cley_faye
@cley_faye@lemmy.world
- Comment on French culture 1 day ago:
We did that to stop English from stealing from us. They didn’t get the joke, and here we are.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 5 days ago:
Well, now you have :)
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 6 days ago:
I only buy boxes of 2x2. I suppose the only way is to get all four out at the same time.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like an upside.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 2 weeks ago:
something buzzing on my wrist all the time would drive me batty
It’s the same when it’s in your pocket. I’d say the issue is not that it buzz all the time on your wrist, but that it buzz all the time. I disabled most notifications, except for a selection of people and apps. When I get a notification, it is usually important enough that I should check it. Everything else (including non-emergency work stuff) is checked on my own accord, when I feel like it.
Having the notifications pop on my wrist, with that system, does not feel like a shackle more than a phone constantly turning its screen on to tell you you have unread whatever.
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 3 weeks ago:
So, someone plastering boobs on his truck is a missile target, but a musky orange tanking the world economy for a pump and dump isn’t?
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 3 weeks ago:
Real hetero cis men only have sex with other real hetero cis men, preferably more than one at a time, to avoid lowering their male-ness. That’s the only way to keep our society alive, obviously.
Pfffrt. These jokers are such idiots.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if he’ll get unalived with funny prejudice, but if I had to give pointers, don’t aim for the head, it’s unlikely to hit any vital organ in there.
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 5 weeks ago:
It checks if you’re both human AND not a bumbling tumbleweed.
- Comment on I hate the modern web 5 weeks ago:
I read this as “we don’t want you, the user, to interact with our 100% user-content driven website that depends on your presence to keep having value”.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 month ago:
some good stuff
If you want to live in medieval time with your wife/servant, sure.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 month ago:
Yeah, we all know that, but MS being the main force driving this is kinda nuts tho.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 month ago:
Trade it in or recycle it with local organizations
And what are those organizations expected to install on systems that can’t support Windows 11, Microsoft? What are they expected to install exactly?
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 1 month ago:
Kinda like blaming a President at war for not saying “thank you” to its “benefactor” (despite having done so numerous times), no?
- Comment on fingerme 2 months ago:
“I don’t understand, that user keeps asking me to fix their email, and they’re more angry each time!”
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 months ago:
Firs,t mostly as if in Firefox. Go open Netflix, just for the laugh of it.
Second, a fork that depends on Mozilla’s power to develop the upstream is not really in the clear. From a licensing perspective, sure. But let’s assume the worst (because it’s 2025 after all). Firefox is no longer open source. Sure, we can fork from where they left. But building, maintaining, and evolving a browser engine (and the browser itself) requires substantial work. Which means, developers/maintainers, and money. And staying on a “bare” browser might not be viable as long as standards keeps evolving and 95% of people will not care about that stuff.
All that to say, a fork is an option for now. A more tangible solution for the future is needed. A new “Mozilla” without the $millions CEO and structure, Mozilla splitting Firefox into a clean base and a commercial product, something else. But not a fork that just follow Firefox source.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 months ago:
We notice. They’re not hiding. The (numerous) endpoints are all presents in the about:config page. The actual content, though, is not that obvious to get. If we assume the binaries are compromised (I don’t believe they are for now, for the record), an outsider would only see a TLS session. At best we could get the vague amount of data exfiltrated, not really the content. But that’s hypothetical. For now.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 months ago:
how are they supposed to “sell your data”
First step is collecting it. Putting provisions to grab everything from the software you installed on your device and use to do everything is a good start. Second step is selling it. Data broker loves data, surprisingly. And even small, inconsequential stuff can go a long way when you can correlate with dozens, or hundreds, of data points.
if you just never use a Mozilla account
Given how it’s implemented, the data pushed inside your account may be in a safer place than what you use the browser to do daily at this point.
and uncheck all the telemetry
Funny thing. Even with everything unchecked/disabled/toggled off/whatever, there’s a handful of ping back and other small reports that are configured to go out. You can turn these off using the complete config page; the one that warns people that its dangerous and have no clear way to know what most of its options do.
Its not like they can secretly steal your data, since its Open Source
If by “secretly” you mean without us knowing, it would be hard indeed, as long as people did look into the source AND the built images were faithful to the source, too. They are not doing it secretly, at least for now, anyway. That’s the point of their “privacy notice” that includes basically everything, which they then use as a safeguard saying "we can’t do shit (unless specified in the privacy notice).
It seems to me like just more FUD that Google is spreading to undermine our trust in free software
The policy changes comes from Mozilla. Were written, published, and updated by Mozilla, on their blog (and legal pages). What the fuck are you talking about with Google?
Heck, if you knew 2cts about this, Google actually low-key needs Firefox to exists as a counterpoint to Chrome’s hegemony, unless they want another trial for being too good at their job.
- Comment on Bluesky 2 months ago:
Which is probably why the decision was reverted.
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 2 months ago:
There are books for that, that usually take all the important bits and put them in funny, engaging ways. It could be a nice thing to get, even read together.
- Comment on ENHANCE 2 months ago:
Last time I had to wear glasses was during the heavy phase of covid, and wearing masks caused a LOT of fogging up. I’m sure that exact same reason made a lot of people aware of proper glass treatment.
- Comment on ENHANCE 2 months ago:
Glasses are mildly inconvenient when it’s cold, somewhat inconvenient when you have to wear headgear that don’t take it into account, and very inconvenient when you have to move your head a lot or look down a lot. Anyway, I took the laser instead of the plastic bit that costs a lot and gets lost easily.
…and I keep wearing glasses anyway because the sun is still a thing that exists outside, anyway.
- Comment on No good excuse to still be on Xitter 2 months ago:
You should check. I’ve been surprised by the amount of “suggested accounts” on bluesky that were people I lost track of when quitting twitter.
- Comment on No good excuse to still be on Xitter 2 months ago:
So true. Two years ago I still used twitter for nsfw content, but even that got weird (and really suspicious sometimes).
This is why we can’t have nice things.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 months ago:
As a dev I would try negative value in the custom field.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 months ago:
It sounds like you’re proud of your culture of not giving a crap about rules set to improve safety for everyone. On that account, I agree that we’ll never see eye to eye about this.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 months ago:
You’re not expected to break them. For your example, you’re not supposed to go over the speed limit. And it is, in fact, extremely easy to do so. Most people are fine with it. And, no, it’s not impossible to do so. There is nothing forcing you to go faster for little to no gain and increased risk for you and other.
You expecting to go over tells something about you.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 months ago:
At this point, beyond enduring, I’m afraid there is no “non violent” options. And to be clear, I don’t think non-violent options are going to improve anything, just that there’s not much else to do.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 months ago:
Not having to be available at the ready for people is great.
If you arrange for a call, through another asynchronous mechanism, then it’s fine. If you cold-call me to ask about the weather (or, more seriously, anything that could have been a text message), I’ll leave decapitated horse head in your fridge.
- Comment on Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering? 3 months ago:
If someone doesn’t care about themselves, why would they care about other or littering.
