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- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 6 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 6 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 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 Root cause for why Windows 11 is breaking or corrupting SSDs may have been found 1 month ago:
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 month ago:
The fascist US obviously won’t do shit, but Europe ought to outlaw this blatant anti-trust violation.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That’s a future CEO’s problem.
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 2 months ago:
But see, that’s what I’m saying: the court was wrong to consider that 25th box a thing that needed ticking to begin with. There was nothing that needed re-opening because if the computer owner’s property rights were as secure as they’re supposed to be the reason given for sending the case back to the lower court should’ve been considered irrelevant!
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 2 months ago:
No, it’s even worse than people realize.
This isn’t just about ad-blocking; it’s about computer owners’ fundamental property rights (or lack thereof). It shouldn’t fucking matter if the ad-blocker modifies the website’s code, because both pieces of software are running on the owner’s machine and he has the right to modify his property in any way he sees fit.
It is no different than a book owner crossing out printed text and writing in the margins: that copy of the book is his modify as he wants, and copyright doesn’t fucking enter into it as all because there’s no copying or distribution happening to begin with.
What the German court gas done here is opened the door to copyright holders trying to colonize shit they don’t own, stealing control from the actual owners.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 months ago:
When mainstream media starts asking if something is a bubble, it’s not only already been one for quite a while already, but it’s about to pop.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 2 months ago:
WDYM, “still?” That implies they’re trying to make it something else, but they’re not.
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 2 months ago:
No, I think the ones persecuting women for murder for seeking an abortion would be a different agency. ICE will be the ones using this data as a way to target pregnant brown women for deportation.
- Comment on DuckStation dev dropping support for Linux 2 months ago:
Crypto laws aren’t copyright. Protesting an unjust law via civil disobedience is entirely different from hypocritically breaking a law you yourself rely on just because you wanna.
- Comment on Ubisoft Wants Gamers To Destroy All Copies of A Game Once It Goes Offline 3 months ago:
Fuckwads who thinks like that shouldn’t be granted copyrights.
- Comment on PNG is back! 3 months ago:
Wasn’t JPEG XL sabotaged by patents or something?
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 3 months ago:
You own your individual copy of the game software, end of. It doesn’t fucking matter if it’s on a disc or a digital download.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 3 months ago:
It’s not ever true. It is always a lie pushed by copyright-maximalist shysters who hope the public is too cowed to call them on their bullshit.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 3 months ago:
Every place that actually gives a shit about property rights.
- Comment on Humble Bundle have launched their 2025 Pride Month games bundle 4 months ago:
I remember when the minimum tip to Bundle was $0. I remember because I used to set it to something like:
- $1/game going to developer for games that had native Linux versions
- $1/game going to charity for games that didn’t (+more to meet any minimums to get the whole bundle)
- $0 tip
And I often picked a different charity than the default.
- Comment on Humble Bundle have launched their 2025 Pride Month games bundle 4 months ago:
Even Humble Bundle itself is pretty enshittified compared to how it used to be. They used to give you a lot more control over which charities you supported etc.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 5 months ago:
The problem with the cookie law wasn’t the concept of it, it was the EU’s failure to crack down on malicious compliance.
They should’ve revised the law to make it opt-out by default.
- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 5 months ago:
Emoluments Clause, anyone?
- Comment on Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again 5 months ago:
- Comment on Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials 5 months ago:
From the article, direct links to the code:
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 5 months ago:
Wikipedia, archive.org, and any similar essential services ought to be migrating their hosting and organizational headquarters to outside the US ASAP.
- Comment on Ubisoft argues players don't own their games in wake of The Crew lawsuit 6 months ago:
Thanks for the correction.
- Comment on Ubisoft argues players don't own their games in wake of The Crew lawsuit 6 months ago:
If buying isn’t owning, pirating is stealing.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 6 months ago:
I mean, he created JavaScript. It’s hardly a surprise that he’s a piece of shit.
- Comment on Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. 7 months ago:
“Violent” needs scare quotes, because it’s obviously subjective and ripe for abuse.
- Comment on Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought. 8 months ago:
IMO the only strategy with even a small chance of success would be direct action (e.g. organizing a mob to invade stores, rip the digital price tags of the shelves, and destroy them), but of course that would have incredibly high attrition so I doubt enough people would be willing to do it.
- Comment on A 3D printed keyboard case for Steam Deck 9 months ago:
That’s just a laptop with extra steps.
