DarkThoughts

It’s about twice as much if we look at exclusively desktop browsers, but yes. It’s been on the downturn for many years.

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I just never put anything on it anymore.

I use the same widget to also minimize the windows on my current desktop. Unfortunately the Wallpaper Engine plugin does not recognize them as such to unpause the wallpaper.

Every search made through the search engine contributes to tree-planting projects worldwide

Afaik it’s only if you actually interact with the unblocked ads that they provide. So if you’re going 100% ad free through the internet, this is not really for you.

That doesn’t mean you and him don’t share common behavior patterns, especially when it comes to the trolling and the abusive behavior.

If you want to cry about me being “abusive” towards actual trolls and abusers (you know, those who glorify violence and genocide), then that’s on you, I honestly don’t care. I’ve took enough unwarranted abuse here to know that I’m on the right side, because I’m not the one who sympathizes with literal terrorists and murderers. And yes, fuck those people, including mods! I will stand by that until I’m banned in the entire Fediverse if I have to, I’ll block any abusive mods and all of their communities anyway. I’m not gonna start sucking Hamas cock & be okay with blatant disinformation, just because it’s the cool thing to do here.

Yeah I trust db0 a hell of a lot more than I trust the likes of you, but I can still verify what you’ve said, and yeah. 100% justified. I’m surprised he didn’t ban you permanently for such blatantly bad faith behavior.

You can’t since they removed the comments, but here’s one that shows where it all started; That’s the logic and agenda db0 operates under, but I’m the one arguing in bad faith? You’re doing the same mistake that people on Reddit did; trusting random ass moderators not being on a power trip and pushing their own agendas.

“Everyone against me is a Terrorist Extremist!!!1!!!1!11” You unironically. Probably what you think of everyone who isn’t screaming accusations at people and calling them names.

“Probably” - very confident. I’m offensive towards those who literally make excuses & sympathize with Hamas, who call to the death of Israel, who think murder & mob rule is justified. I’m not making accusations to people who do not do that, I’m doing it towards all the terrorist simps on this platform, which are plentiful. Even the freaking Lemmy devs are literal Tankies, or are you going to deny that too?

You are expected to maintain basic civility regardless, and you are also expected not to make random unmerited accusations towards others.

They’re neither random nor unmerited. They’re observable facts based on the complete bullshit that people on here constantly say. This isn’t even in any sort of way new or unexpected, it’s well known that Lemmy is housing a lot of Tankie extremists with very questionable views. When the moderators refuse to moderate such content, I’m of course not going to be nice to them. I don’t care if they ban me for speaking out and having a clear stance, that still makes them worse than me.

It’s obvious you were deflecting because even you can’t be that daft to think that I meant user score when I said reputation.

LOL It shows the quality of ones postings. The Linkerbaan was in the negatives by the thousands for his trolling. If I was such a troll, like you’re claiming, then I’d be too. But outside of reacting strongly towards people with extremist views I’m actually a completely reasonable person, giving helpful advice where I can. In Germany we say “As one calls into the forest, it resounds.” and I’m merely resounding the tone that’s being used by others. So yes, if you call for genocide or murder, expect me to respond in kind. But feel free to ignore the context behind those moderator actions and just do your mental gymnastics to to feed your confirmation bias. Doesn’t make you right, but at least you can get that cozy feeling about it.

Yes they would indeed. When and if they get caught…

Which is why whistleblower protections should be a thing. Aside from that, it’s not like this that uncommon to happen. The thing is that it’s not that easy to hide as you make it out to be, but of course you expect that things like this happen anyway, even though you have no proof of it happening, which is why you argue that it is pointless trying to enforce it anyway, which again, is stupid and exactly the outcome such companies want.

Do you and I not live in the same world because the world I know has a large number of known white-collar criminals who stole money, or violated laws secretly to avoid spending more money and increase profits because they didn’t think they’d get caught doing it.

Well, if they did not get caught, then you would not know about it. If they did get caught, then laws seem to actually work. So something does not add up in your world.

Of course they fucking would, do you know what’s better than a slim chance of being caught?

I guess that’s a little better than your original assessment of it being useless. Progress!

Average political troll like @Linkerbaan (banned now).

I see you aren’t too bright then, considering I had this dumbass Nazi troll tagged even before switching instances. Maybe learn some nuance, something this platform could really use.

