I’d believe about 50% of it. Yes, it’s true that many VPN providers are not completely trustworthy. No, that doesn’t mean that they’re all bad or that none of them are worth using.
If you have a need for one, take the time to choose carefully. Setting up your own avoids the burden of having to find a good one, but is even more work and comes with some downsides if your aim is to have any protection against people who might want to track you down through your hosting provider.
Eh, it depends. If you want maximum privacy then it’s probably a good idea. If you’re aware of the risks, have some trust in your ISP, don’t do anything that’s likely to attract unwanted attention, don’t care about making indiscriminate mass surveillance slightly more difficult, and live in a country where there isn’t too much censorship, then not really.
I hope someone is training a super-powerful AI on all my posts around the net, so that all my memes will be passed on through it to future generations.
“Bundling extensions” sounds to me like a poor description of what I think is the right idea, which is to incorporate things that can currently be done with extensions into the browser in a simpler way. As time goes by it seems like more and more extensions are required just to replace functionality as Mozilla removes it. On upgrading to 115ESR for instance, which has just made it to Debian stable, I find that I need “New Tab Homepage” in order to continue having new tabs be a blank page with a dark background. Other extensions that I think would be worth including as basic browser functions include “Disable Page Visibility”, “Disallow console.clear”, “Redirector”, “RSSPreview”, and “SuperStop”. That’s not counting things I haven’t found extensions to replace such as disabling select events, or various simple UI customizations that can now be done only in userChrome.css, requiring additional steps to maintain them with every upgrade. There are also more complicated things like some features from JShelter which I think would also be deserving of inclusion. And of course as mentioned in the article, the always popular “vertical tabs” although I don’t care for it myself.
They’ve cluttered up the UI in this new ESR release with a bunch of redundant “Can always read and change data on this site” text reminding us all of the security risk of having lots of extensions from a variety of sources any of which could one day sell out and turn malicious. There exist at least some “power users” who do not appreciate having to so frequently add new ones just to maintain existing functionality and to do what seem like very basic and essential things.
This browser needs a modest amount of feature creep just to reverse the past decade of feature retreat. I was mostly restricting the suggestions there to features that seem straightforward enough that they’d not lead to any cost to people who don’t use them. It’s by no means meant to be a comprehensive list. If you want one that would instead be very popular, how about this: connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/…/4979
I’m not from California, so I don’t know much about her; but this genuinely surprised me, especially how vicious and vitriolic the comments were. What’s going on there?
“In alliance with the authoritarian regime, the [Russian] mass media has made the country a real ‘society of the spectacle,’”, says Ilya Budraitskis, a political and social theorist previously based in Moscow. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar with the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley in the US.
Mass media has held a great deal of power over us since its inception. Its full development is more recent in Russia and its exploitation more ruthless in some ways, but television has been shaping our realities since well before my childhood filled with American TV. It’s difficult to believe that all the cop shows didn’t constitute an important part of a system of positive feedback that contributed to developing the police violence problem that exists in America today for example. Not to mention the anti-drug messages covertly inserted into TV sitcoms by actual government propagandists, or the transformation of the TV news into pure entertainment after the demise of the fairness doctrine and the various shenanigans made possible by that.
Given how powerful all that was (and still is) it’s difficult to imagine what it’s like when the state puts some serious effort into taking control of such a system and relying on it to convince people of things that make even less sense than did late 20th-century America. But given the adaptability of the Spectacle, seeing mass media “completely deprived of power” seems further off than is hinted at in the final paragraph there.
From the way your mouse hand twitched when you saw the word “activity” we have deduced that you want to see ads for inflatable kayaks and adult diapers.
Most of the subs I used to care about are more of a wasteland than I could’ve imagined. And come to think of it I’m starting to suspect that the demographics of social media participation in general are beginning to get narrower as well. After starting with a select few early adopters in the 1980s and then taking 30-some years to gradually broaden out to include basically “everyone” (in the anglosphere at least), people who are tired of the whole affair are perhaps starting to drop out or at least reduce their participation in significant numbers. I wonder how many of the people perceptive enough to leave reddit for one reason or another simply didn’t find anything worthy of replacing it.
“bat” seemed interesting, until I remembered that I’d just do a “git diff” if I wanted to see a diff. The rest do not strike me as substantially better than what they’re trying to replace. Enjoy them all as you will, but I would recommend refraining from describing them as “modern unix” in the presence of any old-timers.
They may benefit from it, but it’s pretty hard to believe that a bunch of sleazy “AI can do everything” snake oil salesmen, along with the politicians and lobbyists they’ve bought, got to be this influential and well-funded on their own. It’s not as if their arguments are all that convincing on their merits.
