It doesn’t say anything about how this works. “No data retention” suggests that data is going to a server that’s processing it but then not retaining it. That’s bad, this type of feature should run entirely on the client.

Also, there’s a proprietary AI model doing the work, even if inference is in the client. It says “open weight” but that’s like letting people download a program as a compiled binary, the exact opposite of what FOSS is supposed to mean. It’s an open/free model only if the training data and algorithms are also public, not just the trained weights.

I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla Nov 2025.

I figured on doing shift management the same way as without a computer, like you would on a white board or signup sheet. But ok, if you need a spreadsheet, you need it. You could also look on drupal.org for any modules that might help. But, Drupal may be out of style by now, I haven’t paid attention.

Yeah you can use a self hosted nextcloud or similar, or maybe you want a wiki rather than a spreadsheet.

“Gil Durán’s new book, The Nerd Reich, catalogs how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel took over America.”

Oh thanks, that’s interesting. A quick click shows it’s a GUI program while we already have Firefox for that, so I’d hope for a simple CLI program that converts one text file to another. In fact it might even be interesting to connect it with Pandoc. I’ll look into it. Nice!

They’ll appoint a task force with Altman and Zuckerberg in charge.

If it’s purely a degoogling question, deepl.com translation is very good, though idk how private it is. For privacy, the built-in Firefox translation is crappy but usable if you’re just trying to get meanings of things. IDK if it’s available (or easy to separate) as an outside-of-browser CLI utility.

Talk about a supply chain attack.

There are apparently Alcoholics Anonymous types of programs for gay people who want to get rid of those urges. They go to meetings to have prayer sessions and stuff like that. It’s all with up-front intentions, but what ends up happening is these things always invariably turn into gay dating services. Heh.

It’s ok, if I’m going to be misjudged, I’m glad it was in the direction that gave me too much credit ;).

Rent Bissell rug shampooing machine at the local hardware store and knock yourself out. You have to buy a bottle of carpet cleaning fluid for it too. There are a bunch of different kinds and I got whatever one they recommended, idr specifics. Only did it once while getting ready to move out.

Sorry, I still use DSL.

Uh no? We had talked about it on the phone (web help and housecleaning help) before meeting at the restaurant, and she’d sent me the url of her then-in-progress web site so I knew what it was. Nothing new spilled. But yeah, in such a situation I probably should have just offered to get the check and saying I could afford it and wasn’t expecting something, instead of just picking it up without asking. But, as mentioned I had picked the restaurant and while it wasn’t fancy, it was kind of midrange, not real cheap. She wouldn’t have picked that place if it were up to her, so I was responsible. And I picked it mostly because it was nearby and convenient. to me It’s ok, I think I understood afterwards, but too late.

IDK if I was an unusually good listener. We were both old enough to not be be too distracted by the type of work she did, so it was a normal type of intro chat that I think went ok til the check came.

Aha, I see from my earlier post that my description skipped the part that I already knew it was a porn site before we met up. Sorry about that. It was a long time ago and I didn’t organize the story in my mind enough before posting it.

I hadn’t been of any help to her. We met up because I wanted her to help clean my apartment and she suggested that I could help her learn web stuff, but nothing had happened yet. Anyway according to Feynman’s “Surely You’re Joking” memoir, if you’re really trying for a date in that situation, you shouldn’t pay the other person’s share. It’s an interesting approach.

Oh come on.

A lady I connected with online (not a dating site or similar) asked if I was willing to help with a web site. I said ok and we met up at a nearby late night restaurant. It turned out it was a porn site and she was a porn actress, wanting to have her own site instead of the exploitive one that she was then on. We had a nice conversation about all kinds of things including web development.

The restaurant was not fancy but she spent a while picking out the cheapest things on the menu. I was the one who suggested the meeting place and I inferred that she was having cash flow problems while I was working as a programmer, so I figured I should pick up the tab when it came. It was just the considerate thing to do. When I picked it up, she freaked out as if I expected something from her because of it. She left the restaurant in a big hurry and I didn’t hear from her after that, oh well.

She was an interesting person, and attractive, and I didn’t anticipate that reaction at all. I like to think we could have gotten to know each other better if I’d let her pay her own tab. Shrug, whatever.

Shorter version: instead of wiki software, use a static site generated from a git repo. It’s a valid approach. I think emacswiki may have once worked that way. Note that Gitit uses git for version management, so among other things you can copy your whole wiki with git clone. But it also has a built in web editor instead of just relying on git push.

Making up jokes about whatever the upsetting situation is.

You might try Fossil then. It uses something like 2MB of server ram instead of gigabytes. It makes me wonder where we all went wrong.