wizardbeard

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.

If you take nothing else from this thread: That's not "just autism".

And the goal of working with a professional wouldn't be to "delete your autism" like holy shit lmao that is so off base I would think you were a shitposter if I hadn't met other people like you before.

There are dangerous thought patterns, shit that does nothing but erode your trust in the existence of an external reality. I don't have the proper words to describe the level of danger to yourself and those around you that you can cause if you don't believe foundational aspects of external reality.

This is really something you need to discuss with professionals.

Buddy, given your relatively basic questions and how you're posting to every single fucking vaguely relared community, I would highly suggest you do some studying on just... basic computer concepts and how to use them. Not sure what resources are out there anymore, but maybe some basic "these are the parts of a computer, these are programs and how they work" stuff from the 90s. They used to do middle school classes on how to properly use google and other seaech engines to find trustworthy information for citing in research papers. I seriously suggest you start there.

Then, after you understand the basics maybe you start trying to understand how all of that works in regards to security and the concept of trust in the software you install and run.

Spoiler alert: Computers are not designed with any sort of "zero trust" architecture like you seem to be shocked that they don't have. Things are not sandboxed, segmented, or otherwise prevented from accessing other stuff as a general rule.

This is why one of the bare minimum basics is "don't run anything you don't trust".

Someone who has back to back meetings scheduled for more than half their work day.

Thank you. So many people lately that think there's some magic "fix everything" button hidden in the neck of whatever top asshole is in power.

Doesn't take too deep a look at revolutions the world over to see that isn't the case.

This is great, but many many computer games simply do not grow with changes in hardware over time. That's not a console exclusive problem.

Outdated libraries, relying on features no longer supported by the OS, coding game elements reliant on the lack of speed of old hardware, automatic engine updates breaking old functionality.

The list goes on and on.

Don't forget "styrofoam walls painted to look like tunnels". Fucking looney tunes.

If someone's a piece of shit, whatever corporate mannerisms they do or don't pick up are not going to be what makes or breaks the fact they're a shit person.

Most still are/can be. Enough that I find it hard to believe people are missing out without podcasts through these paid services.