rolandtb303 @ rolandtb303 @lemmy.ml

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Braveophobes lmao you sound like a paranoid government leader

Not surprising that he simps for Brave, which is a "privacy" browser that uses the Chromium engine. (Yes, giving Google another monopoly point is very private). It also has its own shitty crypto which screams MLM, yet the simps say it's good because ooo money!

It's also been into numerous scandals over the years, and each time the devs did a half ass apology and swear they'd do better, yet the scandals just keep on coming. One of them for example put referral codes into the URLs of websites so that Brave gets a cut. When they got caught, they apologised,

Also "Braveophobes". Totally sane individual.

mfs too lazy to use the onion smh. yeah it's a little slow but it's the best way to use zlib.

back in the day i used to play cracked left 4 dead online using garena (it was basically a game server software where users could join rooms and they would have servers. i mostly remember there being south americans/slavic people on there. was quite interesting. afaik it would use steam group servers to connect (which may could be a lan type thing but idk).

idk how it works now but i'd imagine it would be tougher now with current games acting more like a live service. if you get bored of playing with slavs every time then it's time to buy the game.

the reason why people dislike huge margins and rounded corners is because they grew up in the oldschool era of computing (say from late 90s to maybe early-late 2000s). UI back then was designed to be relatively compact and be readable, everything useful is at a glance and it's primarily designed for a keyboard and mouse, so if ther's any margins it's bound to be at least a couple to few pixels at most.

this kinda clashes with the more modern age where designs are a bit more simplified and spaced out (i guess inspiration came from mobile phone design, idk), and text is mostly discarded for more visual design, which if you know what the icons look like it can be a bit more simplistic, but when in 115 there's a small little cloud with an arrow as the get messages button, yeah it's a bit abstract (and now a bit harder to get to that button), meanwhile the new message button is more or less in the spotlight. it's inconsistent imo.

i think it would have been more successful if they stuck to the pre-115 design but just touched it up a bit, maybe get some more modern icons for it and make it feel a it more sleek but without changing the overall layout and design.

and rounded corners are a taste thing, some people might like very slightly rounded corners while very rounded corners just aren't their thing. (i'm one of those people, i just like corners that are like 1-3px rounded, 10 to 20 and above is a bit excessive and i generally associate overly rounded corners with the likes of google and microsoft with their current products).

and this is coming from a gen X lol, i just grew up XP what can i say. although i do like flat design when it's done well (discord gets it right, excluding some rebranding choices).

imo i liked the fact that it looked like Windows XP-era Outlook (not that i used it), i just liked the simplicity of it and the legibility. With 115 now it just seems poorly put together.

for instance, the buttons for messages have now moved to the pane where your accounts and folders are, Get messages is now just a little cloud icon in the left, and New message gets all the spotlight for some reason. it just looks like someone just slapped things together with no rhyme or reason, it's inconsistent.

i liked the prior spaces update because you could just hide it into a little toolbar. Now they have a bar that when you get rid of it, it just messes with the position of the window buttons. not a good look imo.

it's still a good client though.

the issue with hiding the system window toolbar is that it puts a border around the window buttons, which is inconsistent with other programs. kind of a shame they did this redesign, as get messages and new message are now lopsided and send gets more piority. it just looks like it was poorly put together in photoshop or something.

and i kinda see what they were going for this redesign but honestly it's too much imo, it's trying to make thunderbird something it's not.

after all we chose thunderbird because of its oldschool look, now they've kinda ruined it. still going to be using it though.

bringing democracy to Iraq

USA didn't bring democracy to Iraq. They destroyed it. They fired all of Saddam's army and then wondered why groups like ISIS gained hold. That constant media frenzy about "we're winning", Bush's speech, WMDs, and the de-Baathification was full on propaganda. The best type of propaganda is the type where you don't notice it and that you think you're immune to it.

Both USA and Russia lied about their premises. They both use "liberation" and "freeing the people" as their pathetic excuse for invading a country.

It's the people who suffer these wars (yes, Russian people too. Not all of them support the war, and i speculate that younger generation doesn't support it). The governments just get their big piles of money.

2 wrongs don't make a right. This will only end up with more duds scattered across the land.

They're free to use them but they'll have to clean up quickly and efficiently, and even then I think there will still be the odd dud. I'm sure civilians will be thankful that there's an eye for an eye.

use the onion with tor, it works

He's parroting Russian state-led polls, which many people in Russia either just hang up because they just don't want to answer, or say what the state wants to hear. You can see how lopsided this becomes, with many people just saying yes because they don't want to be jailed for opposing the government. Even if some people do have the guts to say no, the votes saying yes will overshadow them massively.

And ironically by that guy spreading that poll and notion around, he's spreading Russian propaganda.

Those polls you got your source from are actually polls done by state-run polling facilities. of course poeple are going to say what the state wants to hear. here's a video on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQCNjIHeqU

Btw, by saying that "80% of Russians support this war", you're spreading Russian state propaganda.

And of course protests in Russia died down, people get jailed for like 10-15 years in prison if they protest, so by fear of getting jailed, protestors stop. it isn't pretty but it's how the system works.

ye first time i heard about brave was in a sponsor segment on a youtube video, my first thoughts were "lol another chromium browser? rewards? bar? ok this seems shady as hell" and sure enough it is indeed shady af. the Tor mode had DNS leaks way back (besides who in their right mind would even use tor in a chromium browser), URL injections, brave not giving out BAT, also them spam mailing Brave pamphlets to customers (physical mail too, it was through i think UPS, which idk if that's technically considered a privacy violation, but to me, mailing someone a pamphlet out of the blue when you use their browser without your consent is quite literally a privacy violation, no matter where you got the data from or how you mailed it).

been gladly using firefox ever since version 3, best browser of all time.

this is why i like onions :)

discovered a workaround that i could get to the C drive, then discovered a program that could change the wallpaper and info text on the computer (the change was local to that specific computer). had a little bit of fun with that a couple of times. i also brought in a USB stick with Linux Mint installed on it and booted to that whenever i had free time (i mostly browsed the safe side of the darkweb [back when it was still interesting] and made keygen music in OpenMPT). fun times those were. also booting to mint led me to fully switch to linux so ye :)