redcalcium @ redcalcium @lemmy.institute

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just see if you can open http://connectivitycheck.android.com/ and http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/ on your web browser while connecting to the wifi. You should see 404 error from google like the screenshot below. If you see another error messages, then something in your network is probably blocking those domains.

The list of features modern web browsers have is incomprehensibly huge! Not to mention chrome keep proposing new api all the time, then use them on their products like google meets, then blame firefox for not supporting them when firefox users use those products.

Afaik lemmy doesn't associate your account with your ip address. The webserver itself has ip log, but only associates it with user agent and url visited so correlating it with a particular user may not be trivial, or even possible in a busy server. Also, instance owners are usually pretty keen on reducing operational cost and probably probably won't retain those log files for too long, or even not retaining them at all.

That's because mozilla foundation never actually taking donation drive seriously.

Let's consider current situation: currently, mozilla corp allocates significant engineering resource to develop revenue-generating services such as pocket, vpn, and now, AI stuff. What if mozilla never need to try to chase revenue, and instead focus on being an actual foundation, funded by grants and donations? Their expense would be significantly lower.

Let's say mozilla able to refocus development back to firefox and retain 250 highly paid engineers, with yearly expense for salary, benefits and other overhead at ~$100 million per year. That's less than 1/4 of search royalties they got from google in 2020. Now put those $300 million extra money into an endowment instead of wasting it on marketing and other revenue-chasing activities, and start to seriously looking into grants and collecting donations like wikimedia foundation, and in a few years mozilla might be able to amass a huge fund to guarantee independent firefox development for years, or even in perpetuity with huge enough endowment.

Android phones will ping a known endpoint (e.g. connectivitycheck.gstatic.com ) to check if the wifi network actually work or not. Maybe this endpoint is blocked on your network?

I think they should move firefox development back from mozilla corp to mozilla org, so the development process can be funded with donation again.

For example, wikipedia development and operation are funded by donations to wikimedia foundation, there is a commercial corp (wikimedia enterprise) but they're not in charge of development and operation of wikipedia.

Firefox, on the other hand, is entirely funded by mozilla corp. Any money donated to mozilla foundation is not used to fund firefox development. Instead, firefox development must be funded from search engine deals and ads. Why can't the community chip in to keep firefox alive?

The tech communities are trying their hardest to get people to switch to Firefox. Meanwhile Mozilla is trying its hardest to get people off Firefox with decisions like this.

The courier: Let's see... "on the porch or ... bins". Bin it is!

It's nice that we finally have a global standard that works everywhere so when you're abroad you don't need to buy a local cellphone anymore. If it fragments again, many countries in asia and africa might go with chinese 6g for cost reason and fragment the world again.

Its success has been attributed to superior marketing and understanding consumer needs, such as making dual SIM card phones and camera phones better calibrated for darker skin tones

Wait, does camera apps still have problem with darker skin tones?

Employees who push first win and get to leave early. The rest would be the suckers who would merge whatever mess left behind by the early employees.

Interviewer: It's git push origin main now. Get out of here!

I feel your pain. Just the other day the disk on my home assistant machine died after a power outage and I had to replace it with another disk and restore from backup.

Debian is a fox? Is it due to the naruto-ish logo?

Those scary fbi warnings are probably not so scary in Indonesia so there is no reverse psychology on men there.

You can see exactly how it works under the hood. Also, when a major issue is found, people would quickly contribute to fix it (reporting the issue,, summiting patch, testing the fix, etc).

Ah you're using HA OS on proxmox? Maybe look into deploying nginx proxy manager with lxc: https://medium.com/@rar1871/nginx-installing-proxy-manager-in-lxc-v2-debian-d4d4c98109b1

You can tell how passionate a company is with their products by their Linux support. That means no one there cares enough to push hard for Linux support. Even Dropbox has a Linux client.

This is a new satire site, right? These days it's getting harder and harder to differentiate between reality and fiction in tech. The rest of their posts are pretty much spot on.