With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.

Once you restart you should no longer see the Grey-ed out checkbox checked, and the AI chatbot disabled from ever functioning.

Hey fediverse,

It has been one hell of a month for me. I went through several mental realizations and came out of the other end an even better person than I was.

While in this process, I was harassed by racists for days on end for calling them out on their racist harassment of POC on the fediverse.

All of this costs: time, money, energy. Y'all can help with one of these.

I am doing a fundraiser to raise at least USD$1000/month as a monthly stipend for me to pay for self-care things like - haircuts, therapy, nice food and drinks.

This money is also a minimal compensation for the work I do for Ten Forward and the fediverse every day and have since 2017.

Additionally, I'll hopefully be starting therapy soon in October or November and that will cost me a lot over time and I ask for y'all help.

If you want to truly be an ally and have money to give, please throw some my way. It goes a long way.

You can do so here:

Stripe (recurring, one time) - https://subscribe.packetcat.ca

Note for CashApp users - Stripe allows one to make payments through CashApp so if you want to use CashApp, go the Stripe payment page and select CashApp and it will provide the requisite instructions.

If you use Fansly, you can do a recurring subscription there as we ll - https://fans.ly/porngoliath

PayPal (one-time) - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/staticsafe

Please boost.

#MutualAid @mutualaid

Long Covid rates nearly DOUBLE in people who were already disabled.

This is why we beg you to care about safe spaces. Beg disability orgs to implement clean air and masking.

We’ve been shut out of society. We’re much higher risk. We deserve inclusion.

Disabled people don’t have the luxury of living in denial about Covid. We can’t pretend it’s over. We can’t “go back to normal.”

Our lives are on the line - and no one cares. Everyone is convinced it won’t happen to them - so they throw us to the wayside in favour of “normal.”

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/long-covid-rate-among-disabled-people-double-able-bodied

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare #MaskBans #NoMaskBans

When you start seeking rent on the livelihood of artists, I don’t think you get to claim you work at the intersection of Technology and Liberal Arts anymore.

https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon

So this, from Firefox, is fucking toxic: https://mstdn.social/@Lokjo/112772496939724214

You might be aware Chrome— a browser made by an ad company— has been trying to claw back the limitations recently placed on ad networks by the death of third-party cookies, and added new features that gather and report data directly to ad networks. You'd know this because Chrome displayed a popup.

If you're a Firefox user, what you probably don't know is Firefox added this feature and *has already turned it on without asking you*