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- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 16 hours ago:
“nvidia’s confidential compute” had me choke when reading it. Sure bro, sure.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 16 hours ago:
Unless everyone you communicate with have agreed to use the same standard as you, no, it is not.
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 1 day ago:
It checks if you’re both human AND not a bumbling tumbleweed.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
I don’t know how it works in the US, and it’s certainly not perfect, but if you bring “compromised” evidences of actual child abuse, you can be sure it’ll trigger some extensive investigation. Sometimes, this leads to nothing. Sometimes, the “evidences” were not really evidence, but more of a hunch. Sometimes, it leads to actual consequences.
One issue with such a vigilante system is that sometimes, you’re wrong. That’s why due process is a thing. But the “this evidence was collected illegally, so we won’t even look up the guy” thing isn’t really a thing, as long as the evidence is better than “I’m sure of it”.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
Great. Just dump anyone you dislike as a “pedophile” and then it’s a free for all.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
I don’t know how people can be so easily taken in by a system that has been proven to be wrong about so many things
Ahem. Weren’t there an election recently, in some big country, with uncanny similitude with that?
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
I honestly believe their self driving tech is safer than humans.
That’s how it should be. Unfortunately, one of the main decision maker on tesla’s self driving software is doing their best to make it perform worse and worse every time it gets an update.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
some good stuff
If you want to live in medieval time with your wife/servant, sure.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 1 week ago:
Let’s hope they won’t cheap out on those bolts. Thankfully cheaping out on everything is not an habit they have, right?
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 1 week ago:
Users to microsoft: “You’re creating a huge pile of garbage out of perfectly fine devices because of unneeded hardware requirement” microsoft: “It’s ok, just buy a new one”
Rarely have a message gone through so bad.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 weeks ago:
Pebble is now playing a gambit, whereby they think they will sell more of the premium model to people who will be using it for exercise and health reasons.
There’s an explicit line in their site that says these are not made to be fitness trackers, and that garmin are good for that (or some other brand, can’t remember). It would be very odd to say that if it was their target.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
This kind of statement have way less impact when people already have 0 goodwill toward the one that says it.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 weeks ago:
Tech definitely is. Gate-keeping, stupid pricing, etc. done by few corporations and individual isn’t.
- Comment on fingerme 4 weeks ago:
“I don’t understand, that user keeps asking me to fix their email, and they’re more angry each time!”
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
I’m not going to enumerate them, mostly because I did not keep track of which one was on and which one was off before messing all of them up. If you’re curious, open “about:config” and search for “survey*.enabled”, “collect*.enabled”. Even with all settings disabled, some of them remains on, and they do cause traffic to the (documented) endpoints.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
Yes, you can disable the settings that are exposed to you with a checkbox. How about all the other that have no checkboxes and you can find by snooping around in either the code or about:config ?
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
I have not dug too deep into it for now (especially if I end up changing browser), but even with everything in the preferences disabled, examining the content of about:config gives a lot of telemetry.whatever.enabled left to true, sometimes with names that do not seem to match any option given to the user. That’s not a good look either.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. And their privacy notice is basically a mix-match of ten or so sections that have no place in a web browser privacy policy, that allows them to do the things people reproach them for doing.
It’s like saying “we’re not doing that, because we’re limited by that document that allows us to do just that”. And now they’re tripling down on it.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 4 weeks ago:
Firs,t mostly as if in Firefox. Go open Netflix, just for the laugh of it.
Second, a fork that depends on Mozilla’s power to develop the upstream is not really in the clear. From a licensing perspective, sure. But let’s assume the worst (because it’s 2025 after all). Firefox is no longer open source. Sure, we can fork from where they left. But building, maintaining, and evolving a browser engine (and the browser itself) requires substantial work. Which means, developers/maintainers, and money. And staying on a “bare” browser might not be viable as long as standards keeps evolving and 95% of people will not care about that stuff.
