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Posts by Alan Byrne

Thanks! Alan here, product manager helping out with the WebSerial implementation in Firefox πŸ‘‹ If you or anyone else wants to help us out with some testing, I encourage you to download Firefox Nightly and try this out for yourself! If you find any bugs, please let me know so I can it fixed!

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GitHub - homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp: The Unofficial and Awesome Home Assistant MCP Server The Unofficial and Awesome Home Assistant MCP Server - homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp

Absolutely! This thing is awesome and I use it for all sorts of @homeassistant.bsky.social tasks

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I'm expecting one of these at the London meetup tomorrow

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How to turn off AI features in Firefox, or choose the ones you want | The Mozilla Blog Other browsers force AI features on users. Firefox gives you a choice.Β  In the latest desktop version of Firefox, you’ll find an AI controls section

AI controls are now live in Firefox 148. A single place to manage, customize, or completely block AI features in the browser.

See how it works here ⬇️ blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/h...

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Does anyone else say "Please" and "Thank you" to LLMs, in case they use politeness as a factor when deciding who lives or dies when the eventual robot uprising happens?

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Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.

We did it. Z-Wave is back and stronger than ever πŸ’ͺ

For 2 years we've been working crafting the best possible Z-Wave experience. Best in class antenna, support for brand new Z-Wave Long Range (also Europe!) and seamless migration from chips as old as 2013.

Check our blog post for the full story:

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Firefox has vertical tabs now!

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B!tch to Boss – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) Download B!tch to Boss for Firefox. Online harassment is a problem. The solution? People being less terrible. Until then, this extension replaces "bitch" and other derogatory words like it with "boss"...

What a great idea for a browser extension! πŸ‘ addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

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That looks great! How did you finish it?

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"Next slide please" really grinds my gears

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It looks great!

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New Extension Data Consent Experience now available in Firefox Nightly – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog In a previous blog post I explained that we’re working to streamline the data consent experience for extensions and allow users to consent to sharing data with extensions directly in ...

Hey, Firefox extension developers, I'd love any feedback you have on how we're trying to simplify getting user consent for collecting data. blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/05/09/new-extension-data-consent-experience-now-available-in-firefox-nightly/

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Photo of my Vizsla covered in mud

Photo of my Vizsla covered in mud

I am displeased.

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Big first year, bigger second We recap the Foundation’s first yearβ€”and as we gear up for year two, there’s a new structure, a shift in staff, and a bold new project: the Device Database.

April marks the 1st year of the Open Home Foundation. In this month's newsletter, we look back on what we accomplished in that time and what's to come from us. πŸ‘πŸ»

Catch up on what we've done and read more on the next big thing for the foundation πŸ‘‡πŸΌ

#Newsletter #SmartHome #OpenHome

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WebExtensions Support for Tab Groups – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog Exciting news: with yesterday’s release of Firefox 138, tab groups are now available to all users! Tab groups have been a long standing feature request for users, so it’s wonderful ...

You can now manage tab groups via Firefox WebExtensions 😍

blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/...

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I think it's more about the people who are talking about it all over LinkedIn, rather than the practice itself. I'm sure they're the same people who were shouting about Web3 a couple of years ago

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Maybe as a Product Manager I should list all my products limitations and edge cases as "Tips" πŸ™„

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Unaffordable.

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Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers : Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers

It's been a minute since something I did at work made the news. www.theregister.com/2025/04/07/m...

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What in the fresh hell is this all over my WhatsApp? How do I turn off this Meta AI?

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I need a hug. And a martini

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@jarjour.bsky.social How about that last Severance episode 😳

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Introducing two new PebbleOS watches! Including my dream smartwatch…

I'm so happy to hear that they've figured out how to bring the Pebble watch back to life 🀩
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I really enjoy the term "enshittification"

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Thank you! πŸ™

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🀩

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