The current Mozilla seems to believe that there is "good" advertising and "bad" advertising, and that furthermore there is "good" ad tracking/ad surveillance and "bad" ad tracking/ad surveillance, and all they have to do is do a lot of the "good" advertising and "good" surveillance and somehow this will cause there to be less of the "bad" advertising and surveillance. As if there is a limit on how much advertising it is possible to fit in the world.
There's a web UI that uses the (chromium-only) Bluetooth API @ github.com/linssenste/instax-l…
And a Python library @ github.com/javl/InstaxBLE
I’ve been sober for a few years, but I miss bars. Bars were a big part of my life for a long time. Maybe I just miss third places. Anyway, there aren’t many third places here that aren’t bars.
It’s different for every sober person, but I am personally ok being in bars and around real booze. I’m not at risk of going back. So I have a few bars that I like going to where I know they have enough NA options for me. It fills some kind of social hole for me.
I genuinely believe Mozilla thinks it's acting in the public interest by moving further into the ad-tech ecosystem, claiming that it's doing so in a privacy-protecting way.
But the history of ad-tech is that it swallows everything it touches.
Mozilla + ad-tech = ad-tech.
how to write low-power software, it would seem
previously
- write fast software, so the CPU can finish quickly and sleep more
- minimize wakeups and heartbeats, so the CPU can stay asleep more
- don't touch the AVX-512 unit unless you really need it, so it can sleep more
- etc.
now:
- don't use AI. everything else is noise.
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Can Sir Tim transform the Web to its golden age where individuals and not mega-corps set the tone with Solid Protocol? He certainly hopes so.
It's funny how things go. Lots of people report being unable to focus for long or constantly jumping from topit to topic. Someone posted a gutenberg link on Mastodon and I just caught myself 15% through a book. I sometimes feel like I have attention surplus, rather than deficit.
This is not necessarily a good thing. I can become really focused to the point of neglecting things like eating, sleeping, or urgent tasks that I don't want to be interrupted by.
A few parts on my Framework laptop crapped out and it finally needed to go into a repair shop for fixes and upgrades. Neatly, all the parts I needed were around $100, and the repair bill was ~$120, taking less than an hour to diagnose and fix.
Not that $220 is something everyone can afford, but I love that I got those repairs made quickly on a laptop, not exactly a form factor known for its fixability. I thought I'd regret abandoning the repairability of a desktop, but the fact that my Framework can be pulled apart, cleaned, and fixed makes it a much better option for me.
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Now that they are using hCaptcha I find myself locked out of both of my paypal accounts. Since their accessibility cooky doesn't want to work in any browser I'm going to probably have to use aira.
Or, has anyone had any luck using AI to beat this?
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Die Staatsanwaltschaft erließ Strafbefehl wegen fahrlässiger Tötung gegen den Autofahrer, der #Natenom getötet hat.
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Wichtiges Signal. Strafe mutet gering an. Täter legte trotzdem Einspruch ein.
Hoffentlich belebt es weiter die Debatte zur Sicherheit ALLER Verkehrsteilnehmenden. Hoffentlich auch die Forderung,den #Führerschein regelmäßig zu erneuern. Der Täter war 78.
Auch meine Mutti glaubte sich im hohen Alter fahrfit. Ein spektakulärer Unfall ging zum Glück glimpflich aus.
(If the EU took some money they burn on blockchain experiments or dumb AI shit to fund a Firefox organization that would be a great use of my taxes!)
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- šetrím čas
- nočný spoj trvá a nemám ho za rohom
- nočný spoj je grc niekedy
...ale mesačne naň miniem celkom značnú čiastku a už by som tomu chcel vyhnúť. Neviem ako.
Jezdím obojí, zkusim ti to v rychlosti porovnat:
#eKoloběžka
- všude se vejdeš - převoz v kufru či busem je velkej benefit
- umí bejt kurevsky rychlá
- dopravíš se i když jsi línej
- byť se tolik nehejbeš, stále to znamená, že nesedíš v autě či buse
- v případě průseru se z koloběžky podstatně líp vystupuje, než z kola
#Kolo
- míň obratný, za to podstatně jistější v horších povětrnostních podmínkách
- když chceš, máš i nákladovej prostor
- podstatně víc pohybu (což může bejt výhoda i nevýhoda)
- u elektrokola si můžeš celkem volně vybírat mezi režimy "jsem úplně línej" a "chci jet na břišní puding"
Kolo mě baví, ale kdybych si z tohohle měl vybrat jedno, bude to koloběžka. Na koloběžce se totiž směle dopravíš i třeba nemocnej - to na kole úplně nechceš.
Hubert Figuière
in reply to mcc • • •mcc
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •mcc
in reply to mcc • • •They are wrong, and obviously wrong, on nearly every count here.
Advertising is simply bad.
The thing that makes their "good" advertising supposedly "good" is some very wonky set of very mathematical properties about the exact way in which they violate our privacy. As if when advertising makes our life worse we are doing statistics on it, to decide if our unhappiness is morally pure.
And when you add Mozilla's advertising to the existing "bad" advertising, all you get is more advertising.
Don Marti
in reply to mcc • • •good point. I am mainly disappointed that management didn't read their own list archives—did Internet freedom people compromise with any of the other possible dystopia timelines?
Clipper Chip (US government) no, we have e2e encryption now
Codec patent cartel (huge IT companies) no, we have free media formats
DRM mandate "Fritz Chip" (US government + big media) no, we dodged this one too
Can't beat this stuff with compromises that leave supporters feeling creeped out
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Don Marti • • •@dmarti About "free media formats" there a few things they botched, self inflicted.
1. EME to allow DRM. Not an uptick into the market share.
2. some initiative didn't work with Firefox without proprietary codec because one part of the company had to clue (won't give the name of the initiative)