m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one
- Experimental PPC-related (and hosted) instance — now with ✨snac2✨, so I hope it won't be down 90% of time 😏
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Joined Nov 2020
@bohwaz
Some think that I go way over the top, but I want to have as little Google in my life as possible. I do not consider it an open format: it only has one widely used implementation — the one developed and wholly controlled by Google.
I don't think we should depend on Google for codecs too, especially ones providing minimal compression benefits.
Now that JPEG XL and AV1 exist — better both compression-wise and in terms of governance, I see no point in adopting either WebP or VP9.
@SteveBellovin
@kevinrothrock
Exactly my thoughts — the hardware might be still more than enough for most tasks, but support for is unlikely to last longer than 3 more years.
And messing with Linux drivers built using reverse-engineering… is just not for everyone 🤷
@slashdot
The headline is kinda clickbait — the interview is rather vague on what exactly those mistakes were and just states that hardware and software development are different in nature and in the end he even claims that RISC-V is still good, it's just not where ARM and x86 are yet 🤷
m0xEE
boosted
@pixellight I'm torn between wanting to go back to Web1 and browsers that were designed to just display websites and just wanting to go full Butlarian at this point.
@moonchild Self-sufficient? 🤔
@cuchaz
Okay, it looks like I'm staying on FF 118.2.0 on my Android and Windows devices — the last release to have a preference to disable WebP support, and on 124 on my Linux boxes — on which I could patch the option to disable WebP back in and build it myself, building FF for Android and Windows seems like going into too much trouble.
After 124 my userChrome.css hacks started breaking and I stopped updating — now I see that it's not even worth it. Thanks for bringing this to attention!
m0xEE
boosted
Yup, it's true. Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are opt-in by default and announced with very little fanfare, so most people might not even know they're there. 
Well, this is me telling you they're there. You might want to go ahead and take a minute to opt out.
Here's the little helpful explainer from Mozilla about how it all works:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
My read seems to be: Mozilla says website surveillance is generally bad and should be defended against. Cool. No notes. Firefox actually has a lot of nice anti-tracking and privacy features there and that's the main reason why I like Firefox.
But, and I swear I'm not even joking a little bit here, Mozilla goes on to say that advertisers might be happier if Firefox itself just tracked you directly and sent activity reports back to them.
Doesn't that sound great?
Now, to Mozilla's credit, they claim to anonymize the activity reports. And you can still meaningfully opt out of the whole system.
But WTF, mate?! I use Firefox *because* it fights against adtech. Or at least it used to. Now, Mozilla just lets adtech right in the front door and hopes you won't notice? 
Well, we noticed. Mozilla is damage and we need to route around it.
@ThatCrazyDude
What about Russians? Russian Postal Service is the best parcel delivery service in the whole galaxy!
Your package might never arrive in one piece… or at all — not even in five months. The child of the head of your local postal office might need that laptop more than you do😂
E.g. here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTlXYZArNs
This package was of course NOT supposed to contain a tin can.
There used to be lots of funny compilations of how they deliver your stuff on YouTube — can't find them anymore🤔
OMG, it's Windows NT for PowerPC made boot on PowerPC Macs: https://github.com/Wack0/maciNTosh
What an abomination! 🤩
(Sadly, I don't have a compatible model, but some of you might want to give it a try)
@munir
I originally wanted to respond with Space Runaway Ideon, but I realised that it's not even that funny 😅
@rq
It can glow in infrared spectrum only if you prefer that — less distracting. How about that? 😏
@Hyolobrika
m0xEE
boosted
yeah so microsoft just fucking lied about not forcing copilot, cos of course they did https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-10-gets-copilot-as-part-of-mandatory-update
@davidgerard
I only have one Windows machine and I've been postponing updates on it for months now. It was rather long ago and I started wondering: why am I even doing this? Thanks for reminding me! 😄
@newt
Switch to Vim, start helping children in Uganda.
@dcc @ruin @lunarised
Aren't you more into Zeldas? 🤭
Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage: https://theregister.com/2024/07/12/chromium_api_system_information/
"…info about the processor you're using, so that whatever service is being provided – such as video-conferencing with Google Meet – could, for instance, be optimized and tweaked so that it doesn't overly tax your computer"
Why not always do that though? 🤔 Me having extra computing power doesn't mean that Google can waste it on whatever they deem fit!
@kaia
> dodgy Asuka
You IRL vs you on Insta 😏
@spacemagick
Wasn't this always the inspiration for Cybertruck? 😂
- Experimental PPC-related (and hosted) instance — now with ✨snac2✨, so I hope it won't be down 90% of time 😏
- https://nosh0b10.m0xEE.Net/m0xEE
None
Just in case: DMs/PMs simply don't exist on this instance as concept — don't use them, use the other instance if you absolutely have to, or send an email to any address at m0xEE.Net or .Com or .Org, but I prefer keep most communication public.
Joined Nov 2020
