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Finally more competition.

Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions

Starting November 3, all new Firefox extensions must declare whether they collect or share user data, ensuring greater transparency for users.

^{Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)}

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502681122

Well, that's just fucking super.

Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of confession. It hasn’t worked for me, and I struggle to weigh my guilt around that (should have worked harder!) against what I know is a structural problem. Patron-supported journalism (including newsletters) is both a throwback to the earliest mode of media production and, as it exists today, the newest way for capitalism to suffocate dissent.

Obviously, there have always been audiences, and always been audience members willing to pay a little extra for a creator to keep kith and kin together between gigs. There have always been writers trying to piece together a livelihood by appealing to deep-pocketed friends.

But over the past decade, especially the past five years, several corrosive trends converged, and now an unprecedented number of individual journalists are trying their hand at earning a living, one $8/month subscriber at a time.

Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News 

Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of confession. It hasn’t worked for me, and I struggle to weigh my guilt around that…

^{Ana Marie Cox (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/elon-musk-launches-grokipedia-a-new-ai-driven-alternative-to-wikipedia-and-its-wokeness-/

Jeff Cohen
Oct 28, 2025

This week began with the release of a report titled “Deciding to Win,” claiming to light the way “toward a common sense renewal of the Democratic Party.”

But the first mention of healthcare is so far from reality that the authors might have more accurately titled their report “Deciding to Lie.” The report declares that Medicare for All is in the category of “unpopular economic policies.” The claim is false. But it’s in sync with the corporate sensibilities and wishful thinking of party operatives like James Carville, whose praise of the document appears on its first page.

Corporate Democrats Falsely Claim Medicare for All Is 'Unpopular'

This and other idiocy of the elites shows why the Democratic Establishment hasn't learned a damn thing from losing to Trump—not once, but twice.

^{jeff-cohen (Common Dreams)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38203670

Jeff Cohen
Oct 28, 2025

This week began with the release of a report titled “Deciding to Win,” claiming to light the way “toward a common sense renewal of the Democratic Party.”

But the first mention of healthcare is so far from reality that the authors might have more accurately titled their report “Deciding to Lie.” The report declares that Medicare for All is in the category of “unpopular economic policies.” The claim is false. But it’s in sync with the corporate sensibilities and wishful thinking of party operatives like James Carville, whose praise of the document appears on its first page.

Peter Link

2025-10-29 01:18:57

Corporate Democrats Falsely Claim Medicare for All Is 'Unpopular' | Common Dreams

Jeff Cohen
Oct 28, 2025

This week began with the release of a report titled “Deciding to Win,” claiming to light the way “toward a common sense renewal of the Democratic Party.”

But the first mention of healthcare is so far from reality that the authors might have more accurately titled their report “Deciding to Lie.” The report declares that Medicare for All is in the category of “unpopular economic policies.” The claim is false. But it’s in sync with the corporate sensibilities and wishful thinking of party operatives like James Carville, whose praise of the document appears on its first page.

Corporate Democrats Falsely Claim Medicare for All Is 'Unpopular'

This and other idiocy of the elites shows why the Democratic Establishment hasn't learned a damn thing from losing to Trump—not once, but twice.

^{jeff-cohen (Common Dreams)}

By Meher Ahmad
Oct. 15

archive.ph/sFbOO

But perhaps more insidious is the pernicious #Islamophobia that has morphed in the years since the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the kind that has seeped into the liberal institutions that claim to oppose racism and prejudice. Their actions have helped lay the groundwork for the #Trump administration to take anti-#Muslim attitudes and codify them in policies and law, with far-reaching consequences for Muslims in America. In these spaces, Mr. #Mamdani is not “little Muhammad” but instead a virulent antisemite who portends violence for Jewish New Yorkers on account of his criticism of #Israel and his faith in #islam.

...when it comes to Islamophobia after Oct. 7, Mr. Mamdani is the poster child for the double standards that Muslims in America are held to today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/opinion/zohran-mamdani-muslim-america-new-york.html

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38202880

By Meher Ahmad
Oct. 15

archive.ph/sFbOO

But perhaps more insidious is the pernicious #Islamophobia that has morphed in the years since the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the kind that has seeped into the liberal institutions that claim to oppose racism and prejudice. Their actions have helped lay the groundwork for the #Trump administration to take anti-#Muslim attitudes and codify them in policies and law, with far-reaching consequences for Muslims in America. In these spaces, Mr. #Mamdani is not “little Muhammad” but instead a virulent antisemite who portends violence for Jewish New Yorkers on account of his criticism of #Israel and his faith in #islam.

