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- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 7 hours ago:
This has happened before in the software world, and its usually not a huge deal after a little bit of rockiness.
OpenOffice->LibreOffice. ddwrt->openwrt->tomato etc.
Development will continue, but maybe in a less resourced fashion.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 11 hours ago:
I’m aware that history is against them. The one thing in Firefox’s (not Mozilla) favour is that its open source. The browser and codebase will live on even if Mozilla crashes and burns.
The forks already exist, the only “moat” that Mozilla has is trust and goodwill, which they are burning rapidly.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 1 day ago:
If the legal definition of a term has changed such that their current activities now fall under it, changing the terms of use legal document does make sense.
They are pretty clear that under California law, they are “selling” data. They have two options, keep the ToU document the same, and try meet the new laws requirements (which as I’ve said in other comments, seems impossible for a browser - not a lawyer though), or update their ToU without changing their current behaviors.
They have gone with the latter, but it does also allow them to be far more “evil”. Its definitely the first step down a bad road, time will tell if they go further.
If you want to play it safe, block their domains via pihole: wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/…/Mozilla_Owned
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 1 day ago:
Its even more broad than that, because its any exchange of data for valuable consideration. No money has to change hands, but if it benefits FF, its a sale. And the benefit could simply be “if we do this we will function correctly as a browser”.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 1 day ago:
The rationalization they have given is that legally, they may have been seeking data all along, as some jurisdictions define it extremely loosely.
For example, if you use their translation feature, they are sending the page your looking at (data) to a third party, which provides a benefit to Mozilla.
blog.mozilla.org/en/…/update-on-terms-of-use/
| The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 day ago:
The 3rd gen iPod shuffles used the headphone port for USB, definitely uncommon though.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 3 days ago:
Not OP, but combustion byproducts/impurities mostly. Get a air quality sensor and watch it go mad when you start cooking.
The one real downside to induction is actually its speed. You can really easily burn your food very quickly if your not careful. IKEA sell an induction hot plate for $40AUD, well worth giving it a try.
- Comment on New app lets homebuyers know about future neighbor’s politics. 4 days ago:
This is guaranteed to be used to witch-hunt and dox people isnt it…
- Comment on What would happen if I took a thc gummy as a suppository? 1 week ago:
Do it
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Another tip that doesn’t seem to have been covered, clean the pads you are soldering to. A quick buff with some steel wool to get them nice and shiny. If you’ve touched it with your hands, the oils from your hands can make it hard to solder to the pads.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Your iPhone was designed for Bluetooth, on laptops and desktops its an after thought.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Some of the cheap USB hardware are unofficial clones, which get disabled by the official drivers. The clones sometimes work in Linux, but not reliably. It can be really hit and miss.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
To be fair, Bluetooth sucks on Windows desktops as well. The hardware is just garbage a lot of the time
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Gleam is very similar syntactically. Never used it, so can’t say anything more about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What is openwebzine? Can’t find any info on it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
256gb of ram seems well beyond standard self-hosting, what are you planning on running?!
- Comment on Setting Up a Self-Hosted GitHub runner for CI/CD 1 week ago:
I did create a fork and MR, and neither used your runner (sorry if that is what spooked you).
Develop local and push remote also let’s you sanitize what is public and what isnt. Keep your half-backed personal projects local, push the good stuff to github for job opportunities.
- Comment on Setting Up a Self-Hosted GitHub runner for CI/CD 2 weeks ago:
I think it was when you create a merge request back, that the original repo would then run the forked branch on the original runners.
From what I can tell, its now been much more locked down, so its better, but still worth being careful about.
More discussion: reddit.com/…/forks_and_selfhosted_action_runners/
The other potential risk is that the github action author maliciously modifies their code in a later version, but that is solved with version pinning the actions.
- Comment on Setting Up a Self-Hosted GitHub runner for CI/CD 2 weeks ago:
I can’t find it right now, but there used to be a warning about not self-hosting runners for public repos. Anyone could fork your repo, and the fork would inherit your runners, and then they could change the pipeline to RCE on your runner.
Has that been fixed?
I went to a completely private gitlab instead, with mirroring up to github for anything that needed to be public.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is my personal opinion, but you should add :
- Dont.
Unless there is a really good reason, don’t rename your project. It only adds confusion, and users will get lost during the transition. It also makes them hesitant to try the new one - “What if they do it again and i get left behind”.
Pihole isnt pi specific either, it still kept the name.
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 2 weeks ago:
I can fix them
- Comment on ai comments on cbs videos, but why? 2 weeks ago:
Cave man brain: Hot girl - > Click Profile - > crypto/horny singles/etc scam.
Doesn’t have to work often, just often enough.
- Comment on Australia | Australian billionaires face wealth tax under Greens’ Robin Hood-style policies 2 weeks ago:
Its only a start if it passes, but conceptually, right there with you.
- Comment on Australia | Australian billionaires face wealth tax under Greens’ Robin Hood-style policies 2 weeks ago:
Snowballs chance in hell of succeeding, but thats a great idea.
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 3 weeks ago:
I am not a doctor, but if you drink lots of caffeine, it can cause your throat sphincter to loosen and give acid reflux. Maybe put soup in your coffee to even it out /s
- Comment on what are “female jocks” called? 3 weeks ago:
Panties :D
- Comment on Trump says new US sovereign wealth fund could purchase TikTok 3 weeks ago:
The third step is they “sell” it to their cronies for pennies, who profit all the way to the bank.
You’re about to get robbed.
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 3 weeks ago:
“Effectively kill piracy” - Sure guys, this time it’ll work.
- Comment on Solar should be packaged with consumer appliances 4 weeks ago:
Adding batteries to appliances is nontrivial. Large batteries are a fire risk, which is why home batteries are usually outside on a fireproof wall.
If you put batteries in a dishwasher, they would need to be fireproofed.