All that to say, a fork is an option for now. A more tangible solution for the future is needed. A new “Mozilla” without the $millions CEO and structure, Mozilla splitting Firefox into a clean base and a commercial product, something else. But not a fork that just follow Firefox source.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 4 weeks ago:
We notice. They’re not hiding. The (numerous) endpoints are all presents in the about:config page. The actual content, though, is not that obvious to get. If we assume the binaries are compromised (I don’t believe they are for now, for the record), an outsider would only see a TLS session. At best we could get the vague amount of data exfiltrated, not really the content. But that’s hypothetical. For now.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 4 weeks ago:
how are they supposed to “sell your data”
First step is collecting it. Putting provisions to grab everything from the software you installed on your device and use to do everything is a good start. Second step is selling it. Data broker loves data, surprisingly. And even small, inconsequential stuff can go a long way when you can correlate with dozens, or hundreds, of data points.
if you just never use a Mozilla account
Given how it’s implemented, the data pushed inside your account may be in a safer place than what you use the browser to do daily at this point.
and uncheck all the telemetry
Funny thing. Even with everything unchecked/disabled/toggled off/whatever, there’s a handful of ping back and other small reports that are configured to go out. You can turn these off using the complete config page; the one that warns people that its dangerous and have no clear way to know what most of its options do.
Its not like they can secretly steal your data, since its Open Source
If by “secretly” you mean without us knowing, it would be hard indeed, as long as people did look into the source AND the built images were faithful to the source, too. They are not doing it secretly, at least for now, anyway. That’s the point of their “privacy notice” that includes basically everything, which they then use as a safeguard saying "we can’t do shit (unless specified in the privacy notice).
It seems to me like just more FUD that Google is spreading to undermine our trust in free software
The policy changes comes from Mozilla. Were written, published, and updated by Mozilla, on their blog (and legal pages). What the fuck are you talking about with Google?
Heck, if you knew 2cts about this, Google actually low-key needs Firefox to exists as a counterpoint to Chrome’s hegemony, unless they want another trial for being too good at their job.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
Don’t collect anything on your own and don’t sell the things you don’t collect. Bam, problem solved.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 4 weeks ago:
You don’t need advanced scanning technology running on every device with access to every single bit of data you ever seen to detect scam. You need telco operator to stop forwarding forged messages headers and… that’s it. Cheap, efficient, zero risk related to invasion of privacy through a piece of software you did not need but was put there “for your own good”.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 5 weeks ago:
I agree. I’d even be willing to regularly donate to a foundation that would have this aim as their goal and have their acts matching their promises.
Although, not necessarily a new engine. Going from scratch is a good way to remake a lot of mistakes, while reusing old code is a good way to keep old debt. That’s not a decision I would like to have to take.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
It is possible to do, to some extent. Everything’s possible. But then, when people that are on both side of this encryption barrier wants to talk, then both must use unencrypted messages. You’d also have the obvious case of someone having a phone/device/account from country A temporarily crossing through country FuckingFranceOrUK, so what do you do in that case?
You’d need to implement that, add UI features to know if you’re using encryption or not, and above all, it’s fucking stupid and against what most sane messaging solutions wants to do.
I’m sure it’s possible to find people that would gladly do all that. Hopefully those people are not in the business of making all the useful communication services we currently use.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
The law is enforceable. If the options you’re given is “put a backdoor in your product or stop operating in the country”, it’ll happen. And even if you reply “then I’ll go away”, laws like this, stupid, dangerous, breaking everything, will keep popping in one country after another until it’s too late.
It not making sense have no bearing on whether it can be enforced or not. And the mere existence of the law may be enough to later put you in hot water if you have some de-facto illegal software on your phone or computer, for example. It would not be automatic everywhere, but another tool to just legally have something against most people.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. Also we don’t have good guys either, but, that sounds nice.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 5 weeks ago:
It’s slowly turning, too. Start looking for something else.
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 5 weeks ago:
There are books for that, that usually take all the important bits and put them in funny, engaging ways. It could be a nice thing to get, even read together.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
Locked-in platform closing the door. How surprising.
Accepting DRM in the first place is the problem. Hard to avoid, but still. I just got a boox; great value, can’t use adobe DRM. Didn’t have any problem there. Of course, money is going everywhere except big “publishers”, but that’s hardly an issue; they choose their business model, I choose my customer model.