Just for reference, while it has been edited, the comic is by Stan Kelly, The Onion's resident cartoonist. Kelly is fictional, a satirical stereotype of a right-wing newspaper cartoonist. His signatures are over-labelling everything, gratuitous self-inserts, and framing the wealthy/other advantaged groups as morally upstanding patriots unfairly victimized by their inferiors. The latter is usually accompanied by them crying a single tear.
All that to say, in the context of a Kelly comic, "Honest Tesla Salesman" is definitely meant ironically.
If you're accustomed to using Reddit via Android, you might like the app Stealth (download from F-Droid, source code at GitLab). It's a privacy-focussed Reddit scraper/client with no account support. I don't interact with Reddit any more, but on the rare occasion that I want to check on a community there, it does the job. You can bookmark communities you want to follow and get a feed, all the standard stuff you'd expect to do, besides logging in.
Would it be possible to reset the purge timer for individual users based on activity? e.g. A user who comments or up/downvotes something gets their purge timer reset, so that active users never get purged unless they change their password or similar. Not sure how easy it is to tie activity data to a login token, I have no idea how Lemmy or anything else works.
It's true this is a thing that you can do, but the experience seems pretty degraded vs. just registering an account with a Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed/Sublinks (did I miss any?) instance which is natively configured for the kind of threaded conversations that exist on this segment of the fediverse. The instructions basically amount to "Go to a Lemmy instance and use its interface to find a community you're interested in, then copy the link to the discussion you want to interact with and paste that into your Mastodon instance's search bar, then reply to the post that appears. It's that simple!"
If you only interact with threads occasionally or you just want to try it out from Mastodon, this is workable, but you need a lot of patience for the busywork that's involved.
In this case, the goose didn't even need numbers. The eagle eventually gave up the fight and flew away. Something something, don't start a fight you can't finish.
Did you make your own search engine from scratch?
We did not, we made a front end to the Google and Brave Search APIs.
Our search engine performs the searches on behalf of our users. This means that rather than using Google or Brave Search directly, our Leta server makes the requests.
My guess is that there's a bot (or very bored person) monitoring a few major communities and they just DM everybody who posts there. I took a bit of a break from social media a while ago and the first time I commented after that, two fediverse chick DMs. Seems like they are responding to activity.
Yeah, I keep seeing that phrasing used everywhere and it bothers me, too. I'm pretty sure it's not accurate to the UK system either: they have a standard parliamentary setup like most of Europe where the party or coalition of parties who earn a majority of the seats is able to form government, which most people would consider to be what winning an election means. I'm not well-versed in the history of UK parliament, but it may just be that the situation has never occurred there, so they're unfamiliar with it?
Yeah, those are almost exclusively Firefox contributors. e.g. Emilio Cobos Ălvarez is a Gecko engineer at Mozilla, moz-wptsync-bot is a bot Mozilla uses to sync web platforms tests, Ryan VanderMeulen is the Firefox release manager at Mozilla.
Since their commits show up in the Waterfox commit log, they are Waterfox contributors, but only because it's a fork and they contributed to the upstream project, Firefox.
LibreWolf and IceCat aren't on GitHub (officially), so I'm guessing it's just a difference in how different code trackers report contributors in forks or something.
Just to compare, Waterfox has over 5000 contributors.
I am 100% certain that this count includes Firefox contributors, not direct contributors to Waterfox. None of the Firefox forks are massive projects with contributors into the thousands. I would expect Waterfox to have a similar number of dedicated contributors to the others.
I see your point but think it's also valid to use Lemmy or other social media to engage only with memes or whatever else people enjoy. Absolutely, everybody should stay informed and passionate about the rapidly crumbling world, but there's no rule that they specifically must do that via Lemmy. If someone chooses to use their social media as a haven from the real-world issues they encounter everywhere else, then unless Lemmy is their entire life, I don't see that as a problem.
The whole advanced configuration settings in about:config are probably never seen by the majority of users. Ultimately though, you're right: for the most part, privacy-focussed forks aren't offering anything that you couldn't manually configure for yourself in mainline Firefox, assuming you have the time, energy and interest.
Certainly, if you're in the habit of policing all of these relatively undocumented flags with each update to be sure you haven't been opted in to any telemetry you don't know about and assuming that all of it remains optional, you're absolutely unaffected. However, they now have a license to everything you do within Firefox which they state they will only use to "help" you. Does training their AI model to make targeted suggestions to users count as "helping"?
On another note, taking back a promise not to sell users' data, even if your personal data is protected because you rigorously police the about:config page, is not something many people are enthusiastic about. Just because I'm safe, doesn't mean everybody else is.
Just for reference, while it has been edited, the comic is by Stan Kelly, The Onion's resident cartoonist. Kelly is fictional, a satirical stereotype of a right-wing newspaper cartoonist. His signatures are over-labelling everything, gratuitous self-inserts, and framing the wealthy/other advantaged groups as morally upstanding patriots unfairly victimized by their inferiors. The latter is usually accompanied by them crying a single tear.
All that to say, in the context of a Kelly comic, "Honest Tesla Salesman" is definitely meant ironically.