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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not though, like they say themselves it’s only a reconsideration of the existing policies which is to maximize profit, morals be dammed. First they welcomed Nazis because Nazis gave them money and now they don’t because Nazis cause other people to stop giving them money. If Nazis wasn’t bad business nothing would have changed. This whole ordeal showed what kind of people they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU common charger : USB-C⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t standard USB C cables only 3A (60W)? And 5A (100W) only if they identify themselves with a built in chip?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TLS and SSH has quite different attack vectors so sure, basing SSH on TLS 1.3 would prevent the problems SSH has, but also bring in the problems TLS has. Thing is, I much prefer SSHs tradeof for things SSH is used for while TLS could be argued makes a lot more sense for the HTTPS use case. It just very different chains of trust with very different weak points, just pointing at TLS 1.3 as a solution when talking about SSH is quite ignorant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  30% of the subscription price. That small artists get screwed over is entirely due to labels.

  After the service cut has been taken, all money is put in one big pool and them divided by total number of streams and sent to the labels. How the cut between labels and artists is divided is up to individual contracts between artists and labels but usually the majority goes to the labels due to still accounting for cost of producing and shipping physical CDs. Pooling all users money also unfavourably favours big artists and is enforced by the labels as bigger artists makes them more money than smaller ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Having to pay to even link to news articles will only accelerate the downfall of journalism though. Instead of paying, why not just link to an AI generated article instead? Much needs to be done to save good journalism but this law is a massive step in the exact opposite direction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Use smarttube instead of the official YouTube app, the ads are gone and it’s better in every other way as well. Faster, more features, quality settings stay where you left them, sponsorblock support and much more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It definitely was their gratest move ever. So many improvements was blocked by supporting the old extensions. Firefox would be completely useless and dead by now if they was still supporting them. Their loss in market share to chrome is largely due to not killing them 5 years earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t any alternative for either content creators or consumers so of course people can’t just stop using it. But that doesn’t mean everyone should just accept anything from them. These kinds of things definitely hurt both the YouTube and Google brands and there definitely are Google products that you can stop using and avoiding to give money to YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  None of those work without both people having the app and so provide a much worse experience over SMS, just why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In Sweden I can’t remember the last time I saw a plan that didn’t include unlimited sms and calls. Only thing marketed is data. However if you really search for them I guess it’s still possible to buy something else somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What else is there to use? SMS is the only cross platform protocol that works. MMS is horrible and Apple refuses ro support RCS. Of course SMS apps auto upgrades to RCS if both parties supports it which is in practice only between Androids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ctrl + ; should bring up an emoji picker in Linux when you have focused a text field

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you have a borked dbus or is using the GTK_USE_PORTAL env variable, 20 second timeouts are gtks standard way of dealing with something it doesn’t like. Firefox should take < 1 second to start fresh and takes < 3s for me, restoring hundreds of tabs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t? If I need to use Facebook to interact with something I just rather spend my time on almost anything else.