Some people care about privacy.

gorhill already strongly suggests to use Firefox, but to drop Google Chrome altogether would leave millions of people stranded.

Mozilla Corporation is a corporation, and subsidiary to the Mozilla Foundation.

Most don't. Edge is increasingly becoming more popular as consumers switch to Windows 11.

I will never understand lawns.

soccer

"Male" soccer is not restricted to men. Both genders are allowed. There are only men because they outperform women.

edit: Although FIFA forbids women from access to the main World Cup. Also the statement above is true generally, but not everywhere.

Legal threats come from lawyers, while this email comes from an engineer.

Twitter could go permanently offline tomorrow as well, for all we know.

Did you report the comment?

Additional information: he and his partner had arrested a man, who was handcuffed and unarmed in the back of the car. That is whom the policeman thought opened fired at him.

It is a little scary. Machine learning / LLMs consumes insane amounts of power, and it's under everyone's eyes.

I was shocked a few months ago to learn that the Internet, including infrastructure and end-user devices, already consumed 30% of world energy production in 2018. We are not only digging our grave, but doing it ever faster.

To despise the State of Israel is not being antisemitic.

I understand it's not a good look, but:

1. Reddit used to auto-assign admins to unmoderated subreddits
2. It has nothing to do with his trustworthiness

And this a problem only in the monopolistic culture of the US. I can't name a single EU State with broadband data cap.

There is a FSFE campaign that claims all publicly-funded institutions should only use Free Software.

Yes, he explains not only this but also other lock mechanisms in the talk.

For example, one based on datetime. It's quite crazy.

Never idolise. Courts simply apply the laws, and good laws were likely written by inspired people and approved in a good political climate. These two conditions are not static.

Brave is a better choice than Google Chrome / Opera / Edge by miles.

Still, the only ethical choice is Firefox.

IRC allows archiving

You can find a dozen other reasons to terminate your Netflix subscription, for sure.

If you can bear your parents, don't move out. Would you bet that half of your coworkers live with their parents?

"Moving out" in an idealised event that just does not make sense anymore today.

Everyone who disagrees with you is.

History shows that protests worked either when the vast majority of the population striked, or when they were violent.

I am quite disillusioned that gathering in a single square for a few hours with some signs will ever change anything.

I recommend to read this response of a developer for Emacs to a user asking why stick to Microsoft's Github: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-04-30-re-emacs-github-freedom-microsoft/

Indeed. I wish your comment was the most visible here.

Signal and Threema can be all about privacy, but they are still companies which can make money only by keeping their service as centralized as possible.

Decentralised messaging like Matrix, XMPP, Jami, have no issue with interoperability.

Most probably you will never be promoted anyway.

That's not the issue.

There are events for women, and there are events for everyone.

Women are underrepresented in chess, hence they have their own exclusive events.

Mein Kampf is sold even in Germany end Austria, because we recognize its relevance in our History.

I don't understand what you want accomplish by destroying texts.

SpaceX is the main contractor of NASA.

World of Goo!

We do smash our balls, in fact. That's why cyclist pants have balls protection.

Firefox does default to Google. If you see DDG, it's likely an edit by your distribution.

Also, Brave Search is a real alternative. It's one of the few engines aside from Google, Bing and Yandex that has its own crawler.

Almost every Windows user will tell you that Windows sucks

I've read some lemmy users dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising and the pixel 7a you're supposed to install graphene on because it's from google

There is no misleading advertisement. Go with Graphene if you own a Pixel (from Pixel 5 up) or you can find a cheap second-hand one.

there is so much false information about this OS, namely compatible phones that simply don't work

Care to share which devices are you talking about? If a device is officially supported by the latest LineageOS version, it works.

What you describe at the end is how it became a monopoly.

The beginning is how a monopoly acts.

It's not paranoia, it's an issue of how Li-ion batteries work.

In 2022 in the EU+EFTA, 106446 pedestrians were injured, 3785 were killed.

The point of non-free licensed software is that you cannot improve it.

I believe the idea behind different servers not meshing but federating, so they can have different focuses and different moderation stances.