CrypticCoffee

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CrypticCoffee,

Incorrect. Some companies supported IE5 when we had IE8 because market share was greater than 5%. We need to get Firefox to above 5%, and keep going to 10% and 15% as a real middle finger to say, DON’T EVEN TRY OR YOU WILL LOSE MONEY!

CrypticCoffee, (edited )

It feels like an embrace, extend, extinguish type thing. Taking OS maps data, adding to it for their own purposes, maybe adapting data formats, then taking it away from people. It’s a who’s who of companies that aren’t great for privacy.

CrypticCoffee, (edited )

It won’t check people are a real user, only that they are using the enforced software. Many bot farms will use the correct software. One was recently found in Ukraine and it had shed loads of sims and hardware. They will easily meet and pass the tests.

CrypticCoffee, (edited )

If you aren’t using Firefox yet. Start, ASAP.

Google tried to exert control on the internet with web manifest v3 and now again here. Letting google dictate web standards is a mistake. Using Firefox shows companies they need to support more than chrome.

CrypticCoffee,

It isn’t just about ads. It us about denying access to a service. This could happen for more than ad blocking. Ads is probably an excuse, but forcing people to use a particular software for access is the opposite of a free web.

CrypticCoffee,

It is a critical one. Maybe needs to be part of an FAQ with link to discussion.

CrypticCoffee,

I think time can get out of sync. Privacy wise, it’s pretty good for proprietary: …mozilla.org/…/garmin-forerunner-series/

Not open source of course, so it is something to weigh up.

CrypticCoffee,

Yes, but if the contacts you care about it have it, it’s useful for you.

CrypticCoffee,

I have suspected for a while it is astroturfing. Same as with GIMP and Libre Office where inevitably someone will trash the UI as it’s “soooo bad”. If you say a lie, and repeat it enough, people start to believe it.

CrypticCoffee,

I’m not, but it’s not like it’s an occasional thing. Every time it’s brought up, it’s trashed. Free software that does a better job than anything else free, and folk bash it. Either they like and are motivated by Adobe dominance, or they’re useful idiots.

It’s balanced to say “great program, but could do with a UI improvement”. It isn’t to say it’s unusable because of UI. I cannot imagine any free software advocate should be proud of taking that line.

CrypticCoffee,

Damn, this positivity isn’t welcome in free software circles! How can I respect you? (Kidding, I think you and your positivity is awesome.)

CrypticCoffee,

Tenacity, not audacity. Audacity got took over by a company with questionable record and tried to add telemetry into it. Tenacity was the OS fork which stayed true to principles.

GIMP may not be your bag, but it’s highly used and many find it has much higher quality features than the alternatives. UI may not be popular, but it doesn’t prevent it being a solid bit of open source software.

Btw, what steps have you taken to improve open source graphics software? It’s easy to bash, it’s harder to learn and contribute.

Open source contributors > open source advocates > grateful open source users > almost everyone else > open source critics

CrypticCoffee,

I’m involved in open source software, and of the artists I’m aware of, most use GIMP, not Krita, because it has better features. Krita is a great option, but it doesn’t quite have the same features for producing quality art.

CrypticCoffee,

That is true, but to get free software made by people in their free time and say “this is rubbish” is a little ungrateful.

“Here, have this free food…”. " ewww gross, that is so bad".

CrypticCoffee,

Considering I know many artists that use it as first choice, I know you’re wrong.

It’s good software, you just don’t like it.

CrypticCoffee,

Blender is for models, not art. It’s different software. It’s great at what it does. Expecting that because one open source project can beat proprietary then all can is a pretty shallow view. A project relies on volunteers, sacrifice and funding.

You’re saying it’s bad because no one you know uses it doesn’t suggest no-one uses it, just you don’t know the users of it. Maybe your circle is as open minded to software as you are. Similar people surround themselves with each other. It says more about you than the software.

CrypticCoffee,

Maybe their issue tracker is the best bet, or in a separate question thread about the issues. Raising it in every thread it comes up when people recommending it isn’t going to solve the issue or help anything, is it?

CrypticCoffee,

Most of the public don’t know GIMP, the ones that do see the way it’s communicated from the community.

You say I can die on this hill. I said 2 points in the post you responded to.

  1. Blender is great software
  2. That people use GIMP.

What did I say that is wrong in that comment? What did you disagree with? Are you saying Blender isn’t great, or are you saying zero people use GIMP?

If you agree with both the sentiments I said, you either responded to the wrong message, or you’re going out of your way to argue with me, and not the points I made.

I never disregarded the points about the UI. The UI could do with improvements. UI doesn’t improve by people blasting a piece of software on the internet, it comes by giving your time to help improve it, or forking it, or donating to someone that can. If you’re not doing any of those things, you’re not actually helping to address the problem. It’s not constructive criticism or helpful. It’s just putting yourself on a sandbox as if your opinions mean more about the software than the people who take time to make it and improve it.

CrypticCoffee,

A car sat nav, and something like GrapheneOS does hands free calling. Not sure if you can sync music through it as I haven’t tried yet.

I think the individual items are probably workable, but an integrated experience, possibly not.

