Hmm, seems the tweet got deleted?

Which consultancy was that?

I don't remember. It was years ago.

Probably SerNet or one of the Samba Commercial Support companies like Catalyst:

https://www.samba.org/samba/support/globalsupport.html

Might've been Catalyst. I see it's a NZ company not Australia.

I think Catalyst has an Australian presence too (and UK/CA):

https://www.catalyst-au.net/

Some of this remote stuff might interest you:

https://www.igalia.com/jobs/open/

Or https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/fsf-engineering-and-certi...

Would be great to get this into mainline Linux.

Thunderbird is basically a web reader already though right? Its based on HTML and JS mostly.

IIRC Thunderbird is a fork of Firefox, so it can do all of the web things your heart desires

Browsers can often delete/reject cookies, might be a better option than relying on websites to be ethical.

My only goal was to read the content that was linked and they put up a large full screen block.

Which licenses do that?

The LWN comments say that you are correct for local AIs (but not LLM services), modulo some caveats about compiler flags and hardware used.

rnnoise is now a free AI model for removing noise from audio. Firefox ships with Bergamot, which is a set of (probably) free AI models for translating between human languages. There might be other ones too, but I haven't looked very far.

Which hardware is it flagging issues for? Specific Intel CPUs? AMD? ARM? RISC-V?