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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A billionaire doesn’t buy a news organization for money, they buy it for power - and every lost subscriber is a little less of that. Losing over 10% of your subscribers in one go is huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy really any different from reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The main difference to me is the lack of a profit motive, which is the primary driver of enshittification. The federation helps harden it against things like abusive admins, since it’s dead simple to jump ship to another instance in that case, but honestly that’s pretty secondary to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In fact, uBlock Origin is one of the officially recommended extensions by Mozilla

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  (Not an actual, like, punching him in the head beatdown.)

  Look, let’s not be picky here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Their acquisition of Anonym was all about acquiring the feature this article is about, PPA. Anonym created PPA. In fact Anonym seems to have been created for the explicit purpose of creating this privacy-respecting system as an alternative to cross-site tracking cookies. I see no reason to doubt Mozilla’s intentions here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah - I’ve actually softened my own stance since I wrote that paragraph near the end, too, I just didn’t feel like editing a message that I claimed to have copy/pasted. While I still have no intention of enabling the feature in my install, that’s out of pure spite for anything that could conceivably help an advertiser somewhere, even if it isn’t at my expense. I do see value in the feature itself existing. While I think the industry is unlikely to abandon tracking cookies and swap to this system voluntarily, I could see certain governments eventually mandating such a change, if the feature proves robust enough.

  I might even go as far as to agree that on-by-default is the better option for the feature’s chances of success - but for new installs. When new features are added to existing installs in updates, particularly if those features are in the “Privacy & Security” section of the settings page, it would probably be better practice to ask the user to pick an option on the first boot after updating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Copy/pasting my comment from the earlier thread on this that got deleted for misinformation

  After reading about the actual feature (more), this seems like an absolutely gigantic non-issue. Like most anti-Mozilla stories end up being.

  The whole thing is an experimental feature intended to replace the current privacy nightmare that is cross-site tracking cookies. As-implemented it’s a way for advertisers to figure out things like “How many people who went to our site and purchased this product saw this ad we placed on another site?”, but done in such a way that neither the website with the ad, nor the website with the product, nor Mozilla itself knows what any one specific user was doing.

  The only thing I looked for but could not find an answer on one way or the other is if Mozilla is making any sort of profit from this system. I would guess no but actually have no idea.

  There are definitely things that can be said about this feature, like “Fuck ad companies, it should be off by default” (my personal take), or “It’s a pointless feature that’s doomed to failure because it’ll never provide ad companies with information as valuable as tracking cookies, so it’ll never succeed in its goal to replace tracking cookies” (also my take). But the feature itself has virtually no privacy consequences whatsoever for anybody.

  I’m absolutely convinced there’s a coordinated anti-Firefox astroturfing campaign going on lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That feature (more) they’ve been getting all that negative press over for the past two days is an absolutely gigantic non-issue. Like most anti-Mozilla stories end up being.

  The whole thing is an experimental feature intended to replace the current privacy nightmare that is cross-site tracking cookies. As-implemented it’s a way for advertisers to figure out things like “How many people who went to our site and purchased this product saw this ad we placed on another site?”, but done in such a way that neither the website with the ad, nor the website with the product, nor Mozilla itself knows what any one specific user was doing.

  There are definitely things that can be said about this feature, like “Fuck ad companies, it should be off by default” (my personal take). But the feature itself has virtually no privacy consequences whatsoever for anybody, and Mozilla is at least trying to build a system that would legitimately improve the privacy situation on the internet created by companies like Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Thomas was alone", a simple game but with lots of charm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF Is… Thomas Was Alone ? for those wanting a deeper dive and a some dead-guy nostalgia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using uBlock Origin to get rid of the Youtube Shorts section of the sub feed was amazing for me. Are there other things you block too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 54 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be that for sure - like I game a bit every day, but if I was doing this same project, all of my screenshots from the past three weeks would have been from Crash Bandicoot 4 - and the three weeks before that would all be from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2. I basically just beat a level a day. If other people were chiming in every day maybe I’d mix it up.

  It could also be self-selection bias - like, I would never do a project like this because I know it would be super repetitive. Maybe they were willing to do it because they already played a hyper-varied selection?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 54 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have more variety in the games you play than I have in the foods I eat

  How many of these 54 have been unique? What are you doing that you play a different game almost every day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this a triangle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would the southern shape here also qualify as a triangle?

