RecallMadness
@RecallMadness@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 6 days ago:
But can it run a degoogled Android rom well?
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 week ago:
Ah silly us.
We spent a decade hating on IE, it’s slowness, poor support for any standards, plugins that fuck your shit up, etc.
But it was obviously the best because it had that huge market share.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 week ago:
Could you imagine the enshittification cries if they did this. “Mozilla to add subscription model to your browser”.
They have other products that have subscriptions you can pay for to support the company.
Instead of using Mullvad, use Mozilla VPN (it is literally exactly the same, you just pay Mozilla not Mullvad)
If you’re a web developer, Subscribe to MDN Plus.
Hate spam? Firefox Relay.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 week ago:
I don’t believe Mozilla doesn’t have the best interests of the browser at heart, I believe that they do think their browser is the their number one product.
But that’s the problem. It’s free software, going up against a juggernaut whose browser is just another side project to drive engagement with their core product.
A juggernaut who just so happens to be one of Mozilla’s primary source of income. All it will take is a little bit of legislation somewhere in the world to make that deal less attractive and Mozilla could be dead in the water. And it will take all of those forks with it, paving the way for Google to become the true web Hegemony.
Mozilla needs to diversify to ensure they can continue to provide stewardship to the browser.
But trying to make money in 2025 just seems to summon the enshittification brigade.
Free software is not free. Someone has to make it.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 2 weeks ago:
Further: the Canvas API doesn’t have any requirements on rendering accuracy.
By deferring to the GPU, font library, etc, tracking code can generate an image that is in most cases unique to your machine.
So blocking the Canvas API would return a 0. Which is less unique than what it would be normally.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 2 weeks ago:
Iirc, Websites can’t query addons unless those addons manipulate the DOM in a way that exposes themselves.
They can query extensions.
Addons are things installed inside the browser. Like uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, Firefox Containerr, etc.
Extensions are installed outside the browser. Such as Flashplayer, the Gnome extensions installer, etc.
- Comment on How do you ask for a haircut? 5 months ago:
Explain what you want. It’s that easy.
I did many years of “I want something simple that I can maintain easily, and will still look ok when I drag my ass out of bed at 10am, an hour late for work. Anything but a buzz cut”
Eventually I found something that I can touch up at home myself, and can explain to even the shittiest of barbers.
It’s hair. Nobody really gives a shit. You’ll get some shit ones, some good ones, a buzz cut you explicitly didn’t want. Nobody got hurt, and it grows back.
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 6 months ago:
Why does nobody watch the women’s leagues? Is it because nobody else does? can’t have all the social aspects of sports if nobody else is doing it.
Imo, they need to stop the segregation. Ditch the women’s leagues, but keep the games and teams. Have both teams play in one league, and contribute to the overall score of the team.
It’ll add new strategy to the seasons. Spend all of your budget on the dudes and hope they keep winning despite the ladies; build a strong women’s team to carry your b-tier men’s team; or something in between.
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 6 months ago:
Is “The Algorithm” just “we stuffed all our GPT responses into a Lucene index and look for 80% matches”?
Because that’s what I’d do.
- Comment on For labs acquires Micronics 7 months ago:
SLS4All has an entire machine kit for $7,000
- Comment on Mysterious Unreleased Dreamcast Game Images Surface After 23 Years | Retro Dodo 7 months ago:
PSO was released on the Dreamcast, and had an MMO component.
Not sure what this would have done different?
- Comment on I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck 7 months ago:
I used to love ‘the cloud’. Rather, a specific slice of it.
I worked almost exclusively on AppEngine, it was simple. You uploaded a zip of your code to appengine and it ran it at near infinite scale. They gave you a queue, a database, a volatile cache, and some other gizmos. It was so simple you’d struggle to fuck it up really.
It was easy, it was simple, and it worked for my clients who had 10 DAU, and my clients who had 5 DAU. Costs scaled nearly linearly, and for my hobby projects that had 0 DAU, the costs were comparable.
Then something happened and it slowly became complicated. The rest of the GCP cloud crept in and after spending a term with a client who didn’t use “the cloud” I came back to it and had to relearn nearly everything.
Pretty much all of the companies I’ve worked for could be run on early AppEngine. Nobody has needed anything more than it, and I’m confident the only reason they had more was because tech is like water. You need to put it in a bucket or it goes everywhere.
Give me my AppEngine back.
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 8 months ago:
Not entirely true.
In some countries (UK, NZ) Uber has to give you the price of the journey up front. Whereas taxis are metered and do not.
Uber UK has competition in thin regard with Minicabs, but the minicab apps are still shit.
Capped costs for consumers is a competitive advantage over taxis, and Uber has managed to find the sweet spot between hailing a taxi, and booking a minicab.
- Comment on Spotify just hid song lyrics behind its subscription 10 months ago:
Aren’t the lyrics just ripped from somewhere else?
They’ve got lyrics for some of the obscure shit I listen to, no way they’re paying money for someone to transcribe it.
- Comment on LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy 10 months ago:
good enough to trick even the savvy
But not savvy enough to be still using last pass.
- Comment on isopods are friends 10 months ago:
At least the south east.
- Comment on Taylor Swift among 141 new billionaires in ‘amazing year for rich people’ 11 months ago:
What do you mean? 141 fewer poors? Sounds like a great year for us.
- Comment on *So far* 11 months ago:
Nah it’s more like cookie crumb.
- Comment on A Chinese Humanoid Just Broke the Robot Speed Record—and Now It's a Race Against Time 11 months ago:
Hips that make a Pixar mom jealous.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 11 months ago:
Come April, NZ will be charging EVs road user charges using the same price-per-kilometre mechanism diesel (diesel not have a fuel levy) vehicles use.
- Comment on Data contamination expert 👌 1 year ago:
This would be better if it fed the parent comment into ChatGPT prefixed with “create a plausible but factually incorrect aggressive response to <comment>”
- Comment on Transport For London Adds AI To Its Cameras To Bust Fare Jumpers, Bike Riders 1 year ago:
Because the network is old and the trains don’t have room for non folding bikes.
A normal bicycle is going to block entrances and exits to carriages, and in the case of an emergency that could be fatal.
- Comment on It's time to break free from Corporate Agile 1 year ago:
This cuts too close to home.
- Comment on 4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images 1 year ago:
You can get this done on AliExpress
- Comment on How Quora Died 1 year ago:
I think Something will have to change quite significantly.
Search engines give heavy weighting to uniqueness of content. And with Lemmy content being replicated across the fediverse that doesn’t exactly happen.
And I’m not sure you can set a canonical URL that’s off site. And then, if it does and that site goes down, you “lose” the content.
- Comment on Any takers? 1 year ago:
Wasn’t there a story about a guy who made LSD in an old (nuclear?) bunker and threw parties and shit?
Not far off.
- Comment on Employees Say ‘Sizable Portion’ Of Gearbox-Owned Studio Has Been Laid Off 1 year ago:
Just straight up skipped a step in “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 1 year ago:
Amen.
Got money, bought a PC my parents couldn’t afford, learned to code, got a desk job.
Taught me life skills too, like dealing with dickhead managers and customers, time keeping, and just general responsibility.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 1 year ago:
What about the LinkedIn key.
That’s actually a shortcut for ctrl+alt+shift+L… that is an (unconfigurable?) hotkey for opening LinkedIn in edge.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk 1 year ago:
When the UK was dead set on rolling out verification for porn, wasn’t Mindgeek (Pornhubs parent company) pushing its AgeID technology?