Two of these have since been discontinued, one is a Have I Been Pwned reskin. Poor Mozilla, struggling to find alternative revenue sources to cut its Google dependence.
I assume that developing and maintaining a browser with its own HTML/JS/CSS engine is orders of magnitude more expensive than running Wikipedia’s servers though. There’s a reason why all other browser companies (except Apple) are all building on top of Chrome.
I think it’d be cool to design a virtual city with easy bike/pedestrian access to nearby shops, schools and other amenities while minimizing car dependency (as therefore the pollution, noise, parking issues and noise that come with it)....
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
I tend to agree due to the creators putting in a lot of work. However, ad breaks have gotten longer, more often unskippable and presumably more frequent. I remember that in 2018(?) YouTube was planning to retire unskippable ads. Something changed.
VSCode contains features not available in the real opensource version. It’s a bit of a Chrome vs. Chromium situation. There’s VSCodium, but it misses some features.
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”
I hate fighting its compiler and having to jump through hoops to get things done that’d be simple in Python.
If I’m gonna use a system programming language, I pick Rust. At least Rust provides clearer compiler errors, a package manager, a decent plugin ecosystem, and memory safety. Its runtime errors are a lot easier to decipher than the infamous “Segmentation fault (core dumped)”.
I just discovered it today and I’m considering setting it up to use instead of LocalSend. Have any of you used TailDrop before? I don’t use TailScale so I’m not really sure I want to set it up just for sending files from my phone to my PC but the share menu options does seem convenient and it would be cool to be able to...
There’s an elevated hijacking risk with eSIM. If a hacker is able to social engineer a customer rep into thinking they’re you and requesting an eSIM swap, or they get into your account by recycling a leaked password you used on another site, it’s suddenly really easy to take over your phone number from halfway across the world.
They could call a premium number they own to extract money from you. They could request SMS-based 2FA tokens. I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often.
There’s a high-precision scrub mode that might help. I believe you have to drag towards the top of the screen to go from regular scrub to high-precision scrub.
Northwest Territories officials said on Friday evening that more than 19,000 people have fled from Yellowknife due to wildfires and urged those who remain to also leave as soon as possible....
If browsers are forced to build this system to comply with French laws, it’s only a small step for other governments to leverage this new infrastructure and mandate bans on any website they don’t like.
Why would they risk getting sued over helping the 0.0001% of their user base that’ll actually do this?
I wonder if it’d be more productive for them to just retreat from France. Show a different download page to French users that says it’s no longer available, but don’t geoblock the installer URLs.
Cities Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order on bike support
The developer did an AMA on Reddit. I’ve collected some screenshots so you don’t have to go there:...
What's a secret that you're keeping from your partner/significant other that you're taking to the grave with you?
It doesn’t have to be anything bad btw
CBC mainly remains off X, citing low traffic six months after scaling back presence (www.sasktoday.ca)
Mickey Djuric
A great Collection 🥴 (discuss.tchncs.de)
Will it happen ? (discuss.tchncs.de)
Any good Cities Skylines-style game with support for bike lanes, bus lanes, bike paths and pedestrian paths?
I think it’d be cool to design a virtual city with easy bike/pedestrian access to nearby shops, schools and other amenities while minimizing car dependency (as therefore the pollution, noise, parking issues and noise that come with it)....
Ad blocker Cause Invalid Traffic For Content Creator on Youtube (www.youtube.com)
it is about usd $4 per month here to subscribes youtube premium, the same cost for a day of food + coffee + snack. what do you think?
Feels bad man (lemmy.zip)
Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode
I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting
Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”
Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Excerpts:...
They Need To Stop Doing This (kerala.party)
Depression Is No More (suppo.fi)
Have any of you used Tailscale's AirDrop alternative Taildrop? (tailscale.com)
I just discovered it today and I’m considering setting it up to use instead of LocalSend. Have any of you used TailDrop before? I don’t use TailScale so I’m not really sure I want to set it up just for sending files from my phone to my PC but the share menu options does seem convenient and it would be cool to be able to...
Do y'all use eSim or Physical Sim for your phone?
Just curious....
It's always a dissappointment, but you do it anyway (lemmy.world)
The Internet in Europe Today (how-i-experience-web-today.com)
Not all art shows something beautiful - this really does feel like the internet of today without a lot of browser tweaking.
White noise podcasts are costing Spotify $38m per year, and record labels are not happy about it (www.bloomberg.com)
95% of Yellowknife has now been evacuated due to N.W.T. wildfires (www.cbc.ca)
Northwest Territories officials said on Friday evening that more than 19,000 people have fled from Yellowknife due to wildfires and urged those who remain to also leave as soon as possible....
Game ad notification on Windows... (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3405817...
Twitter/X removing the block feature (lemm.ee)
France wants your browser to censor the web, and Mozilla is petitioning against it (foundation.mozilla.org)
More context: blog.mozilla.org/…/france-browser-website-blockin…
Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?
EU opens investigation into Adobe's proposed Figma buyout (ec.europa.eu)
What's going on with Stack Overflow's traffic? (lemmy.world)
Source: stackoverflow.com/site-analytics
Careful, you might bump into the fourth wall (lemmy.world)
A simple solution at cost of minor aesthetic changes (feddit.de)
EU will require removable batteries from 2027 (www.consilium.europa.eu)
It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:...
The customer is always right (lemmy.world)
What do you call a Dire Straits cover band with Java freelancers?
Consultants of Swing.