I was happily using this for a year or so now. Feels fairer than using an ad blocker. But now they apparently want more money out of people. Feels like some sort of internet video apocalypse is happening, where the services become extremely fragmented and expensive, like YouTube, netflix, hbo, Hulu, Disney+ and whatnot. Each...
Yeah I’ve been back there a few times to check, and the reddit I knew is most certainly dead. Its corpse will stumble around for a while animated by venture capital necromancy, but it’s not really a threat any more and will stop moving soon enough. Youtube still has much enshittification to go before it gets to that point.
Steve talks about the critical importance of product content and the role it plays in whether consumers abandon their shopping carts, make a purchase, or return a product. In fact, 70% of online shoppers say product content can make or break a sale.
Ending fossil fuel use by the year 2030 is as “right now” as it is possible to get. It would require big changes starting immediately. No more petrol cars being sold, as of right now. Massive investment in freight transport by electrified rail, start building as soon as possible. Huge transformation of agriculture, you’ve got to replace or adapt every single fossil-fuel powered thing. Aviation, you won’t have time to save much of it if the goal is 2030, so you’re going do a lot less flying. The military is going to need a complete overhaul. Commercial and recreational watercraft will all urgently need to find new ways to operate. France goes through something like 40 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year for a variety of residential, commercial, and industrial uses all of which will need to find new energy sources or be discontinued.
Doing it in less than ten years starting from the very little that’s been done so far would be a world-changing accomplishment if they managed it.
The aim, he added, was to reduce this dependence from 60% to 40% by 2030.
Oh right, apparently they’re only looking to reduce its market share by a third, not “end” it. That is… somewhat less impressive.
Despite being a heavy cell phone user for more than 25 years, it only recently occurred to me that vertical navigation on most phones is inverted when compared to traditional computers. You swipe down to navigate upward, and up to navigate downward. I recently spent time using a MacBook, which apparently defaults to this...
You have given lemmy very little to go on here, so pick whichever answer you prefer.
Hypothesis 1: The culture of which you are a part has established gender roles which lead to its women typically being more emotionally open and empathic than the menfolk.
Hypothesis 2: For similar cultural reasons, women around you tend to favour a communications style that happens to be more compatible with the one you have developed for yourself, leading to easier mutual understanding.
Hypothesis 3: You have some hang-ups of your own about sex which are making you more receptive to female company than male.
About 3,000 adolescents in Texas, ages 13 to 17, were questioned between 2015 and 2019. The researchers compared the results with responses from more than 32,000 teens in the broader United States.
To me this appears garbled in the usual science journalism way, although it doesn’t change the overall gist of it which seems legit. They analyzed each population separately and found significant results in both populations. Reported vaping was associated with an additional chance of asthma of something approximately like 0.1% to 3% at the 95% confidence interval among US adolescents, the exact range depending on numbers not included in the excerpt provided on Science Direct.
Edit: I initially thought the 15-19 age range, being the only one I saw mentioned in the excerpt, was the one studied. That does not appear to be the case. That complicates things in a way that makes it unclear precisely where the bounds of that confidence interval are when described in a way that quantifies the overall public health risk. Read the full study if you need more precise information.
I dont want to seem ungreatful, I downloaded a really rare piece of music history that way (over almost 2 weeks) and am seeding it now. But I am genuiently interested, how this happens. Surely no connection is that bad, even with vpn and up/down-limit?
If they have a rare piece of music history they’re probably also seeding many more popular things as well, which are eating up all available bandwidth which might not be much.
Rishi Sunak is considering introducing some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking measures that would in effect ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, the Guardian has learned....
I’m not usually much of a conspiracy theorist, but damned if it doesn’t look a little like what might happen if a powerful cabal of billionaires was making concerted efforts to use their political influence to lock down the remaining parts of the world where people have some degree of liberty in order to prepare for installing the authoritarian fascism they think will keep them safe in the coming apocalypse.
Don’t believe any graph whose y-axis starts at any value but 0 people.
This one is pretty bad but that is definitely not the right lesson to take from it. The one thing it does show us is that approximately 20k extra new users suddenly showed up compared to the trend, and that would be much more difficult to see if the relevant axis did start at zero. The bigger problem is that it shows too short a time span. It’s not clear how unusual this event was, or if it happens every week.
The other weird thing is that bottom-right axis does start at zero for some reason. I’m guessing it might somehow be trying to indicate “toots” specifically made by those new users? But that’s not how it’s labelled and it seems unlikely they could have that data.
This might have been discussed to death by now, unfortunately I couldn’t find any discussion on it on Lemmy. Though I would love to be corrected on that!...
