Firefox, despite all the suspicions around Mozilla, still works well, is still user friendly, privacy friendly, and well maintained. You can either pick a fork that includes a few more things, or just go with vanilla Firefox and ublockorigin. This extension alone (which is highlighted as a recommended extension on the mozilla add-ons website), on its default settings, already sets you up for most ads and privacy hostile sites.

If you want to go further you can look into noscripts, but it’s already way more involved, because it will break some sites until you look into what to allow or not.

So, you agree there’s no good reasons to use it, thanks.

Yet another reason to switch to brave

There is no good reasons to use brave. It’s based on chromium, propped up by suspicious individuals, uses predatory marketing tactics and have an history of not caring very much for privacy in favor of hijacking and inserting referrals. And that’s only the most prominent issues. Their last stunt of willingly adding annoying features and offering people to pay to remove them should tell you all you need to know.

I’m extremely cautious around Mozilla (a bit aggressive, even), and don’t have much trust in them for the future of Firefox at this point. And yet, it’s only worries for the future; as it currently goes, there’s some major annoyances in Firefox, but they still give most/all the settings needed to have a privacy-enabled browser (at least enough for most users).

And, obviously, I’d rather take “it currently works well but I’m worried about a potentially bad thing in the future” over “it’s broken now and operated by crooks”.

Vance criticizing something tells me the thing in question is probably correct one way or another.

I’m not sure having games made for you would be better than having games you can play. There’s plenty of shit out there that’s not marketed towards me anymore, but I still enjoy it. And yes, it’s rarely AAA games. Even more enjoyable AND cheaper.

Asked for comments, they kept saying “Rest assured there is no death ray plans”

(/j)

Big woop. Over the last year or so, it moved from “can reliably set a timer” to having to yell at it, multiple times, crossing an unexpected amount of hurdles, to get it to maybe understand that you want to set a timer, and god forbids that you want it with a specific name and duration. Oh, and the icing on the cake : it worked perfectly when it was locally running on the phone, and started going downhill when they pulled the plug on that.

I wonder why people aren’t sold on such wonderful tech.

People refer to this as the “udm=14” trick. Edit your search engine settings/add one (Firefox made this harder than it needs to be) so that the url is https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%25s, and it will always display the “web” page first, which have zero “automatic” content on it; only a list of sites. At least for now.

Or, use udm14.org, although it’s adding yet another site in the mix, which is unnecessary.

As long as this work. I’m using that, because it gives me actual, useful results most of the time, but there’s always a chance that google pulls the plug on that someday.

but at least you get the option to turn it off

That’s also an option with google, you know.

Would you look at that. They kept pushing layoff all the time for fake reasons to increase immediate profit, and now they’ll have another fake reason to do mass layoffs for maximum immediate profit.

What? AI? Who cares about that at this point. It’s like a pretty ribbon on a big gift box to shareholders.

They’ll fight, until the thing becomes Law, then they’ll stop fighting it because it would mean end of business. And ultimately, killing your business is not a good business decision, it turns out.

Some people making datacenter looks into way to recycle the extra heat, some uses it to heat local area (willingly). But all of this costs more than just, dumping it out, I guess.

This will help fighting the global colding we’ve had going on… wait, something’s off. Am I reading the charts upside down again?

Advising people to have safe backup of their work is not being a shill for anyone, it’s basic common sense.

Yeah, it’s illegal, but the premises where a bit murky too, so it cancels out.

If there’s a company policy against, who knows, sending any company’s IP to a random third party known for shitting on both license terms and their own ToS, having your work marked like this is a big red flag. And since it “accidentally” happened to everyone, either you dismiss all the suspected bogus entries and let the rats in, or you have to carefully review everything.

It’s big trouble either way.

no one is jumping to Vim

I’m seriously thinking about going back to VIM. At this point the only thing holding me back is that I like the file tree view of GUI tools. It’s not much.

I looked into “lightweight” alternative, but their PR and “features” make them seems almost worst than vscode. Zed in particular; people praise it for being “simple”, but the biggest upside seems to be “GPU accelerated” and “not as sluggish as vscode” which, ok, I guess, but I don’t think an IDE needs to be GPU accelerated and vscode don’t feel sluggish at all even on my modest first gen NUC so…

While I understand the sentiment, this have nothing to do with vscode, which you can perfectly use on Linux and with whatever cvs you want.