@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.
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.
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)
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
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!
@selzero more "early teens" than "childhood" I suppose, but this one is the one I go back to the most, first playing on my Amiga 500 and having since bought it again on the Mega Drive and SNES: Flashback.
🇷🇺 The Russian authorities have begun slowing down YouTube in the country, a telecoms industry source has told Meduza.
The source said an earlier statement from Rostelecom warning YouTube may experience problems due to “technical problems” was inaccurate.
"Trump threatens to send Meta's Mark ‘Zuckerbucks’ to prison if reelected president":
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/11/trump_zuckerberg/
Relax, Zuckerbucks, no this time — as much as I want to see you in prison, I want to avoid any "peace talks" with Russia more. I have to admit though, Trump is getting much better at campaign promises 😅
🤡🇷🇺🤡 Russian lawmakers have called on the country’s largest lender Sberbank to remove a rainbow-colored unicorn from its bank cards for kids, saying that “rainbow symbols” are an attribute of the “international LGBT movement.” 🏳️🌈
Night Owls' Cognitive Function 'Superior' To Early Risers, Study Suggests https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/07/11/1749222/night-owls-cognitive-function-superior-to-early-risers-study-suggests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
These are liner notes of an album released in 2009! Sounds prophetic, ain't it? 😱
Here is a link to the album itself: https://archive.org/details/ACP047_Koen_Park_-_Computers_Are_Not_Our_Friends
I can't say anything about this particular one as I'm yet to listen to it, but Acroplane is one of my favourite record labels of all time. I highly recommend Wahn and Red Box Recorder among other artists — you can find their albums on archive.org too, free to download!
And here’s #MorphOS running on the 800 Mhz iBook G4. Looks great at 1024x768. Sure the laptop is chunkier than a MacBook Air but on this OS it’s is pretty snappy*
* that is if you stay away from the modern web, which WayFarer, the builtin WebKit browser will render correctly but 800 Mhz is nothing these days)
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