Vincent

@Vincent@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Chromium resist Manifest V3 or is it doomed to disallow adblockers?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hehe, I can be more explicit: why would Chromium "resist" MV3 when the Chromium developers are the ones pushing it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Chromium resist Manifest V3 or is it doomed to disallow adblockers?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's like asking if I can resist reading a book. Sure I could, but I want to read a book - why would I resist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They actually did:

  The Voyager team sent commands over the weekend for the spacecraft to restart the flight data system, but no usable data has come back yet, according to NASA.

  Unfortunately, that didn't help. So now they'll have to find out what's causing this, and then see if they can fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha exactly, by that calculation $1 a year would cover you and two others. Get that family onboard :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Signal had 40 million active users in 2021. With 14 million in infra cost, that comes to .35 per user/year. Total expenses are about 33 million, so about .825 per user/year. All in all that seems very reasonable.

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291950

  So it should be pretty easy to cover your own costs and maybe that of a couple of friends to make the transaction fees worth it :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They were kinda forced to, having to choose between two evils: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms-support-from-signal-android-very-soon/47954/57

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yes, it could've been differently, and as I understand it they're going to. But as a user, how is your life worse with this than without this? What's the impact of something being installed but not running?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, there's a way to frame this as malicious. I'm not a fan of Brave, but it also installs, say, a spell checker without consent, or a Tor client. Sure, the code is there even if you don't use it, but... What's the actual harm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WordPress.com blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, so blog authors will still need to enable it manually. That's a shame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What does "blocked on the search engine" mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn't seem to mention Microsoft Clarity, other than it being on the list of domains that its ad blocker (not its search engine) blocks?