Posts by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Az0wiBntFbfkUnuods by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-09-22T15:58:54Z
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Beat my 5.3km PB by 5 seconds!First fast run PB in ~6 weeks.
(DIR) Post #Az0wiCTMlOqiZRJwI4 by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-09-24T17:12:09Z
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This morning, long run, smashed my 10km PB by 2 minutes, and my 11km PB by 3 minutes!Started off kinda not great, after ~7km got really really good.
(DIR) Post #Az0wiDPVHFLzTkWMuO by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-09-26T15:46:35Z
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Woo! Beat my 5.3km fast run PB by 10 seconds!Very happy with that as I really struggled with traction on the wet roads this morning.Been a solid week of PB runs.
(DIR) Post #Az0wiEWH9YMgv2hI6S by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-10-03T16:28:16Z
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Lots of rain this week, managed to get out for a run Monday and today (Friday).Ground was wet both times, and my shoes just do not have good traction on the surfaces around here...which makes it feel much harder to run at the paces I can when it is dry.Did ~6km easy run on monday before being rained out, and finished a 5.3km fast run today ~1 minute slower than my PB.Not great, but not terrible. Probably time to start planning more treadmill sessions.
(DIR) Post #Az0wiFNnwXBPb3k2XQ by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-10-08T18:00:08Z
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Really nice easy run today, weather was cool but not cold, sunny. Beat my 10km PB by 2 minutes!
(DIR) Post #B1JQd3sY2mw1QSdrAu by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-12-16T15:54:20Z
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Mozilla has a new CEO. Once again iterating that the future of Firefox is AI first, AI by default:"Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software""It will evolve into a modern AI browser""AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
(DIR) Post #B1JQd958hOyfYxZTzk by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-12-16T16:15:52Z
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Mozilla insist that people trust them. I assume they have insight and metrics that reinforce that view.Perhaps I am getting old and this truly is the only path forward to maintain an independent browser.I continue to feel that this is a terrible idea that has likely irrevocably jeopardized the future of firefox and, by extension, the open web.
(DIR) Post #B1JQdEEtWYkfYfAqOW by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-12-16T16:33:00Z
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The overhead of disabling every single AI-first change in Firefox is already starting to weigh on firefox-forks.My view on this hasn't really shifted in the last few months: unless an existing organization, with strong principles, steps forwards and commits to a hard fork I don't really see a future for Firefox.(I think there are probably only 1-2 orgs with the combination of experience / maturity to actually pull that off, and none of them seem to be even considering that kind of future)
(DIR) Post #B1LsIQYXilg6i49aQi by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-12-17T21:09:24Z
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My issue with firefox soft forks is that even in their most ideal form, they can only be reactive harm-reduction, and any reasonable fork necessitates compromises that introduce some amount of risk (delayed security updates, compromised trust anchors etc.)Perhaps that is the best anyone can do within reasonable costs.Perhaps the only affordable proactive actions we can take is to reinforce that front against future inevitable assaults.Perhaps that must be enough. I wish it were not so.
(DIR) Post #B1Lwqz5YEiyFTMKIzI by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-12-17T21:35:56Z
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I've spent time this year gaming out other possible strategies with people. Because the question of "no seriously how do we move forward in a world where every single mainstream browser engine is aligned towards making the web worse?" is one of the important ones.The only viable path I can see requires that a collection of organizations/soft-forks commit to co-maintaining a shared base browser fork of firefox (something like the base browser used by Tor for TB and Mullvad)
(DIR) Post #B1Lwr5p9C70aMVhntI by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-12-17T22:11:50Z
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My main open question is can we make that happen? Is there enough vision and appetite spread between the various firefox forks to inspire such a shared project?(There are other, related questions, like how do you prevent all that has happened before from happening again, but those I think might be beyond us)
(DIR) Post #B1OAdprB2JOSka9BuC by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-12-18T23:22:33Z
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A quick reminder of a few things Mozilla/Firefox have done in the last *checks notes* ~year that I hope highlights that this is not a case of bad messaging but a consistent pattern of hostility:- "Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."- "privacy preserving" Advertising telemetry enabled by default- New T&C demanding a worldwide license (rolled back) & weakened privacy policy to support the above expansion (active)- ""[Firefox] will evolve into a modern AI browser"
(DIR) Post #B1OAdqnfWqBJfzVu4m by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-12-18T23:31:10Z
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The leaders of an organization keep making announcements like "we are building the torment nexus", "we are a torment nexus company" How much do you really weight a follow up PR statement on a smaller dev channel along the lines of: "we promise to give you a kill switch for the torment nexus that will probably be opt-in for some definition of opt-in....we can reasonably agree that opt-in is a vague term right?"But keep following them down that road I guess...
