The Great Shopping Mall of Alexandria

Depends on the argument I guess. Don’t bring a sweet roll to the kind where you need a war axe.

It has been falsely claimed that the measure undertaken by MCMC is a draconian measure

While it may be unclear exactly what kind of Internet traffic laws Draco would’ve written, allowing only the major landowners to run DNS servers does seem to be in keeping with the spirit of “aiding and legitimizing the political power of the aristocracy and allowing them to consolidate their control of the land and poor” as his laws are said to have done.

If you have time for an answer in audio form the CBC has some ideas.

The agonizingly slow progress into mainstream discourse of this idea that we should all stop using twitter continues at its steady pace. Will the obvious truth of it mean that it continues until even the politicians get it? Or will it in time become be one of those “yeah we probably should’ve done that” things that never gets done?

To be fair, Mozilla does have a lot of problems. It’s just that starting out with an unsupportable premise like “Firefox is just a puppet for Google” is not the way to do a good job of describing them accurately or in a way that’s going to convince anyone.

Your opinions are bad, you should feel bad, and you posted this to the wrong community.

Piracy will end when copyright ends.

Limited discoverability, complicated and controversial moderation, constantly changing interoperability problems, large instance users off in their own silo — it’s all part of the fedi charm, really.

That’s not the original trilogy. The first Prince of Persia was 1989. But all I can tell you is that Sands of Time was awesome on the PS2. I don’t imagine it would’ve felt as satisfying without a controller if you didn’t have one on the PC back in the day. The combat mechanics seemed made for it.

They remove telemetry, such as the kind of telemetry causing the problems reported in this thread. They do not remove OCSP, safe browsing, Sync, and other things that connect to outside servers and therefore leak information about user activity. They do enable about:config so that those which are unwanted can be disabled.

That was true for a little while around 2016 I think. If it’s temporarily true again now I don’t expect it’ll last very far into the lifetime of a civ game.

Fennec F-Droid suffices to remove the telemetry.

That’s one way to get people to turn to piracy.

Oh, that makes sense. Setting it to “strict” mode may be the thing I vaguely remember doing to make sure it was active in 2022.

Do you have a source for that?

New idea for a web service: Give it the url of an article decrying the sorry state of corporate social media and hyping up some zany theoretical alternative that nobody’s heard of, and it tells you whether or not the author gives any hint of having heard of the fediverse.

Yeah, pretty much. But it’s not a new phenomenon. For thousands of years, people at the top of the social hierarchy have ended up surrounded by sycophants who feed their delusions. These guys are no more out of touch with reality than were some of the emperors of ancient Rome.

This has been going around all over lemmy and I still had no idea what the actual news (if any) is supposed to be. So I did a diff against the 2022 version of this Mozilla blog entry. The differences:

• Changed “Starting today, Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection to all Firefox users worldwide” to “Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection to more Firefox users worldwide.”

• Added mention of Android.

• Changed “recent stories” to just “stories”, since the reporting on this is no longer recent.

• The somewhat whimsical image from the 2022 version has been replaced with one that to me looks more generic and illustrates the technology less clearly, with more irrelevant detail in the alt text and no credit for the artist.

• Changed “Today’s release” to “The release”.

• 2022’s “Bringing Total Cookie Protection to all Firefox users is our next step towards creating a better internet, one where your privacy is not optional” changed to "While bringing Total Cookie Protection to more Firefox users has been one significant step in this journey, we have still kept our sights on an even safer, even better internet. And starting in 2024, all our users can look forward to Firefox blocking even more third party cookies. That’s right; we are taking big swings to adopt new cookie partitioning and clearing mechanisms so that users can browse with fewer cookies that won’t stick around as long and will result in an even better browsing experience. Just another step on our road towards creating a better internet where your privacy is not optional.

I wonder which word would fit better than “assisted” there if we knew all the details. Bribed, or blackmailed?