Notices by see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io), page 7

dear #firefox developers, 100+ kb minified .js files are not source code. sheeeeeesh

The https://fasttext.cc/ model is shipped in the firefox package, verified with this experiment.

or did I? I forgot about .cache/mozilla

Looking in the source, they have horrible things like 100+ kb of minifired js that loads the fasttext LLM, but I didn't find the LLM binary itself

yeah, verified this using a fresh user account

where they hide the LLM in the source code I don't know, wild!

FWIW, I do own copyright to data used in this translation. They have ingested the translations of the debian installer into it; I wrote a lot of that text and it is GPL licensed.

I found this url in their training set, for example:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/debian-installer/+pots/debian-installer/is/+translate?show=changed_in_ubuntu

Firefox's new offline translation is certianly a nice feature.

My question is, does clicking on these buttons install non-free software on my computer?

I don't think that the free software community has settled on an answer to this question.

Did a quick test with a fresh install of firefox and it automatically uses the ML model for detecting language without being configured. It also automatically downloaded the spanish translation model even though I didn't ask it to do the translation.

I'm unsure if the language detection model is being shipped in firefox or downloaded on first run.

my top gnome annoyance has been that it enters power saver automatically, and then dims the screen after 30s inactivity even though I have screen dimming turned off in prefs.

Don't know about you, but I sometimes want to sit and read for more than 30 seconds uninterrupted. And yes, dimming the screen is pschologically, an interruption.

Astonishingly, there is a bug about this, and it was closed w/o fixing it
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/issues/671

applied the gsettings workaround at the end, sigh

@4Dgifts that SoftwareUpdateRequest GRPC they found looks like it could be used for a downgrade attack, if an older version of the firmware has some useful property

@4Dgifts "Unfortunately, the open-source version of Linux published by SpaceX is 5.10.90, while the one found on the dish was 5.15.55"

Oh cool, so I have a GPL violation mounted in my blueberry garden.

#starlink

@johns I'm surprised this isn't the case unless they bury a retroactive grant in the ToS..

@johns hm.. as a concrete example, when github changed their TOS to claim a license grant to all software uploaded to it (by the copyright holder presumably), I immediately deleted all my mirrors of my software from github.

My hope is that github does not have an additional license to my software, because I did not publish any software there under the new ToS.