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- Comment on while we were watching for threat from China, here comes Philippines with a steel chair! 21 hours ago:
They’re not waiting, they’re preparing. They’re currently happily building navy and air force bases on “contested” islands in the South China Sea and nobody, not Biden, not Trump, is stopping them.
What they’re doing is commonly called encirclement.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 6 days ago:
Seems this is legal now. Keep this in mind, when the next video game decompilation project comes along because that’s also machine-generated material based on copyrighted released media. That must be equally as legal now.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
According to their privacy policy there is no telemetry: 1.1. No Telemetry. We do not collect any telemetry data.
According to github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/5947#issuec… one of the issues is that Mozilla’s telemetry remains enabled which (if happening in secret) is bad and also dumb because Mozilla can’t even use telemetry of a very different browser.
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 1 week ago:
I still wonder why they chose Swift
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
They just closed the issue without even acknowledging it, lol
They acknowledged the remote debugging backdoor issue and fixed it a year ago.
It was enabled due that zen was still a toy project and we needed people to easily open the debugger for easier bug fixing. This was due because zen was not in a daily drivable state and didn’t gain any sort of popularity yet.
github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927
The telemetry issue is entirely different. Their handling of that is naive at best, dishonest at worst but it is completely different from the “backdoor”.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
The “backdoor” mentioned in a single reply is very different from the telemetry issue. github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927 was fixed a year ago.
I agree the telemetry should be either disabled or at the very least users should just get a config tab on first launch to opt out but the Lemmy submission is misleading and bordering on fake news.
- Comment on Meta: “We're Still Investing Massively In VR Gaming And Don't Plan To Stop” 2 weeks ago:
Musk is helping Meta through “at least Zuckerberg isn’t Musk” aura.
- Comment on Alphabet spins off Starlink competitor Taara 2 weeks ago:
The tech sounds useful to bridge cell towers in rural areas among each other to skip satellites and laying cables.
Back when I was still in university, dormatories’ internet was established using a similar tech to the main campus. It was great, except on snowy days. Then there was just no internet at all.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks ago:
Like any red blooded true Republican would!
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 4 weeks ago:
The browser you use to download Firefox
Huh? Just type
winget install Mozilla.Firefoxinto PowerShell / cmd. - Submitted 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Proper open source, GPLv3
- Comment on Google Calendar Malware Is on the Rise. Here’s How To Stay Safe 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
which ones?
Lemmygrad comes to mind.
- Comment on Sky's the Limit - Russian Influence Operation Doppelgänger Expands to Bluesky - Alliance4Europe 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
AsSOCiation -> SOCcer
- Comment on Might be fun idk 1 month ago:
Soccer is short for Association Football. Australian Football is shortened to Footy.
- Comment on Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk? 1 month ago:
Cybertruck is illegal in the EU, so I can’t.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 1 month 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 1 month ago:
There’s definitely someone making a LineageOS port.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
Workarounds in a specific player don’t negate the fact that the format has limitations.
