Notices by ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

Just had the realization that my last post could be summarized as:

"I’m a TCP person in a UDP world"

https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html

@paul_denton : je me souviens d’une anecdote similaire à la fin du mandat de Bill Clinton : il s’est retrouvé devant un distributeur de billet et n’avait pas la moindre idée de ce que c’était ni comment s’en servir.

À sa décharge, ces distributeurs se sont popularisés pendant son mandat.

Sarkozy raconte n’importe quoi : il a connu les téléphones toute son enfance et sa vie.

This post will not appear in the timeline of most Pixelfed users.

Because considered at "not pretty enough" for them (despite the great illustration by @davidrevoy )

It worth asking the question:

Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

https://ploum.net/2025-12-04-pixelfed-against-fediverse.html

Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.

Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work

Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.

Enterprise grade B2B software : this code should run till the end of the demonstration to that big customer.

Vibe coding : You are perfectly right. The code doesn’t run. Try this one. You are right, it deleted your hard disk, I’m sorry.

Don’t Do Snake Oil Writing

https://ploum.net/2025-11-26-snake-oil-writing.html

inspired by @protonprivacy post about Proton Pass CLI

Also available on #geminiprotocol :

gemini://ploum.net/2025-11-26-snake-oil-writing.gmi

So @protonprivacy announces a CLI tool for Proton pass, which is nice.

But the blog post is 6 times the very same useless paragraph, telling you that CLI can be automated but with words in different orders.

https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-cli

That smells like plain old LLMs and it hurts your company more than you can imagine.

Besides the title, the whole blog post is completely, utterly useless. It is highly disrespectful for your customers and for people working on that feature.

This is just plain s**

Linux is an operating system on which you need to type cryptic commands to make it do what you want.

Windows is an operating system on which you need to type cryptic commands to make it not do what you don’t want.

MacOS is an operating system that makes what Apple want, no matter what cryptic commands you type.

- Copilot was forced to nearly every MS user without their consent
- Gemini starts each time an Android user touch his smartphone main button
- Whatsapp users suddenly interact with an AI they can’t disable
- Firefox will soon have its own AI
- Even myself, as a @protonprivacy and @kagihq user, I received access to multiple chatbots I never asked for

But remember: statistics show that "people are using AI tools !"

If you trust those statistics, you are deep into the delusion bubble.

@neilk : is my English so poor that you want to translate it to true English ?

Moziila didn’t have the ressource to keep a "subscribe to RSS" button in Firefox but has the manpower to build a full IA inside your browser.

And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.

@monterosato : c’est que fait le #geminiprotocol mais sans prétention.

Un réseau conçu pour empêcher le flicage, empêcher la monétisation des vues et interdire toute évolution car il fait ce qu’il doit faire, car un navigateur Gemini doit pouvoir être programmé en un week-end par une personne seule.

Moi, j’adore. (et oui, j’ai même mon propre navigateur)

Mais c’est vraiment très geek ! Ça ne va pas arranger l’image que tes collègues ont de toi ;-)

https://ploum.net/gemini-le-protocole-du-slow-web/index.html

Bonne nouvelle : nous avons probablement trouvé scientifiquement le sens de la vie.

Mauvaise nouvelle: cela ne va pas vous plaire.

https://ploum.net/lhumanite-a-t-elle-trouve-le-sens-de-la-vie/index.html

#retroploum

Contrairement à ce qu’on pourrait croire, la panne mondiale #AWS ne va faire que confirmer le choix d’AWS.

Parce que :

1. Ce n’est pas notre faute, c’est AWS. On ne peut rien faire.

2. Même Amazon est down, du coup, nous on a le droit aussi.

3. Les médias grand-public disent que "Internet est down" donc nous on peut l’être aussi.

Résultat : AWS fonctionne pour son usage premier, à savoir se déresponsabiliser complètement. Personne ne sera viré pour avoir choisi AWS

@aaribaud : opensource projects I use are using it, which makes account mandatory to report bugs/send contribution.

Using a diffrent email adress for each website made me realize that, after blocking obvious sources, the main source of spam/scam in my inbox is from #github

I wish I could delete my account !

https://ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-github.html

@bortzmeyer @louisderrac @tcrouzet : c’est comme la distinction Internet/web ou bikepacking/cyclotourisme.

Y’a la définition technique et celle grand public.

Pour le grand public :

 pas d’algorithme = pas d’algorithme opaque propriétaire

Mastodon = Fediverse

Internet = web

digital = numérique

C’est parfois très frustrant mais, lorsque le propos ne prête pas à confusion, il faut faire des compromis si on ne veut pas effaroucher les lecteurs.

Les utilisateurs de claviers splittés, vous avez des conseils pour la configuration de vos touches de pouce ?

Je suis pas encore super satisfait de la mienne, j’ai encore trop de touches différentes.

Vous pensez que space/shift on hold, c’est une bonne idée ? Et le enter/ctrl on hold ? J’hésite également à virer l’esc car j’utilise spontanément celui sous l’auriculaire gauche.

Note: la touche jaune "2" active la layer de navigation vimesque inspirée par @fabi1cazenave

#ergol #dygma #defy

Did you know that there’s a premium version of Whatsapp which :

- Has no advertising
- Has no mandatory AI integration
- Has no tracking and does not gather your personnal data
- Has increased privacy and stronger encryption
- Is exclusive and allows you to chat with other premium members

Best of all ? It is currently free to join!

Go now to your app store and install it before it is too late!

It is called "Signal"

https://ploum.net/2025-05-23-chats-digital-clutter.html

I just gave to support #Peertube, the free and open alternative to Youtube

https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

If they raise 15.000€, they will offer "Peertube Premium" to all users. I laughed ;-)

All my videos are available on Peertube: https://indymotion.fr/c/oneploumshow

Test it, join it, support it!