  What if you went the short way instead of the long way, creating the spherical triangle people usually use - then is the “outside” portion of the triangle itself another triangle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like Freetube 100x more if it had a web UI instead of a non-browser interface. A web UI with a companion extension to automatically redirect YT video links to it could be so seamless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh hey, you managed to think up the one scenario that would make me abandon Firefox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eeeeee⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of intentionally obtuse since they used eₑ as a variable and eₑₑ as another variable, and used (e-e) as an exponent a few times, which is basically the equivalent of multiplying by 1 in a fancy way.

  The same integral written in a saner form is:

  integral from -e^e to e^e of (integral from -e^e to e^e of (e^x*e^(-y^2-x^2)*e^-x)dx) dy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes it “Legitimate Interest“?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What does it say when you hover/click on the question mark next to it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A universal basic income to the ultra wealthy would be perceived by them as being given a couple pennies every month⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $1000 to someone with $100,000 is like $1,000,000 to someone with $100,000,000. To make your point you’d have to do it backwards: $1000 to someone with $100,000,000 is like $1 to someone with $100,000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi, this is Andy here, the Founder/CEO of Proton. As former scientists, we don’t do what we’re doing to make the most money (otherwise we wouldn’t have picked science as a profession). There’s no price which we would sell Proton to Google or Facebook. We also don’t need to because thanks to the strong support of the community, Proton has the resources to thrive and grow as an independent organization. Safeguarding this independence is how we ensure that over the long term, we can always put user interest above all else.

  -Protonmail Founder, 2 years ago, for what it’s worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heat transfer works both ways - so if they feel you as cold then you’d feel them as warm. In my experience dogs usually don’t stand out to me as being particularly warm so I’d guess their fur is a good enough insulator to prevent much heat transfer during normal casual contact. It’s been a few months though, maybe I’ve just forgotten how warm the embrace of a dog is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  doing this while the Supreme Court is effectively captured by corporate interests seems risky

  If we wait for that to stop being true, it’ll just mean not doing it at all.

  doing this while the Supreme Court is effectively captured by corporate interests seems risky because it could further establish court precedent

  If there’s one thing the current court’s shown, it’s that precedent doesn’t mean diddly squat to the supreme court. If and when the court is ever returned to a respectable position I’m sure many of their current decisions will be overturned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least in the US, I think the jury’s still out on how history will view X/Y/Z’s handling of the climate, because… the boomers are still handling it. Once the government starts to be mostly non-boomers, I think we’ll probably see an enormous shift in that sort of policy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that ChatGPT is being trained using Reddit posts⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Muphry’s Law at work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this actually true? Rowling herself aside, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an openly transphobic Harry Potter fan - granted I also don’t spend a huge amount of time in Harry Potter forums and stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played both. Both are excellent games, and both also have flaws.

  I think Zelda was by far the better game - HL isn’t really on the same level as it at all, design-wise, story-wise, or or in terms of things to do.

  HL’s strength is definitely the world itself - the Hogwarts and Hogsmeade areas in particular are both incredibly well done and very faithful to the source material. The other areas are just alright.

  I’d say HL’s weaknesses become most apparent if you’re a completionist. Things can get very repetitive if you’re going for 100%. I did, and I honestly think you’ll like it a lot more if you just don’t.

  It’s still lots of fun though. Zelda was my most played game in 2023 and HL wasn’t far behind, and everything else combined would still probably be a distant third.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it even still around? I can think of a few times in the past few months where I’ve tried to find the cached link to a google result and failed. Most recently just two days ago, when a site I wanted to use was down for maintenance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the practical effects of the recent court ruling nullifying Musk's Tesla pay package?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the speculation. It still seems a bit odd, especially considering he’s asked the board to give him a 25% stake in the company recently.

  I wonder if he did anything like back loans with those options, and if he did, what the consequences would be now that he’s not going to have them anymore?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the practical effects of the recent court ruling nullifying Musk's Tesla pay package?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Do you happen to know why he wouldn’t have executed the options before this suit? Like you mention they expire - surely he never had any intention of letting them expire though? Was there some benefit to waiting them out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw the Youtube banner telling me it detected an ad blocker and wouldn’t let me watch a lot for about a week. Now it’s been over two months with nothing but smooth sailing on μBlock Origin. I’m even back to being able to block Shorts from appearing on my sub feed, where before it seemed like any YT-specific filters would let them detect the blocker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the practical effects of the recent court ruling nullifying Musk's Tesla pay package?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So since he hasn’t executed on the options, there’s nothing he has to actually pay back, but he also won’t be allowed to exercise those options and purchase what would have been $56 billion worth of dirt cheap stocks?

  I also assume that calculations of his net worth did take the options into account, so assuming the order stands, it’s effectively an immediate $56 billion hit to those calculations?