Zedstrian

@Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The loss of built-in PWA support was the biggest disappointment I had when switching from Chrome to Firefox, with the add-on solutions I tried having one problem or another in replicating my goal of making opening a handful of websites I had set to be PWAs look as much like regular applications as possible. While I wouldn’t switch back to Chrome in a second, and am still trying to get the rest of my family to make the switch, there’s a number of things Firefox needs to implement to remove the remaining roadblocks for people looking to make the switch away from Chrome or another Chromium browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I make games and this literally happened to me this morning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m no fan of Epic Games for bribing companies to keep games off of Steam for a year or more, Valve’s market dominance in PC game sales isn’t a good thing for developers or consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How about during the signup process(step) the user gets instance allocated randomly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if the admins of an instance want to maintain their echo chamber by shepherding discussions towards extremist viewpoints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All states except Maine and Nebraska tally votes cast statewide and allocate all electoral votes from that state to the winner. Specific concentrations of voters in those states aren’t factored into the allocation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Legislation like that might happen in places like the EU, but in the US at least, unless lobbying rules are amended, consumers stand next to no chance against the commercial interests of advertisers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple says no to OS emulation on the iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, so if a Mac Classic emulator is marketed as a Pippin emulator it’ll be accepted?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is getting an official controller, but Valve isn’t making it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Until they design something with trackpads that makes use of the controller configurations designed for the original Steam Controller and Steam Deck, it just seems like a cash grab. Hopefully something ergonomically better than the original Steam Controller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Note that the sources on the list are there due to the frequent publication of misinformation, rather than their bias alone. As others have noted, the list can essentially be broken down into three categories: state-sponsored media outlets, clickbait-style tabloids, and extremist media outlets. The categories themselves are just a means of summarizing what’s on the list though, as outlets in those categories that maintain editorial standards that disallow misinformation wouldn’t qualify for inclusion on the list.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online Content Is Disappearing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that most of that content lasted for at least a few decades, if not centuries before being lost to time. As content on the internet is ‘destroyed’ if no one hosts it any more, a lot of valuable content is being lost in just a few years after being created. Archiving needs to be more widespread and better supported if the resources and culture of the internet as it has evolved over time are to be preserved for posterity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Genius! Who would’a thought? 10,000 extra shares in your bonus this year!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have mine configured as a background service with a Rainmeter desktop widget to play music at a moment’s notice. Works better than any official Windows option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For my relatives Facebook’s not the problem, it’s all the far right wing propaganda on YouTube that makes claims without backing them up with any sort of evidence. The more they watch, the more they believe it, and the less they believe evidence to the contrary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless the EU makes Apple get rid of the yearly cost per installation, any app store other than Apple’s is limited by the inability to have free or freemium apps, giving them a substantial disadvantage in comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STATEMENT from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign on Google’s mass, retaliatory…⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly they meant “Don’t (do the right thing), be evil”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Judge Can Break Up Google Right Now. Will He?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On iOS at the very least, being unable to download apps from a source other than Apple is monopolistic behavior, as it does not allow the free market to determine what the added fee for app hosting and payment processing should be (versus an artificial 30% fee that bolsters Apple’s profit margins), as well as limiting what apps are or aren’t available on the basis of Apple’s own app store policies. Apple can run their app store as they see fit, but as a consumer I should have to option to download apps from competing app stores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta try to drag a few good people back from Tartarus…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Entirely agreed, though I wish there were more of a joint effort between Lemmy and Kbin communities to find novel ways of getting more redditors to switch over to the Fediverse. Wishful thinking perhaps, though it’d be nice to have more active communities around here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *cries in American