(DIR) Post #B1OAdrgcEY8MQPDmim by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2025-12-18T23:41:49Z
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Opt-in means that the person needs to perform an explicit action in order to do something. Ideally it means that they do that action of their own accord, without being harassed. They do that because the software/features/whatever is exciting and/or solves a real problem they have.Something so good you don't have to trick them into turning it on.You know, like that time 20+ years ago when people actively sought out and downloaded Firefox because it was simply the better option.
(DIR) Post #B1tpZ1Nj97CNXGhxaK by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T02:46:39Z
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Today, the universe wanted to reaffirm my belief that more people should ensure they have local copies of anything they think they might ever need.- picked up a project I hadn't touched in a few months to find some of the build scripts failing - because the decades old mirror they were attempting to pull packages from has apparently been offline for months.- then I went to check a popular git repo and got hit with: "site administrator has misconfigured anubis" (worked around it...but still)
(DIR) Post #B1tyai1D0YufeG3Sgy by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T03:28:20Z
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Memories and Ink fades, links rot, collections cycle, and censors edit and rewrite. Building archives, even if only in private, is both a defensive and optimistic act.Make copies of artifacts and please write about them excruciating detail, document from weird angles, note the obvious, and the absurd.Presuppose a future where someone else wants to know that artifact as you know it.No one person, or org, can hold back the fog of time forever, but consider giving history a helping hand.
(DIR) Post #B1tyanJ7LPD23FTKng by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T03:37:26Z
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Both my artistic and technical interests have resulted in a renewed appreciation for both niche contemporary documentation and the historical archives that they become.And also a firm belief that there is nowhere near enough writing or drawing or pictures on any subject. Think back 10-20 years ago, pick any mundate aspect of your life, fully inspect it in your mind and attempt to determine how it came to be exactly that way, what forces led to that, where did they go?And document it.
(DIR) Post #B1tyasA5IPxF6gHgum by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T03:51:15Z
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I also feel that this is our only viable defense against the double impact of the generative AI onslaught i.e. the mass pollution, and the systematic DoS, of research sources.I fear the impact of both will only worsen with each passing month.Because of that, the best time to do that documentation was decades ago, the second best time was yesterday, the next best time is now.
(DIR) Post #B1vAeR4RM4X0qs4Ngu by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T20:25:02Z
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Practically every tangentially related to work external meeting I have had with other Canadians in the last year has included a segue where all parties discussed taking steps to diversify away from US infra/software/orgs.It's the kind of activity where nothing seems to be happening, until it happens all at once.e.g. We began researching, negotiations, and planning early in 2025 and only actually started migrating systems in December. We will begin cancelling contracts later this month.
(DIR) Post #B1vAeVmXq2BhSojezY by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T20:37:57Z
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There were many media reports in Canada/around the world regarding the decline of sales of US alcohol / decline in trips to the US.I know there is some hope in US circles that both those trends will be reversed in the coming years.But I suspect that the economic fallout has only just started to surface e.g. we have invested months of work building relationships with local orgs / migrating systems etc. Even if tomorrow is all sunshine and rainbows, it's unlikely to overcome the new inertia.