Reddit’s moderation bots have been extremely trigger happy for many years.

I got my main account, 10+ years club, suspended… appealed it, and got banned. Then every account I had ever logged into with the same IP, app, or browser as the banned one, at any moment in the past, got banned in cascade.

Once you get on Reddit’s bad side, there’s no going back. Suspensions add flags to Reddit’s internal “shadow profile” of every account ever linked in any way. They all become more likely to get flagged and suspended, which gets them flagged even more in turn, until Reddit’s ban-evasion system kicks in. Then, they’re all toast.

To add insult to injury… once triggered, the bots go back checking your history, applying the most recent moderation guidelines retroactively. Over the following months, the account kept getting notifications about old comments being removed, followed by subreddit bans.

Beware that CC NC licenses are a minefield:

NonCommercial turns on the use, not the identity of the reuser.

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_interpretation

The BY-NC-SA is especially thorny. In this particular case, it could be equally argued that:

• ✅ The non-profit is not profitting
• ⚠️ The printing service IS profitting
• ⚠️ The non-profit has NO right to allow the printing service to profit (-SA)

Given how fluid the NC interpretation can be, I wouldn’t touch them with a ten foot pole. Combined with current copyright law, it’s not only about whether the creator decides to sue, but also whether their heirs/estate decide to sue… for 70 years after the creator’s death!

Looks decent. I think you could easily improve the tarp on top with some random “weathering”, and a light touch from a heat gun on the corners, to get closer to the original look (just don’t set it on fire 😉).

TLDR: It’s a mess.

Back in the day, I started migrating notepad stuff to Markdown on a Wiki. Then on a MediaWiki. Then DokuWiki. Then ZimWiki. Then Joplin. Then GitHub Pages and a self-hosted Jeckyll.

Each, single, one, of, them, uses a slightly different flavor of Markdown. At this point, I have stuff spread over ALL OF THEM, much of it rotting away in “backups to migrate later”. 😮‍💨
I’ve been considering “vibe coding” some converters…

As for syncing… the Markdown part is easy: git.
Working with a Markdown editor to update GH Pages, was a good experience.
Having ZimWiki auto-sync to git, was good, but didn’t find a decent compatible editor for Android.
I switched to Joplin lured by the built-in auto-sync options, but kind of regret it now, when it has a folder with thousands of files in it.

Obsidian is not OSS itself, but has an OSS plugin to sync to git.
I’ve read that using Logseq alongside Obsidian should be possible… and was planning to test that setup, keeping Obsidian in charge of sync. Possibly with GitHub/Jeckyll, git-lfs for images and attachments.

PS: assuming one could have working back-and-forth converters for the different Markdown flavors, and everything stored in git, then one could theoretically use git hooks to convert to/from whatever local version used by a particular editor.

Yeah, I don’t think I like llamafile, reusing some weights between models, and smaller updates, sounds like a better idea.

What I’d like to see is a unified WebNN support, for CPU, GPU, and NPU: WebNN Overview

(Not to pull rank, but my mail profile can be tracked to Netscape Navigator, across multiple OSs 😁)

I was going to say that AI has a lot of implications in the online world that Mozilla was supposed to promote… but maybe you’re right, the AI genie is out of the bottle and there is little left to do about it. Its impact will be whatever it will be, no matter what people want to say about it.

Not sure which “old Mozilla” you want, the 1998 one? the 2005 one? the 2015 one? It has changed a lot indeed, but kind of has been Google’s anti-anti-thrust shield for 20+ years.

From those projects, which ones are out of scope for the Mozilla Manifesto?

The African nuclear reactors might need more explaining, but the rest seem to be right on the goals:

• Anti-censorship groups
• Lobbying EU AI regulations
• Tool to reveal censorship on ISPs
• Coding/operations related carbon footprint and pollution, which can be used to prevent people’s access

Is there more information about that nuclear reactor?

Pollution related to computing and coding, seem relevant to the mission statement.

What would be the proper advocacy groups? Would you’ve ever heard of Mozilla without some advocacy group?

Keeping in mind it’s an advertorial for their apps…

Not sure what they mean by “weird characters”, but chatbots add zero-width Unicode characters as a watermarking mechanism, and LLMs output their own tags to mark different sections.

(the “stochastic parrots” expression is already a contradiction, but whatever)

if enough people collectively decided to vote 3rd party.

Then it would either become the 1st/2nd party, or disappear into oblivion. If it could became part of Congress, where it could look for alliances, then maybe… but based on current sentiment, it seems unlikely.

Actually… they can. I got one today, they created a new account just to reply to the same comment, with an insult about having blocked them. They earned a stalking report, but I doubt it will stick.

The current US voting system does not allow for a 3rd party to have a chance. If you want a new party, then you either need to replace one of the main two, or change the electoral rules.

From the outside, it doesn’t seem like either option is likely to happen peacefully, so things will likely need to get way much worse before they get any better.

• ❌ Phone - com.samsung.android.dialer
• ❌ Messages - com.google.android.apps.messaging (Samsung)
• ❌ Chrome - com.android.chrome
• ❌ Camera - com.sec.android.app.camera (Samsung)

The thing is, I keep them there as a “last resort”, not as main use.

Seems like it hasn’t been updated for 2 years. Is it abandoned?

Depends… I’ve been running 2.99 for a while now 😄

Oooooh, can’t wait to see the new features!
[what? there is no new features…?]
Can’t wait to see the new splash screen! 😇

Not sure if sarcasm, or propaganda. When you get propaganda articles written in a similar tone, it’s hard to tell 🤷

Flow is somewhat weird, kind of “unexplained mystic voyage, with a kitty”. But the animation has a very consistent style through and through, and is a nice visual experience with surprisingly engaging characters.

The advice I got against bullies while growing up was… to “grow a pair” and bully them back. Only got stabbed two or three times, so that kind of worked, I guess. Pre-internet times were more civilized, or something.