Jeremiah

Jeremiah, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to firefox

I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.

I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.

If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.

Source: Form 990 https://stateof.mozilla.org/

Edit: Replaced commentary with direct source

Jeremiah, 6 months ago to random

I will be live blogging #NGIForum23 in this thread. Feel free to follow along or mute this thread. 😁

~“We're here to reimagine and reengineer the Internet. First step is to figure out what we want. That’s what this conference is here for.” —Jennifer Baker, tech policy journalist and MC

@EC_NGI

Jeremiah, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to webdev

Hey @MDN, with Stack Overflow’s ongoing community implosion, now would be an excellent time to launch MDN Answers so people have a better place to help each other learn.

https://answer.apache.org/

Edit: Or @nodebb / other ActivityPub-enabled forum/threaded discussion community server software

#WebDev

Jeremiah, 1 month ago to random

😡 The @EU_Commission is giving up on @Mastodon and @peertube because @EDPS couldn’t find an agency within the commission to continue operating it.

https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en

Jeremiah, 8 months ago to SmartHome

I wrote Hue to voice my displeasure about its cloud service becoming mandatory for my home smart lights.

They replied it was to "advance security".

I replied: The most secure option is for my data to never leave the devices in my home. Duplicating my data to your servers and enabling your servers to remotely control devices my home inherently is less secure.

They politely told me to fuck off.

I will remove all Hue lights when I remodel.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

#smartHome #leafComputing

Jeremiah, 6 months ago to random

#NGIForum23 by @EC_NGI Day 2 kicking off. I will be live tweeting again here.

Follow along 🙌 or mute this thread 🙃

Live stream: https://ngiforum2023.eu/live-streaming/

Agenda: https://ngiforum2023.eu/agenda/

Jeremiah, 1 month ago to random

Spotify pays ~70% of its revenue to music rights holders.

If a music artist doesn’t have at least 1,000 plays a month from 713,000,000+ active Spotify users, it’s not Spotify’s fault they are not popular enough to earn a living from their artistry—nor would that artist be able to live off of CDs, merch, and live show performances.

I know capitalism sucks, but people have to actually want someone’s art for it to be a profession. However, the barrier to building a fanbase has never been lower.

Jeremiah, 7 months ago to privacy

No car manufacturer passed Mozilla’s privacy audit, but Nissan’s is just absurd.

Consent to sale of your DNA implied by riding in the vehicle is a consent mechanism I would love to have a sassy US judge comment upon.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/nissan/

#privacy

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

Unless you work in Zurich, you are underpaid as a software engineer in Europe compared to your US peers.

Demand more. ✊ 🌹

https://www.levels.fyi/2023/

Jeremiah, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to mastodon

I need Mastodon and Kubernetes help:

I am trying to deploy Mastodon to a GCP GKE Autopilot cluster. The Helm chart is failing due to container sysctl calls somewhere getting blocked because GKE does not allow them.

I don't know where to look to investigate where these calls are being made to see if I might avoid them from being made. Any ideas?

#Mastodon #MastodonOps #mastoAdmin #mastoHost

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/25653

Jeremiah, 11 months ago to random

Sverige rejected my legal name change. Because there are fewer than 2000 people with the last name Lee in Sverige, they do not have to allow it. They considered it, but I was not able to demonstrate my use of the name for over 10 years adequately.

I'm crushed. I don't know what more I could have done.

I will have to move back to the US, at least temporarily, to change my legal name now since it is a state matter and I have no state living abroad.

#TillSverige

Jeremiah, 10 months ago to random

What account regularly brings you joy? laughter? insight?

I am curating a list of accounts for people new to the social web should follow. I am looking for engaging, positive content producers.

Boosts appreciated!

#askFedi #feditips

Jeremiah, 4 months ago to random

Holy fuck. Just had an aborted takeoff at ARN on Turkish Airlines. TK 1796

Jeremiah, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Update from @Lingmops: VaccinDirekt in Stockholm and Uppsala have the updated vaccine now! https://vaccindirekt.se/nya-covid-vaccinet-i-stockholm-och-uppsala/

—

Ugh. Sverige now will not offer the updated Omicron COVID-19 vaccines until November 7.

I have to travel internationally for work on November 4. I was hoping to have some factual statement to calm my illness anxiety with.

https://www.thelocal.se/20231016/who-should-get-vaccinated-against-covid-in-sweden-and-when

#COVID19 #Sverige

Jeremiah, 9 months ago to terraform

Terraform remains open-source-enough for me—and there is no viable alternative today—but I am still disappointed in HashiCorp adopting Business Source License as a customer, open source contributor, and shareholder.

