I tried Librewolf for a while and found it to be a bit too much for me when all I really want is Firefox without AI. The privacy options are probably great but not for me.
Just installed waterfox. First impression is that I am super happy to be bock to the previous Firefox theme - it takes less space and looks nicer in my opinion. Seems promising. Thanks for the recommendation! :)
Did it have niche communities that had successfully moved over, but that were not featured on the front page?
Sorry if it's a stupid question, I just always had the impression I didn't understand what I was looking at and now it's gone and I'm genuinely curious.
I just checked the front page a couple of times out of curiosity, but I never bothered really checking it out too much. I was always surprised how dead it looked from the outside, but that might have been the wrong impression.
Edit: As an illustration, the last snapshot of Digg on internet archive a couple of days ago shows a front page where almost all posts had less than 30 upvotes, and the only two posts breaking above 50 are tech nostalgia posts about a Windows 98 screensaver (105 upvotes, 9 comments) and some young woman reviewing instagram 15 years ago (59 upvotes, 6 comments). Fitting for a platform from the past, worrying if they wanted to be part of the future.
In terms of activity, Digg thus never seemed to be able to keep up with more famous and well-funded competitors such as eviltoast.org. Never mind that a lot of the users seemed to have been trolls upset about being banned by Reddit. SEO is probably part of the problem, but it seems unlikely to be the full story. I think their problem is that it never took off.
Wonderful. "The air defence systems worked perfectly well, and those in the area hit by foreign missiles should be executed for implying that it didn't".
One of the most beautiful songs Shane MacGowan ever wrote, and therefore in effect one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Lovely cover, though it stays quite close to the original.
Managed to refuse... In more than half of the cases. That does not look good. By any reasonable standard failing in one of a thousand would be disasterous.
Yeah, I find that the point is rarely well made and it's often because the whole argument is a bit confused. People want to present it as being easier than it is.
Open registrations on the fediverse is a problem in general. Trolls abuse it to make accounts specifically to harass specific users. Those not being harassed will not notice this - before the "fetch all replies" feature was introduced they wouldn't even see the replies. And because it seems so much better than other platforms unless you're actively being targeted, you'll have minority women or whatever raising the problem and a bunch of white men will respond that they have no idea what they're talking about and that there is no problem and that they should just block the trolls. Blocking the trolls is just not efficient if they keep popping up all over the place.
One way to avoid this as a server admin is to defederate instances with open registrations that are being used in this way. But Mastodon.social is too big for this strategy to really be viable.
Of course, open registrations is also key to people bothering signing up in the first place. People are not used to resistance, and they don't want to write a letter of motivation to sign up for social media. So the issue is not easily solved. Mastodon is working on better moderation tools. Hopefully they'll manage to address it that way.
relies on the supplier being truthful with their documentation for their production
So the supermarket needs documentation and to take precautions, because they are to a certain extent responsible for the legality of the stuff they are selling.
In the real world supermarkets don't just pick up carrots from some random guy showing up with a trailer full of them. In online markets, this is closer to how it works. Those running and profiting off online platforms should be accountable for what they sell. If Amazon lists electrical products that don't meet fire safety standards on their website they should be held accountable for selling these products, even if they only act as middle men.
If companies can just take the money without any responsibility we're fucked.
Honestly I think this is the greatest thing about the MTV performance. They're at the top of their fame, are asked to perform at MTV, and take it as an opportunity to showcase other songwriters they appreciate rather than themselves. Helped teenage me get into a lot of stuff that has stuck with me though the years.
Absolutely. For me it's one of those albums where I feel like I make the song injustice by listening to it in isolation. Everything just seems to fit together somehow.
It's [performed] by Nirvana. Fair enough I'd say, especially since Kurt is very careful to give credit to all original performers/songwriters in MTG Unplugged.
This cover is what got me into Bowie in the first place. Love both versions equally I'd say.
I think it would be reasonable if this was a problem of small indie titles that do not have a publisher and basically wouldn't exist without Steam. If Valve allows for content on their platform they have an obligation to ensure this content is legal. If a supermarket cooperates with a local farmer to sell their produce directly without middle men, it's partly their responsible if the produce is made using illegal pesticides.
However, it seems unreasonable when it's about stuff like Forza and FIFA. Then sue Microsoft and EA, for fucks sake. These games have publishers.
Det er iallfall veldig kult at det fortsatt er Amerikanere som snakker norsk! Det er jo ikke så mange av oss, så morsomt at det finnes en gruppe Nordmenn som ikke er norske ute i verden.
Vokste du opp med noe av norsk kultur? Lefse eller rømmegrøt?
Og har du sett filmen "John: The Last Norwegian Cowboy"?
The first episode of Twin Peaks offers a wonderful display of American Norwegian as it sounded in the 90s - there's Norwegian investors in the episode, and they hired local actors to play the part. They indeed sound like they're straight out of the 1920s.
Apparently it was added in GIMP in 1999 to sample that bitmaps could be used as brushes, and nobody bothered to remove it. At this point I guess there would be an outrage if they did.
The SPD turned into a third way economically liberal party around the same time Tony Blair did the same to Labour in England, and they haven't really reinvented themselves since. They're not necessarily evil but they're certainly not a progressive force. Infuriatingly the SPD had already won their election on a traditional social democratic platform, and just decided to change course for shits and giggles. At least Blair won an election, making the whole fuckup at least democratically rooted.
The CDU is at its core classical Christian Democrats. Their voter base is not bad people, just normal folks who are not particularly progressive but not necessarily backwards either. Remember it was Merkel from the CDU (alongside Swedish social democrats) that was the biggest proponent of humanity and solidarity when a bunch of asylum seekers arrived in 2015 - "wir schaffen das" and all that. Ironically Merkel's biggest mistake was her softness towards Russia, which is a stereotypical fault of left wing parties...
The leadership of the CDU has taken a turn to the right since Merkel, but there's still plenty of reasonable people within the party. And there's plenty of fools in the SPD. I wouldn't trust either of them to do the right thing, but I wouldn't be surprised when they occasionally do either.
My most recent ThinkPad also overheated an insane amount at whatever use I could put it through, and the fan was constantly running full speed. It was like that from day one, and there was no dust or anything, it was just a terrible machine.
In six years I have burnt through two Lenovo ThinkPads. In the first the USB C charging port malfunctioned, and it turns out the charging port is soldered directly to the motherboard so they had to replace the whole thing. Ever since I got it back from repairs it enters into kernel panics all the time, no matter which distro I install.
I was in the middle of writing my thesis so I had no time for repairs when it broke, so I ordered mysef a new ThinkPad. I had to choose between pre-assembled models, and I wanted a high resolution display, a good processor, and some other things. I got one with not quite as much RAM as I really needed, and found out when I wanted to upgrade that they had rendered upgrading RAM completely impossible in that model of ThinkPad. It wasn't even one of the new slim ones, but a pretty traditional bulky one. Complete bullshit.
Both of these laptops are recent enough that had they not sucked I would still be using them years from now. I'm happy Lenovo appear to be changing their ways, but I wouldn't touch another ThinkPad with a stick after my experiences with them.
Currently I'm using a Framework 13. Hopefully it'll last me decades.
You’d think the misguided appeasement policies of German chancellors reached its extreme with Markel’s foreign policy towards Russia, but Merz is here like “hold my beer”.
I tried Librewolf for a while and found it to be a bit too much for me when all I really want is Firefox without AI. The privacy options are probably great but not for me.
Just installed waterfox. First impression is that I am super happy to be bock to the previous Firefox theme - it takes less space and looks nicer in my opinion. Seems promising. Thanks for the recommendation! :)