Mozillaās slowly creeping in the surveillance with adding integrated crap like Pocket and AI driven Fake Spot. Iām really glad Librewolfās made a privacy focused fork of their browser without all that nonsense.
TLDR: Mozilla wants your data and itās opt out. If youāre on FF 128 itās already on and you will have to turn it off manually. Shame how they have fallen this low. The LEAST they could have done is show a pop up announcement when the user upgraded to 128.
Also: +1 to Librewolf. Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future. Definitely the better option over Firefox.
Looks really cool. I hope we donāt have the overreliance on one rendering engine in the future. Once one or the other comes out Iāll definitely try it out.
You joking? š I donāt want to discourage you from giving rust a try but come on. Have you ever talked to a developer that spent any real time with rust, anyone that got as far as multi threading?
Maybe Iām misunderstanding, but I just read that whole article and it sounds like a good implementation? Companies want to know how effective their ads are, and I like their approach of trying to find a way to provide this without wholesale personal data collection. They even say at the end that they donāt get the data either. It sounds like a reasonable thing to try and standardize.
Iām not commenting on implementation itself but rather on how Mozilla went about with an opt-out approach into the collection program (even if it was for testing) to a community they have cultivated with the promise of privacy.
Collecting my data is a big deal. It doesnāt matter how it is used. I should at least consent to it.
Iāve read the announcement. Sounds reasonable and sufficiently private to me. So saying āMozilla wants your dataā sounds misleading and like an overreaction to me. Also might help to mitigate the arms race in privacy protection versus tracking for ads and worse stuff.
Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future.
How do you know that?
Even if, there will still be alternatives. But right now, Firefox is the best browser with regards to privacy and security. It even passed minmum ratings by the german IT security authority, contrary to other widely used browsers.
Iām with you on the opt-out vs. opt-in part. Thatās not a nice move. Regardless of that, Firefox is still the best choice. I hope they will continue to improve.
A lot of sites? Or more like just a few? Personally, the ratio of working vs broken sites is like 100 to 1 and when a site is broken, its usually one of those shit pile SEO listicle sites or some absolute trash heap of ads. Every time Iāve disabled the protections Iāve regretted it.
A lot of the web is useless trash nowadays and Librewolf has done a good job of filtering that for me.
Ahh yes, its the thrown sandwich wrapper thats the problem not the 2 tonnes of metal and plastics belching pollutants that kill millions and are a massive ci tributir to global warming out the back whike driving down a concrete and asphlat road.
I remember long ago reading something where an enviromentalist who was driving home with a friend along the highway and the friend opined how their enviromwntalist friend must be disappointed with humanity seeing all this litter along the road edge and the environmentalist replied that the litter wasnāt the problem, the road was.
I got banned from world news for being pro Palestinians and the mods wouldnāt even give me an answer as to why I got banned. Then when I kept asking I got a site wide ban for "āharassmentā
I got banned from /news for being āantisemiticā because I debunked the fake israeli Rape propaganda and from worldnews for calling out a Zionist mod spreading pro-israel propaganda.
Also took a few temp bans on .world for debunking other Hasbara such as claims about Hamas bases under hospitals in the beginning of the Genocide.
The reason I made my account on .world was because it was the most Zionism infested instance. It was a very intentional choice.
As long as you can debunk the Hasbara without getting banned itās the best place to change peopleās minds. Youād be amazed what .world looked like 9 months ago.
The mods put up with it for a while. But now the elections are coming close and Biden is still committing Genocide the .World mods are stepping up the censorship.
I just recently got banned (I think, never got a response) from the politics sub for reporting another use that called me retarded. Itās legit confusing. I literally reported them because it seemed out of pocket but apparently I said something offensive as well
Iām about ready to that go back to reddit, just using a web browser on my phone. This is place is asking users for a lot and people still donāt seem to understand what a community is. All the pretty words people used when we migrated over was all BS apparently. Itās weird since people clearly put in work but like, where are the mods/admins leading the community? Idk, maybe this stuffās just too hard for mostly socially-stunted people to manage (including myself, raised on video games and whatnot)
Why not try a different instance? .world is by far the worst of the major instances and the most friendly towards transphobia, zionism, fascism, and left-punching.
