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, 9 months ago to random

The organization responsible for .se domains (Internetstiftelsen/The Internet Foundation) hosts an incredible conference on technology and society every year.

This year’s program includes keynotes from @pluralistic and Ann Reardon (debunker of “fake news of the baking world”). Hopefully Cory makes a Mastodon pitch since it’s tragically absent from the agenda.

Just bought my ticket!

https://internetdagarna.se/program-2023/?utm_source=JeremiahLee&utm_medium=Mastodon

#UpcomingConferences #conferences #Internetdagarna #Internetstiftelsen

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, 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, 7 months ago to random

15 years ago, I married this incredible man. We vowed to support each other’s happiness, not “till death do us part.” We promised to be truthful on if we were better together than apart. We’ve grown so much as individuals. We just as reasonably could have grown in separate ways. We’re still together and deeply in love. He’s the best fieldtrip buddy I could ask for.

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

Before responding to someone online:

• ask yourself what emotions you feel and examine if they are valid

• ask yourself what outcome you desire and examine if your response is likely to achieve that outcome

• ask yourself if you would consider the response truthful, kind, necessary, and helpful if roles were reversed and you received what you wrote

• ask yourself if you would be ok with your response being the last thing you ever posted online

#netiquette #feditips

Jeremiah, 7 months ago to Youtube

Please post your videos to places other than YouTube.

YouTube intentionally breaks iOS’s picture-in-picture feature, which frustrates me frequently.

Recent situations:

• I want to just listen to a conference talk while walking. Nope, gotta keep the phone unlocked.

• I am doing a repair and need to compare the video to what's in another app. Nope, YouTube shares the screen with no one. Diva.

#YouTube #UX

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 webdev

“I’ve written before about how React is the new default frontend framework and how I don’t think most people using React on a regular basis realize quite how much it’s fallen behind.” Time for React to go the way of jQuery.

#webDev #React

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiquated-react

Jeremiah, 9 months ago to climate

Climate change is pushing ticks carrying the deadly CCHF virus to move through Europe. The mortality rate is ~30% within 2 weeks. There is no widely-available vaccine.

I remember seeing billboards my first summer in Sverige saying to get vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), another virus I had never heard about in the US.

#CCHF #ticks #climateChange #publicHealth

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/07/climate-change-is-helping-this-new-deadly-virus-to-spread-across-europe

Jeremiah, 6 months ago to privacy

Firefox v120 brings a preview of good privacy features pioneered elsewhere probably because they were too high risk for it do first.

Firefox users in Deutschland can soon enjoy

1. Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows to auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites

2. URL Tracking Protection by default in private windows to remove non-essential URL query parameters often used to track people across the web

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.0/releasenotes/

#privacy

Jeremiah, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

My 2024-01 /now page update is 7,200+ words and 130+ photos because it covers over an entire year. This is not how ‘now’ pages are supposed to work. I will do better in 2024.

👨‍💻 Leaving Big Tech for humanist tech
🧠 2e ADHD diagnosis
🧳 5 countries visited
🥰 friends & family fun times
👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 15 years married & turning 39
🏋️‍♂️ fitness progress
🌻 so many plant photos
📺📚🎥🧑‍🎤 media I loved

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/now/

#NowNowNow

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

Cortana’s Revenge would be great name for a Windows virus.

Jeremiah, 11 months ago to random

Sverige should adopt the euro and most of its citizens now agree.

We could stop dealing with conversions for tax reporting and paying foreign transaction fees when doing business in the EU. SEK experiences greater value loss and longer recovery times compared to the euro against reserve currencies. Whatever hypothetical benefit of a weak currency to exports has never been realized by workers. Enough already!

From: @EU_Commission
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/110644495778376987

Jeremiah, 6 months ago to random

I am now learning about breaking news here at a speed once exclusive to Twitter.

That’s an encouraging success metric for the social web.

Jeremiah, 10 months ago to random

Screaming into the abyss…

It’s TLS, not SSL.

It’s OpenAPI, not Swagger.

Jeremiah, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to privacy

Holy shit. Police in Sverige can now surveil anyone without concrete criminal suspicion and monitor people for "preventive purposes".

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/abQBWM/advokaten-kritisk-mot-lagen-om-hemlig-avlyssning-krankning

V, C, and MP were the only parties opposed to this gross expansion of government surveillance and invasion of personal privacy.

https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/aktuellt/aktuelltnotiser/2023/sep/7/justitieutskottet-sager-ja-till-utokad-anvandning_cms36eb0df3-4b06-4f5f-8a64-5c348e3dd7d1sv/

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” —Ben Franklin

#svPol #privacy

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

Threads brings Meta’s infamous moderation policies and invasive privacy practices to a cloned Twitter experience.

Using Meta Threads is like declaring yourself #TeamZuck instead of #TeamElon in the billionaire social network cage match.

#Meta #Threads

Jeremiah, 7 months ago to Finance

This update from SEB (major commercial Swedish bank) is wild.

• During September, inflation was still too high and Swedish krona reached a new record low
• “the great interest rate experiment is coming to an end and the worst interest rate storm over”
• interest rates will never return to the prior levels
• it does not know whether to trust guidance from Riksbanken (central bank) because its predictions 18 months ago were totally wrong

https://seb.se/privat/lana/bolan-och-rantor/bolanerantor/boranteradet

#SEKSucks #finance #euro #svPol

Jeremiah, 11 months ago to queer

Intercom, the company that pioneered the customer support chat bubble in the lower right corner, decided to stop supporting LGBTQ+ people externally by removing public support of Pride Month and employees internally by killing its employee resource group.

“What’s really tough now is that Pride has got wrapped up, unfortunately, within some circles in kind of more divisive and political issues,” CEO Eoghan McCabe said.

Shame on him.

#Intercom #Pride #LGBTQ #ERG

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/07/03/irish-tech-company-facing-employee-unrest-after-new-policy-ended-support-for-pride/

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, 6 months ago to random

I am grateful for the conversations with @laurenshof and @renchap at #NGIForum23 today.

There are many challenges in building a better Internet for people, but there also are many bright minds and kind hearts working hard and needing more support than they’re getting.

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

Getting 42 US states to agree on anything these days is quite difficult, so a consensus to file a lawsuit accusing Meta of having misled the public about the substantial dangers of its products and knowingly contributed to a youth mental health crisis through the addictive nature of their social media platforms is quite something.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/dozens-us-states-sue-meta-platforms-harming-mental-health-young-people-2023-10-24/

w3c, 4 months ago to random

Web technologies that meet the varied needs of society do not happen by chance. They are designed and standardized, not by one company, country, or community, but through the work of the Web Consortium.

Discover the value for organizations to join as Members. #aboutW3C
https://www.w3.org/membership/