Sounds sooooo second class to me. I only deal with first class languages so I can enjoy my curry with a satisfying closure 🎩 👌

Now’s the time to start saving for a discount GPU in approximately 12 months.

I remember when the web didn’t have JavaScript.

Honestly, though it was much worse back then. I prefer the variety and features of modern browsing over (mostly) plain text.

What I wish we could do away with on the web is videos. Let’s go back to just images and text, thanks. Animations are fine though 👍

It may sound pendantic but that person is correct: It’s not stealing. Stealing involves taking a physical thing away from its owner. Once the thing is stolen the owner doesn’t have it anymore.

If you reproduce someone’s art exactly without permission that’s a copyright violation, not stealing. If you distribute a derivative work (like using img2img with Stable Diffusion) without permission that also is a (lesser) form of copyright violation. Again, not stealing/theft.

TL;DR: If you’re making copies (or close facsimiles) of something (without permission) that’s not stealing it’s violating copyright.

I mean… If it’s good or clever content do we really care?

Simple example every Comcast customer suffers with: Comcast services (including VoIP and streaming TV) don’t count towards the monthly bandwidth cap. So if you watch 2 seasons of a show in 4k via Comcast’s streaming service that doesn’t count towards the cap but if you watch the very same show via Netflix it’ll put you over your bandwidth cap, resulting in additional fees.

It’s an egregious violation of network neutrality and, IMHO an abuse of their natural monopoly. Internet providers should not be allowed to also sell content/streaming services or own media companies! It’s a huge conflict of interest that will always disfavour the consumer.

Furthermore, when Comcast streams their own services they get priority over all other traffic; even traffic going to your neighbor’s Internet connections. So if your neighborhood is experiencing a bandwidth crunch and your neighbor decides to watch some 4k stream via Comcast’s service the back-end routers will prioritize that traffic over any and all other traffic which will interfere with everyone’s else’s Internet connections. So if your video stream suddenly drops to 480p for no reason (wired connection, no bad weather) it’s probably because someone in your neighborhood decided to watch something via Comcast’s streaming service.

My work says I’m a, “security architect II”. I believe he physical world manifestation of that would be… the guy that plans where the security guards should stand? Actually, I’m “II” so I’m probably more like the guy who gets escalated to when the guys that do do that need help 🤷

Never say never. AI is generating code from your code.

The “limits of humans” I was referring to were things like:

• How long can you push a deadline before someone starts to get really mad
• How many dark patterns you can cram into an app before the users stop using it
• The extremes of human stupidity

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Arguably, a much more important thing for the students to learn is the limits of humans. The limits of the computer will never be a problem for 99% of these students or they’ll just learn on the job the types of problems they’re good at solving and the ones that aren’t.

the best browser is the one which suits the best your needs and use

This is objectively false. The best browser is the one that gets the job done and doesn’t have endless absolutely terrible security vulnerabilities (e.g. IE before they switched to Edge which is just Chrome) or intentionally leaks your private information (e.g. Edge leaking every site you visit to Bing and Chrome doing the same but with Google).

Also, from a performance perspective “the best” is obviously objectively measurable and Firefox just took the crown which is what the post is all about. Realistically though both Chrome and Firefox have had completely acceptable levels of performance (imperceptible differences to normal humans) for like a decade. So it’s probably not that big a deal.

A bigger deal for normies using their browser IMHO is memory utilization which is a much bigger factor than, “how fast does the browser load and run HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?” Just ask Google how much more memory efficient Firefox is! LOL

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=firefox+vs+chrome+memory+utilization

Firefox Sync works to keep your logins/passwords in sync on both Android and iOS (and the desktop version too, obviously).

Firstly: Firefox can import your Chrome passwords and if you enable/sign up for Firefox Sync (which is better–privacy wise–than your Google account) you’ll be able to use them with Firefox mobile (it’ll sync your settings and bookmarks too, obviously).

Secondly: You can export your logins from Chrome to a .csv file (hamburger menu in the settings… somewhere; I forget, sorry) which can also be imported into Firefox (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-login-data-file) and other password managers. I literally just tested importing both Chrome’s and Firefox’s saved logins into a KeePassXC database and it worked fine (it didn’t automatically figure out which field was what though so I had to manually tell it which column was the password, URL, etc but no big).

Firefox also has the same .csv password export feature BTW.

it’s easy when you login to your browser and you’re partially already authenticated automatically sending your personal, private information everywhere else.

FTFY

we left reddit because censoreship hurr durr

The people leaving Reddit because of censorship did so long ago. These dissatisfied/censored people have a new home anyway… They can view child porn, people being brutally tortured/murdered, and make all the threats of violence they want on Twitter now. They just have to be careful not to insult the, “free speech absolutist” dictator or he’ll have them banned.

The mass migration today is because of dissatisfaction with Reddit’s decision to end 3rd party apps and specifically, the way in which they handled it. The dishonesty, the heavy-handed dictator-like seizure of protesting communities, the complete disregard for accessibility/moderation tools, etc.

To claim that people are leaving Reddit “because of censorship” isn’t just missing the point, it’s flat out wrong.

Carefully moderated… echo chamber

Why equate one with the other? You can have a completely unmoderated or poorly moderated echo chamber. Conversely you can have a carefully/poorly moderated or completely unmoderated communities that aren’t echo chambers.

The concepts are orthogonal.

In fact, I’d argue that completely unmoderated communities are the most likely to end up as echo chambers. Because only those with extreme views would stick around so the natural end state is a community of extremists. Example: 8chan

Some of us are old enough to remember IRC networks splitting up and the Fediverse de-federation drama feels exactly the same. It is an aspect of human nature that cannot be solved with technical solutions.

It is completely normal for groups of humans to split up and segregate themselves from each other with some individuals belonging to multiple groups simultaneously. It’s how we evolved and it’s how the Fediverse (and whatever comes after) will evolve going forward.

Every instance is like a political party without exclusivity. You can belong to multiple at once. Rather than working on identity migration my opinion is that they should instead come up with a way for people to login to each other’s instances with different accounts. Just like I can login to Disqus or StackExchange with my Google account I should be able to login to Beehaw.org with my programming.dev account and vice versa.

This would be very convenient from an end-user’s perspective since they could access posts and comments on the instance where they live and links to communities could be handled in an absolute, universal format and it wouldn’t even matter (from the end user’s perspective). Because if they loaded /c/whatever on some Lemmy instance or /m/whatever on a Kbin instance they’d still be posting using their Beehaw.org account (or wherever they have an account). Links to external communities could just load those external communities and it wouldn’t need so much data to be federated between all instances (e.g. comments and votes).

In regards to moderation: Even if Beehaw.org banned my account from posts/comments that doesn’t really have any bearing on whether or not it should accept my account from a login perspective (it’s better than having banned users browsing anonymously–because then the instance owners will know they’re there). It would also allow moderators at Beehaw.org (or any other instance) to ban specific users from other instances much more easily because those users would likely stay at that other instance rather than have multiple accounts anywhere and everywhere that would also need to be banned.

“Quit your Whining” then proceeds to whine.

Ackshually it was “quit the pseudointellectual whining” 😁