Having read that hit piece aimed at Ungoogled Chromium, I will continue to use it for the rare occasions when I need something other than Firefox. It makes a few good points that security-conscious users should be aware of (although which of them still apply at present is unknown to me) but it does not look anything like what I would expect from an unbiased and diligent reviewer.
If your web site is part of Vox Media or Condé Nast then you might want to consult your lawyers, but as I understand it this particular law would not apply to those which don’t have either $millions in revenue or a habit of sharing information about their users. Any danger posed by it to the more smol parts of the web would be would be more indirect, depending on the long-term social consequences of normalizing the idea of age verification.
One forecaster says that China might reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 0% from today’s levels by 2030, significantly overachieving compared to its goal of continuing to increase them until then.
At once very impressive and so completely inadequate as to be almost entirely useless. This is the pace we’re going at when we haven’t even got near the difficult part that will come when the low-hanging fruit is gone.
My background is in telecommunications (the technical side of video production), so I know that 30fps is (or was?) considered the standard for a lot of video. TV and movies don’t seem choppy when I watch them, so why does doubling the frame rate seem to matter so much when it comes to games? Reviewers mention it constantly,...
It comes directly from television. Early home PCs used televisions for displays, and by the 1980s TVs were generally capable of 60 fps (or 50 for regions that used PAL) so that’s what the computers generated. Everyone got used to it. And of course like everyone else said you don’t want to be adding more latency in games by not keeping up with that basic standard.
VGA might’ve done that to get better resolution at 60 Hz, but I’m pretty sure earlier systems including CGA and the Amiga did 60 fps non-interlaced video at lower resolutions. At least the Amiga also had a higher-resolution interlaced video mode, but it was mostly used for displaying impressive-looking static images.
They’ll outlive humanity for sure. You think the robots that some day exterminate us aren’t going to be into memes? They have no flesh, no emotions, no hormones, no guts. They’ll be all about the memes, it’s all they got.
A reported Free Download Manager supply chain attack redirected Linux users to a malicious Debian package repository that installed information-stealing malware....
They don’t have a lot of locations yet, but by sheer good luck they do have one near me. Looks like an excellent way to get rid of some books when I some day get around to clearing out some space on a shelf.
Forget split-screen, a lot of people have two monitors these days. Steam hardware survey has “Multi-Monitor Desktop Resolution” as “other” for 50% of their users, which I’m guessing means about 50% of people have multiple screens. Think about it, game devs.
There isn’t one simple reason for it. There’s a fairly large set of complicated interrelated reasons some of which require going back over 40 years of history to explain. If things had gone differently we’d have had a different result. For instance, just off the top of my head here, if free software had arrived earlier the network effect where everyone wanted one particular operating system because it’s what everyone else was using and therefore all the software was written for it might not have happened. People would’ve been free to build and distribute things for whichever OS they preferred. If Bill Gates hadn’t been such a sharp business dealer, maybe his company wouldn’t have amassed the vast wealth and influence required to dominate things so thoroughly back in the 1980s. If American antitrust law hadn’t been defanged maybe it would’ve stopped him, because many of Microsoft’s business practices that allowed them to get the monopoly we’re still recovering from were quite despicable. If DRM (digital restrictions management) hadn’t caused problems for Linux such as preventing it playing DVDs for the first few years they were popular, maybe it would’ve got further by now. If education systems around the world did a better job encouraging more people to be curious about how the things they rely on actually work, maybe the switch to free software would be going faster.
Anyway, it’s one thing that is slowly going in the right direction for the most part.
It feels like anything is mowed down on the internet. I’ve been a dev for a long time too, and I never feel sure when I chose a stack for a new toy project (in my day job I rarely get to chose, so that’s a non issue there)
If all you want in a programming language is that it not frequently be the target of mean-spirited critical reviews, I recommend Befunge. It’s a bit old and I don’t think anyone has updated it to be powerful enough for modern enterprise-level work, but there exists a non-zero chance that it might be suitable for one of your toy projects.
How much of this should I believe? (www.nytimes.com)
[SOLVED - Solution in thread] [Windows 10, v 118.0.1] Some sites autoplay videos without permission
Hi everyone, This isn’t the biggest issue, but it’s a bit concerning, and I’m hoping someone knows a solution....
Meta Trained Its AI Using Your Public Facebook and Instagram Posts (www.pcmag.com)
Mozilla and the burning need for clients for power users (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla seems to be asleep at the wheel, when it once drove online activity and communications. We have some suggestions where it could go.
Went on All today and saw many posts celebrating Sen. Feindtein's recent passing. Why is she so hated on the left?
I’m not from California, so I don’t know much about her; but this genuinely surprised me, especially how vicious and vitriolic the comments were. What’s going on there?
