God dammit, and just as Google starts enforcing manifest 3. Maybe it’s time to stop doing this internet thing altogether. It had a pretty nice run but right now it’s just a propaganda and compliance tool…
Check out the gemini protocol and the small web, lots of rabbit holes there.
Geminispace is awesome. The (design of the) Gemini protocol ensures that it is immune to many of the issues that plague the web today.
Bring back ham radios.
Ah shit I’m too introverted to use my voice…
Data packets through radio?
Btw: Rattlegram is a Android/iOS app that can convert text to audio, which you can then play over a ham radio. You can use encryption before you paste the ciphertext into Rattlegram. (Encryption over radio is illegal in many jurisdictions tho… 🏴☠️)
Data packets through radio?
Software Defined Radio?
(Encryption over radio is illegal in many jurisdictions tho… 🏴☠️)
Unless the police do it.
Because they got a fucking licence
Us plebs don’t have the privilage
From my understanding, they’re pushing this shit on March 14th.
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Also our next lunar eclipse, at least in the USA.
US companies are not longer trustworth
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They’ve released an update, and I’m just generally confused: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/
I fully believe that they didn’t intend for it to sound so… all encompassing, but this update makes me even more confused. What data is “uploaded” to firefox? I just thought Firefox was the browser, not some website. Do they mean the services Mozilla offers?
This doesn’t make any sense to me either. Why do they need a license for what you type into Firefox if that data never gets shared with Mozilla?
I don’t know a single application that you need to give a license to so they can handle your data locally.
Exactly.
We’ve seen a little confusion about the language
Tastes like “I’m sorry you feel that way”
The privacy notice document lists how each data type is used. It includes in-browser ads on the new tab page, AI chatbots, and “to market our services”.
I’m glad I use a fork, even if it much more unstable. Kind of want servo to become stable and someone to make a browser based on that.
Igalia is currently working hard on making it easy to use Servo as an embeddable browser engine similar to how Chromium can be used.
The problems of doing that with Gecko, the browser engine that powers Firefox, is main reason why there are so few alternative browsers based on it.
Also because Blink is the best and most advanced engine. The problem of Chromium is only that it need to gut out the Google APIs before it is a valid base for an browser. Vivaldi does it, also degoogled Chromium and even EDGE (but in change filling it with a ton of M$ tracking APIs). The only alternative (Linux only) is the Konqueror Browser with the Grandfather of Blink, KHTML by KDE (German company).
The problem of using blink is that then you give more power to google. They are the ones developing it, so they can decide what goes in it… cough jpegxl cough…
Yes, Google can decide what goes in it, but because it’s FOSS, any other can decide what to delete from it. The power of Google isn’t Chromium, but the Chrome Store, it’s services, and all Websites which use Google APIs. Vivaldi has less relations with Google than Mozilla/Firefox, it don’t have third party investors or sponsors, like Mozilla, which depends on Google ads and money and recently also from another advertising company, loosing it’s independence with it.
I wasn’t talking about putting stuff in, I was talking about removing it. You say it’s open source, but google decides what contributions are added to the main repo. Even if you fork it, if it’s not in upstream, it won’t be used.
Jpegxl is a really cool image format that google hates for some reason. Every major company wanted chrome to support it, amazon, facebook, etc. but google said no, and guess what, no one can do anything about it. If you use blink you’re a slave to google.
