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- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 4 hours ago:
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 day ago:
I wish they had an eco chamber! Their echo chamber is vehemently against that, though.
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 3 days ago:
Progressive Web Apps
Modern Tab Management
Isn’t that already an extension?
Improved History Search
Could also be an extension, I bet.
Cross Site Scripting (like “Web Macros”)
Improved privacy containers (fighting browser fingerprinting)
Clearer and more fine granumar permission concepts (like Android, “may this website do xyz”)That’s the sort of thing I meant by “under-the-hood stuff normies won’t notice.”
I think a number of Javascript Apis are lacking in Mozilla compared to Chrome and others.
No, that’s a good thing. Fuck JavaScript; it has way too much access to stuff it shouldn’t already. If anything, APIs need to be removed.
I almost hate Mozilla as much as I do hate Google, because they are slowly letting Firefox die a death of unpopularity.
But at least they can pay their CEOs a lot of money out of that sweet Google ad revenue.
I think Google still deserves to be hated a lot more, but otherwise I agree. IMO there’s no good reason for Mozilla Corporation to exist; it should only be Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit part) and all board and management should be replaced with non-overpaid people who actually believe in the mission.
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 3 days ago:
Features like what? Other than under-the-hood privacy/security improvements that normies would never notice, I can’t think of any new feature I want.
- Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 3 days ago:
Is it really because “Imgur is cancer,” or are you just a UK person butthurt that you got geoblocked because Imgur refused to comply with your government’s censorship/attack on privacy?
If it’s the latter, go bitch at your MP, not us.
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 5 days ago:
Fuck Marcus Licinius Crassus.
- Comment on purrfect costume 6 days ago:
I feel like there was a love me of dialogue where one of the characters verbatim said “she’s just a cat in a lab coat.”
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 1 week ago:
Better yet, why don’t they just write the shit competently and correctly the first time?
And don’t tell me it’s too hard; that’s the way real software engineering used to be done when stuff shipped on physical media and couldn’t be patched, and still is done for stuff that actually matters (avionics, etc.). They just want to pretend PC-level half-assery is acceptable because it’s cheaper.
- Comment on the robots are helping 1 week ago:
Papers were… objectively worse
Are you some kind of minority/disadvantaged person? If so, I bet the real issue was that you were triggering their “bigotry of low expectations” by writing well enough that they just assumed you must have been cheating.
- Comment on Chat Control 2.0: what if Signal supports user-made Add-ons, one which encrypts all messages? Could that circumvent Chat Control 2.0? 1 week ago:
There’s no such thing as a technological solution to a legal problem.
- Comment on New Tech Channel by Ex-Tech Tips Employee (Alex) 2 weeks ago:
Me waiting for Emily to start a Linux channel
- Comment on New Tech Channel by Ex-Tech Tips Employee (Alex) 2 weeks ago:
Oh, that was real? I saw the title on a video in my feed and assumed it was some kind of clickbait.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 2 weeks ago:
Because people who make websites want to get paid for them, payment is based on showing ads, ad companies want to maximize tracking via javascript, and if the only javascript is for ad bullshit it’s easy to block it so they force the content to load via javascript too.
It’s systemically fucked up in a way that goes beyond just the technology itself.
- Comment on Crap, not again! 2 weeks ago:
Crepe murder
- Comment on They're coming. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen them very rarely in metro Atlanta.
Which means they’ve reached Hartsfield International Airport, and we’re all screwed.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
‘Uninhabitable’ Arabia 12,000 Years Ago
[X] doubt
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know how people can build these tools with a clear conscience.
Have you seen the job market for programmers lately? It feels like it’s almost all for AI slop, abusive rentier middleman business models that add no real value,
defensewar contractors, or all of the above at once.That’s not to say that it’s acceptable for people to work those jobs with a clear conscience; it’s to say that for a bunch of people the only ethical options would be to remain unemployed or leave the industry.
- Comment on Multi Talented Maids 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop 3 weeks ago:
It used to be Mozilla would try to engineer their own open source and privacy-respecting alternative for web infrastructure stuff like this.
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 3 weeks ago:
(Note: Do not do this. Court reality is different from everyday life honorable reality. Get a lawyer, don’t say shit, fight to negotiate a better deal and threaten to waste their time and resources making them prove it if they don’t work something out with you. That is what a person will do if they want a good outcome. My priorities were different, I guess, I don’t know. I will say that in this case it didn’t wind up getting me in any more trouble than I would have been anyway. Mostly I’m just telling what happened to me and how I reacted and why.)
See, that’s the whole fucking problem: as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that even if you want to be ethical, systems in society have been designed by sociopaths to exploit that inclination and punish you for it. From a game theory perspective, trying to be a good person in 2025 America has become a losing strategy.
- Comment on [Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything? 3 weeks ago:
That one guy at Rockstar, feeling incredibly validated right now:
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 3 weeks ago:
Watch Lower Decks. Not because it is itself part of that 10% – it’s the best new Trek there is! – but because it talks more about it. Technobabble, giant Spock, lizards, it’s all there. Even random toy tie-in schlock:
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 3 weeks ago:
How to migrate your watch history, apparently: florianjensen.com/…/how-to-migrate-from-plex-to-j…
- Comment on Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
What business do people like that have trying to write one, then?!
I don’t mean to gatekeep, but… fuck it, I do mean to gatekeep: people should have a basic level of competence – or at least a shred of intellectual curiosity in becoming competent – to write software!
- Comment on Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
Who the wants to use a mobile app for dev work anyway, AI or not?
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 3 weeks ago:
LOL, nah. If we decrease the users, they’ll increase the ads to try to compensate for declining revenue. They believe they have all the power and don’t give a fuck what we think.
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 3 weeks ago:
IMO there’s no point in using real hardware to play old DOS games unless you want something really niche or picky, like using a specific sound card with particular MIDI voices.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 3 weeks ago:
Are there any cancers that were found to be "caused by smoking before 2003?
Of those, are there any that have subsequently also been found to be “caused by” vaping (such as the tobacco-related ones)?
If so, then it means vaping is indeed a cause (as opposed to the singular cause) of those cancers even though they were around before vaping was invented.
That’s why this meme is bad.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 3 weeks ago:
No, the post is claiming that because Tylenol was discovered after autism, it can’t be a cause of it. That’s flawed logic: it’s true that autism must also have some other cause, but it’s very possible in principle for things to have multiple causes, so the timeline argument proves nothing.
That’s not to say that Dipshit McBrainworm’s claim has any sort of merit whatsoever, mind you. It’s just that this argument is defective.
- Comment on Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology 3 weeks ago:
Main difference is that, in fiction, the “imbuing” doesn’t require a billion-dollar fab.
I mean, there are a few intrepid techno-wizards trying to don’t themselves, but it’s a far cry from what Big Magic can manage.
