Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

A new look is coming to Firefox on computers. Codenamed Nova, the visual redesign is very colorful and features rounded corners. I don't know… It’s weird. The work is in its early stages and there is no release date yet. (I don't even know what language this blog is in; click for the screenshots.)

“Desktop mode” comes to Android. In the newly released Android 16 QPR3, just connect your phone to a display, keyboard, and mouse for an experience similar to Windows or macOS. Now that macOS officially runs on an iPhone chip (in MacBook Neo), why not do the same, Apple? (We know why: because then the company would sell only one device instead of two.)

What you give up (and to whom) when you verify your LinkedIn profile. Spoiler: a lot, and to dozens of unimaginable “partners.” At this point, it is recommended to at least be wary of anything that big tech platforms offer. Hot tip from Marco.

digiKam 9.0. An update that lives up to the jump from the 8.x line to 9.0, with tons of new features and improvements. digiKam is a photo manager and editor, similar to Lightroom. FOSS, for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Ensu. The folks at Ente have launched a “private AI” that runs on the device. It's not even close to commercial/cloud-based AI, but it's an alternative to chatbot therapy with ChatGPT or Gemini.

List of public/open Jitsi instances. Jitsi is video calling software, an alternative to Zoom and Google Meet, that works surprisingly fine.

imbored. A website with lots of micro-experiences to alleviate boredom.

your ai slop bores me. A website where you pretend to be an AI and respond to and draw things that other people request. (You can choose whether you are the AI or the person asking the questions.) Hot tip from Luz Clarita.