TheBaldness
@TheBaldness@beehaw.org
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 6 months ago:
True, and then there’s the other side of the coin. Federation exposes you to trolls, nazis, and doxxing.
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 7 months ago:
No we don’t. We need small instances, each with their own specific topics and communities that DO NOT share your information far and wide, like the fediverse does. I don’t think the fediverse model is the way forward.
- Comment on Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service 7 months ago:
They should give MLS to the Mozilla Foundation in that case.
- Comment on Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service 7 months ago:
This suck big time. Many users of custom mobile phone ROMs are concerned with privacy, and use Mozilla Location Services as an alternative to Google. Not sure what other options are available right now.
- Comment on Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users? 9 months ago:
I know, it’s bad. I posted about it here: beehaw.org/post/10393316
- Comment on Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users? 9 months ago:
I’m using Firefox w uBlock turned off for YouTube. It’s almost unusable for me. They’re not just degrading the experience of ad-blocking users. They’re also sabotaging users of non-Chrome web browsers.
- Comment on VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year 9 months ago:
I take my ill-gotten gains and fuck off to other country, perhaps the USA, and buy up a small little-known automotive start up that has some promising IP. When my car company is bigger than all the others combined, I don’t spread the love around and allow them all to stew in the juices of their mistakes. While I’m at it, I might buy a social media company and totally mess it up.
- Comment on Where have all the websites gone? 9 months ago:
- Comment on Where have all the websites gone? 9 months ago:
This is a good search engine for finding text-based small sites. search.marginalia.nu
And there’s a few cool personal projects here: simone.computer/#/webdesktops
- Comment on VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year 9 months ago:
I have a fantasy where I’m a powerful executive at Volkswagen. I’m in a meeting where this idea is presented. I ask who thought of it. Someone raises their hand. I smile broadly. I ask who else thinks it’s a good idea. Others raise their hands. I call security and have all those people escorted out of the building. Those of us who remain set about manufacturing small, efficient & affordable electric vehicles with manual windows & door locks, and a not a single touchscreen anywhere. The End
- Comment on What’s next for Mozilla? 9 months ago:
…which is an epidemic right now
Yes, it fucking is.
- Comment on What’s next for Mozilla? 9 months ago:
The conspiracy theory I’ve heard is that Mozilla is basically paid opposition to Google. Their leadership is being paid (by Google) to run Firefox into the ground without actually going out of business.
- Comment on What’s next for Mozilla? 9 months ago:
I’m absolutely with you. Having run face-first into MongoDB more than once, I finally learned not to trust the hype around these things.
- Comment on What’s next for Mozilla? 9 months ago:
What an absolute shitshow this is going to be. If I want a digital assistant, I’ll get one. Keeping concerns separate is what has always worked. This reads like Elon wanting X to be the “everything app”. That ship has already sailed. The web is the everything app. Back when the web was new, you had AOL and Yahoo wanting to be the “gateway” to everything. How did that work out? My gateway to everything is my bookmarks folder. I don’t want AI in anything I use locally unless I explicitly enable it and ask for assistance. IMHO, this is the reason so many digital assistants have failed (especially Microsoft’s); because they tried to anticipate your needs rather than STFU and stay out of the way.
I’m old.
/rant