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- Comment on The Mozilla Graveyard 1 month ago:
It is not really FUD to point out that Mozilla wastes ungodly amounts of money on projects of dubious utility instead of investing into their browser. Their current trajectory doesn’t inspire much confidence either. Mozilla started to waste even more money on ‘AI’ features nobody asked for.
- Comment on 2real5me 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why is the community for Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact like this? 2 months ago:
For that reason I just ditched the youtube app and use the mobile site instead. On Firefox mobile uBlock works as well.
- Comment on Why is the community for Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact like this? 2 months ago:
I haven’t seen a youtube ad in years thanks to uBlock Origin and Firefox.
- Comment on Why is the community for Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact like this? 2 months ago:
I highly recommend this video that explains gacha games and how they objectify women and sometimes men.
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 2 months ago:
Not every threat model requires the security level GrapheneOS provides. My threat model ends with Google and other big corporation shouldn’t spy on me and if I lose my phone anyone finding it shouldn’t get in and be able to steal my identity. I think DivestOS and CalyxOS do a fine job with that.
- Comment on Telegram CEO's arrest sparks flurry of questions over motivation, privacy impact. 2 months ago:
According to TF1 he was arrested due to lack of cooperation with law enforcement regarding suspected complicity in drug trafficking, CSAM, and fraud. So my interpretation is that they repeatedly ignored french law enforcement asking Telegram to take down certain channels. Maybe warrant was the wrong word I am not a native speaker.
- Comment on Telegram CEO's arrest sparks flurry of questions over motivation, privacy impact. 2 months ago:
I will never understand why people defend this idiot. Plenty of secure chat apps exists in the EU without problems. Matrix for example is used by both the German and the French government. Telegrams CEO is just reaping what he sowed by ignoring French warrants.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
It probably works with some tinkering. I would recommend completing it once the way the modders intended since they likely never tested their game with VR in mind.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
This one is really fun and very underrated indeed. It gives you a level with an objective, how you solve it is entirely up to you. You can sneak to the objective, shoot your way through or cause mayhem by stacking boxes, explosive barrels and more. Also, the achievements are all pictures of the developers cats.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
It is actually a Skyrim mod but basically a complete game that just happens to be built upon Skyrim. It features full professional quality voice acting in German and English, new game systems inspired by the Gothic series, a setting separate from Elder Scrolls, and a story that gets close to the quality of Planescape Torment or Disco Elysium. I can’t recommend it enough.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
If they grandfather existing subscribers in it might work for a few months or years, and what does the current Reddit leadership care if that community survives longer than they stay at the company. They also might make a few sales with paywalled celebrity IAmA threads. In any case I will watch from the sidelines and enjoy the spectacle 🍿.
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of Twitter/X ad boycott perpetrators 4 months ago:
So that is why he is donating to the Trump campaign. Best to get in the list of people he wishes to be persecuted sooner than later. Apparently it’s first come first serve.
- Comment on Tesla loses EV market dominance, falls below 50% in US [unit sales in 2024Q2] 4 months ago:
This is not surprising. When Tesla started out they had not much competition. Now that all the other carmakers have entered the market it is much harder to maintain their lead. Tesla losing market share was pretty much to be expected and Musk alienating their customers and the laughable Cybertruck certainly did not help.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Stop spreading lies. Firefox will not deprecate the APIs that enable adblocking..
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- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 4 months ago:
Semmelweiss is also partially responsible for the widespread rejection of his findings. He basically called doctors who did not follow his advice murderers which naturally didn’t help his popularity. Antagonising someone who you are trying to convince usually just entrenches their opinions further.
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 6 months ago:
I unsubscribed and deleted my Kagi account mainly because of their attitude to data privacy but also because of their nutjob CEO. When I subscribed I was excited because I thought they wanted to build a proper competitor to other search engine operators but they are actually just another company that tries to shove AI into absolutely everything. So, after realising that they are an untrustworthy company full of tech maximalists trying to build the torment nexus I immediately canceled my subscription and moved back to duckduckgo and marginalia. Maybe I give SearXNG another go, it’s just that selfhosting is a bit of a bother.
- Comment on Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 From Open Source Developers 6 months ago:
Bountysource was owned by a company called The Blockchain Group and it looks like the parent company went bankrupt taking Bountysource down with them. Its hard to say if Bountysource could have survived if it wasn’t sold to some cryptocurrency companies.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
According to Wikipedia he left in 2017. Majority owner is a Jack Dorsey company called Block, Inc.
