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by bad_user 1y ago
DEI has led to anything but viewpoint diversity, fostering ideological conformity via practices such as DEI statements, DEI metrics, mandatory trainings, or cancel culture leading to censorship. That the current administration is also purgi
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by bad_user 1y ago
I don't find that very funny. It's interesting to see what AI can do, but wait a month or two and watch it again. Compare that to the parodies made by someone like "Weird Al" Yankovic. And I get that these tools will get
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by bad_user 1y ago
I have yet to enjoy any of the "creative" slop coming out of LLMs. Maybe some day I will, but I find it hard to believe it, given a LLM just copies its training material. All the creativity comes from the human input, but even tho
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by bad_user 1y ago
The cookie banners aren't worthless. The websites presenting cookie banners either don't know the law, or are engaged in spyware shit. You don't need a cookie banner if you need it to provide a service that the user expects (
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by bad_user 1y ago
Eh, no, Open-Source means Open-Source and I hate it when people try overloading words due to market-appeal or ignorance. https://opensource.org/definition-annotated I agree partly with the article about entitlement, but you
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by bad_user 1y ago
Consider that we're living in a post-truth world, so you may not like the answer. With enough propaganda, it's easy to blame whatever self-inflicted problem on others.
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by bad_user 1y ago
Please leave AI slop out of the comments section. Thanks.
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by bad_user 1y ago
Android is very usable without a Google account or even Play Services. It's not convenient, you may be missing some functionality, but it's usable and alternative app stores exist. Huawei famously shipped devices without Google Pl
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by bad_user 1y ago
GIMP takes some time getting used to, but it's reliable, it will stick around and having used it for the past 20 years, I have issues switching to something else.
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by bad_user 1y ago
Firefox's UI can be easily tweaked with CSS. It's trivial, for example, to get rid of all chrome. The real problem is their ideological stance against PWAs.
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by bad_user 1y ago
A frustrated user probably.
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by bad_user 1y ago
The complaint here is that Firefox won't do what Chromium does, and Chromium's extensions are active and reachable in installed PWAs.
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by bad_user 1y ago
I'm the “European elite” you're thinking of. Well, not “elite” in the sense of being rich, I'm not rich, but I'm also not stupid. It's simple: global trade is good, isolationism is bad. It's as simple as that.
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by bad_user 1y ago
Mercantilism doesn't work, there's plenty of evidence that the current policies are really bad for the US and the global economy, there's no silver lining to them, not even the temporary "boosting profits", which wo
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by bad_user 1y ago
Self-hosting hundreds of GBs of data isn't feasible, you also need backups and it's a terrible idea for most people. Hetzner does provide managed Nextcloud instances. For bookmarks, I recommend Linkding: https://linkdin
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by bad_user 1y ago
There will be other unintended outcomes from this. If the US can't be relied on as a military ally, then why should US clouds or the software it exports be trustworthy? Couldn't the US government also kill all Windows workstations
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by bad_user 1y ago
> we've seen that permanent residents can have their permanent residency canceled If you're talking about Mahmoud Khalil, that was probably unlawful, and you should wait for your judicial branch to pass judgment before reachi
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by bad_user 1y ago
You're repeating the same information as in the comment I'm replying to. The surveillance laws, no matter how often you repeat the word "draconian", are irrelevant because… Email isn't safe, and most of your email p
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by bad_user 1y ago
Let's not exagerate, Mistral is doing just fine. Also, DMA specifically targets monopolies and it will most likely encourage innovation. I mean, let's be honest, legislation isn't the reason for why Apple's AI sucks. Nev
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by bad_user 1y ago
Australian businesses have to provide GDPR protections to EU citizens, regardless, just as EU companies operating in Australia have to obey Australian law. I also have a feeling the Five Eyes agreement is about to end.
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by bad_user 1y ago
Fastmail can be trusted because it's operated by trustworthy individuals, with a company from a country that's still an ally. If you don't want surveillance, you'd better not use email.
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by bad_user 1y ago
“Warrantless surveillance” was yesterday's concern, back when Snowden's revelations were in the news. Today the concern is war, both economic and literal. From that perspective, I'll gladly use Australian, or Canadian online
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by bad_user 2y ago
On Bitwarden, at least for now, it's mostly Open Source … for techies, for the server-side, there's Vaultwarden which is easy to self-host and with self-hosting of FOSS software you achieve true data sovereignty. https:/&#x2
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by bad_user 2y ago
Under ePrivacy, websites only need to show a cookie banner when they are doing spyware shit. There are exceptions to this, but generally speaking you don't need a cookie banner for functionality that the user expects. As one example, y
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by bad_user 2y ago
I don't think we should guess. In 2024, Microsoft generated 12.58 billion dollars in revenue from advertising, which is nothing to scoff at. And we also have to look at future opportunities — the share of the advertising market may be
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by bad_user 2y ago
Not much changed on Mozilla's side, only the law (e.g., CCPA, GDPR), because technically speaking (as far as CCPA is concerned), Firefox has already been “selling” users' data. Furthermore, at this point, that legalese talks about
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by bad_user 2y ago
I think that people should look at what happened recently and realize that absolute nothing noteworthy happened. And Firefox is still the only browser engine with support for uBlock Origin, on Android too.
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by bad_user 2y ago
I don't disagree, and yes, you make a good point, and I added that the interests of Google and Microsoft coincide, which is also bad for us. The banning of ad-blockers, for instance, is also in the interest of Microsoft.
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by bad_user 2y ago
> Microsoft can always decide to fork Chrome Sure, but they gave up on developing their own engine, so why would they?
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by bad_user 2y ago
Microsoft can push Edge on Windows users that don't know any better. They also aren't concerned about the web, as long as Edge is a vehicle for Bing and their ads. In that sense, Microsoft's interests align very well with tho

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