I really appreciate having an open source solution. I hope the production costs can come down over time. I currently have an Airthings Wave and a Plus - which are roughtly in the same price range but additionally measure Radon.
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mozvalentin commented on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/miohtama
Something tells me aspects of living in the next few decades driven by technology acceleration will feel like being lobotomized while conscious and watching oneself the whole time. Like yes, we are able to think of thousands of hypothetical ways technology (even those inferior to full AGI) could go off the rails in a catastrophic way and post and discuss these scenarios endlessly... and yet it doesn't result in a slowing or stopping of the progress leading there. All it takes is a single group with enough collective intelligence and breakthroughs and the next AI will be delivered to our doorstop whether or not we asked for it.
It reminds me of the time I read books in my youth and only 20 years later realized the authors of some of those books were trying to deliver a important life messages to a teenager undergoing crucial changes, all of which would be painfully relevant to the current adult me... and yet the whole time they fell on deaf ears. Like the message was right there but I did not have the emotional/perceptive intelligence to pick up on and internalize it for too long.
The next season of Black Mirror is just going to be international news coverage.
Rust was created at Mozilla and currently 11.7% of the Firefox source code is in Rust:
https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/
That's down from 12.49% at the peak in July 2020 so I assume the conversion work was halted after the layoffs in 2020:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1flUGg6Ut4bjtyWdyH_9e...
Android code was recently imported into mozilla-central which is quite considerable in size.
mozvalentin commented on Mercury – Compiler optimized, private Firefox fork thorium.rocks/mercury... · Posted by u/Mr_Minderbinder
The fact that some people don't trust Mozilla enough to enable telemetry but then install a custom build by random developer simply blows my mind.
mozvalentin commented on www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed github.com/webcompat/web-... · Posted by u/mozvalentin
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916#issuecom...
This is entirely server-side UA sniffing going wrong. You get an empty HTML doc, only a doctype, with a Firefox Android UA. You can reproduce this with curl and it seems that this affects all UA strings with versions >= 65. <=64 work.
The point is, if you provide an option to turn off telemetry, it should be off. No exception. In this case of an airport connection requiring a registration page intranetwork, this occurs via first request through their proxy with header redirect.
The point is, don’t lie about saying you respect privacy with half-baked options and telemetry for me but not for thee bs. If I turn off telemetry, you aren’t allowed to send telemetry. Of any kind. Not a crash log. Not an install token. Not a call home to see if maybe possibly your on an airport wifi and make-our-app-work-edge-case()
There is a distinct difference between telemetry and the captive portal requests Firefox makes. The captive portal checks have nothing to do with telemetry and contain no payload, which is why they are not covered by that setting.
Tracking is tracking, no matter what outcomes you derive from it.
You can actually see all of the telemetry data Firefox is sending by going to about:telemetry in your browser.
You can also see all of the probes it could be collecting here: https://probes.telemetry.mozilla.org/
Keep in mind that the telemetry that is captured in Firefox goes through a thorough review process, so that it respects user privacy: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Data_Collection