69 … Nice.

I hope this doesn’t end badly for VMware. I use VMware exclusively in a professional setting, and partially in a personal setting. With everything I’ve seen it’s by far the most stable (Qemu seems to be close to bare metal in ideal conditions, but can get a little quirky at times to say the least) and beats out virtualbox in both performance and stability.

If it’s mostly in cash & stocks hopefully from my layman’s view they’re buying a valuable asset and not going to enshitify it for a quick buck when the debt bill comes in with an uncertain economy.

Pixel devices, devices with custom roms, and devices that you used ADB bridge to disable or uninstall “system” apps.

Only in the most remote deserts, wilderness areas and oceans can you find a sky as dark as our ancestors knew them.

It varies depending on what country your in, but I don’t think people realize how little of a percentage densly populated areas make up of the world. If you’re in the US unless you’re in a place like NY City a 20-45 min drive can get you to a place zero light minus occasional blinks from cell towers/planes/sattalites - and there will also probably be public land there you can go on for free.

And hey, look, the fact stuff like sattalites are interfering with observing the sky isn’t great, but if that sattalite is used for powering agricultural equipment and gathering agricultural data that keeps a billion people from starving to death I’d say that’s a worthy trade off.

Like a life saving drug with side effects, there’s always trade offs as technology and society advance. And mitigating side effects when possible are great, but I thinks it’s important we don’t act like the side effects are occurring in a vacuum, and I would rather live now than in the past without the tech we have now.

You can usually override zoom controls in the accessibility settings of most browsers. Comes in real handy for me

My guess is it would be considered a general purpose computer, assuming it runs standard Win/Linux and can run any software even if it’s specs and shape are geared towards games.

Not a lawyer though, just guessing

The Australian Retailers Association said one in every four of these shoplifting incidents involved “abuse or assault” against workers.

In an ongoing trial, staff at 30 Coles stores across Australia are being fitted with cameras to only be turned on in “threatening situations”.

The title sounds misleading, from the text of the article it’s more of a panic button to alert emergency services than it is passive monitoring of employees or customers.

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(OP: Sorry, paywall, can’t find another source yet. Someone got an archive?)

Quick tip: disabling JavaScript will get you past the paywall. Ublock Origin can disable JavaScript on a temp/permanent bases for specific websites, and I always set news websites to JavaScript off or else they’re a real pain to read.

The various European countries and the EU in general appears to be against encryption, looking to implemented some pretty heavy censorship, and getting pretty heavy handed in enforcing said laws (e.g. getting raided because you said the politician who broke the law was a dick).

As an American if EU laws can result in replaceable batteries and an unlockable bootloader that’s great, but the EU is definitely not friends of a free and open web.

I’m pretty sure Google (and potentially other search engines) de-prioritized blogs and forums. There’s plentry of both out there, although less than there were originally, they’re just being cut out of some search results

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I believe that cryptography and decentralization beats federalization and ICANN domain names as an end goal to a more decentralized internet. There’s already bridges between activity pub and nostr and they seem to play nice together. I can imagine a world in which it’s almost seamless between two or three decentralized & federated protocols.

And to those that are upset that a few relays ask for or require crypto transactions, keep in mind that some mastodon/lemmy/activity pub servers demand payment and I’d be hard pressed to find one that doesn’t accepted crypto donations.

More money in the hands of working class people + equal or less of working class goods = essentials worth more

The problem would be that working class people need different stuff than rich people spend/invest a bulk of their money on. If a billionaire can’t afford a yacht or a mansion that won’t effect the price of bread or single family homes if the working class still has an inflated money supply.

I’m not an economists, nor do I have the solutions to any problems, but I think the above concept is pretty set in stone.

As much as I’m not a fan of what Twitter and social media platforms are doing, I think this is non-news with a misleadingly bad sounding headline.

Sure, they’ll collect employment history if you use them to search for a job, and sure they’ll collect fingerprint hashes and the like if you choose to use that to sign in, but from the sounds if it unless you specifically use those features that they’re working on you’re not effected.

Exactly, but in America for a while all of the outlets and a vast majority of the politicians were saying the same thing (that there were WMDs) for a while - or at least that was what I’ve pieced together since I was too young to to understand politics at the time. My point was more so that it was wrong, but in the event something like that was the only narrative allowed on American social media platforms and search engines society could be worse off by it.

Lol, cheese DRM. Just when I thought more DRM was impossible.

I don’t like that this video is so downvoted, but I do see where the downvoters are coming from. I too use Firefox (or more specifically, the Gecko engine at least) because it lacks app the Google pushed stuff (e.g. WEI, Manifest V3) and is better for privacy, but have had a bone to pick with Mozilla too on occasion.

So many features have been broken or intentionally disabled for periods of time (e.g. saveing pages as PDFs or desktop extensions on mobile being locked behind the Dev options). So many “features” have been implemented that I don’t like (e.g. ads, tracking, pocket), and so many critical features (e.g. PWAs) don’t exist entirely.

Their money making methods are also not my favorite. Ads, data collection, payouts from Google, and selling repackaged services (e.g. Mulvad VPN resold as Mozilla VPN). I know they gotta make money so I’m torn on if I should dislike that they’re doing that. But even Brave with Brave ads and Bat are opt in, in order to disable all ads, data collection & telemetry, and unwanted extensions in Firefox you need to go into about:config.

I also have mixed opinions of their activist work. Despite what the video says they do actually use their money and resources in the free software space to perform audits and offer grants to products. They’ve also always been anti open web to a certain extent. Back when they were doing podcast and some Nazi sites got taken offline through domain providers they took a cautiously pro stance to that. I’ve no love for Nazi’s but when you start using the Internet’s centralized powers to nuke non-illegal content from the internet itself it sets a bad precident and is certainly anti open web. Even though that’s an edge case, and the slippery slope fallacy is technically a fallacy, it’s still continuing onwards as they argue bloggers and individual creators should be de-ranked out of the fear they could be providing information counter to “official” information; and that they should be outright censored if they do go against said official information.

(yes I don’t believe the earth is flat or that lizard people control the world - but look back in history and think about all the times the “official” narrative was wrong. WMDs come to mind. Open debate is important)

Again, I’m saying this as a person who uses FF and would like them to claw back a huge share of the marketplace. It’d take a lot to get me to switch to Chrome. At the end of the day though, I don’t want the Libre option to have a huge list of drawbacks. But at the end of the day, how many non-technical users will think the same way, and if the market share drops too much more and if Google makes even more changes how much will Firefox even work on the web without it becoming unusable.

But I come at this, and assume the video does as well, from the point of “I hope this thing I use and like becomes better”.

Most paywalls can be bypassed by disabling JavaScript, which Unlock Origin can do on a site by site basis if you click on the advanced icon

Pro tip: Adblock + JavaScript disabled (Ublock Origin can do both) will block most paywalls

Usually. Proton by Steam (versions of wine tuned specifically for games) makes just about anything run flawlessly with one click to turn it on in the settings and occasionally some fine tuning for particular games like setting it to run a particular version of proton. This works on any Linux distro.

Outside of Steam, and when trying to mod Steam games, it’s a lot more hit or miss.