kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Fennec F-Droid suffices to remove the telemetry.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 55 points 2 months ago (9 children)

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

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do you have a source for that?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago

there was no mystery surrounding Obama’s first job. News outlets published the address of the restaurant. Photographers posted pictures of the establishment online. Baskin-Robbins proudly touts on its website that Obama used to scoop ice cream for the chain ...

WTF, America. All that might go a long way towards explaining why she was reluctant to mention it.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 39 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

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