Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026This is completely terrifying www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-inte…theguardian.comBanished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation dealsAfter 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 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026Seeing 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`). 011
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026Stages 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. 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026Progress on mRNA vaccine against melanoma sounds one of the few good news I read lately www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/me… 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026I 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] 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026It 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… 001
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026Weather 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… 010
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026So, Claude has a /stickers command to order stickers. And it goes to Sticker Mule of all places? Talk about picking partners 🤦 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026Looks like Apple has an upcoming series based on Neuromancer. After what they did with Foundation, I think I'll pass. 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026Based 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. 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026The 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. 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026Fender 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 […]fosstodon.orgOriginal post on fosstodon.org 010
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026Out 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. 100
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026Wait, 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 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026Fun fact: "trillion" (en) and "trilione" (Italian) are two wildly different numbers. A "trillion" is "bilione" in italian. www.terminologiaetc.it/2026/06/13/d…terminologiaetc.itMusk né trilionario né triliardario ma bilionario!Giganteschi scontati falsi amici nelle descrizioni italiane della ricchezza di Elon Musk 110
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026The 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 […]fosstodon.orgOriginal post on fosstodon.org 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026Wait, what? travel.gc.ca/destinations/germanytravel.gc.caTravel advice and advisories for GermanyTravel Advice and Advisories from the Government of Canada 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026So, mob shitting on maintainer of Open Source project is suddenly OK because…LLMs? 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026Gemini in Google Sheets remains one of the most useless pieces of technology I've encountered. 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026I 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. 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026I 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. 010
Reposted by Francesco LodoloGabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026OK #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 […]mas.toOriginal post on mas.to 31167
Reposted by Francesco Lodoloeverton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026Interesting post by the author of @allaboutberlin on how AI is killing his awesome website. #AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin 0167
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026Read a comment on Reddit about the upcoming Firefox Settings redesign, made me chuckle: “can't find anything wrong, now I'm mad”. 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026Maybe 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. 000
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. 000
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!? […]fosstodon.orgOriginal post on fosstodon.org 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026It'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. 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026Sabastian 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 […]fosstodon.orgOriginal post on fosstodon.org 001
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026Given 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… 010
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026I'm guessing this week everybody is an expert on security bugs and CVEs. 000
Reposted by Francesco LodoloHenri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026Reminder 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…mozilla.orgCrashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.9/1.8.1.1) 001
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026I wonder if the sudden surge of security fix releases across packages (npm, pypi) is connected to Claude's new "offensive" capabilities. 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026We 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 […]fosstodon.orgOriginal post on fosstodon.org 019
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/202620 years in, and people still rush to announce Firefox releases 24h before the actual official release, pointing to FTP servers 🤷 001
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026Uff :-( astral.sh/blog/openaiastral.shAstral to join OpenAIAstral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team. 011
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026Good 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…theguardian.comInside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla CybertruckCybertrucks 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’ 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026The 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. 021
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026The 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. 110
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026Folks 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…blog.mozilla.org 001
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026To 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. 110
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026Pretty amazing article on data center distribution restofworld.org/2025/data-center-he…restofworld.orgWe mapped the world’s hottest data centersIn 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot. 011
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026Uff, +30% in one swoop (Hetzner VPS) docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastruc…docs.hetzner.comHetzner Price Adjustment - Hetzner Docs 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026Looks like Americans finally discovered Pizzoccheri (thanks to the Olympics). 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026And that's why I'm not planning to visit the US while the current administration stands www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/fe…theguardian.com‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeksKaren 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... 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026Zinia 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. 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026Firefox 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.mozilla.orgSecurity Vulnerabilities fixed in 147.0.4, ESR 140.7.1, and ESR 115.32.1 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026Not 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). 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026I 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 […]fosstodon.orgOriginal post on fosstodon.org 000
Francesco Lodolo @flod.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026Great 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 […]fosstodon.orgOriginal post on fosstodon.org 000