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- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 3 days ago:
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
WTF is “thretentiousness?”
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 5 days ago:
Ah, well, in that case, furniture-making should definitely be among your new hobbies.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 5 days ago:
You live in a geodesic dome house. Clearly, you already don’t care what anybody else thinks!
(That’s kinda awesome, BTW.)
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 6 days ago:
Civic advocacy, hands down. It is infinitely the most important.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 6 days ago:
'Tis the season for over-the-top programmable RGB holiday light displays choreographed to music.
(I haven’t gotten to the “choreographed to music” part of the hobby yet.)
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 6 days ago:
You are using an unsupported browser. Please install Firefox to continue
LOL, nice.
(I’m only not using Firefox at the moment because I’m on Graphene OS and they claim their “Vanadium” browser is best for some reason, so I was giving it a chance. Getting fed up and about to switch back to Firefox, though.)
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 1 week ago:
Well, they are now.
- Comment on arborholing 1 week ago:
First we had !NotKenM, now we need !NotStamets.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 1 week ago:
- Comment on LICK EM 1 week ago:
Too coherent for !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz IMO. This is just a malapropism.
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 1 week 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 1 week 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 purrfect costume 2 weeks 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 the robots are helping 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
There’s no such thing as a technological solution to a legal problem.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 3 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! 4 weeks ago:
Crepe murder
- Comment on They're coming. 4 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 Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop 4 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 [Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything? 4 weeks ago:
That one guy at Rockstar, feeling incredibly validated right now:
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 4 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 Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 4 weeks ago:
Mozilla sucks and its management needs to be replaced, but Firefox (or a fork of it) is still the least-bad option.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 4 weeks ago:
I disagree with people who think others should not be killed for their opinions
And yet you’re white-knighting for Kirk, who thought exactly that. Curious.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 4 weeks ago:
Cry some more, troll
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 4 weeks ago:
You are absolutely a psychopath for supporting monsters like Kirk.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 5 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 5 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 “Filling a Gap in the Market: Genetic Modification of a Carrot with a Flared Base” 5 weeks ago:
This could’ve won an IgNobel if it were real.
- Comment on Coincidence 5 weeks ago:
Well, yeah. On the moon, he was an alien.