...when it comes to Islamophobia after Oct. 7, Mr. Mamdani is the poster child for the double standards that Muslims in America are held to today.

Peter Link

2025-10-29 00:54:55

When I Look at #ZohranMamdani, Here’s What I See

By Meher Ahmad
Oct. 15

archive.ph/sFbOO

But perhaps more insidious is the pernicious #Islamophobia that has morphed in the years since the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the kind that has seeped into the liberal institutions that claim to oppose racism and prejudice. Their actions have helped lay the groundwork for the #Trump administration to take anti-#Muslim attitudes and codify them in policies and law, with far-reaching consequences for Muslims in America. In these spaces, Mr. #Mamdani is not “little Muhammad” but instead a virulent antisemite who portends violence for Jewish New Yorkers on account of his criticism of #Israel and his faith in #islam.

...when it comes to Islamophobia after Oct. 7, Mr. Mamdani is the poster child for the double standards that Muslims in America are held to today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/opinion/zohran-mamdani-muslim-america-new-york.html

Blah, blah, blah ... new startup faces uphill battle in ramping production. But then:

“As vehicles evolve into software-defined supercomputers on wheels, a new opportunity emerges—to reimagine mobility with intelligence at every turn. Together with Lucid, we’re accelerating the future of autonomous, AI-powered transportation, built on [the] Nvidia full-stack automotive platform,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.

It's amazing to me that some people can unironically parse that as human language.

An autonomous car for consumers? Lucid says it’s happening.

Nvidia is working with Lucid on autonomous cars and future factories.

^{Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)}

Hello everyone, how are you? First of all, I'm new here, and I didn't see anything about this type of post in the rules, so I believe I'm not violating any rules, right? I don't know if I can mention the name of the software here, so I chose not to, unless it's allowed. That's why I censored the logo image that contains its name, and the text with its name.

It's a POS system, I think only available here in Brazil. I can't find the logo to change it. In fact, there are almost no images. I tried accessing the images with Resource Hacker, Resource Turner, and similar programs, but nothing worked. The bitmaps simply don't appear.

Searching online, I found two identical software programs. I downloaded them, and when I checked, it was exactly the same system/software. Someone pirated them and managed to change the images and some other system features, but unfortunately, they released pirated versions and also offered them for sale with a trial mode. So, yes, you can change it; I just couldn't do anything, not even with the help of AI.

I want to use it to manage my business. I've gone back to working with food delivery, and this software is very good. With it, I can control incoming and outgoing funds, manage inventory, and do many things in a much more organized way than manually. I used the trial version, and it's very good and easy to use. I want to modify it to put a different logo and system name (my store's name and a different logo on the interface). But it seems impossible; even in the pirated versions I mentioned, I couldn't find the logo or change the window texts. In their folder, there's a logo.bmp file; I changed the image and nothing changed, I removed the image and nothing changed, meaning the logo.bmp in the main folder is useless.

I'm not a programmer, but I've enjoyed tinkering with these things since I was little, and I'm always tinkering with everything to modify something. But this software is impossible; even with AI help, I couldn't find the logo that appears on the interface or change the texts. Can anyone help me?

cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/704939

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Keeping the Internet fast and secure- introducing Merkle Tree Certificates

Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.

^{The Cloudflare Blog}

(Nextcloud is written in PHP)

cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/40795258

Good News! Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud

The BMWET migrates 1,200 employees to sovereign cloud in just four months.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/opinion/grijalva-congress-mike-johnson.html?unlocked_article_code=1.w08.Smtm.qRAOJJwXesm5

Hi all!

Looking to get back into pirating more music. Torrent sites don't have a large selection. Other options have poor quality.

I've been looking into alternatives like Soulseek, but can't find how to bind that to VPN like I do with Qbit.

I've heard the risks are lower, but I'd still prefer to bind to VPN. I know from experience that kill switches are unreliable. Is this possible in soulseek or something similar (preferably OSS and with ok sound quality).

I've read the FAQ, megathread and done a search and didn't find anything.