deweydecibel @ deweydecibel @lemmy.world

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It's a taste of things to come.

Microsoft doesn't want you thinking about files and folders, they want you thinking about apps and services. Like Apple.

Where'd the file go?

"Why do you need to know? Just keep using the app to look at the thing you download, silly. you don't even need to do anything outside of our shitty web apps ever again."

In case you didn't know, the OG Documents folder is still there under /users/[you]/ and you can put shit in it without OneDrive trying to get it's sticky fingers all over it. Unfortunately save as won't default to it.

Should be noted though:

The spokesperson said that Proton received the request from MeitY “a few days ago”. “We are currently working to resolve this situation and are investigating how we can best work together with the Indian authorities to do so. We understand the urgency of the situation and are completely clear that our services are not to be used for illegal purposes. We routinely remove users who are found to be doing so and are willing to cooperate wherever possible within international cooperation agreements,” the spokesperson said.

Although Proton Mail is end-to-end encrypted, which means the content of the emails cannot be intercepted and can only be seen by the sender and recipient if both are using Proton Mail, its privacy policy states that due to the nature of the SMTP protocol, certain email metadata — including sender and recipient email addresses, the IP address incoming messages originated from, attachment name, message subject, and message sent and received times — is available with the company.

Their hands are definitely tied in the situation, they have to comply with them to a degree to operate in the country, I'm not judging them too harshly.

But it is a pretty good reminder that at the end of the day, if you are paying a for-profit business to obfuscate and hide you from a government that has the ability to stop them, their financial incentives will be tested, and they will win out if there isn't some sort of law or regulation to protect them from this type of strong arming.

...how? What's wrong with it?

The Lunduke shit again? The one that takes offense to money being donated to support "politics" i.e abortion rights?

Take a look at the other trash he posts on his reddit profile. That blog is not a trustworthy source, by any stretch, and it's sweetly ignoring that he's not looking at Mozilla's spending alone, but of 3 separate entities that exist under the umbrella of the Mozilla Foundation.

You're right. Mozilla is the devil. Everyone go to the better option in Silicon Valley for web browsing....

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Her replacement is an executive from AirBnB and eBay. We will find out how much both of these are earning in 2025 when they release their financial statements.

Can you tell me what they were doing at either of those companies, or what they've been doing at Mozilla since they were hired there? Have you done any actual research into this, at all, are you just assuming that because you saw two shitty companies on the resume, they must be a champion of those shitty companies?

And AI is the technology of the future, despite all the whinging and griping by commenters on the subject.

You have no idea, any more than the rest of us. Like, please tell me you understand "____ is the technology of the future" has been said more times than it's ever been true.

The idea of AI is a technology of the future, but what we have growing now is not AI, not really, and this iteration can be just as big a flop as any other technology of the moment.

They didn't hire the AirBnB/eBay executive to be CEO, they've been there for a while.

Also, you understand that people can work for companies without supporting their agendas, right?

I don't see them joining anything?

I mean, let's be real, what major function has Mozilla implemented into Firefox that hasn't been opt-out? And no, UI doesn't count, I'm talking features.

The problem isn't the existence of AI. The problem is the inescapably of it and how, under Microsoft or Google, it will harvest your data whether you like it or not. When you tell them "fuck off, leave me alone, and keep my words out of your AI's mouth", they're not going to listen. Profit motive requires them to invade.

Mozilla is a non-profit, and they've long been very good about letting you opt out things, and listening. I'm not worried about them putting AI into Firefox, because I can be reasonably sure it will be optional, in a way I know the others won't.

I'd rather they didn't go chasing this car at all, to be honest, because they're not likely to catch it, but whatever. They're renewing focus on the browser and I'm taking that as a win.

Worse game but more expensive.

Legitimately, if they were still making them with half as much focus on content as they were in the first 5 generations, I'd have no issue paying for the "same game" with new Pokemon every few years.

It's that the price went up but the actual quality of the product went down. GameFreak used to give a shit and put real effort into them, then the lead director left and was replaced with the current one, and they entered this spiral of formulaic mediocrity every 2 years with increasingly diminishing returns, all the while slowly chipping away at player agency.

Thank god for ROMhacks.

Surprised to see Lemmy up voting a meme with an actual white supremest in it.

Seriously crazy people still share JonTron shit.

I feel like that has been the case but lately there have been more proper next-gen exclusives that even I, who drags my feet on next gen consoles, am putting aside some cash for PS5. Up until now I didn't feel the need, but between Spiderman and FF7, I think it's time.

I feel like I reached that point much earlier in the last console generations than I did in this one. Maybe that has to do with the speed of development being so much slower nowadays.

American Revolution was the kickoff, but there were a lot of other things building up for a long time, and they'd have found another way of going bankrupt fighting the English sooner or later.

Forced to use it at work, too, and only by the grace of being in the IT department do I have the ability to make it less shitty.

There's registry entries to restore the full context menu, and PowerToys Run has effectively become my defacto start menu, though obviously you need to use the keyboard so it's not a perfect UI replacement. Meanwhile for searching, I've got Everything running and set global keyboard shortcuts/touchpad gestures to it. Maybe I'll grab an old gaming mouse and shortcut them to the extra buttons.

They finally implemented never combine on the taskbar, and it's...tolerable, but buggy and still resizes things for no reason

Unfortunately I've yet to find a way to get some damn 90° angles back. I can not wait for a few years down the line when we finally swing away from this Apple-chasing "bubbles with an inch between them on a white/black field" design aesthetic. I'm tired of everything looking like a toy, especially at the cost of its actual utility.

And not just a toy, the same toy. It's seriously Corporate Memphis levels of lifeless, forced design with no character, creativity, or ingenuity.

Who's "we"? Because a lot of these assholes are doing exactly what their voters want.

This lazy "politicians" line has always been a way to reduce the complexity of the issue and ignore the simple fact a good deal of our country are morons and assholes that want all this.

They said they moved to deter, they tried to grab the items back from the person after being hit, they said "just leave it and go" aloud. They probably said all this in the report, too, not understanding what they were doing.

They weren't "just standing near someone". They even mentioned security is there, but they still did this.

This isn't victim blaming, it is educating. Nobody in these comments is saying op SHOULD HAVE been fired. They're explaining WHY they were, so that they and anyone reading this don't make that mistake again.

I'll just point out that as shitty as it is that OP got fired here, the other side of this is that if there aren't these sort of hard rules and policies in place about not trying to stop shoplifters, workplaces can start creating an expectation on the employee to put themselves in harms way. The same rules that hurt OP protect the workers that don't feel like confronting a shoplifter.

Because it depends a lot on where you live.

Honestly, at this point, you can barely trust reviews anywhere. They've all been corrupted to some degree, and LLMs are going to make them exponentially worse.

And isn't the point of the theory that poor people are mostly locked into buying poor quality things and being trapped in that loop, and it's not something they choose to "do to themselves" as OP put it?

I mean, everyday? With most purchases? Can't afford quality most of the time.

The idea isn't that it's something you choose to do "to yourself", it's that income inequality makes it the reality of being poor.