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The post is fine. People can disable whatever they want - I certainly do. But (at the time of writing) half a dozen comments were complaining about "useless cruft" being added.

Same as the AI integrations. There's obviously a market for them so FF has done some fairly sensible work to add them. And then people here explode like Mozilla has kicked their puppy.

I'm sorry, but that's bollocks. I browse exclusively in FF and I can't remember a single page in the last couple of years that refuses to work on it (unless it's a weird web experiment).

I despair at some of the comments on posts like this.

"Mozilla needs to attract new users!!"

Mozilla proceeds to add new features which new users might like

"No! Not like that"

Like, what do you actually want? A browser with a UI that hasn't changed since Stallman was in nappies? Things have to change in order to grow. Not everything is going to be right for you and that's OK.

Have you tried using FoI to get the data? I've had some success with data requests - often getting dumps in CSV or similar.

I appreciate that won't necessarily capture live / recent data. But it might be quicker than waiting for rate-limits to reset.

The problem is that lots of scenic areas have slow or no Internet access. So uploading as you go isn't always practical.

All the GPS data are nulled / set to zero.

I've just tried that in Chrome and Firefox on Android 16.

Both just show zeros in the GPS EXIF - the rest of the data are passed through unaltered.

The default camera app has this off by default. Most of the ones I've tried do.

But do you remember every options you've randomly toggled over the years? It's pretty easy to see how someone would flip on geotagging, forget about it, then be shocked a few months later when they discover all their photos are leaking their location.

> But I don't honestly think Google could have consulted their community. It's just too big.

The thing is, they frequently do. They have developer relations people, they publish blog posts about breaking changes, they work with W3C and other standards bodies, they reply on bug trackers.

But, in this case, nothing. Just a unilateral change with no communication. Not even a blog posts saying "As of April, this functionality is deprecated."

I don't think that's quite right. Up until recently I was able to share photos with geolocation from my GrapheneOS device.

OP here. I'm not conflating them. That's why I used the word "or".

I don't know how modern your Android phone is, but on all of mine sharing via Bluetooth strips away some of the EXIF.

I was part of HMG. It was a joint effort with the telcos - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mobile-networks-remove-da...

At the height of the pandemic, the UK mandated zero-rating data for mobile connection to .gov.uk and .NHS.uk domains, along with several other charitable sites.

(I was part of the team working on that proposal.)

Yes.

The arbitrage difference between filling your battery cheaply and discharging when prices are high is greater than any theoretical wear on your battery.

Even better if you are being paid to charge your battery.

It is commercially viable. A UK energy company already has a Vehicle to Grid tariff.

https://octopus.energy/power-pack/

See also https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/case-study-uk-electric...

Yes. I have a 4.8kWh battery which is slurping up electrons. It charges either from our solar panels or from cheap grid electricity.

It discharges when prices are high. So it'll mostly go into my oven tonight. If export prices are high, it can also sell back.

Very roughly, we sell about 16% of our stored electricity - the rest is used by our home.

See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/30-months-to-3mwh-some-more...

I'm in the UK and am currently being paid to use electricity.

My energy provider uses a tracker tariff which can change every half hour (it does have a maximum cap to prevent the issues seen in Texas). Prices are currently negative, so every kWh I use right now means the electricity company pays me.

Nuclear promised energy which was "too cheap to meter". But solar actually delivered.

Cheers mate, I appreciate it.

(OP here) Nope! For all their faults, Amazon don't seem to have leaked anything of mine. Yet.

Yes. It literally says:

> The cost assumptions assume utility-scale solar panels and batteries in large parks. Smaller-scale rooftop solar and home batteries would cost 2-3 times more.

I've installed domestic solar several times. The main cost isn't the panels or the inverters - it's the scaffolding, labour, and wiring improvements in the home. If you have a tall or complicated house, it'll cost more.

I don't think that's quite accurate.

Flats and terraced homes aren't the majority - about 55% of people live in detached or semi-detached houses. See the ONS Census data at https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/...

My terraced house has off-street parking, as do most of them in my area.

Houses with separate garages are also fairly easy to upgrade - we had an armoured cable buried in a new trench to connect our old property.

Similarly, most flats with car-parks are especially easy to add chargers to. They can either be 7kW points or just regular plugs. We had slow chargers installed in our old flat.

Yes, there are many properties with no easy way to add charging. But none of those places have a petrol pump attached either.

Could you not have downloaded one of the hundreds of Open Source event systems and configured it in less time?

I'd love NixOS more if they had any decent documentation.

Everything seems scattered around a dozen forums, a hundred old blog posts, and a thousand issues of "this work on my machine (3 releases ago)".

> I legitimately don’t understand how companies get to this point

The people who start a company care deeply about the problem they're trying to solve.

The first N employees also care - they're willing to risk working for start-up because they can see the potential and want to help.

But then you hire, say, an accountant. The accountant doesn't care about your mission. You are just another client to them. You need someone to staff the phone or sweep the floors or design the logo or whatever. Why should they care? You're not paying them to care, they're not invested in the company nor its success, and they believe nothing they do for the company will change their personal fortunes.

Then, before you know it, you have a couple of floors filled with people who have no incentive to care.

It is incredibly difficult to run an organisation where everyone is mission driven.

Did you, by any chance, hit the "Drunk UI" option on a previous visit?

If so, click one of the other themes at the top.

Cool. But every time I use them I get a wrong answer faster.

I know, I know. I'm prompting it wrong. I'm using the wrong model. I need to pull the slot-machine arm just one more time.

I know I'm not as clever as Terrance Tao - so I'll wait until the machines are useful to someone like me.

I recommend going to the pub with some friends and having a chat about anything that isn't work.

You're welcome to read my MSc and see if I was "going with the hype" https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10542

The answer was quite the opposite. I wanted to see if the technology lived up to the hype. The answer, unsurprisingly was no. If only Zuck had listened to me :-)

You can make pretty much the same arguments for LLMs. Pollution, corruption, and war are all things I'm keen to avoid.

Sure, but Life + 70 means it is unlikely that anyone will benefit from the death soon.