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bobbytables ,

Thank you for that link and Thank you to Mozilla for doing those tests. I always suspected something like this but it is good to have it tested and in writing.

My only gripe with the article is this:

All of the car brands on this list except for Tesla, Renault, and Dacia signed on to a list of Consumer Protection Principles from the US automotive industry group ALLIANCE FOR AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION, INC.

Renault and Dacia aren’t available in the US, so there is really no need for them to sign those principles. Which makes Tesla the only one where this is relevant.

bobbytables ,

I don’t know if there are zero Renault in the US but Mozilla themselves say that Renault aren’t sold in the US:

While Renault cars haven’t been sold in the US since 1992, their cars are big in Europe, South and Central America.

source

So it is kind of strange to hold it against them. On the other hand that doesn’t seem to be too important because nobody cares about what they signed or not.

bobbytables ,

I use Nextcloud with Carnet. I haven’t used Keep in years so I don’t know the current features but when I made the switch to Carnet it was very comparable.

On Nextcloud it is an app you install separately. For your phone you’ll find Carner on f-droid. Sadly there is no client for iOS. Link https://www.getcarnet.app/

bobbytables ,

20% skill

TIL during the early days of the internet, companies tried to prohibit linking to some of their sites. The linked site linked to all of them during half of 2002 (web.archive.org)

In one of the even more absurd cases: According to an AP report (cited in Slashdot), Intentia International has filed criminal charges against Reuters PLC, alleging that the news service illegally obtained an earnings report that the company had not yet released, by guessing the URL at which it had been posted on Intentia's...

bobbytables ,

I don’t know that specific site but lots of porn sites used to do those “preview of the day” things with a date or iterator in the URL.

I remember writing a simple script/page (must have been around 2002) where you could just paste a URL with wildcards and the wildcards could be iterated from x to y. It even checked if the generated linked page existed or threw http errors. It was amazing, how many links I collected and never visited again. The things you do for porn…

bobbytables ,

You can set a displayed name in your profile and you can use Unicode characters for it. I use an Android app called “Stylish Text” for conversion but I am sure there are countless other options out there.

bobbytables ,

Oh, wow, thanks for bringing this to my attention! I had no idea. I mean now that I know it, it seems kinda logical… The classic mistake of a person not dependent on accessibility tech.

bobbytables ,

I changed it back to the standard font. If it’s more accessible that way I’m all for it.

bobbytables ,

I block basically all of the cartoon porn. Just not my cup of tea.

Weird thing though: I subscribe to a very few communities there because I like the occasional nudity in my news feed. Browsing by Subscribed I almost never get posts from there even though they are active. Only every now and then something comes through. I wouod expect a slightly higher frequency.

bobbytables ,

Yes, and I honestly don’t get it? Even NSFW is still available in Relay. What are they doing differently?

bobbytables ,

Nice! My mom used to do that.

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