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.