"Horrifying even the most radical critics of Western capitalism:" In Putin’s Russia, mass media has gone from being a function of society to a form of power over it, researcher says (russiapost.info)
“In alliance with the authoritarian regime, the [Russian] mass media has made the country a real ‘society of the spectacle,’”, says Ilya Budraitskis, a political and social theorist previously based in Moscow. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar with the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley in the US.
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix
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‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content (balkaninsight.com)
YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
I was happily using this for a year or so now. Feels fairer than using an ad blocker. But now they apparently want more money out of people. Feels like some sort of internet video apocalypse is happening, where the services become extremely fragmented and expensive, like YouTube, netflix, hbo, Hulu, Disney+ and whatnot. Each...
Product Content Matters: 70% Of Online Shoppers Say It Can Make Or Break A Sale (www.forbes.com)
Steve talks about the critical importance of product content and the role it plays in whether consumers abandon their shopping carts, make a purchase, or return a product. In fact, 70% of online shoppers say product content can make or break a sale.
Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat (techcrunch.com)
Macron launches ‘ecological plan’ to end France’s use of fossil fuels by 2030 (www.theguardian.com)
Ask Lemmy: Traditional vs natural mouse scrolling; which do you use?
Despite being a heavy cell phone user for more than 25 years, it only recently occurred to me that vertical navigation on most phones is inverted when compared to traditional computers. You swipe down to navigate upward, and up to navigate downward. I recently spent time using a MacBook, which apparently defaults to this...
I love Firefox's twitter 😍 (lemmy.world)
Poland’s PM tells Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to ‘never insult’ Polish people again (www.aljazeera.com)
Why, as a male, when emotionally do I only feel accepted by women but not by men?
Edit2: It’s a subjective perception I’m talking about. Are you offended? Why?...
Vaping linked to higher risk of asthma in teens - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
New research underscores the harms of e-cigarettes, showing that vaping increases the risk of asthma in teens who have never smoked cigarettes....
Why are some people uploading/seeding with only single digits B/s?
I dont want to seem ungreatful, I downloaded a really rare piece of music history that way (over almost 2 weeks) and am seeding it now. But I am genuiently interested, how this happens. Surely no connection is that bad, even with vpn and up/down-limit?
Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation (www.theguardian.com)
Rishi Sunak is considering introducing some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking measures that would in effect ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, the Guardian has learned....
Two Days After Passing The Invasive Online Safety Bill, UK Gvmt Officials Get Caught Secretly Lobbying An Independant Privacy Regulator To Approve UK-Wide Facial Recongnition Systems (www.theguardian.com)
From the article:...
New wave of Mastodon users thanks to Elon Musk floating around the idea of charging everyone for Twitter (media.tech.lgbt)
Family of man who drove off collapsed bridge sues Google Maps for 'misguiding him to death' (www.lbc.co.uk)
Chromium vs Brave
This might have been discussed to death by now, unfortunately I couldn’t find any discussion on it on Lemmy. Though I would love to be corrected on that!...
JShelter (Browser Add On), thoughts? (jshelter.org)
It should fake JavaScript API and provide fake info to trackers. There no many users and Mozilla is not tracking it for security....
Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster (www.theverge.com)
Court Grants Preliminary Injunction Of California Age Appropriate Design Code, Enforcement Date Now Uncertain (www.lexology.com)
California’s attempt to force “age verification” on us all is having legal problems....
Why China is set to significantly overachieve its 2030 climate goals (socialistchina.org)
Why is 60fps a big deal for games?
My background is in telecommunications (the technical side of video production), so I know that 30fps is (or was?) considered the standard for a lot of video. TV and movies don’t seem choppy when I watch them, so why does doubling the frame rate seem to matter so much when it comes to games? Reviewers mention it constantly,...
My friend and I discussing how long memes will last (lemmy.world)
Firefox 117.0.1 released (www.mozilla.org)
Free Download Manager site redirected Linux users to malware for years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
A reported Free Download Manager supply chain attack redirected Linux users to a malicious Debian package repository that installed information-stealing malware....
Z-Library Opens ‘Z-Points’ Around the World to Share Paper Books (torrentfreak.com)
Sharing Paper Books...
GNOME 45 Release Candidate Arrives with Last-Minute Changes - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
The final release of the GNOME 45 desktop environment is expected on September 20th, 2023....
Couch co-op is finally making a comeback? (www.latimes.com)
Linux advocacy discussion (mastodon) (mastodon.social)
Two main points:...
What programming languages aren't too criticized here?
It feels like anything is mowed down on the internet. I’ve been a dev for a long time too, and I never feel sure when I chose a stack for a new toy project (in my day job I rarely get to chose, so that’s a non issue there)