Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Let's start with Wikipedia, because the irony is almost too perfect to pass up. In mid-May, the Wikimedia Foundation fired Brooke Vibber — the lead developer of MediaWiki since 2003, the first full-time employee the Foundation ever hired, and their first Chief...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Two weeks ago I wrote 271. That's The Number They're Telling You. — about the Firefox vulnerability announcement, what the number meant, what it conspicuously didn't say, and ended it asking Mozilla to show us the rest of the roll. Today they showed some of it. And...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Earlier this month I wrote The Rocket They Built Yesterday Morning — about Mozilla open-sourcing 0DIN, their agentic vulnerability scanner, with the warhead socket documented in the README and a continuously self-enriching probe library. Then Organics Not Required...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech’s War on Users series. When I started this series I figured I’d be documenting slow burns. The Proton piece went live yesterday. By yesterday afternoon I was already looking at something that couldn’t wait. Nobody told Mozilla. Yesterday — and I mean yesterday, the timestamp on the GitHub...