Idk, itās honestly all a bit too confusing. I still donāt get how this place works. I just use sync and even then some servers/instances or whatever will say I canāt vote for certain posts/servers - idk, Iām assuming thereās servers that get turned off at night or something
Have a recommendation? I only joined world because it seemed to have the least requirements for joining and was maybe more popular. I remember other instances requiring you answer a bunch of questions to join or something like that
Idk, itās honestly all a bit too confusing. I still donāt get how this place works. I just use sync and even then some servers/instances or whatever will say I canāt vote for certain posts/servers - idk, Iām assuming thereās servers that get turned off at night or something
āInstancesā are like islands. There are other islanders you can interact with, with their own buildings, but people can visit your buildings from other islands. You canāt make another island your āhome,ā though, and just interact with their buildings. Some islands are on good terms, and some are on bad terms, and block each other.
What this looks like practically, are that you need to pick an instance that passes your vibe check. Scrolling by local on your home instance should be fun and engaging, and scrolling by āallā should show you more stuff you want to see.
Lemmy.world intentionally defederates from the more overtly Leftist instances, as an example, so it skews more right-wing.
Have a recommendation? I only joined world because it seemed to have the least requirements for joining and was maybe more popular. I remember other instances requiring you answer a bunch of questions to join or something like that
Go to this instance explorer, check out interesting instances, and scroll locally, anonymously. See the vibe! If you like the vibe, make an account or apply for one, and start interacting. You donāt have to delete your old account! I have 2, each on different instances, depending on my mood.
No problem! It takes a bit of trial and error to find a nice home or two, but itās generally better to get off of āgeneralistā instances and join something that fits your interests better.
Wait, so are there other politics instances? There isnāt just the one?
I seem to get subs/instances for other communities that arenāt from lemmy.world but only one politics community.
If thereās another one thatād be great. I just realized the guy I reported is still commenting there while I was banned for 3 days. I kinda donāt really feel like returning there if thatās how they choose to run it.
Many different ones, like World News and US News on Lemmy.ml. Most instances host their own News and Politics instances, and youāre blocked from seeing some on Lemmy.world.
Check which instance the News Community you got banned from was on, it might not have been Lemmy.world.
Shortly before I was permabanned I got an intensely hateful PM from someone who created a throwaway account just for that. He claimed that all Arabs are pedos and rapists and Islam is a disease of the mind and Arabs are infected. He glorified the genocide in Gaza because āThatās what you get for killing Jewsā.
His master account is probably still active and unblemished. He was probably the guy whose reply I gave got me permabanned
also i didnāt know about what instance does what. i thought the whole point of federation is that it doesnāt matter which one youāre on for almost all use cases. i signed up through world becauseā¦ well, itās called lemmy.world. like I had to pick something and this one made sense.
I got perma IP banned from reddit after engaging a pro Trumper in a debate about what candidate actually gives us any remote chance for legalization. They devolved to trolling. I matche their energy. Guess whoās comments got downvoted to hell (the troll) yet still is allowed to keep their account.
I swear these people act like school staff who prioritize protecting bullies over their victims. I cannot count the number of times I was accused of being uncivil when I decided to match the bullshit of trolls and bullies.
Itās because reddit had a rightwing mod takeover and they really do favor the bulliesā¦ like look at all the nazi stuff/subs there. Reddit is compromised
Back when Reddit was both good and the only option, we could laugh about being banned from the Trump sub.
Lots of mods on my favourite bits of Reddit left for lemmy, they were replaced by admins and the adminsā friends
Itās easy now to get a site wide ban if you participate in big subs (and a myriad small subs with the same mods) and donāt share the modsā politics
One thing I find interesting about Lemmy is that the modlog is public. This is the modlog for you on lemmy.ml (I assume you meant !worldnews since it seems to be the largest worldnews community). lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=1572ā¦
Note to readers: Iām not saying this user did or did not do anything deserving of action against them, but I believe public modlogs are a useful tool for accountability.
my experience is such that people donāt get these sweeping bans for having opinions. They get them for acting like sociopathic aggressive individuals.
