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  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@beehaw.orgLibreWolf remains AI-free!
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    5 days ago

    LibreWolf default settings are kind of annoying for someone who lives alone and no one else has physical access to their desktop. I don’t need to be logged out of everything and have my history wiped every time.

    I finally tried LibreWolf today and gave up after about an hour of getting annoyed that my less-secure preferences wouldn’t stick and stay. I don’t know, maybe I’m not the target audience, but was finally thinking of giving a Firefox fork a shot and it mostly just annoyed me because I am not necessarily looking for something so ultra secure that it’s deleting all the history and shit every time the browser closes. I feel like having cookies persist isn’t something I should have to allow on a site-by-site basis when I want to stay logged into like 30 different sites, including local sites on my LAN that I manage personally.



  • I mean, sure. But corporate democrats have been fighting for what amounts to a band-aid on a system that is bleeding out and needs 50 stitches and hospitalization while the conservatives are basically fighting for shooting the patient in the head to end their misery.

    Sure, they’ve been fighting for better than the Republicans have, but… that’s not a whole lot better. Medical costs have been one of the top reasons for bankruptcy for literally decades now. Michael Moore’s film “Sicko” came out in 2007, (when it had been a problem fr a long time already) almost 20 years ago, and the ACA has barely moved the needle on medical bankruptcies. I’m not saying the ACA is bad, I’m saying it’s never been close to enough, and we need to stop patting democrats on the back for sucking up to the corporate stooges that fund them to give us half-ass solutions.

    Once again, sure, it’s better than the bullet in the brain that the Republicans want to give people like myself, whose medical costs without insurance are over $18k a month. But other countries literally don’t let the pharmaceutical companies gouge their citizens like this to begin with, nor do they allow medical insurance companies to make profit from denying care. Those are purely American issues, and ones that the democrats consistently bend over for corporate interests to leave on the table instead of going as far as they can to make sure people like me aren’t stuck in financial limbo because of a disease I didn’t ask for and certainly didn’t do anything to get, just that random ass cancer in my forties that was unpreventable.

    I’m glad for not having a bullet in my brain, but let’s not pretend we can’t ask for better than what the democrats offer.


  • I mean, fair take, but sometimes more thoughtful and forward-looking companies aren’t looking for fast return on investment.

    It could be argued similarly for Valve that all their investment in Linux ecosystems and open source in general when Linux desktops account for just over 3% of all desktop installations while Windows sits comfortably at 70% of the desktop market, just isn’t a lucrative investment.

    While in the long-term it frees Valve from the restrictions of the Microsoft environment and from the risk that Microsoft would make it more and more difficult for Steam to integrate as they try to make their own game store and Game Pass the premiere gaming experience on Windows, those are future risks that are speculation, even though they are rational speculation.

    Investing so deeply in open source isn’t a lucrative thing for Valve to be doing, but they’re looking at long-term goals.

    In other words, I could see the goal here being something like protecting the Bitwarden brand and making sure more people are using their official client than unofficial with the goal of making it easy to use and enticing people into the general Bitwarden ecosystem long-term. Ten years from now, people who have been running Bitwarden Lite might have a lot more options for integration and paid services than people simply using Vaultwarden.

    Is that lucrative? No, but it’s still pursuing brand-name dominance and keeping people officially within their ecosystem as a way to grow userbase and give users more features (including paid ones) that may not be immediately available or easily integrated with Vaultwarden.








  • The former US secretary of state described it as “serious problem for democracy”, remarking that when she attempted to have “reasonable discussions” with young people, it was challenging because “they did not know history, they had very little context, and what they were being told on social media was not just one-sided, it was pure propaganda".

    Look, lady, at some point the prior history doesn’t matter. The history we’re experiencing right the fuck now is a single day, a single attack, by Hamas responded to by two fucking solid years of calculated extermination and nullification of the Palestinian people.

    It doesn’t fucking matter what happened thirty god damned years ago when the average age in Gaza before Oct 7th 2023 was fucking sixteen! Guess what Hillary you fucking idiot, 16 year olds haven’t been alive long enough to have had anything to fucking do with that history!

    The fucking audacity of her ass to be talking about the “history!”

    Of all people, this bitch deserved to lose to Trump. She even used her connections to promote him in the media because she was fucksure she would end up in the general election against Jeb Bush. That’s what you get for fucking over Bernie Sanders!




  • The only thing that will be absolutely obnoxious in the wake of his passing would be all the moral scolds in the “center” lecturing anyone celebrating. Same with all the “independents”.

    I don’t know, the MAGAs who claim Trump isn’t really dead, that he went into hiding because the Illuminati were trying to “get him,” and will tell us all about their Trump/Elvis sightings near Area 51 for the next forty years will probably be pretty obnoxious, too.





  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@beehaw.orgNeedy Programs
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    30 days ago

    All of this is so on the nose except the updates bit.

    Sorry, mate, but if you skip an update because you don’t feel like keeping up and it’s because there’s a massive security flaw that leaves your PC up to easy compromise, that’s genuinely a bad thing.

    Yeah, most times updates are just new features but if you’re not paying attention you have no idea if it’s a feature update or a security update, do you?

    If only you have physical access to your computers and they’re firewalled properly sure, maybe it’s safe enough, but the vast majority of people don’t have things firewalled properly at the very least.

    I don’t know, that’s the only bit that seems a bit short-sighted to me, especially when it comes to more casual users.