I mean you were literally banned for calling leftists radicalized terrorists

Except that I did not do that. lmao I simply called out calls for literal murder & mob rule by the same people who are also Hamas apologists. But thanks for notifying me of even more mod abuse. db0 already tried to frame me earlier by completely twisting the words around, which I later called him out for, which I guess he took personally. This platform simply hates people who are speaking out against all the Tankies & terrorist simps on here, or saying “outrageous” things, like that murdering people you don’t like is bad. How dare me!

Oh and before you start crying about being abused by mods and admins, I haven’t been banned from instances or communities for hate speech or aggression, mods don’t regularly tell me to stop doing that because it’s against the rules.

That’s because you’re on the same of the extremist spectrum as the mods. Same reason why certain subreddits kept all the Nazi shit alive without banning users - except for those speaking out against it. And yes, that was also me. Funny, isn’t it? Somehow I get banned by both the Nazis and the Tankies. I guess if that makes me the problem, then I like being the problem, because I don’t like either.

I don’t have a modlog filled with aggressive comments calling people names or making repeated bad faith accusations that don’t hold any merit.

I’m not gonna be nice to all the extremists on here, sorry but not sorry. We’re globally past that point with where you all brought us now. Why would I pretend to be civil towards people who support genocide and murder? Who make excuses for terrorists and killers? Just because a large portion of Lemmy has lost their collective mind, does not mean that I’m going to join that bullshit mindset like some Lemming.

adding to your reputation.

Funny, your rep is at 161, despite having a much older account. Mine is at almost 25k. Maybe me clashing with the extremest user base on Lemmy isn’t actually representative of the overall reputation of a user? Hm… Maybe write a bit more than 6 pages worth of comments in a year and confront some questionable political positions on here and you understand what is actually happening when the bans come for you as well.

It’s about whether they would, and they would

Jfc… If they would, they’d get fined, or worse if they end up being repeated offenders and depending on what they did. The world would be a lot worse if they did not care about laws, which is why you see such strong lobbying against it, and why other countries, like the US, are so much worse. Your argument is about as bad as the “both parties are the same and nothing changes” comments from the mentioned extremists here, which are just more lies.

Even you know that comparing digital cyber-crime and white-collar criminals to that is a horrible comparison, like comparing apples to oranges, but you weren’t hoping to have a reasonable discussion, you were hoping I wouldn’t notice this flaw in your logic and that it would simply shut me up.

No, I was hoping you’d understand the differences between a place that follows the rules of law, and one that doesn’t. But given your previous comments that was already nothing but false hope, of course.

I know you and your type very well.

Oh yeah? What type would that be? Someone who’s standing up to fascists and terrorist simps?

You think they’re not breaking laws already? You think these big tech white-collar businessmen aren’t already white collar criminals engaged in multiple types of crimes?

You’re derailing, it’s not about whether they commit ANY crimes. The topic was very specifically about whether they break the law by tracking users and collecting their data, or whether it would be already illegal to ignore the Do-Not-Track feature. And no, neither of those things is illegal. That’s the point. The internet may fall under old laws too, but it created a bunch of new cases that do not fall under any laws. That’s also why we’ve seen the GDPR within the EU as some of the first means to challenge a lot of those “new” cases that are happening on the internet. Or the AI Act to regulate those fields since more and more places started to use this tech in ways that were highly problematic - but not illegal before that. If we create new possibilities, then we also need to regulate those possibilities through new laws as well. This is really not a hard concept to understand.

Feel free to go to some shithole in the middle East or Africa where there is no rule of law and see how that works out for you.

Your assumption is based on the idea that these people are not criminals, which is wrong.

They are not criminals until they actually break laws. Yes. That’s how rule of law works. That’s why there need to be laws that regulate them. Welcome to the real world.

That does not matter. If you operate within the EU then you have to abide to EU law.

If it was law to abide to the Do Not Track setting, then a leak about a company dishonoring this would simply face massive fines, which is usually enough encouragement for them to abide.

How’s that different?

Even more reason to make it legally binding.

This is sad and yet another step backwards for Firefox. Yes, not many websites honored it, but some did and automatically set cookie preferences accordingly. There should’ve been more lobbying for this to become legally binding within the EU instead.

Sorry, I misread your original comment as opening the console not a new tab. Didn’t had the best night after clearly getting some flu symptoms this week - especially yesterday evening when I started to feel real sickly. :/

Ctrl + Alt + T. Your shortcut just opens the last closed Firefox tab.

I don’t have a dot at all. And if I set it in the sys tray to only show when relevant, then it is actually one if not the only one that actually hides itself when there’s no new notification. Assuming that’s a standard KDE panel.

You had one task…

Nice try, but we know the French don’t speak English.

You just blew my mind. lol