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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Started running a homeserver recently, trying to get non-techy friends to join, can confirm this is difficult (the main one right now being people using old software on their phones, one friend was running iOS 14 for crying out loud)

  Once set up I find it OK as a user

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This story marks the loss of another revenue stream for Mozilla. Their business is increasingly reliant on Google’s search deal for money, and if that money stops, they’ll have to face that same reckoning. For example, they won’t be able to afford paying their CEO millions of dollars a year any more.

  I think they should start repositioning themselves now as an activist organisation that is fighting corporate interests trying to control the internet. If they can do that, I think a lot of people would pay to use Firefox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enough internet users are familiar with the adage “if a product is free, you are the product”, through personal experience

  I’d be OK with paying for Firefox if it meant that it was stripped of all association with advertisers. And presumably, if Mozilla were freed from that association, they’d be able to make a stronger case for how they’re protecting a free internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mozilla should fire their non-technical staff, strongly make the case for how they’re fighting for a free and open internet, and use a subscription model for Firefox to pay the bills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenWrt with AdGuard Home is one option. Big fan of the former, haven’t used the latter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨open world chess⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep a bishop hidden behind the toilet until your opponent forgets about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YKK’s Self-Propelled Zipper: Less Crazy Than It Seems⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea of automatically fastening zips in places with limited access (like the tent example in the article), but unless the failure rate is very low, you’d always need a backup fastening technique on hand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for ... inventory management, I guess?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t searched about this so I don’t know, but it’d be cool if there were a way to import/export markdown tables into LibreOffice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, I thought it was called the Mandala effect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for ... inventory management, I guess?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use markdown too, except I keep the markdown file in a self-hosted wiki (wiki.js)

  It’s versioned and accepts git as a backend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.

  I can’t speak for anyone else but no, I would not be fine with that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember getting a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach when Google removed “Don’t be evil” from their Code of Conduct