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Francesco Lodolo

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Mostly known as flod. Not the most social person. Engineering Manager @mozilla for the Localization team. Opinions are my own, I'm not in the habit of talking on behalf […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fosstodon.org/@flod, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
This is completely terrifying www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-inte…
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy deals made with dozens of countries. An in-depth investigation reveals the ‘show of force’ costing American taxpayers millions
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Seeing a cybersecurity expert spreading FUD about Firefox is making me seriously question his credibility. If only there were a way to see exactly what Firefox sends when telemetry is enabled… (hint: `about:telemetry`).
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Stages of getting a tattoo: research, excitement, second-guessing, pain, feeling gross while cleaning up blood and plasma, itchiness, peeling skin like a snake, excitement again. Unless you end up with regret (did you do your research?). At least by now I have my aftercare down to a T.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Progress on mRNA vaccine against melanoma sounds one of the few good news I read lately www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/me…
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
I haven't checked in a while. Apparently, the answer to "How many Mozilla t-shirts do you own?" is 42. To be fair, there are a couple of duplicates, and I have another half dozen still back in Italy. The one is the middle is an original Firefox 1.0 release, so […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
42 Mozilla t-shirts spread on a bed. Including an original Firefox 1.0 t-shirt from November 2004.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
It took me only 12 years to discover that Cmd+E searches the selected text in the page 🤦 (Firefox, macOS) bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?i…
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
Weather app showing "Extreme Warning for High Temperature" in Berlin. For 30°C!? I came back from 37-38, and had my first night of decent sleep in weeks…
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
So, Claude has a /stickers command to order stickers. And it goes to Sticker Mule of all places? Talk about picking partners 🤦
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
Looks like Apple has an upcoming series based on Neuromancer. After what they did with Foundation, I think I'll pass.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
Based on the last trailer, I honestly wonder what's the plot for Dune 3. It's clear that they moved too far apart from the books at this point.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
The dignity and moral authority expected of a head of state… The man has been upset since the picture with the pointed finger, and he's not letting it go. It tells a lot about the type of person he is.
Screenshot of Trump's post on Truth, showing a picture with Meloni and the title "Restraining order needed":
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026
Fender a few weeks ago decided to sue other guitar manufacturers for infringing on the Strat body style. Their CEO trying to explain the dick move to distributors made things even worse. That's going as well as anyone could have imagined […]
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
Out for a bike ride this morning, barely escaped a massive storm on my way back. Stork nest on a pointy roof was not something I expected to see. Pictures are not great at this distance, but there were a couple of storks in the nest.
Zoomed picture of a stork nest on the top of a tower's roof.Stork nest on the top of a tower's roof.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
Wait, Ezra Klein and Nick Thompson (The Atlantic) are on Thiel's list? At this point, not completely suprised to see Peter Attia in the group. github.com/nzaki-dev/dialog
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
Fun fact: "trillion" (en) and "trilione" (Italian) are two wildly different numbers. A "trillion" is "bilione" in italian. www.terminologiaetc.it/2026/06/13/d…
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Musk né trilionario né triliardario ma bilionario!
Giganteschi scontati falsi amici nelle descrizioni italiane della ricchezza di Elon Musk
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. Since the first one didn't work […]
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026
Wait, what? travel.gc.ca/destinations/germany
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Travel advice and advisories for Germany
Travel Advice and Advisories from the Government of Canada
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026
So, mob shitting on maintainer of Open Source project is suddenly OK because…LLMs?
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026
Gemini in Google Sheets remains one of the most useless pieces of technology I've encountered.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
I randomly decided to test nasal strips the last couple of nights, and I don't remember the last time I slept so well. If I didn't look like an idiot, I would probably wear them the whole day, since they seem to fix my congestion problems.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
I confess I don't know much about Kevin O'Leary. After hearing him talk in a podcast about IA, China, eating-baby robots, a series of very unflattering adjectives comes to mind. “Disconnected from reality” is one gracious way to put it. He also feels like the perfect product of Trumpism.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
OK #Firefox users, this is a special request. I'm looking for someone with a high-end Raptor Lake machine that is experiencing instability in Firefox (or anything else for the matter). The best candidate is a CPU from the 13900* SKUs. K or not doesn't matter as long as it's one with the 8P+16E […]
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everton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
Interesting post by the author of @allaboutberlin on how AI is killing his awesome website. #AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin
AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work.

This has a devastating impact on traffic. It's hard to fund my work with 70% fewer visitors. In another year, it will be impossible. Instead of writing new guides, I spend my days preparing for that future.

Yesterday, Google announced two things: AI-generated answers will completely replace search results, and AI-generated answers will soon contain ads.

