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Google products only supporting chromium is a tale as old as time. Try using this extension to enable background blur and see if it'll work: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mercator-studio/

Edit: Looks like background blur is working on the latest version of Firefox if you spoof your user agent to chrome. See my comment below.

Don't use AdBlock Plus of you can. Use ublock origin instead.

I'm sure those enterprising game devs on steam will publish a whole bunch of hentai games that works with the suit as soon as the suit released.

I don't think you'll miss anything. If pihole works for you, then there is no need to switch to adguard.

One thing I found helpful is configuring my router (asuswrt-merlin) to transparently route all dns request to my adguard instance. You might already heard that some apps and IoT devices tried to be clever and hard-coded their dns server so they can evade dns blocking (I'm looking at you Netflix). If your router support redirecting all dns request to a custom dns server, definitely use it!

I noticed certain communities in lemmy can rival (or even more active than) their reddit counterparts. Maybe not much contents yet, but their users are very active and answer questions quickly. I'm sure other communities will also grow overtime.

Sounds great! By the way, if you're using docker, be careful not to accidentally have a container open a port on all interface. Even if you have a firewall configured on the machine, sometimes docker can punch a hole without you knowing. Might be a good idea to run a port scan from an external computer from time to time just to makes sure no unwanted open ports.

You can re-enable it in about:config

You could unsubscribe from those meme communities and then use "all" view whenever you're in the mood for some memes, and your "subscribed" view won't be drown with memes.

Given how active those meme communities right now, chance that the "all" view in your instance are being dominated by memes anyway, so it's not like you'll have to subscribe to see them.

Some people say manually purging the activity table for entries older than a week or so should be safe enough.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3103

The risk is pretty small IMO, especially if you (or your friends) are the only one that use your instance (with registration closed so no random users uploading stuff to your own instance). If you disable nsfw on your instance, the chance of storing illegal images should be pretty low, especially if the communities you subscribed are moderated as deletion from mods will eventually processed by your own instance. If this still worries you, just nuke pictrs directory every few months, perhaps automatically using a cron scripts that delete images/gifs older than a few months.

Simply paste the video's full link into lemmy's search bar and wait a bit until the video appear.

For example, take the video linked in this post: https://tilvids.com/w/h8BKcxxixYFE8RekmR5Ux3

If you paste it into the search field in lemmy.world, you'll get this link: https://lemmy.world/post/1109318 . There, you can proceed to comment using your lemmy account. If you're not in lemmy.world, just do the same but using the search field in your instance.

If you compare post per days from before the strike, it definitely falls. It's no longer an upward trajectory despite subscribers growth.

If you look at the charts you linked, you can see the users activity (post per day and comments per day) is falling sharply since last month. Subscribers count mean nothing if a big proportion of the active posters leave.

Those microtransactions-laden mobile games employs a whole stack of evil tricks to make sure their users got addicted and can't miss even a single day not playing.

I'm sure those kids sneaking out of home to find wifi aren't doing so to play Mario Kart. They're probably playing one of those free to play mobile games.

Oh cool. It sent me to, uh, a furry website.

https://yerf.metafur.org/

Did you miss the fact that this TV has a camera that can count the number of viewers and can detect obstruction? Obstructing the ad screen broke the ToS and when they detect it, they can cancel your account and demand you too send the tv back or get charged $1000. Oh, and it's also have a microphone in addition to the camera, which will double the fun.

On the chromium side, there is the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) which is used absolutely everywhere. Not sure about gecko situation though, but at least their JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey, also has quite widespread use. I don't think I've seen projects not related with Mozilla/Firefox that use gecko though, but perhaps it's because I never look hard enough. It's usually either WebKit or CEF.

I could see this deployed in hotels or other public places by the CIA so they can monitor their target's movements. The main benefit is it doesn't require placing a bug/camera in the room because the routers could be placed in another room, so if the room is swept for bugs, they won't find anything suspicious. Not too far-fetched considering the kind of shenanigans they frequently do aboard.

Mildly uncomfortable.

The referenced windows update website, v3.windowsupdaterestored.com, can't be loaded on Firefox because it uses vbscript instead of javascript.

That's make me wonder, does the internet archive preserve those sites? Or do those IE-specific sites lost forever because their contents can't be indexed by the internet archive?