And based on what Iām seeing when I check folksā profiles reiterating the same storyā¦ Yep it checks out more often than not. Thereās no discourse on the internet when it consists of calling people slurs in a weird barrage of insults. Those are the people who get banned here or there.
So many communities simply donāt have alternatives here. But Iām happier with the quality of the communities that do exist. So what if they donāt have spam bots sharing 6-12 month old memes that sometimes make no sense outside the timeframe they were post and users just repeating catch phrases for karma increasing the amount of ācontentā?
There are like 5 people here to talk about my entire country of 10 million while the Reddit community gets 2000+ every day. Even a karma farmer would help here as long as itās not a bot and occasionally replies to comments.
Is the onboarding experience any better? I remember the initial process of joining Lemmy felt very shady and not user friendly. That can be a massive deterrent for people joining. Then on top of that having to filter out all the communities that are not to my taste.
Overall it was a messy non-user friendly experience, but now that Iām here Iām happy.
I tried to recruit a friend of mine but the moment I tried to explain instances to him, he zoned out. I wouldnāt call it non-user friendly, but itās not as simple and dumbed down like other social media is.
Also roughly a year ago there have been a couple of articles thrown around on Twitter and certain subreddits which wrote about CP stuff going on on Mastodon. So the Fediverse had some bad press. Which is rich coming from the site that allowed people like Violentacrez to fester.
Instances are great, but are also a problem for onboarding.
Is there a single point of entry for people now? I can imagine there being a website people could go to that asks a few simple questions and sorts (or load balances) people to certain instances. This would of course need some way for people to transfer their accounts in the future should they not be happy with their instance. Additionally each instance would need to have some kind of API call for the single point of entry to create the accounts You could even have a simple survey to gauge peopleās interests to help them in the community filtering process and present the mobile apps that are available.
Just some thoughts of course on how it might be possible to improve the users first experience.
You are right. Thereās join-lemmy, but the problem is that people often get sent from another site to the join-lemmy site which then wants to send them to another site. Too many refferals not enough seeing content.
THANK YOU for reminding me about rjd2
I was trying to find his music the other day and I couldnāt remember. (specifically the music video for The Horror)
Also Metronomy, Little Dragon and Amon Tobin. For the aging hipsters in the crowd.
Alās I saw Kid Koala a couple times in the mid 2000s including a little bar show that was fucking amazing. We played bingo at the little show. I just found my bingo card a few days ago.
Mine does, but Iām off today and couldnāt be arsed to check how theyāre doing. And Iām not on the IT department either. So far itās been nice watching the world burn.
Iām thinking someone went nuts with the Photoshop. Itās what Elon Musk thinks he looks like, and I donāt think AI would be able to get that look just the way Elon wants it.
So I work for a large enterprise type software with a database. And because our installer is trash, we donāt trust clients to do it. Itās very common for the installer to error out with SQL error messages and we have to go fix things in the database. Think stupid things like if a value is null in one field, installer crashes.
So they call in, get paperwork for a test upgrade (we require they upgrade a test database first), then after they email that paperwork and itās approved by management, the call to schedule the test appointment happens. Then 3 days before the actual appointment, we can call them and transfer via Bomgar the files they need. Because we donāt wanna give them the needed files early forā¦ reasons never explained properly to me.
Then the actual install/upgrade call happens.
Then we do it all over again for the live.
Welcome to corporate policy thatās been building over 20 years, and never cut back. Things get added to the install process, never removed.
Well for the same reason lots of not great software is used.
It was once the best (or only) in the market, and now itād cost literally millions of dollars to change in training/conversion/hardware changes. As long as we keep above the āWe cause less damage than a change costsā folks stay.
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