There is a decent metaphor buried in there, yeah. Basically trying to get at the difference between broadcast (how TV and radio worked, which everyone was already familiar with) and how the internet works which is a “unicast” kind of thing
Ah sweet, my left-pad is coming today!
It’s fantastic. Unless you’re playing a specific few multiplayer competitive games, it’s just like windows (sometimes even better in terms of performance - and sometimes better in terms of retro compatibility)
It’s gone
Depends how far you want to keep going back ….Wessex dudes talking about Russia and Ukraine like we don’t still occupy all of Mercia.
So no change to how it was before then
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Oh, sorry for the confusion. The posts online I’ve found about the subject of disabling fingerprinting protection in Librewolf are full of people who state that doing so “defeats the purpose of Librewolf”. Which probably WAS true before Mozilla’s recent changes, since the sole reason Librewolf had to exist was to be a hardened version of Firefox.
That’s no longer the case since Librewolf has a new purpose (now that Mozilla thinks they own the right to sell all your data): a Firefox fork without Mozilla.
I disabled a lot of that stuff because it’s kind of annoying for usability, e.g. browser won’t render anything at more than 60fps. I know this is a trade off and I’m cool with that. I have other tools and strategies in place to protect my privacy.
(referring to the embedded YouTube video) There’s something about the humanoid form that hacks my brain. It just feels cruel to not also invite the robot to the table too
And you’d be in charge of the AI, right Alexis? What a cunt.
Been using it all day now and yeah, it’s very smooth sailing. The tweaks I made basically involved removing fingerprinting protection, which I saw people online deride as “defeating the entire purpose of Librewolf”. Well, not true anymore.
I just want manifest v2 and to not have to consent to ToS agreements implicitly allowing some suspicious organisation to harvest and sell literally any keypress I enter into the browser, which has become the de facto cross platform way to do almost everything.
Nice, what issues?
TBH I was tempted to try IceCat first because of the name (I’m not a furry but I do think cats are cool). But no official binaries and I’m already running enough custom-compiled software, thing I need least is for my browser to be like that too haha
Gahhhh this is horrible
I spent some time switching to Librewolf this morning but at the end of the day, it having Firefox as the upstream means it’s all fragile and tenuous anyway
Wait do you mean “kates” or “Kay-Eights”? I think either makes sense and I wouldn’t raise an eyebrow
If you said it like “Kuhh-Eights” I would probably laugh
I think software name pronunciation discussions are so hilariously absurd that I sometimes purposefully vocalise nginx as “Nuhh Ginks” just to put a hat on it
Oh damn, I’m gonna be thinking of it as that now too
Oracle actually making products and services is only their side hustle
When this baby hits 200rps, you’re gonna get some hairs on your chest
Thats uhh… kinda romantic, actually
Haven’t heard of this movie before but it sounds interesting
You made me feel old, calling Machinae Supremacy “a band at the time”… I thought nah that can’t be right, that era wasn’t that long ago, surely? So I looked up when Overworld came out and it was 17 years ago. Oh.
I sorely miss that optimistic, anarchistic (and anarchic) old internet. But the older and more cynical I get, the more I have a deep-seated suspicion that the powers that be actively encouraged this early adopter hype-optimism, knowing they’d be able to lock us in to more exploitative forms later.
It’s a bit later in the timeline, but I also see that in the world of design language and HCI: the abrupt shift from skeuomorphic “Fruitger Aero” to soulless, flat “Material Design” encapsulates this feeling of being ensnared, of having the jail bars slam down shut behind you, in a more visual way.