Nice for people that use it I suppose. I don’t see a use case for it (nor have I ever heard of anybody doing this) but I’ll definitely give it a spin.

That’s quite posh, nice! 🥰

I suspect with how litigious Musk has become, the small man he is, they didn’t want to do something that could be constructed as trying to make people move away, actively?

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Yeah same, also I don’t usually need a year to think that. The next day often works. 😅

And it s hows… Excel. 🤦

Yeah I quote from that PR, in fact. That’s where I got that from.

Interesting, did you go check the merge request? Because I quote:

We believe the internet is for people, not profit. Unlike other companies, we don’t sell access to your data. You’re in control over who sees your search and browsing history.

Yes, that’s from post-change.

I mean, yeah.

Although it’s not difficult.

Take online hosting. Say you run a sync service - fully encrypted - and you upload to a hosting provider. Now I’m not an expert on when you pay for it, I’d intuitively assume this no longer applies but it can get messy with complementary services. Say you rent an AWS system and you get a file upload space as an “extra”.

Anyhow, you just exchanged non-anonymized user data (that it’s encrypted is irrelevant because you knew when uploading what it is it, so it was intentifyable and in fact that’s how you even knew what to upload and what not to) for a service (hosting) that can be constructed as payment for the data.

Sounds absurd? It is. That’s why lawyers cost so much money. 😂

What control does Mozilla have over people quoting parts of a merge request in a misleading way so as to make it appear in a specific way?

Don’t bother, Firefox’s community is all conspiracy+rage+kneejerk. That’s all they are, there is nothing on top of that.

They’re probably still salty how many users Firefox lost over the years from their “hardening” Firefox “pro tips”, and have to project that anger outwards instead of reflecting on it.

This thread, too. Scroll just a tiny bit through the actual change of the MR, and you realize how OP intentionally constructs things to appear sinister, which says more about them than Mozilla.

Uh, isn’t your quote a bit misleading?

While it’s true that the specific line you quote is deleted, that’s from a part of the FAQ.
But if you look further up, the line is still there just elsewhere on the page (you can see it before the re-format just above the part I linked to).

I quote:

We believe the internet is for people, not profit. Unlike other companies, we don’t sell access to your data. You’re in control over who sees your search and browsing history.

I miss mercurial and it’s far more sensical flags and commands…

Now if only Surf could hand out invite codes that work, that’d be dope. I’d love to actually give it a spin!

(what happened is that my play store account uses my normal mail, but when registering I added a +surf to the end of the identifier, which works for everyone but not surf, as they expect my play store account to have that, too - but interestingly I cannot request another one with just my base email, there they notice it’s an optional part, and say the root part has already been used - siiiiiigh)

Yeah but honestly this seems pretty neat. As an avid reader this is one of the last things I need for text, but having videos (which take forever to bring ridiculously little content across due to their nature, and most modern “creator” videos are just talking head shots) summarized as short text to read near-instantly fixes a big problem with the way content is dumbed down for modern audiences.

Is it weird to use a software to create that text summary instead of just having the original creator post their 2 minutes of actual content as text? Sure. Better than not having it available, though.

After trying it a few more times now that it’s in beta, functionality is very good, I just wish it were integrated into the AI sidebar they’re also working on instead of having its own floating button. minor issue of course.

Except they seemingly come without the right blinker, but BMW drivers only ever need the left one anyways, and it might as well be stuck in “on”.

Are *buntu flavors risky for my workstation? Should I be considering Fedora?

Why would they be risky? O.o They’re the preferred workstation setup at my place because Ubuntu is spread enough that it can be relied upon to be the distro admins have the most experience with (which is a self-perpetuating thing, I am aware).

I mean, sure Arch is flexible. All good footguns can mutilate me in a bunch of different ways.

I bet all 6 of them will be really upset.

Wrong Mozilla. This is about the foundation, not the corporation.