mle86
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- Comment on YSK that you can disable AI features on DuckDuckGo without cookies 3 days ago:
No that doesn’t matter at all, but it might matter to you if they get all the addresses you type just up to the point before you type .com, i.e. pornhub before you add the dot com or maybe some health related stuff, or every bank & insurance company you do business with, adult websites, etc.
- Comment on YSK that you can disable AI features on DuckDuckGo without cookies 4 days ago:
Just as an FYI, if you use suggestions everything you type in your url bar will be sent to your search provider in order to return search suggestions. Even in incognito windows, unless you explicitly disable it.
So I’d suggest only doing that if you really trust your search provider to keep that information secret and not link it to you as a person, and only if search suggestions as a feature are worth that risk to you.
- Comment on Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR 2 weeks ago:
No I distinctly remember being able to add a keyword and bookmark for search field on random website forms, even internal ones on company intranet sites and such
- Comment on Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it definitely was keyword bookmarks, but there was an option to “add a keyword for this search” or something along those lines
- Comment on Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR 2 weeks ago:
This update makes it much easier to add custom search engines in Firefox. You can now right-click in a search field on a supported website and select “Add Search Engine” to add it. You can edit the name and assign a keyboard.
Am I misremembering things, didn’t this feature exist already in the past?
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 month ago:
While love the content on Youtube, I’d like to pay for no ads and I’d like to support the creators, I just can’t bring myself to pay for a service where the UX is so catastrophically bad.
Search is basically non functional at this point. Video quality has to be adjusted manually for each video to not get pixelated mess. Even at 1080p the quality is barely better than DVD. The app caches so little ahead that the slightest network interruption pauses playback. Forced auto rotation makes you grab the device each time you return from full screen to the video list. Subtitles have completely gone to shit and it’s wild that in the age of forcing AI on everyone, that auto generated subtitles are still as bad as they are.
To name just a few…
Sorry for the rant
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 2 months ago:
How hard can it be to produce a simple battery pack, for a company that is in the business of designing and producing battery packs no less…
- Comment on Keeping me up at night 2 months ago:
While that is true with humans, I’m not sure if that applies to Giraffes with such long windpipes
- Comment on Trump reportedly suspends Nvidia H20 export ban plan after $1 million dinner with Jensen Huang 2 months ago:
$1 million-a-head dinner
I can’t even imagine what that would look like. Surely the ingredients can’t be that expensive? And while cooks and staff probably are paid very well, are they gonna spend so much time on a single dinner to warrant that price?
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 months ago:
Probably also a factor is that you would be spinning up a whole production line and automation systems for phones that will only be in production for 12 to 18 months, after which you’d have to adapt or redo everything for the new model.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 3 months ago:
That may be but if they would shorten “female soldier”, wouldn’t they refer to her as “a soldier” and not “a female”?
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 months ago:
The first 6 years of Firefox were done without telemetry and after it was implemented it was opt-in for a while.
While I see the use of telemetry for development purposes, I would not call it aridiculous thing to not want
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 months ago:
I think this is a reasonable explanation.
But I also believe a large part of the firefox user base does not want any data about them collected by their browser, no matter if it is for commercial purposes or simply analytics / telemetry. Which is why the original statement “we will never sell any of your data” was just good enough for them, and anything mozilla is now saying is basically not good enough, no matter how much they clarify it to mean “not selling in the colloquial sense”
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 4 months ago:
So I thought this is never going to fly under GDPR. Then the article goes on to say:
Many privacy laws, including the EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA, require user consent for tracking. However, because fingerprinting works without explicit storage of user data on a device, companies may argue that existing laws do not apply which creates a legal gray area that benefits advertisers over consumers.
Oh come on Google, seriously? I remember a time when Google were the good guys, can’t believe how they’ve changed…
- Comment on The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly 9 months ago:
show how bigger corporations like Valve can still be a helpful, desirable influence in the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community.
Unfortunately, as far as bigger corporations go, there are very few that are “like Valve”…