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Disable AI features in Firefox

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Mozilla recently announced that Firefox will follow “the trend” and introduce AI features in the browser. What followed was an outcry on the internet, and a demand to disable the features by default, or make it an optional package.

While the discussion is going on, it is possible to disable the AI features system-wide. Our laptops are running on Linux (more exactly, Manjaro Linux), and I’m deploying and configuring the systems with Ansible. Therefore I updated the firefox role and added two necessary files to disable the features upon next restart of the browser.

PostgreSQL @ CeBIT 2010

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:54:00 +0100

The PostgreSQL User Group Germany were given the opportunity to have a booth at CeBIT 2010 and present the project. CeBIT is a very big IT-related exhibition and takes place in Hannover, Germany.

Thunderbird, Enigmail and sending encrypted mails as attachment

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:35:11 +0200

By default, the OpenPGP extension in Thunderbird (Enigmail) sends every encrypted mail as inline text, not as an attachment. Mutt as example does not recognize the encrypted mail but just displays the unreadable binary stuff.