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22 Years on Firefox, and Today I'm All In

https://rietta.com/blog/firefox-in-2026/
4•rietta•34m ago

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rietta•34m ago
I wrote this yesterday before seeing the news about the Firefox iOS native ad blocker. Still working through my bookmark management but off to a good start. I wish I had made the full leap years ago.
rietta•10m ago
I do have my personal misgivings on passkeys based on the current implementation trajectory, but am still working out the details before writing on them. If anyone has direct experience with the recovery modes as used by real people, I would love to hear it. This will be a future blog post for me.

3D Printing State of the Union

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/08/06/1700
1•rcarmo•2m ago•0 comments

Four Years at Nanjing University – Software Engineering and Armchair Programming (2025)

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/4-years-at-nju/
1•xiaoyu2006•2m ago•0 comments

Arcadia review – love, gardening and Euclidian geometry collide in masterpiece

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/feb/05/arcadia-review-tom-stoppard-old-vic-london
1•isomorph•3m ago•0 comments

Bqnpad (Online BQN REPL)

https://bqnpad.mechanize.systems
2•isomorph•4m ago•0 comments

AI won't solve the work-theater problem

https://think-twice.me/?p=102
1•zug_zug•6m ago•0 comments

Women drone operators in the Ukrainian military

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_drone_operators_in_the_Ukrainian_military
1•isomorph•6m ago•0 comments

Publishing: What's Worse Than AI Slop? Trad Slop

https://novelarcade.substack.com/p/whats-worse-than-ai-slop-trad-slop
1•richardatlarge•6m ago•0 comments

Why play is at the core of a meaningful life

https://www.ft.com/content/7b95cdab-7546-432f-b4a1-6509e7648ec5
1•jazzprogramming•6m ago•0 comments

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141904/flock-is-tightening-its-rules-in-response-to-...
1•joozio•7m ago•0 comments

Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks

https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
1•alephnerd•7m ago•0 comments

If Star Wars Had a $10 Budget – Full Movie [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qy8Bnb9C1o
1•nate•8m ago•0 comments

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
2•Narishma•8m ago•0 comments

The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse

https://www.ft.com/content/0e9c3c2e-1d67-4b70-981b-73bcdf409a6c
1•wslh•9m ago•1 comments

Intel and Ayar Labs 4 Tbps Optical FPGA Demo (2023)

https://ayarlabs.com/resource/intel-ayar-labs-4-tbps-optical-fpga-demo/
1•peter_d_sherman•12m ago•0 comments

I've build a source of real fake data

1•przeslijmi•14m ago•0 comments

Post Details Studio

https://studio.youtube.com/post/UgkxjfvuDsIiZk4Dt6mOfNFlzki3ceE4w_lu/edit
1•untiledsource•17m ago•0 comments

IBM and Red Hat Offer Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, NGOs and Think Tanks

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-04-ibm-and-red-hat-offer-lightwell-at-no-cost-to-universities,-n...
1•bodash•17m ago•0 comments

AI and the Changing Future of Mathematics

https://www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicians-are-grappling-with
1•doubledamio•19m ago•0 comments

Breaking AI Orchestration: Hijacking N8n HITL Chat Sessions

https://zerolabs.rubrik.com/blog/breaking-ai-orchestration-part-2-hijacking-n8n-hitl-chat-sessions
1•shivanshuag•20m ago•0 comments

Harness Engineering Is Cybernetics

https://x.com/odysseus0z/article/2030416758138634583
1•alex_hirner•21m ago•0 comments

The Acali Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acali
1•nperson•21m ago•0 comments

San Mateo County Moves to Regulate Humanoid Robots

https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/san-mateo-county-moves-to-regulate-humanoid-robots-threatenin...
2•raptortech•21m ago•0 comments

Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/14/russian-missile-uses-nvidia-ai-chip-to-help-target...
3•2OEH8eoCRo0•22m ago•0 comments

Trump administration 'Not in Favor' of Apple Using Chinese RAM

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-china-memory-chip-plan-57773a83
4•CharlesW•24m ago•0 comments

The Quora Collapse

https://www.harperflow.io/dead-internet/quora-collapse
3•Heshamus•27m ago•0 comments

Dr. Abernethy stories about Pratt and Whitney and the J58 engine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_0xMRsU7L8
3•class3shock•29m ago•1 comments

Why LLMs Are Unreliable Language Detectors

https://igorstechnoclub.com/why-llms-are-unreliable-language-detectors/
2•Igor_Wiwi•31m ago•0 comments

John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/10/john-berger-from-life-by-tom-overton-review-a-vibra...
3•prismatic•32m ago•0 comments

Designing least-privilege registry credentials for CI

https://omniline.app/blog/death-by-a-thousand-tokens-least-privilege-registry-credentials-for-ci
2•libertas_quae_s•34m ago•0 comments

22 Years on Firefox, and Today I'm All In

https://rietta.com/blog/firefox-in-2026/
4•rietta•34m ago•2 comments