Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

New, by me: Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker, has laid off 30% of its staff as it goes through a restructuring, including dropping its advocacy division.

The Mozilla Foundation reported having 60 employees during the 2022 tax year, but TechCrunch has heard that the number of employees was closer to 120 people at the time of the layoffs.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

If you care about building a music library you can listen to for years to come, don't use Spotify, and buck against the trend of exploitative streaming services. Learn about where to get DRM-free audio on our DRM-free living guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr #EndDRM #BoycottSpotify #Spotify

IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1954) w/ Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday is now streaming (exclusively) on Prime.

If you're looking for a deft satire of people who are famous for being famous, George Cukor and Garson Kanin did it 70 years ago.

#JackLemmon #FilmMastodon

LibreOffice advocates around the world help to raise awareness of our free and privacy-oriented office suite! Phil Shapiro is one example, and has developed a maths game using LibreOffice Calc: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/10/22/interview-with-phil-shapiro/

I was talking about this elsewhere for other reasons but let me skip all that and just say that “Elements of Surprise” is absolute gem of a book, and if you are at all interested in novels, films, plot twists, puzzles, cognition, or surprise endings, you absolutely should read it. https://veratobin.org/publications/elements-of-surprise/

Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/21/24273820/intuit-ceo-sasan-goodarzi-turbotax-irs-quickbooks-ai-software-decoder-interview

"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."
Biographia Literaria (1817)

English poet, philosopher, & critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born #OTD in 1772.

He was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England & a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.

Books by Samuel Taylor Coleridge at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/95

#books #literature

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We blogged about the importance of federation for digital sovereignty https://nextcloud.com/blog/federation-a-foundational-concept-for-digital-sovereignty/ What do you think? #Nextcloud

F-Droid is the first third-party app store to support Android 15's app archiving feature!

The popular repository for FOSS apps is preparing to add support for app archiving in its next release, using new APIs Google added in Android 15.

🔗Details👇

https://androidauthority.com/f-droid-app-archiving-3491158/

the age of Move Fast and Break Things is over, and we now enter an age of Move Slow Around Broken Things

The myth that social media harms kids drives me bonkers. So I tried to frame my thinking of risks vs. harms in today's rant: https://zephoria.substack.com/p/risks-vs-harms-youth-and-social-media

A few days ago I wrote an uncharacteristically angry blog post about Mozilla and the state of the browser market.

I was going to just sit on it, but given the recent "news", I figure I might as well put it out there.

"Rallying behind an undeserving browser will not save the open web."

https://nathandyer.me/2024/10/04/firefox.html

#Firefox #Mozilla #GNOMEWeb

@trwnh contributes a tremendous amount to fediverse development. But like a lot of us, is not giving paid for most of it. Please consider chucking some coins their way;

https://trwnh.com/#support

If you can help with funding some of their work, please contact them

I simply adore this photo of James Earl Jones & Big Bird.

Yes, he played a lot of memorable dads from Darth Vader to Mufasa to King Jaffe Joffer + countless other incredible roles on & offscreen.

And Mr. Jones also happened to be the very first celebrity guest on Sesame Street. #history #media #art

Ditch Credit Monitoring: The Ultimate Guide to Data Breaches https://neat.tube/videos/watch/6b64bb6b-dc42-43cc-be21-e4b1a5da7808

Lito, a self-taught Japanese artist who began creating intricate, hand-carved art on fallen leaves as a way to manage his ADHD. He carefully selects each leaf & carves whimsical patterns that often depict animals, objects & landscapes - transforming delicate leaves into complex scenes.
Art that captures the fleeting beauty of nature.

#art #MastoArt #artist #creativity #beauty

Helpful and thorough review of Kagi from @matt 📺

It covers domain ranking, lenses, viewing web archives with the @internetarchive's Wayback Machine, keyboard shortcuts, bang shortcuts, sorting search results, and an overview of the iOS app:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spiBZSPJReM

#AdFree #Search #Kagi