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If you type "about:profiles" into the URL-bar and create a fresh profile there, does it also happen in that?

(It will practically be like a factory-reset Firefox, except you can go back to your current data/profile.)

I don't think, the human brain is special either, but we are still two big steps ahead IMHO:

• We can perceive what we've generated, to judge whether it's good or bad.
• We perceive many, many inputs throughout our lives. Not just text, visuals, audio, but also taste, smell, touch and more. To be simultaneously creative and relatable to humans, AIs would need to be equipped with these concepts and would need to be given 'memories', which are fleshed out with all these kinds of input.

Well, the F-Droid team may in theory permit it, but it's also the F-Droid team that has to actively build and distribute the new version. If they don't feel like distributing a newer version, they can absolutely do that.

Yeah, I imagine, it's reversed for many women. That they get compliments about their looks a lot, but would feel much more strongly about a once-in-5-years compliment on their work...

This F-Droid-like model (also popularly implemented by Linux distributions) is usually considered an improvement in security.

The thing with FOSS is that ideally you don't have to trust the developer at all.
In theory, you could read the entire source code and compile it yourself. Then you'd know for sure that no malware is included.

Obviously, in practice, you can only hope that some nerds dig into the source code and notify journalists of malware-like behaviour.
It is no perfect protection. But it is the only tangible protection that FOSS actually delivers.

What does not protect you, is to trust each individual developer. They could publish innocous source code and then build the release binaries from a version with the malware-like behaviour patched in.

But because you likely don't want to compile each app yourself, you might still feel compelled to entrust that work to a third party. This is where the F-Droid team comes in. Rather than trusting each developer, you just have to trust a single team.

Well, and if an app is built in a reproducible build, then even the work from the F-Droid team can be verified.

It hails back to the early days of the ampersand, from when it was basically still just Latin "et": https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trebuchet_MS_ampersand.svg

Personally, I do like this font (Fira Mono+Sans), because it still looks professional, without being so boring that I get depression from looking at it.
But yeah, that ampersand is pushing it a bit, as I'm not sure everyone else knows that's an ampersand...

Well, openSUSE did it long before everyone else. So, Debian, Fedora, Arch?

I would kind of be surprised by Fedora, too, as I thought, they shipped out-of-the-box automatic snapshotting, but the comment from @bruhduh@lemmy.world sounds like that is still a problem...

I generally only use non-commercial apps, so never really had any problem...

Humans have this tendency of assuming everyone else is dumb. Whether that's their neighbor, a different generation, a foreign nation, different skin colors, different religions, different species or indeed extinct civilizations, pretty much everyone is assumed to be barbaric, until proven otherwise.

And so, yeah, it's usually a revelation like wow, they had calendars, they must have actually been smarter than we thought.

Tangentially is 2023 chock full of great games because the pandemic held up the development of so many studios?

I know, they all announced that, but as a software dev, I really don't see why this should be the case. We largely just moved into home-office and continued working, often even at increased efficiency. I guess, building games might require somewhat more creative sessions, which are generally more productive in person, but I don't see that making a huge difference.
My impression was rather that they had the usual delays, with maybe a few hickups at the start of the pandemic, and then they just declared the pandemic the whole reason for the delays.

As for 2023 being so full, the pandemic meant lots of people were at home, consuming digital goods. It caused a massive boom in the gaming industry. I imagine, lots of studios were able to secure (bigger) budgets during that time, which are now coming to fruition.

The fact it hasn't imploded a long time ago is proof that digital platforms need to be regulated to enforce interoperability.

Since this shitshow started, I have not heard from anyone that wanted to be on Twitter. In anything resembling a free market, these customers (both advertisers and users) could freely go to a competitor.

But due to the way platforms work, no one can compete, once a dominant platform emerges. A platform has a monopoly on all the things people built on top of the platform (content, software etc.). This monopoly kills the free market. Enforced interoperability would reduce this platform effect and help out competitors.

The EU is starting to tackle that, with the Digital Markets Act, but very few companies are targeted so far, even though the whole industry is plagued by quasi-monopolistic platforms that are universally agreed upon to be trash.

Yeah, I meant, as an attacker, you couldn't come up with a similarly unreadable version.

At least, as far as I can tell, defining a function requires spelling out function and seems to require being defined on multiple lines, too.

What that garble of symbols does, is that it defines and calls a function named :, which calls itself twice.

The syntax for defining a function is different in Fish, so no, this particular garble will not work:

But it is, of course, possible to write a (much more readable) version that will work in Fish.

Stripping all GET parameters would break many, many legitimate webpages. 🫠

See "What are my options if I want to install unsigned extensions in Firefox?" in the FAQ here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#FAQ

If you're on Linux, you may have that about:config flag even in your distro-provided Firefox Stable build...

The guy tried to overthrow democracy. If he gets re-elected, this is the least to worry about.

I quite like the star-button on Mastodon for this. Just pings the comment author that you appreciated their comment. So, it's not an indication to some algorithm that this comment is incredibly relevant for everyone, because well, some comments just aren't.

In my experience, it strongly depends. In my team at work, the biggest Linux nerd is on GNOME, basically because he doesn't care where his TMUX session runs.
And I'm the guy with the most elaborate desktop workflow (tiling and 40+ virtual desktops among other aspects) and I wouldn't want to use anything but KDE, because nothing else has as many features + customizability to support me in that workflow.

But yeah, both of us started out on such mainstream desktops, then spent multiple years checking out all other desktops and eventually found different paths back to the mainstream.

The rainbow not enough for you? 🙃

It's mostly intended for webdevs wanting access to new web standards ahead of time and extension developers, who can install unsigned/development versions of their extensions into there.

It's certainly not a must-have for any devs out there...