Elder millennial - American+French
You might want to listen to Cory Doctorow’s talk on the enshitification on the internet before you apply that word to Firefox.
This is correct.
I experience the same frustration on desktop too, on different websites. Perhaps more often when I try to select a title or heading. Another way in which the web had turned to shite.
Thank you for the links to Wikipedia and identity.com on that other thread. I’ve yet to wrap my head around how zero-knowledge proof could work for such a basic assertion as “user is of legal age”, which calls for a 0 or 1 answer. It seems very different from the examples given of polynomial computations to prove knowledge of an exponent in a complex math expression. I can’t see what could prevent any client to simply lie about the answer here.
Maybe there should be a separate Lemmy instance for children.
That being said, I’ve heard that Nancon’s Robocop is pretty decent. Has anyone played it?
Oh yeah, right. That’s the problem. Consumers have too much choice now. It’s not at all that 90% of those gamed now are badly lacking compared to what we used to have. It’s not at all that publishers feel it’s okay now to release unfinished products and continue development haphazardly after the game is put on sale. It’s not at all that this leads to execs either pulling these dev resources as soon as the game had made good money to put these resources either on new projects or on DLC development. It’s not at all that the industry has been pandering to the lowest common denominator for twenty years, making games that lack a challenge and reward you for nothing. It’s not at all that games are produced by executives with business degrees rather than by extraordinarily passionate and talented creative typed like George Broussard, Chris Sawyer or John Carmack. It’s not at all that in-game purchases through micro-transactions or even large transactions has skewed the incentive structures for both player and developer.
No, it’s those pesky consumers, they’ve been given too much choice, they’ve become spoiled and entitled, so they won’t be content with whatever crap a studio puts out, now. They won’t just play the game and shut up.
Long live Firefox and high praises to all those who develop, maintain and package it.
Release notes: “Firefox now defaults to the Wayland compositor […] It is also a known issue that windows are not correctly placed when restoring a previous session on launch.” I had been led to believe that one of Wayland’s strengths was solving the correct window coordinates save-and-restore problem. Does someone know what happened here?
Yeah it’s seriously upsetting.
I get it 100%! I’m a systems nerd myself and that meaning came to my mind right after I had typed the word “symbols.” It would have been more accurate for me to have said “glyphs”instead.
Interesting idea! Some of what I anticipate would happen:
What else?
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Here’s a few I enjoy using that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:
Floris I gave it a try, I’m underwhelmed by the lack of punctuation/quote symbol options. Have you tried AnySoftKeyboard? Much more flexible in that department.
RethinkDNS (firewall, proxy and dns all in one [I use it with mullvad vpn’s wireguard config])
Thanks for sharing, I’m looking into RethinkDNS, and I’m not surprised it tries to establish a VPN tunnel to perform its duties. Thing is my phone already has a VPN client, which happens to be Mullvad. What exactly do you mean by “I use it with mullvad vpn’s wireguard config”?
Could you recommend a specific video of his where everything is laid out?
Some people seem to think that blending in is the best/only strategy to avoid being tracked and profiled. The developer of GrapheneOS advocates for this in no uncertain terms, encouraging users of his Vanadium web browser not to use uBlock or NoScript, yet also claims that DNS-level blocking is the only way to block content without sticking out like a sore thumb. I personally question his assumptions regarding this. All it would take for a big ad broker like Google, Amazon, Baidu to detect this would be for them to analyze their web server logfiles to spot which distinct clients (IP addr. x date x time x User-Agent string x other fingerprints) connect to their front-ends but don’t connect to the analytics or ad-network servers during the same page-loading time frame.
One might also wonder whether ad brokers put deals in place with their customers to get read access to these customer’s web server logfiles to do the same kind of analysis in exchange for cheaper rates. Or perhaps under the guise of “let us offload you of these complicated analytics tasks, just show us your logfiles and we’ll take it from there.”