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- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 1 day ago:
How about all the other that have no checkboxes and you can find by snooping around in either the code or about:config ?
Which are? Genuine question. I’m not aware of those either.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 1 day ago:
There’s more settings you should set regarding privacy
Please be more specific.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 1 day ago:
The issue is that Mozilla is actively hiding these settings.
They are under “Privacy”, just as I expected where they would.
There’s one (I forgot which one) that you can’t find by searching for the title in the FF settings, you have to scroll to it yourself.
🤷
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 days ago:
Friendship ended with Firefox,❎ Librewolf is my new best friend. ✅
A big problem with such forks (same with packages made by Linux distributors) is that there is a delay between official FF release and the release of the corresponding update of the fork. 99% of the time this doesn’t matter much but when there is a severe security issue, the patch needs to be available ASAP.
Past enshittifications of Firefox could be disabled by users. Users who know what to disable don’t need such forks then.
I’m not yet clear what Mozilla even intends. Is it just an adjustment of language of things that are already in FF and can be disabled easily? If so, I just keep the following shit disabled and benefit from earlier update releases.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 days ago:
Installed DuckDuckGo browser as soon as I saw the news the other day.
Oh cool, yet another Chromium variant. That’s going to be an actual change for the better.
- Comment on The good old past. Everything else is WOKE! 3 days ago:
Like any red blooded true Republican would!
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 3 days ago:
The browser you use to download Firefox
Huh? Just type
winget install Mozilla.Firefoxinto PowerShell / cmd. - Submitted 4 days ago to conservative@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 4 days ago:
!conservative@lemmy.world because there is no clickable link here.
- Comment on EA just released source code for a bunch of old Command and Conquer games, and added Steam Workshop support to bangers like C&C 3: Tiberium Wars 5 days ago:
Proper open source, GPLv3
- Comment on Google Calendar Malware Is on the Rise. Here’s How To Stay Safe 2 weeks ago:
Meaning separate alternative platforms for each Google product
Except for Maps Nextcloud offers it all, though. It’s not like there is any benefit of using Google Maps and GMail because there are no synergies at all.
- Comment on Google Calendar Malware Is on the Rise. Here’s How To Stay Safe 2 weeks ago:
I could do all those separately, I guess, but why would I?
You use Google Calendar as your maps app? Google Maps is separate from Google Calendar.
- Comment on Sky's the Limit - Russian Influence Operation Doppelgänger Expands to Bluesky - Alliance4Europe 2 weeks ago:
which ones?
Lemmygrad comes to mind.
- Comment on Sky's the Limit - Russian Influence Operation Doppelgänger Expands to Bluesky - Alliance4Europe 2 weeks ago:
uh there’s plenty of Russian influence here already.
Entire instances were built around it.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a couple of reports that this is not about the Fediverse. It took me a while to be able to look at the reports and since some almost entirely Lemmy-focused discussions have taken place, so I’m leaving this post up because of the discussions.
This is not a precedent to post random off topic stuff, though.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 2 weeks ago:
Yes which is much better than brain injured dudes standing around and getting dozens of points for 6 minutes of gameplay.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 2 weeks ago:
AsSOCiation -> SOCcer
- Comment on Might be fun idk 3 weeks ago:
Soccer is short for Association Football. Australian Football is shortened to Footy.
- Comment on Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk? 3 weeks ago:
Cybertruck is illegal in the EU, so I can’t.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 3 weeks ago:
Real football*, not that American shit.
(Association Football but Australian Football is cool, too)
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 3 weeks ago:
There’s definitely someone making a LineageOS port.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
Workarounds in a specific player don’t negate the fact that the format has limitations.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
Aren’t there unofficial extensions to mp3 for gappless playback?
Yes and no.
IIRC an MP3 track is divided in fixed-length frames and unless the actual audio matches perfectly with the end of a frame, it’s not possible and that’s why cross-fading plugins for audio players were invented. The padding data is there either way but can be documented in the metadata section of a file.
Last I checked (and that was years ago, so I may be wrong) this approach was never perfect and prone to breaking. It’s an inherent flaw with the format where some form of workaround exists.
That said, for most use cases this is irrelevant.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
A lot of people cant tell the difference between MP3 @320Kbps and a fully lossless FLAC.
MP3 has some disadvantages over more modern formats, regardless the used bitrate. It’s been a long while since I was very interested in audio formats, so I may not be up to date on some newer developments but unless anything major changed, MP3 can’t do truly gapless playback between tracks (used in live albums), for example.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
Apple broke metadata compatibility with a recent update. The podcast producer I know with an explicit AAC feed decided to just redirect to the MP3 feed. Unrelated to that, they also increased the MP3 bitrate for better audio quality. The increased file size doesn’t really matter that much compared to 15 years ago and people without unlimited data can just set their automated syncs to WiFi only.
- Comment on White House Faith Office 3 weeks ago:
Something, something, separation of church and state, would be my guess.
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- Comment on Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001) 1 month ago:
Nintendo famously changed their mind when Mortal Kombat 1 sold better on Genesis/Mega Drive than Super Nintendo.
- Comment on Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001) 1 month ago:
Doesn’t change the fact that Nintendo only owned a minority share and that this specific game was not published by Nintendo. They had access to the development tools already, so it was no special treatment for Conker.
- Comment on Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001) 1 month ago:
Even back then this kind of advertisement (and game) was an anomaly coming from Nintendo.
Yeah. One reason being that this wasn’t a Nintendo game. It was a Rare/THQ game. Nintendo didn’t publish this.
