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[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

You can make a page filled with gibberish and have a display: none honeypot link to it inside your other pages. Not sure how effective would that be though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

No way, Fediverse drama

I'm a bit out of the loop, can anyone explain what @[email protected] meant by "moderatorial and ideologial differences"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How much of the data do you think is collected

I would assume all data that companies can get their hands on. Fun fact, I installed Windows 10 in a VM a few days ago and it had like 5 "do you want to send us optional data or only the required data? Y/n" screens in the installer alone 💀

kept, and used long term

Probably until you request it's deletion using a law like GDPR. Data is valuable because:

  1. it's used in targeted advertising
  2. it can be sold to data brokers
  3. it can be sold to government agencies
  4. depending on the type of data, it might be usable for AI training/can be sold to AI companies
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I avoid AI content because it's sort of an intellectual goo. It looks like there were some thoughts behind it, smells like it, and then you notice the distorted letters or certain writing style patterns. The AI we have currently is not sentient, so if there are no humans in the loop doing quality control then you end up with an AI telling people to eat rocks while citing The Onion. I lose trust in anything when I spot that a part of it was AI generated - without being explicitly marked as such - for this reason

Then there's AI's heavy association with corporations/VCs/tech bros, giant waste of electricity, bias in the training data, legality and ethical implications of training AI on data from the entire internet, people losing jobs, companies running sweatshops of people in 3rd world countries to manually classify said data, the list goes on and on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The boomers yearn for the Shrimp Jesus

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Idk. I feel empty inside. I don't really feel joy. I don't really feel sadness either. I just kinda persist. There are things I want to do. I don't have the mental strength to do them regularly. Or like at all. Usually I tell myself that's because I'm tired after the day/week. But deep down I know that this is not it. Or at least not the main reason. I don't really do anything even during holidays. Every day feels the same. I know that this isn't good for me, but I don't care. I don't worry about the future. Society is fundamentally broken, and always was/will be. I just go with the flow

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's a subjective question. I personally like Material You more, but Fluent is good too

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lmao, I love the diss at that AI post. Merry GNU/Christmas 🎄🎁🎉, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Christmas 🎄🎁🎉

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

From the article:

In other words, it’s fine to defend vigilantes when they kill unarmed Black people or anti-racist activists, but when a CEO’s life is taken, we must solemnly stay silent on the reasons why such a person might be targeted or why bystanders might not be crying.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I use Helix. It's kinda like a preconfigured Neovim. I really like it, my only complaint is that it (currently) doesn't have a filetree

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

So... what does this partnership actually mean? Will Ecosia be the default search engine once the deal with Google ends?

 

alt textA comic

Windows OS: "We have a brand new feature called Windows Recall that you might like!"

Guy: "Oh boy! What does it do?"

Windows: "It helps you find anything you've seen on your PC by using clues you give or by letting you scroll through your past activity!"

Guy: "Wow! How does this tech work?"

Windows: "Our Windows AI constantly takes pictures of your screen and saves all that data"

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I've wanted to install an extension from outside addons.mozilla.org, but Firefox didn't let me do it

So I've did a small research and looks like there are 3 ways to sideload extensions, but all of them suck

  1. Using FF Developer Edition

In the Dev Edition you can set xpinstall.signatures.required to false in about:config, but the problem is that the Dev Edition isn't as stable as standard FF

  1. Temporarily load the extension

In about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox you can temporarily sideload extensions, but they will be removed next time you open FF, which is annoying

  1. Modify FF code

Lastly, I found this script which modifies the FF code, but this can break things so I don't want to use it

I'm really annoyed that Mozilla gets to decide which extensions I can install. So... what's the best way to sideload extensions?

Edit: thanks everyone, I'm now using a FF fork (Librewolf) which lets me sideload extensions after disabling xpinstall.signatures.required

 
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