Imma block you for this, it’s not personal tho

You’re right, it was rude. Sorry.

User JohnFen on ycombinator’s hacker news said it nicely and I’m lazy, so:

PPA means that my browser is doing the spying instead of a third party directly. That’s certainly a privacy improvement, but I don’t consider it sufficient.

“Sufficiently private” is a subjective call. I don’t want to be spied on. Whether or not there are technological “privacy preserving” features baked into it doesn’t alter that fundamental fact.

All that said, this isn’t a bad enough move to get me to stop using Firefox, as long as I can keep it disabled. It does mean that I have to view Firefox with suspicion, though. I can’t consider the browser to be my “user agent” anymore.

“we have a few potential paths to follow depending on the feedback we receive. Running a truly local LLM is one that we’re researching at the moment”

In that case, fuck off with this bullshit until your research is done, that’s some feedback for you.

Has Mozilla done sometime to deserve this skepticism?

Yes, their “privacy friendly ad measurement” that’s opt out is a faux pas that I just can’t forgive. I used to donate to the fuckers.

It’s a win for humanity if it causes more people to leave and stop thinking it’s a public forum.

technology

it’s “your lifestyle and reddit” slop

Note “published”. Yes they use dedicated servers, but I’m not paying for ubishit or ea games that don’t offer them for players to self-host.

I don’t want any more competitive shooters with no dedicated server published. See this if institutional memory doesn’t go that far, Dice fuckers: https://www.eurogamer.net/battlefield-keeping-dedicated-servers

Ads have become the new normal

I haven’t seen an ad in ages on the internet. Also, ducks in the park are free.

What are you blathering about, it’s never been cheaper or easier to have a personal computer than now, however you define it. You can go full paranoid from coreboot up or you can just get a steam deck and dock and have a nice arch in desktop mode. You can meaningfully use it with internet, Firefox with ublock origin, Signal to talk to your family without selling your soul or whatever. Is this written by a chatbot?

Xbox Boss Phil Spencer

Get rid of that fucker first

7 means it boots but no one in their right mind wants it

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No, they’re not. They got some easy money but they’re already past the peak.

I liked 1 enough at the time, but 2 was a masterpiece. They get progressively more sloppy after that, pun intended.

This statement irks me unproportionally strongly compared to how banal it is. It’s the equivalent of “it is what it is” in saying nothing, but with some edgy pedantic seasoning. What about if the atmosphere was stripped and the planet was left a barren rock? What about if something knocked it from out of the Solar system and it was sent reeling into the universe on its own? “The planet doesn’t care, it can carry on without us” – and please, pretend I did the Spongebob random caps thing, because that’s what I think of your banality.

while i see where you’re coming from, being able to message WhatsApp users from a client app that respects privacy would be better than being forced to have WhatsApp installed on your device

Who’s forcing you? I removed everything Zuckerberg and just informed people I use only Signal now. I had to help my parents a bit with the install and the pin, younger than 70s did it themselves. I found that, if you have a reason for boycotting, people will just give you a hundred MB of their phone space and install Signal along with whatsapp

Now that Simple SMS Messenger by Mobile Tools has been bought, the answer is its fork, the Fossify SMS Messenger on f-droid.

Ugh, okay Meredith, let’s pretend it’s impossible to handle this with user experience that makes the user acknowledge their conversation with a WhatsApp user is not secure. Meanwhile if the only viable way for this conversion to occur is to have WhatsApp on both ends, the situation less secure.

I don’t agree with this. The only way to have the conversation is to have Signal at both ends.