenAI features
• PerplexityAI from the default search engines

in addition, frob GoToIntranetSiteForSingleWordEntryInAddressBar, which forces firefox to ask your dns first if you enter a single word in the address bar, useful to access local sites on your network instead of sending your internal dns entries to $searchengine.

cf https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#gotointranetsiteforsinglewordentryinaddressbar

many knobs to frob, but those seem to be a decent baseline to fight against enshittification.