This is the future of the web. I don't know where All About Berlin fits in that future.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
Read a comment on Reddit about the upcoming Firefox Settings redesign, made me chuckle: “can't find anything wrong, now I'm mad”.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026
Maybe it's just me, or it's because I read the book, but Project Hail Mary didn't feel as amazing as others described. It's a nice movie, but no Interstellar.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026
“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die”. What a nice surprise of a movie. Strong Black Mirror vibes.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026
«The reported losses come five months after Trump Media announced plans to merge in a $6bn deal with a California nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies that aims to power artificial intelligence datacenters.» What!? […]
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026
It's impressive how bad GitHub has become at running scheduled workflows. It used to be occasional minutes of delays, now I have some that run more than one hour later, and in some cases don't run at all.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026
Sabastian Sawe was the first person to run an official marathon under 2h (1:59:30). People who don't run might not fully understand what that speed looks like, or what's required (I think he was running 2:40/km at the end). I feel for the poor guy — Yomif Kejelcha — who arrived second at 1:59 […]
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026
Given my timeline: Firefox is not shipping Brave's adblocker. «We are not bundling Brave's ad-blocking system, we're testing one of their open source Rust components to improve how Firefox processes tracker lists. » www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1…
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026
I'm guessing this week everybody is an expert on security bugs and CVEs.
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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
Reminder that Mozilla has been bundling multiple memory-safety bugs under one CVE number for, *checks notes*, a couple of decades. www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advi…
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Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.9/1.8.1.1)
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
I wonder if the sudden surge of security fix releases across packages (npm, pypi) is connected to Claude's new "offensive" capabilities.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026
We weren’t able to find the right match in the previous round, so we’ve refined this role. We’re now looking for engineers with strong experience building JavaScript and Python libraries, and working in the open. Localization/i18n experience is a big plus. Fully remote, ideally in Europe, but […]
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026
20 years in, and people still rush to announce Firefox releases 24h before the actual official release, pointing to FTP servers 🤷
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
Uff :-( astral.sh/blog/openai
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Astral to join OpenAI
Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
Good grief. If there is one known problem with EVs is that batteries ignites rapidly with fire. So, let's have electric door handles that can trap people inside? www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
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Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck
Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design of a truck Elon Musk calls ‘apocalypse-proof’
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026
The latest example? The outrage over the Anthropic–Firefox collaboration. Open source code doesn’t magically secure itself. If frontier models aren’t used for testing before release, attackers will gladly do it later. Done responsibly, this kind of collaboration is a net win for Firefox users.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026
The more time I spend on Mastodon, the more I think I should just go back to writing blog posts for myself and tuning out this noise. We blamed the tool (Twitter). It wasn’t the tool. It's people.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026
Folks a few weeks ago were wondering about the claim Anthropic made about the use of Claude to find security issues. There you go: blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardeni…
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
To anyone constantly saying "Why can't Mozilla do better at X? Don't they listen to users?". I would point them at my timeline, where I have people happy about the new UI on Android, and people absolutely enraged. Often these messages are showing one after the other.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
Pretty amazing article on data center distribution restofworld.org/2025/data-center-he…
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We mapped the world’s hottest data centers
In 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026
Uff, +30% in one swoop (Hetzner VPS) docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastruc…
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Hetzner Price Adjustment - Hetzner Docs
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026
Looks like Americans finally discovered Pizzoccheri (thanks to the Olympics).
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
And that's why I'm not planning to visit the US while the current administration stands www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/fe…
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’When Karen Newton left...
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026
Zinia By Santander ⇾ Openbank Pay By Santander (roll right off the tongue…) Barclays (DE) ⇾ easybank Not sure what's happening this month, but apparently all credit card companies decided to change name. At least Barclays gave a few weeks of heads-up, not 2 days. So much for security by awareness.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
Firefox just released a security update for 147 (Firefox, Firefox/Focus for Android) and ESR (140, 147). www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advi… If you're using a fork, you might want to check how long it takes them to release the same update.
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Security Vulnerabilities fixed in 147.0.4, ESR 140.7.1, and ESR 115.32.1
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
Not sure if it was a fluke, but I feel like I finally figured out how to deal with this dough (in particular transferring to the tray).
Slice of pizza in teglia with ham and mozzarella.Tray of pizza in teglia with ham and mozzarella.
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026
I completely missed the news around Peter Attia after the latest batch of Epstein documents. Randomly saw a video popping up on YouTube yesterday, then found this article on The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/… It was already feeling off […]
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Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026
Great work from Jamie, our current intern from the University of Toronto. It's now possible to search for translations in Pontoon without going through the Translate view, and you can also see all translations for a specific string across locales […]
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