CrypticCoffee,

How about Garmin?

Their Smartwatches are recommenced in Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included. I cannot imagine their sat navs have an issue. Especially older models.

CrypticCoffee,

Thanks for your work on Pulsar. Atom was my go to simple editor before MS killed it off. I’m still fuming now. I really need to try Pulsar :). Been using Kate for now.

CrypticCoffee,

Bank cards. Contactless payments or cash :)

CrypticCoffee,

Bloated is a weird nebulous term. Chrome is bloated because of telemetry. Bloat generally means things in the software that are not needy.

I think clunky is the term you’re looking for. I cannot think of what it has in the UI that isn’t needed.

CrypticCoffee,

Good luck. Credit to you for trying again :). There is FF sync where you can sync between devices easier also.

CrypticCoffee,

I fear the number of sites taking that hit would be so many that we may feel excluded from the web. It feels really dangerous and we need more people on FF asap to make it clear to businesses that this is too costly to be worth it and they’re losing a lot of users.

CrypticCoffee,

Out of curiosity what would you recommend? I’m aware of PiHole, but many struggle to get hold of a pi. Any other good options?

CrypticCoffee,

You’re doing a great job and if more did what you did, they wouldn’t have to rely on search revenues. They know most users switch search engines. Those defaults are what fund browser development. Firefox are not in the search engine market, and if they took that sacrifice, they’d go bust and wouldn’t be in the browser market either. It sucks, and it isn’t glamorous, but it is the only way they can financially compete in the browser market at all. Browsers are complex and millions of lines of code and only getting more complex. It is far from cheap.

CrypticCoffee,

Yup, it was a cross post. I didn’t write that bit. :)

CrypticCoffee,

I hope you’re wrong. As someone on GrapheneOS, that would suck. By that time, I hope other Linux mobile options are more mature.

CrypticCoffee,

You sure it was SA and not admins cleaning up disguised as a flag?

CrypticCoffee, (edited )

Mozilla income went from $78m to $497m. It’s a much bigger organisation to before. Also if you inflation rate the 500k pay, it’s now worth $710k

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Affilia…

The web changed, and complexity increased and even staying in there against a larger adversary is hard. Unless you run a company that is competing with Google, I don’t think you’re really qualified to comment.

Edit: Just realise your description has “Fuck Mozilla!” and you’ve been bashing it since you started on Lemmy. Looks very shilly to me.

CrypticCoffee,

Do you really think this will pull in more traffic than the API blackout?

CrypticCoffee,

Yeah, I was going to suggest the same. Probably one of the best rolling distros that is low maintenance.

CrypticCoffee,

Who are the people that wrote that website?

It’s more than a little questionable. It’s read like someone with a vendetta. For example: “report was published when the Matrix developers published some «privacy improvements»” “We have not read it. We do not think it is worth wasting more time.”

CrypticCoffee,

Where did you even find it? Why are you sharing it and letting it influence you if you know it is questionable?

CrypticCoffee,

Just broke into page 1 of Lemmy.ml communities! :) Hopefully more folk can find us.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7499ede6-aaee-4cd8-9be2-1834779f3060.png

Page 6 of all communities

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ba0ebb20-0826-4dda-be13-b200fe39f28a.png

Posted here as a good baseline to see our progress in community building.

CrypticCoffee,

I appreciate some of this could be controversial or opinionated so I will try and keep that to a minimum. I will link to discussion threads for each topic so people can dig into the are a bit more and why different things are recommended. This list will be regularly updated.

I want to keep this thread clean, so I’m wondering if it would be better to discuss this in a separate thread.

CrypticCoffee,

Why do people care about RHEL? Is it really any better than Debian based stuff?

CrypticCoffee,

While it may be possible, the more requirements make it harder to meet.

When you move from one relationship to another, you don’t expect your new partner to be exactly like the old one. You accept and learn to love the differences.

Stat page and tab size are very particular deal breakers. Are they really key? I prefer FF tabs to Chrome as I can see what I’m clicking on and not accidentally close it. I don’t stay on home page long enough to notice. My old tabs open at start up.

CrypticCoffee,

Fair points. I like your extended metaphors :). Go for it, you won’t regret it. Try to just experience it, focus on what it is, and not what it isn’t and you might you find yourself falling for it.

UI is very opinionated and sometimes you notice the differences at the start, but as you use it, you realise you could love it more :). I’ve found this with a few things (Matrix, Libre Office, GrapheneOS). I haven’t discovered this with FF as i’ve been in a relationship with it for over a decade now :). I occasionally dabble in chrome stuff, but it the way they hate people that use more than 10 tabs is something I cannot handle.

Google (search engine) alternatives?

Hi! I’m trying to find a Google alternative, tried duck duck go but found it very lacking, both in results and interface (not showing the date on the links, for example, that’s useful). Obviously don’t wanna go the bing route. Any recommendations? Also, sorry if this is not the right place to ask, I didn’t know where!...

CrypticCoffee,

Though it is now owned by an advertising company so caution is advised.

CrypticCoffee,

I appreciate the clarification. Thanks.

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