Pete Prodoehl 🍕

@rasterweb
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Maker / Designer / Creative; electronics, digital fabrication, art, photo, video, printmaker, noise, cats, pcomp, bike, USB, MIDI, MKE, searchable… blogging since 1997, programming since 1980! [he/him] See rasterweb.net and peteprodoehl.com 💾 Just my toots: https://justmytoots.com/@rasterweb@mastodon.social
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LocationMilwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕3h ago
@mullvadnet @astro @lostgen I guess a need a new VPN provider… any recommendations?
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕11h ago

@mathias @links Oh right! For my four desktop/laptop computers at home those all changed from Firefox to LibreWolf but also have telemetry blocked… even before the switch telemetry was blocked on my network via a Pi-hole.

I use Firefox at work and disabled AI but might not have blocked telemetry.

Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕13h ago

@links I cannot read something like this and not think the author cares not about independence, autonomy, and control.

Giving up on the web in favor of AI is just handing your life over to corporations that care only for profits and not human life.

Pete Prodoehl 🍕13h ago
lmorchard's links1d ago
Firefox's AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.

"Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest left everything on. CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says the point is not the percentage but the choice."

https://thenextweb.com/news/mozilla-firefox-ai-kill-switch-1-percent-smart-window-vpn

#ai #firefox #llms #mozilla #web
Firefox’s AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.

Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest left everything on. CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says the point is not the percentage but the choice. “Our community was pretty vocal, especially during the CEO announcement, that […]

The Next Web
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕13h ago
@links I mean, I demanded it, but then ended up switching browsers, which I think many other folks did as well.
Pete Prodoehl 🍕19h ago

➡️ Phanpy

https://phanpy.social/

(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)

#bookmarks

Phanpy

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

Pete Prodoehl 🍕22h ago

I got some Python code working yesterday after being convinced I could not figure it out… but figured it out!

Realized I needed extra code today, thought it would be a pain but figured it out in no time.

Maybe I can write Python okay…

Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕22h ago
@smellsofbikes @chrishuck I always enjoy the punks + bikes crossover folks.
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕22h ago
@mathias Some Etsy crafty person would love all those keycaps!
Pete Prodoehl 🍕23h ago
I met up with three guys tonight who are not techie at all and they were all anti-data centers being built in Wisconsin.