Sarah Jamie Lewis

A quick reminder of a few things Mozilla/Firefox have done in the last *checks notes* ~year that I hope highlights that this is not a case of bad messaging but a consistent pattern of hostility: - "Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising." - "privacy preserving" Advertising telemetry enabled by default - New T&C demanding a worldwide license (rolled back) & weakened privacy policy to support the above expansion (active) - ""[Firefox] will evolve into a modern AI browser"

My issue with firefox soft forks is that even in their most ideal form, they can only be reactive harm-reduction, and any reasonable fork necessitates compromises that introduce some amount of risk (delayed security updates, compromised trust anchors etc.) Perhaps that is the best anyone can do within reasonable costs. Perhaps the only affordable proactive actions we can take is to reinforce that front against future inevitable assaults. Perhaps that must be enough. I wish it were not so.

Mozilla has a new CEO. Once again iterating that the future of Firefox is AI first, AI by default: "Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software" "It will evolve into a modern AI browser" "AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off." Source:

Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company | The Mozilla Blog

Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people ...

My new hobby is attempting to reverse engineer how something worked from rare archives of building plans, second/third hand interviews, and the occasional archival photograph. This has reaffirmed my belief that people are really bad at determining what information is worth documenting. For the future of the humanity, please consider taking photos from more than one angle.