“Waymo reports that Waymo cars are the best”

Most likely someone at the AI company would catch it and filter those strings out of the training data.

Librewolf is a fork of Firefox.

From their site:

LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

In the future, Ladybird or a browser built on top of Servo might be alternatives, but both projects are pretty far from being usable right now.

Maybe Revolt or Matrix?

Lengua

bee populations are declining rapidly due to habitat loss, pesticides, parasites, and climate change.

Not sure why habitat loss is listed since honeybees are invasive in the U.S. We should be focusing harder on saving native pollinators.

Can your toaster produce fascist propaganda?

Mozilla says that “there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners” so that Firefox can be “commercially viable,” but it adds that it spells those out in its privacy notice and works to strip data of potentially identifying information or share it in aggregate.

Sounds like they’ve already been selling (or trading) data and this whole debacle is a way to retroactively cover their asses.

This is pretty normal. Every time there’s a big wave of new fediverse users, a big chunk eventually goes back to their original social media. Some portion will stick around to be regular users and the cycle will repeat again next time a social media company pisses off a bunch of people.

It wasn’t. He had previously said that he would open source it after it had become more stable, but there was a lot of skepticism that he would follow through.

A key to mushrooms that grow on other mushrooms