RecallMadness

@RecallMadness@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the reason I haven’t given it a chance.

  Not that I’m unwilling, but with no common hardware, I’m reluctant to go out and buy something.

  I can go buy a pinephone for postmarket, but won’t work for sailfish. I can get an Xperia for sailfish, but I’m out of luck for postmarket.

  Not to mention, I’m reluctant to drop a chunk of cash on aged hardware, whose successor doesn’t look to be as well supported.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.