TheGrandNagus

@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice addition!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Some extensions have a verified/recommended by Mozilla seal of approval, so these extensions would be checked by a human to see that they comply.

  Obviously they can’t check every update of every extension in existence, but even just the above is an improvement and certainly not useless.

  I don’t think this could be enforced by the API without also seriously limiting what extensions can do, which people would go crazy about if they did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Stop Oil activists who attempted to spray paint Taylor Swift's private jet spared jail⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The activists brought it up in their defence, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but Amazon’s are very often the cheapest by far, easiest to find used (since more are sold in the first place). On Prime days they’re often very cheap.

  I imagine most of the profit comes from buying/renting the books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Open source is the exception, and it’s important to note that.

  Now you may be thinking “well duh”, but I’ve seen plenty of people, even fairly techy people, refuse to use good FOSS software because they think they’re being monetised somehow and that because there’s no ads, it must be from secret data theft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. Unfortunately in the age of abundant air travel and being able to do basically everything online, including remaining in contact with people, it’s not hard to just move out of the UK if you’re super wealthy.

  We absolutely can and should tax assets that can’t be moved out of the UK, though, like land. A multi-millionaire can move all kinds of things out of the country, but they cannot take their land with them. Land value would of course go down or stagnate, but I don’t personally see that as a bad thing.

  That said, even if you took all billionaire wealth in the UK (while somehow simultaneously preventing a crash in the value of those assets), it’d last months. It wouldn’t be a permanent solution. State spending is £1.2 trillion, a small amount of billionaires aren’t going to plug the gap for long.

  There’s no simple solution to the financial situation this country is in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t even use an Xbox controller, they cheaped out and used an ancient Logitech clone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno.

  Multiple people in my friend group are aware of the issues with big tech companies.

  But the second you bring up FOSS with them, or Linux gets mentioned, they either disengage completely or get angry. One of these people heads an IT department.

  I don’t know why they react that way. The weird part is, they’ll happily use FOSS software like VLC or something Minecraft launcher. The second you say it’s FOSS they actually seem less into the software, not more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We know policies from their manifesto, and we can look at our dropping fossil fuel usage.

  What exactly is this government doing to assist fossil fuels? I can’t think of a single thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding an optional extra search engine isn’t the end of the world.

  They also have Google and Bing, which aren’t nice either, yet nobody was doing this performative outrage over optional search engine inclusions before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh he knows. But this lets him feel edgy and different

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of these, yes. But there are also plenty of consumer-grade GPUs being used for it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasn’t really went well for them, considering:

  • the big expansion in renewable energy projects
  • their calls to legalise fracking being denied
  • the government upholding their commitment to ban new north sea drilling
  • the coal plant in Cumbria being scrapped
  • the windfall tax on energy companies going ahead as planned
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox adding another search engine choice isn’t really headline news to me but cool I guess, especially if it’s another option that’s not Google?

  I’ll continue using something else, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, BMWs were actually pretty great, for a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so happy with the Northumberland line (although I wish it extended further north). So yes, absolutely.

  We need proper infrastructure. Rail, bike lanes, road improvements, energy grid improvements, more reservoirs. Everything that has been left to crumble.

  It’s ruinously expensive, and they government will (and is!) taking flak for spending, but it’s even more expensive to do nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Flood protections in this country simply aren’t prepared for the regular extreme weather events we’re now experiencing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch government intervenes at Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not surprised a user from a tankie instance is angry about a western country imposing rules on a domestic company for reasons of national security, but is completely fine with China allowing barely any western countries in their market at all and, when they are, enforcing that they must be run by Chinese and have a close relationship with the government.

  It’s bad when the west takes an inch, but it’s good when China takes a mile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police sexual misconduct complaints skyrocket – but half of claims go uninvestigated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Police complaints being increasingly investigated has been increasingly happening over the years, stemming from the cuts the Tories made.

  There isn’t the resources or the expertise in place to properly investigate the complaints or do a thorough job, and the backlog just keeps increasing. In the meantime, officers that are potentially dodgy are still on the job, and public confidence in the police suffers.

  Slashing public services and throwing the money to pensioners for votes has been utterly disastrous for us as a country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three Just Stop Oil supporters walk free after sentencing for M25 petrol pump action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tez Burns and Peter Lay were found guilty of criminal damage and Charles Laurie was found guilty of possession of a hammer with intent to damage property, at their trial in August 2025. Along with 5 others on trial that day they were also acquitted of public nuisance.

  Feels like a somewhat misleading title given multiple were found guilty of criminal damage. They received a suspended sentence, which was always likely to be the result (or a large fine). Them being imprisoned wasn’t going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three Just Stop Oil supporters walk free after sentencing for M25 petrol pump action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine most of them won’t have even been trialed yet.

  I also imagine it depends on whether they plead guilty to supporting a proscribed group or not, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see the logic of being able to set certain items that you always want in stock, and your fridge being able to tell you if you’re running low or if it’s beyond its expiry.

  Can smart fridges do that? I don’t think so.

  Even if they can, it’s probably not worth the extra expense, complexity, data mining, security concerns, or the fact that Samsung or whoever can shut down functionality whenever they want.

  I just want a basic fridge-freezer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve continually called for switching to renewables though, and put out a bunch of videos on how damaging climate change is and will continue to be…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They literally didn’t do that though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except you lied about who they are owned by.

  Why make yourself out to be virtuous and caring about the truth when your entire premise is a lie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the frustration, but it does actually cost money to make content, especially high effort content like this.

  Add on top of that the fact that the people involved need to be able to eat, have a home, provide for their families, have a life.

  People would complain if they were sponsored by some shitty VPN provider or the like, and also complain about them trying to sell merch. I certainly wouldn’t work for free, so I don’t see why they should have to.

  It’s not really that hard to do a couple of key presses to skip ahead, either. It’s what I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t say that, though?

  They say things like “with effort, we can solve climate change, or minimise its effects.”

  Which is very different. And personally, I hate over the top doomerism where everyone says everything is fucked beyond repair all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A product like the Framework laptops is inevitably going to be more costly.

  Not only do they not have the scale of Dell, HP, Apple, etc, but they also need to use modular components, factor upgradability into the design, etc.

  Even for the DIY ones, someone has to hand assemble it fully, test it, then strip it down again. That’s additional cost and process complexity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while, but only people that closely follow Linux news would know about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t say they have to like it, that would be silly.

  I’m criticising them for making an incorrect statement, being corrected on it, then acting extremely proud of being ignorant of the facts.