RecallMadness @ RecallMadness @lemmy.nz

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But can it run a degoogled Android rom well?

Ah silly us.

We spent a decade hating on IE, it’s slowness, poor support for any standards, plugins that fuck your shit up, etc.

But it was obviously the best because it had that huge market share.

Could you imagine the enshittification cries if they did this. “Mozilla to add subscription model to your browser”.

They have other products that have subscriptions you can pay for to support the company.

Instead of using Mullvad, use Mozilla VPN (it is literally exactly the same, you just pay Mozilla not Mullvad)

If you’re a web developer, Subscribe to MDN Plus.

Hate spam? Firefox Relay.

I don’t believe Mozilla doesn’t have the best interests of the browser at heart, I believe that they do think their browser is the their number one product.

But that’s the problem. It’s free software, going up against a juggernaut whose browser is just another side project to drive engagement with their core product.

A juggernaut who just so happens to be one of Mozilla’s primary source of income. All it will take is a little bit of legislation somewhere in the world to make that deal less attractive and Mozilla could be dead in the water. And it will take all of those forks with it, paving the way for Google to become the true web Hegemony.

Mozilla needs to diversify to ensure they can continue to provide stewardship to the browser.

But trying to make money in 2025 just seems to summon the enshittification brigade.

Free software is not free. Someone has to make it.

What’s the consequences for making an illegal citizens arrest?

Can a citizen arrest a citizen performing an illegal citizens arrest? Who arrests the citizen illegally arresting a citizen arresting another citizen?

I have doubts.

I live in a city where water leaks contribute to something like 40% of supplied potable water ‘consumption’.

Why so much? Because the pipes are old, shit, and underground. it costs a load of money to dig that shit up.

A $5 (or even $500) brass fitting that will last 50+ years is nothing when you’ve spent $1000s doing traffic management, digging up a road, replacing some pipe, and putting it all back again.

What are you going to trust? A $5 lump of solid of brass, or a $0.3 lump of plastic, made by squeezing 0.2mm layers of plastic string on top of each other, using a system whose bonding strength can be drastically affected by ambient and absorbed humidity, temperature, speed, airflow, and a whole load of other variables.

He didn’t say anything about regulating them.

Tax revenue is small fry compared to the harm they can (and do?) cause.

Further: the Canvas API doesn’t have any requirements on rendering accuracy.

By deferring to the GPU, font library, etc, tracking code can generate an image that is in most cases unique to your machine.

So blocking the Canvas API would return a 0. Which is less unique than what it would be normally.

Iirc, Websites can’t query addons unless those addons manipulate the DOM in a way that exposes themselves.

They can query extensions.

Addons are things installed inside the browser. Like uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, Firefox Containerr, etc.

Extensions are installed outside the browser. Such as Flashplayer, the Gnome extensions installer, etc.

I last tried KDE when it was KDE3. Then Gnome, xfce, and finally settling on i3/sway

But I got given an old Windows tablet so decided I’d see what is usable as a tablet and I was pleasantly surprised by KDE.

So much so, I’ve ostree-rebased all my machines to it.

The tiling could be better (and it sounds like it was, then wasn’t?), but it’s passable. And simple stuff actually seems to work. Unlike the gnome+sway kludge I have now.

when the US goes right, NZ goes left

The NZ election was unfortunately a year too early.

Usually NZ has less restrictive visa requirements, and is often called “Australia’s back door” due to Au/Nz free travel agreements.

Even when I’m coating them in cheese and grilling them. Still gonna use the cheese ones.

Nobody says no to double cheese.

We had the WiiU which had an entire screen in the controller.

Fallout4 had the “pip boy” phone app.

The independent city state of Galway.

oh that looks like hard work. You’re going to need to hydrate, let me go get you both some electrolytes.

5 minutes at 30% in an inverter microwave.

And Lenin said, “the best way to undermine society is through its music” — Bob Duvall

It’s a fake quote from Lenin, but suitably apt.

Hey, I saw this yesterday on SH1.

Wasn’t actually towing anything, but I can confirm it exists.

Because their jobs financing is mostly perception based.

Crime can be at an all time low, but all it takes is a politician to rile up the population about murderers and law enforcement and incarceration will end up getting more money.

Be seen as being ineffective, soft or incompetent, especially by those holding the purse strings, and people lose jobs to those who will toe the line.

This is a message to the wealthy “look how seriously we take serving you”