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yoasif

@yoasif@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-16

Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit.

Into #retrocomputing #firefox #haikuos #ux #design #openstreetmap #opensource #opendata #writing #retrogaming #linux #debian #btrfs #music

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@yoasif@mastodon.social

Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit. Into # retrocomputing # firefox # haikuos # ux # design # openstreetmap # opensource # opendata # writing # retrogaming # linux # debian # btrfs # music

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@yoasif@mastodon.social

Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit. Into # retrocomputing # firefox # haikuos # ux # design # openstreetmap # opensource # opendata # writing # retrogaming # linux # debian # btrfs # music

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@yoasif@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

#Mozilla released #Firefox 148 featuring the #AI "Kill Switch" that has been making the rounds.

The design of the switch is meant to absolve Mozilla of any responsibility for your use of its AI.

It is a trap.

It is meant to switch discussion from whether Mozilla should be doing AI, to whether you can *choose* to not use it.

Don't believe their lies.

This is a long post, and if you click through, I recorded a video: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html

Hope you enjoy and please boost if you enjoyed it!

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Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit. Into # retrocomputing # firefox # haikuos # ux # design # openstreetmap # opensource # opendata # writing # retrogaming # linux # debian # btrfs # music

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@yoasif@mastodon.social

Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit. Into # retrocomputing # firefox # haikuos # ux # design # openstreetmap # opensource # opendata # writing # retrogaming # linux # debian # btrfs # music

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@yoasif@mastodon.social · Feb 10, 2026

Seems like #bazzite is in a bad place: https://ba.antheas.dev/bazzite-postmortem.html

#linuxgaming #linux #fedora

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@yoasif@mastodon.social

Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit. Into # retrocomputing # firefox # haikuos # ux # design # openstreetmap # opensource # opendata # writing # retrogaming # linux # debian # btrfs # music

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@yoasif@mastodon.social

Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit. Into # retrocomputing # firefox # haikuos # ux # design # openstreetmap # opensource # opendata # writing # retrogaming # linux # debian # btrfs # music

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@yoasif@mastodon.social · Feb 03, 2026
You may have heard that #mozilla introduced an #AI kill switch into #Firefox. If you would rather use a browser that is less interested in #LLM technologies, @Waterfox@mastodon.social has been your companion for over a decade. I had a chance to ask the founder and developer some questions about Waterfox's history, operations, and their take on AI. Enjoy and and share! https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/02/fifteen-years-of-waterfox-alex-kontos-on-independence-ai-and-the-future-of-browsers.html #browser #tech #opensource #interview #internet
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Just got a letter from a place I haven’t worked at for eight years (UPenn) telling me that my personal data was leaked by a company I’ve never done business with (Oracle), and so they’re giving me two
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@yoasif@mastodon.social

Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit. Into # retrocomputing # firefox # haikuos # ux # design # openstreetmap # opensource # opendata # writing # retrogaming # linux # debian # btrfs # music

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@yoasif@mastodon.social

Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit. Into # retrocomputing # firefox # haikuos # ux # design # openstreetmap # opensource # opendata # writing # retrogaming # linux # debian # btrfs # music

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@yoasif@mastodon.social · Dec 10, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social I got the same letter and I've never worked for them. No idea how my data ended up getting leaked.
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