slacktoid
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- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
How can we make that 2?
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
They are just fork + patches, I think only one is maintained by the company that forked it but it’s an esr version and it’s an ad company.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
There’s are 2 main browsers, Firefox and Chromium. chromium has a monopoly due to Google, edge, brave, etc. This monopoly allows Google as they dictate what happens to the chromium project, some implementations for features were never incorporated as it didn’t suit Google like JPEG-XL. Even tho its open source its main contributors are from Google. Google dictated the change to manifest v2 to ruin adblockers as it impacts their revenue.
This decision impacted all other chromium forks. I think all of them (maybe except brave cause they may have the engineering bandwidth) now lack maifest v2 support. All because a corporate entity decided it was better if users didn’t have adblocking capabilities.
They have even made changes to their implementations of various standards (HTML etc) and since most webdevs only test on Chromium, you end up with a subpar experience if you’re not using Google or Chromiums implementation of that standard.
So my question as I stated earlier. What’s the alternative to Firefox since even the alternatives are dependent on the work done by Firefox for their fork. And going to chromium is just allowing your core browsing experience (like adblocking) to be dictated by google.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
Not defending but what’s the alternative to the chromium monopoly? Most Firefox forks people talk about are a fork of the Firefox version + some patches. You’re better off using Phoenix instead of those forks IMO.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 3 weeks ago:
But again that’s not related to a committee stopping the implementation of a standard. It’s a scale of production issue, a labelling issue, and a consumer protection issue.
And I like having one port to just dock my machine in for power and display. I do understand how a separate port can help but I don’t see why we can’t have USB C working to its designed spec apart from the reasons I listed above.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 3 weeks ago:
Buy a supported cable? That’s a cable issue not a standards or forums issue
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 4 weeks ago:
Oh boy it’s hunting season
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 4 weeks ago:
Hmm time for the real Indian Revolution for fuck sake. These parasites gotta go.
- Comment on Gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS system. Has anyone tried mass hosting this as a group? 4 weeks ago:
This is to protect from ddos, not do the ddos
- Comment on OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
To be fair as a society we have never really cared about suicide. So why bother now (I say as a jaded fuck angry about society)
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
I can see your PoV. It’s a cool concept and I do think we will get to it but it’s going to take time and patience. There are so many weird niche edge cases that need to be sorted out before it can work without breaking anything, tbh if I’m talking about an agentic OS, it needs to live in its own container or VM. That way it can’t break my OS and I can just rebuild it incase something breaks. This is ignoring the privacy and security issues. Right now it’s still in the research phase IMO. And in no way something I would allow running in my (if I had one) company.
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 2 months ago:
Congrats!!! You did it! That’s awesome!!
- Comment on Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? 2 months ago:
Damn! That’s respectable AF! Your dad and you continuing this amazing tradition!! Thank you!
- Comment on Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? 2 months ago:
Legit. They just gatekeep knowledge
- Comment on Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? 2 months ago:
What I’m gathering is always check the library for the instructors notes!
Also can’t they technically just give you a PDF with the questions. I never bought text books cause of that. I don’t think I’ve bought a textbook for school after highschool.
For me there were some text books you could just download from the author’s website.
- Comment on Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? 2 months ago:
How dare you not give your professors the kick backs they deserve!
- Comment on Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? 2 months ago:
Placing my bets on stop thinking as universities have not been about education for a long time.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 months ago:
That makes sense. The bookmarks and settings kinda made everything fit better in my head, thanks!
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 months ago:
Ok this is handy ngl. I’ve forgotten about the shared family compute scenario
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 months ago:
Fair, I just always felt containers were better than profiles, cause each tab is a profile now. The tooling does need improvement, I still get lost when trying to access some configs for it
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 months ago:
But can’t containers do that? Maybe I’m missing something?
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 months ago:
Why would I use this when I have Firefox containers?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
And I’d help you make copies!
- Comment on 3 months ago:
If I could download a car, you bet your ass I would!
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 months ago:
Just kill everyone and get it over with ffs. Can’t have crime if there’s no people.
- Comment on 𝘕𝘌𝘙𝘝𝘖𝘜𝘚 4 months ago:
The life of Baxter Stockman
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
System V init scripts
- Comment on People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong? 5 months ago:
All I can say is, if all your friends jumped off a cliff will you jump off as well?
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 5 months ago:
But states rights? What happened to states rights?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
But then how will the normies pay for premium to not see ads