mle86

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A third of the world’s population lacks internet connectivity − airborne communications stations could change that⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are a lot of ways this is technologically solvable. Imho this is an economic challenge, not a technological one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many leaders in tech evil?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, Larry Ellisons Oracle gobbled up many great companies and open source projects and sucked the life out of them, such as Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice, MySQL to name just a few

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California launches electric trains as US lags behind world in rail electrification⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the power goes out there will be no signalling on the tracks, no barriers or traffic lights at level crossings, no lights or announcements at train stations, etc.

  Even though a diesel locomotive technically could run with no external power, no regular train will be operating during a general power outage.

  Same goes for an EMP, even though that would likely fry the diesel locos control systems anyways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube stopped working for me today when using uBlock Origin in Firefox or Vivaldi with anti-ad enabled.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to pay for the content on youtube and I believe that the creators deserve it as well as I understand that the platform costs money. But the UX is so bad and youtube very obviously does not care at all about their viewers, that I morally just can’t justify giving them money for that level of service.