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- Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok 1 day ago:
Oracle has been the most involved player for TikTok up to this point. Trump has also floated the idea of being government-owned.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 1 day ago:
The market wasn’t expecting the tariffs to be as insane as they were — which is why it crashed. They had been expecting 10% maximums, not minimums.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 2 days ago:
Thunderbird’s corp (MZLA) does not get Google money so far as i’m aware. It is a different subsidiary corp from Firefox’s Mozilla Corp.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 5 days ago:
The Asus BT8 has recently had support added in snapshots.
- Comment on Roku’s Moana 2 controversy is part of a bigger ad problem 1 week ago:
DRM-laced streaming apps sadly makes that unlikely.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t exactly call that the hallmark of OneNote, but okay. Have you tried Saber?
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found Joplin acceptable.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 2 weeks ago:
The Bangle.js is around too.
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 4 weeks ago:
The trouble with relying on each community to self-host is that it’s unlikely to ever make it to the masses that way. Self-hosting is a significant barrier.
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think Nostr can take on Discord. A big part of Discord is the voice chat channels, which, as far as I know, Nostr just isn’t built for.
- Comment on Thunderbird does not fall under the new terms frommmozilla 4 weeks ago:
They do. Well, I should say Thunderbird is also under the Foundation, but is developed by a separate subsidiary Corp (MZLA Tech Corp) than Firefox (Mozilla Corp).
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
He was CEO briefly, until the controversy over his appointment got loud enough. It makes sense he would’ve been paid the most that year, especially with the golden parachute CEOs get when they leave.
His appointment remains one of the most damaging events in Mozilla’s history, as it led to the resignation of multiple prior leaders (including previous CEOs). Making him CEO might’ve been Mitch Baker’s worst decision as chairwoman.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 4 weeks ago:
If only there were a search index I thought was still good.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 4 weeks ago:
Mojeek (UK-based) is trying. I wasn’t super impressed by their index yet, though.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 5 weeks ago:
If you look at the kwebkitpart commits, it looks like it’s been nothing but localization for years.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 5 weeks ago:
Konqueror is more or less dead as a browser. I don’t even think kwebkitpart is maintained anymore since QtWebkit was abandoned with Qt6.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 5 weeks ago:
The Noctua fan option should be pretty quiet.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 month ago:
Most fission plants transfer the heat away from the reactor before boiling water. The same can be done with fusion.
The main difference with fusion is you have to convert some of the released energy to heat first. Various elements have been proposed for this.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 month ago:
They weren’t trying to generate electricity in this experiment. They were trying to sustain a reaction. As you said in another comment, they are different problems.
Converting heat to electricity is a problem we already understand pretty well since we’ve been doing it basically the same way since the first power plant fired up. Sustaining a fusion reaction is a problem we’ve barely started figuring out.
- Comment on First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech. 1 month ago:
The point of 230 was not to protect hobbyists, but rather to encourage big platforms (like CompuServe at the time) to moderate their users. The issue was that in moderating users, the platform makes themselves a publisher rather than a distributor (which were already immune from liability for the speech they distributed).
Without section 230, platforms will simply stop all moderation (including for illegal activity and content) to protect themselves from liability. Every single platform operating in the US would become 4Chan (or worse, since even 4Chan does some moderation).
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 1 month ago:
The downside of Signal is that it’s centralized, and thus at the whim of those who run it. Structurally, it’s not really different from Whatsapp or Telegram except for who owns it.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 1 month ago:
Mostly just that it’s still pretty new and thus hasn’t been as polished or scrutinized yet. Haven’t tried it myself. For the sake of the OP’s question, it may also be notable that it’s a UK company.
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 1 month ago:
The two encrypted messaging platforms I currently suggest are XMPP or Matrix. Both are usually fine and are decentralized. The main thing with them is to either self-host or choose a server you trust to set up an account — which applies to the Fediverse in general.
- Comment on Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites 1 month ago:
The quote from the email isn’t her words. They were given to her (and all agency heads) to send out to their workforce to implement the EO. It should not be taken as “embracing the new regime”.
- Comment on Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio' 2 months ago:
I thought DTS:X was the (at least more) open version of Dolby Atmos.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 4 months ago:
Sprint was not a splinter of ATT.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 4 months ago:
musk could just buy it. jack already sold twitter to him, and while musk might have comprehended how shitty a deal it was (i mean he tried to back out of the contract and all); he doesn’t seem like the guy who would be smart enough to avoid cost sunk fallacy and might want to buy bluesky to keep digging that hole. and jack wouldn’t turn him down for a bid on bluesky for the same reason he didn’t turn him down before - money.
That’s actually not as easy with Bluesky. It’s decentralized enough that buying it doesn’t help control it that well. The previous owners or someone else could easily go set up another shop and compete using the same network and protocol.
Do I wish Mastodon were coming out on top? Sure. But Bluesky is still a significant improvement.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 4 months ago:
I wonder if this gives them the rights to all of Infowars’ library of footage. Maybe they could “keep” Jones as a host by cutting up old clips kinda how South Park did with Isaac Hayes for Chef’s last episode.
- Comment on Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app 5 months ago:
Well, first of all, K9 regularly beta tests their new versions before release already.
Being launched under the Thunderbird brand, though, is expected to hit a much wider audience than just K9 users. And being a first impression, they want to do everything they can to make that impression a solid one.