Step one for my audio-only setup is done. I can have audio (and speech-dispatcher) running without a graphical session. Next I'll either keep banging my head trying to get these TTY screen readers to work or make my own one.

**Mauve 👁💜** · Jul 21, 2026, 18:10

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**Sarah Jamie Lewis** @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social · Jul 21, 2026, 18:10

Jul 21, 2026, 18:10

Sarah Jamie Lewis @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social

If the independent, non-slop web has any future at all, then now must be the time for every firefox fork to commit to working together to maintain a hardfork isolated from Mozilla.

It's a project that is too large to be handled by any small project alone (and maybe even all of them combined), but one that is too important to left under the guidance of an organization like Mozilla.

Without such bold co-operation I fear we have already lost.

**Mauve 👁💜** · Jul 21, 2026, 17:13

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**Sarah Jamie Lewis** @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social · Jul 21, 2026, 17:13

Jul 21, 2026, 17:13

Sarah Jamie Lewis @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social

It is incredibly important to be specific about what properties apply in situations to be able to make the correct trade offs.

An in that respect, VPNs are incapable of providing privacy - under any specific definition of privacy.

They can route around censorship, they can provide security, they can permit jurisdictional and trust flexibility.

But they can only do those things under very specific assumptions which require sharing additional information (albeit changing who gets what data)

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**Mauve 👁💜** @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe · Jul 21, 2026, 02:48

**Mauve 👁💜** @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe · Jul 21, 2026, 02:48

Jul 21, 2026, 02:48

Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Gonna try to make an app to sell which makes it easier to connect to services over p2p. the app will be open source but the default app store versions will have a one time fee.