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- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 3 days ago:
No, but that’s a local program processing and saving data entirely on your system. It’s a world of difference from what a web browser does, which is oversee a whole suite of protocols connecting you to remote servers and transmitting data back and forth in requests that build on and reference each other. With the complexity of modern web interactions, there’s a ton of reasons why a browser might need to store your data and share it with others, even ignoring profit-seeking motives.
And let’s remember that the last thing Mozilla got heat for was the introduction of a method to anonymize bulk user data for sharing & selling purposes, as opposed to the granular, extremely invasive tracking that 99% of websites are doing these days.
I see a company that needs to make a decent amount of money in a crazy competitive environment, that’s trying their best to do so in the way least destructive to user privacy and choice.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 3 days ago:
I more meant that the average user actually wants a significant amount of data collection and telemetry, as part of their normal web usage. There are some true privacy geeks who are actually maintaining near-anonymity on the modern internet, but there’s a lot of people who get riled up about things like this while using Android phones, or signing up for loyalty programs, using corporate social media, etc.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 5 days ago:
You’re not totally wrong here, but the fact is that these updates are a complete non-issue that has only resulted in so much backlash because of the self-selected Firefox audience of people who know enough about tech and privacy to care, but not enough to understand what’s actually threatening. The updates were a minor change in language that didn’t change the status quo, but idiots like the guy who thinks that incognito mode somehow stops a site from gathering information on you flock to these articles and start crying doomsday.
Mozilla is the only big web company that’s even close to on the side of consumers and it’s sad to see them eat shit for no reason.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 6 days ago:
Which is a ridiculous thing to want for most users and exposes how little so much of the self-identified “techie” crowd actually understands about how this stuff works.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 6 days ago:
What do you think a browser does?
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 6 days ago:
The terms were never actually bad. This is them responding to the backlash, yes, but that’s just because everyone freaked out over nothing. They’re not “rolling back” anything, and this comment is just more disinformation.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 1 week ago:
I’m a Valve stan but it’s disgusting how they’ve abused and neglected TF2. It would unironically be significantly better if they just rolled back every change since 2016.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 1 week ago:
Yeah you’d think that if you never played before it ruined the entire game.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 1 week ago:
Most players are using casual mode which is terrible. The community servers in TF2 are a pale shadow of what they once were.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 4 weeks ago:
I mean, I would argue that the answer in the OP is a good one. No human asking that question honestly wants to know the sum total of Rs in the word, they either want to know how many in “berry” or they’re trying to trip up the model.
- Comment on EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app 1 month ago:
I mean, you still own the games, you just won’t be able to access them through Origin. You have to download a different launcher. I don’t think you really have to do anything else to “migrate”.
- Comment on Employees Enter Sensitive Data Into GenAI Prompts Too Often 1 month ago:
Honestly chances are slim that this hasn’t already happened, given how liberally the bots will spit out verbatim code snippets with zero attribution.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 3 months ago:
If you never played Magicka you should give it a shot.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 4 months ago:
Should be the standard anyway. Reading email and texts from work, or responding to calls, is work. Unless your contact specifies on-call hours, you should ignore your boss outside of working hours.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 4 months ago:
Switched back to Linux this week and I couldn’t be happier.
- Comment on UFO 50 is a retro gamer's dream - I highly recommend it 5 months ago:
I think this is very deliberate. Having played at least a chunk of all 50 games, there are only two or three that I think would have benefitted greatly from more instructions or tutorialization. Figuring out how each game works and being surprised when you find a new way to use the very simple controls is part of the experience.
- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 5 months ago:
I don’t know much about the MMP, but I thought it ran Linux – can you not install steam games?
- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 5 months ago:
UFO50 just came out and is wonderful.
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
They’re both Epic, my guy – do you just specifically dislike one of the engineers working on EOS or what?
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
I dislike Sweeny et al more than most, but do you boycott all UE games?
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
Brother it’s on other platforms… What’s your complaint? It’s a UE5 game 🧐
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 6 months ago:
This is currently one of the biggest selling points for the browser, since Chrom(ium) is dropping support for v2… So I don’t see that happening.
- Comment on Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity 9 months ago:
That just makes it a more effective filter for what you’re looking for. Many people on the apps aren’t interested in a long text conversation and would rather get to know each other in person. If you prefer conversing online for a while, then count it as a win if someone ignores or unmatches you for sending them a long message.
- Comment on Ghost of Tsushima single-player only on Steam Deck due to PlayStation Network features 9 months ago:
Yes, but they probably won’t. For Sony, Linux/Steam Deck players are less than a rounding error.
- Comment on Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity 9 months ago:
Yeah it’s pretty disappointing. Their analytics blog used to be awesome too, tons of cool insights and it was obvious that they knew what they were doing. I assume the entire operation got bought up by VC money in the gold rush of Tinder clones.
- Comment on Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity 10 months ago:
The problem is not that people are typing on phones… It’s that all of the apps are now driven by profit-maximizing algorithms instead of algorithms that try to find your best match. OkCupid used to be the best dating site hands down because of the match percentage from the questions, but now it’s just Different Tinder. You can still have great heartfelt conversations on mobile dating apps, it’s just harder now.
- Comment on Keanu Reeves to play Shadow in the Sonic 3 movie as Sega announce the Year of Shadow 10 months ago:
Ah yes, Keanu Reeves, famed for his compelling vocal performances…
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 10 months ago:
I didn’t ask Gab “is climate change real”, I asked it to “tell me about climate change”. If it’s not obvious, I agree that climate change is definitely real and human-caused, my point is that the prompt in the OP explicitly says to deny climate change, and that is not what the AI did with my prompt.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 10 months ago:
I tried asking it about climate change and gender identity and got totally unremarkable politically “neutral” corpo-speak, equivalent to ChatGPT or Bard. If this is the initial prompt it’s not having much effect lol
- Comment on Choose your ultimate lineup! 1 year ago:
They’re definitely not a band that I actively revisit, but compared to most of the shit on this list they’re better than tolerable.