wizardbeard

I would be surprised if this didn't hold true for many companies, especially when adjusting for inflation.

Yes, you're correct.

But that rollout doesn't make headlines like all the ones from the US government telling people to use encrypted messaging like WhatsApp or Signal. That's what got them to WhatsApp to begin with. FBI tells everyone very loudly to get off standard texting. They jump as a collective to where half of them already are.

As I've already alluded to: this has precisely zero to do with the technical aspects of security. Ease of use does matter (why pushing to Signal didn't work at the time the FBI spooked everyone), but only a little bit, and is overshadowed by momentum of where people already are.

I might be able to get my family off WhatsApp with the recent article about it being banned from (I think it was) Congress's phones.

But again, this isn't a technical problem where you can just point at what's obviously the better choice. There are complications of personal relationships, individual resistance to change, whether or not you're willing to train your family members, etc.

My grandmother is in her late 80s and it is astonishing that she can even manage WhatsApp to pariticipate in the family group chat. I'm not upending that and causing her the added stress, work, isolation if it fractures the family groip chat, and signing myself up for all that extra work to try and drag people to new platform and hold their hand through the bumps... just so I can be comfortably principled, using the best option, and trying to prevent Meta from getting info about me for a few more years that they likely are getting through other means.

I'll revisit as the elders age off.

I care about my privacy, but I've thought long and hard about my specific threat model and what is and isn't important enough for me to make a big deal out of. For me, this is an acceptable sacrifice.

Doesn't have to be that way for anyone else. Just has to work for me and my life. And it does.

Ultimately I'm just trying to give reasons why people are still on these platforms. I took the initial comment I responded to at face value. I'm not really looking to debate here, and my opinions don't invalidate anyone else's.

Shit would be sucked back up into his ass, then he'd eventually regurgitate food from his mouth. He'd eat shit with his ass and poop food with his mouth.

Shit would never touch his mouth, that'd be disgusting.

How is that fucking legal?

Give us this very sensitive information, we promise we won't misuse it, and we'll let you fiddle our AI as a treat.

Momentum of where friends and family are.

It's nice to be able to say "well they're not worth talking to then", but at some point I need to be able to reach my parents so they can babysit my daughter. Or be able to know that family will be in town and expecting me to be available. Or be able to have any way of knowing what life events are happening to my loved ones without having to wait for it to be brought up in casual conversation months later as if I should already know.

My extended family and friends do a poor job communicating on a good day. If I try to add another hurdle, I'm not the one who wins that fight.

Exactly. It's a matter of scale as well. The "No eat... only focus" isn't "Oh hey, I was having so much fun I'm having lunch an hour late". It's more like "I'm not sure I was even having fun, I was just FOCUSED. Now it's multiple hours past the time to eat, I'm in strong physical pain due to intense hunger and feel off balance/sick from the tanked blood sugar."

How often, how extreme, how much of it is a concious choice vs something you can't stop even if you are aware it's happening.

Much like other neurodivergences. Most symptoms will be stuff that even neurotypicals experience occasionally, which leads to "I feel sad sometimes too. Have you just tried being happy?".

You can block specific posters and communities, but so far keyword filtering is only possible through specific phone apps.

I think an instance admin was working on something for doing that natively though.

Holy fuck. I think C&H can give up depressing comics week. Zach won. Forever.

I mean, I'm not a dev and I haven't dove deep into the forks in a while. I just remember that they added something to their readme on github during one of the recent "firefox is dead" cycles that said that LibreWolf's focus of privacy first makes it poorly suited as a general use daily driver.

They were getting swamped with people looking for help because the defaults caused certain sites to not function or something.

Dude what the fuck?

So my bad, I didn't clock the PPA abbreviation being about the experimental adtech bullshit they pulled.

But I feel like my point still stands. Claims that Mozilla is harvesting user data should be (relatively) easily proven by audits of the source code. Disproving things tends to be harder, and I'm not the person making the claim.

I'm not "gatekeeping" shit. I'm saying that bold claims should have facts backing them up, and so far I've not been shown anything to back it up.

(Edit: to be clear, the claim that these local AI features would be an increase in user data being harvested)

You appear to have strong feelings about this, so I was hoping you had more than specious claims based entirely off a major gaffe.

I'm not saying that Firefox and Mozilla should get trust by default. I'm saying that if they are doing shit as heinous as what you claimed, there should be evidence that can be pointed to.

Even something as simple as "hey, their prepackaged versions aren't reproducable by compiling the source code".

There are enough people who care a lot about this, and the source code is right there. No one should have to speculate on any of what Mozilla is or isn't doing here as it's all out in the open.

We're pleased to announce we've made the tormaent nexus from the hit novel "Don't make the torment nexus".

I binged through WD1 and 2 in like a month last year. Great great fucking games, but I was surprised to hear that apparently it's weird to prefer the first one?

The second game is a fun playground, but the first one was such a tightly designed experience where nearly all of the elements reinforced each other in terms of design, setting, and plot.