I know someone will come at me for saying there is no viable alternative, so preemptively: There is no declarative alternative that’s extensively & officially supported by infrastructure providers, “more” open source, not problematically financed.

#HashiCorp #Terraform #openSource

Jeremiah, 9 months ago to Stockholm

The Michelin Guide should de-star restaurants without a vegan menu and should only use the quality of the vegan menu for awarding stars going forward.

The planet is on fire. Not eating meat and dairy is one of the few things individuals can do to reduce their carbon footprint.

Many top restaurants in Stockholm refuse to accommodate milk protein allergies or offer vegan options.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eating-less-red-meat-is-something-individuals-can-do-to-help-the-climate-crisis/

#Michelin #Stockholm #vegan

Jeremiah, 9 months ago to random

There are not enough good “monkey see, monkey do” examples for JSON-LD, even in the spec.

I still don’t ever feel like I’m doing something correctly with 100% certainty and I’ve been designing web APIs in other formats for 15 years.

#JSONLD #APIs

Jeremiah, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Getting upset about an AT Protocol↔ActivityPub bridge is like getting upset that some of your friends used Google Reader to read your RSS.

“I didn’t opt in to people being able to read my blog if they use Google Reader!”

“I didn’t opt in to people being able to read my public Mastodon posts on the Web unless they request my URLs using a user agent I approve!”

(Countdown to someone calling for me to be fediblocked for having a different opinion than them in 5… 4… 3…)

Jeremiah, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Bulgaria

🚨 Urgent

The proposed EU eIDAS regulation will force web browsers to include government-issued certificate authorities. The key technology that makes HTTPS secure would have a backdoor to enable governments to intercept and decrypt your web traffic.

@mozilla, @internetsociety, @edri, @eff, and I have written the European Parliament about the disastrous consequences if this becomes law.

Please join me in emailing your MEPs today!

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/2023-eu-eidas-feedback/

#EU #privacy #security #webDev

Jeremiah, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to LGBTQ

The US Supreme Court ruled a business can refuse service on the basis the customer is gay.

The US filled with people who wish people like me didn’t exist. They vote for politicians who write laws and appoint judges who deny queer people of equality.

#LGBTQ #SupremeCourt #USPol

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1182121291/colorado-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-decision

Jeremiah, 8 months ago to UX

macOS and iOS are not accommodating of people living bilingual existences.

I type in Svenglish (Swedish & English). I quickly can access the extra letters of the svenska alphabet from the US English keyboard, but spellcheck, swipe, and autocomplete only work in one language at a time.

The new groceries "smart" list in Reminders categorized “vitvins vinäger” as “Wine, Beer & Spirits” instead of “Oils & Dressings” like when I typed “white wine vinegar”.

#UX #Apple #TillSverige #i18n

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

After 3 logicboard replacements over 6 weeks, my Samsung washing machine seems to be working again.

Getting it reconnected to my Wi-Fi so that I get the push notifications when it’s done instead of the awful 60 seconds of Samsinging was nearly painful enough to make me start an open source smart home appliance company.

Jeremiah, 1 month ago to random

I’m going to write every day in the month of May. I will publish as often as I can, aiming for twice a week or 10 posts. I have an enormous drafts pile and getting those out into the world would feel satisfying.

https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/weblog-posting-month-2024

#WeblogPoMo2024

Jeremiah, 9 months ago to random

Is anyone aware of a prohibition by GDPR of US-based employees on accessing EU-based customer personal data that otherwise is stored and processed in the EU?

Such a prohibition would mean US companies without an EU presence would not be able to comply with the rest of GDPR.

IANAL, but I have worked on GDPR implementations at several large tech companies. I have never heard of this. Also, if so, several large tech companies’ customer support teams are in trouble.

#GDPR

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/21438#issuecomment-1670170756

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to linux

My only regular experience with desktop Linux is Raspberry Pi OS.

The GUI is buggy. Today, the taskbar disappeared when I turned on the monitor. As I dragged a window, the taskbar reappeared. I released the mouse, but the window kept dragging offset from the cursor.

I feel like I cannot rely on it because if there are that many visible bugs, there likely are more invisible bugs.

I am sure I could spend time researching and tweaking, but I have better things to do than fix a default.

#Linux