NostraDavid

Nonprofits can “own” for-profits.

One of the saner reasons for this structure is that the non-profit owns the things the for-profit works on. If the for-profit goes under, all things are still owned by the non-profit, so some large tech company can’t swoop in and yoink anything available.

This includes any and all data generated by the for-profit, which means your data is “safe”.

Soon, Firefox can block ads better than Chrome. Ads are annoying. I see Chrome losing at least a 5% of the market, if not more, to Firefox, just because they’re going to break uBlock Origin, and Firefox isn’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port

Because there’s going to be kids around here who have never seen this port (other than maybe on a Point Of Sale (POS) system?)

I just checked his Wikipedia page for his credentials. Worked for 9 years at NASA, of which 7 working on the Curiosity rover (yeah, the one that’s on Mars now).

I’d say that’s credentialed enough.

I too wish he did more complex stuff.

I haven’t used 8GB since… 2008 or so? TBF, I’m a power user (as are most people on any Lemmy instance, I presume), but still…

And sure, Mac OS presumably uses less RAM than Windows, but all the applications don’t.

I hope you can install Firefox, because The Googs is pushing for Manifest v3, which means no more functional adblock.

Linux or bust, babyyyyyy

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

I only watched it due to internet hype making me curious enough to check it out. If anyone reading this still hasn’t seen it: Just do it. Trust an internet stranger and just jump blindly into it. Do it. You will not regret it.

Digg used to look like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20100603035130/http://digg.com/

They updated it to this: https://web.archive.org/web/20101231083935/http://digg.com/news

And basically reduced the amount of user-content, to promote… their own stuff? I don’t remember what they replaced it with. Users got pissed; left for Reddit.

Now it looks like a typical corporate website: https://digg.com/

It’s “XCOM” nowadays. Since 2012, really.

Within the context of the meme it’s a guy with a mug and an exploitable sign on his table. Nothing more.

This shit sounds pretty tiring, IMO :/

I ran the PowerDelete tool last night to nuke my profile

Note that the profile only shows the last 1k comments - I did a GDPR request to get my data (took em a few weeks - they have a month the time to do so) and then used that data to find all my comments and replace a whole bunch of comments with GPT-generated bullshit about spez being a poopyhead.

I won’t pick up my shit and move, I’ll kill the plants, salt the earth and poison the well. Fuck 'em. It’s all for shittificating the site for YEARS.

I still charge to 100, but I use a slow charger, so my phone doesn’t start to spew flames while it’s charging. I wouldn’t be surprised if that helped as well (as heat is another battery killer).

I just can’t be bothered to handle that shit manually.

I’ve set Revanced to start on Subscriptions, instead of Home, so I’m not mentally spammed with whichever bullshit is “du jour”. I also disabled shorts, because it was too easy to lose an hours of 2 to that mental cancer (even if some shorts were great).

Disable shorts via You (lower right) > Cog (upper right) > Revanced (pretty low) > Shorts components (at the bottom) > Hide Shorts in feed (first option).

People are just nitpicking the meaning of the word Organization. Antifa is an organization in a very loose definition of the word. If you want to be more accurate, you’d call it a Network. Organizations (in the stricter sense) has a single leader and has a very tree-like structure with more power on top (like Corporations!), which Antifa obviously is not.

Though you’re correct in that Antifa is a “movement”.

Also yes, I AM incredibly salty about this.

ctrl-h still opens a useless sidebar, and ctrl-shift-h still opens a window like it’s 2006.

Boo! Stop giving me new “fresh” UIs and fix actual out-of-date shit!

Better how? I can’t message people when they’re offline, everything is completely boring text, no images, it’s not clear how I can easily setup my own server, everything feels archaic.

I tried using it before Discord was even a thing, and I already thought it quite sucked. If you think it’s great, then good on you for knowing everything inside and out, but the discoverability with any IRC client tends to be in the negatives. It feels awful to use.

General tip: https://web.archive.org/save/<url goes here> (including http://) to save a page. We used to be able to spam save, but they’ve implemented some throttling there, so you can’t save the entirety of your personal website all at once, but oh well.

I requested my data (because your regular comments page only goes up to 1k comments) and replaced all my data with something semi-negative (generated by ChatGPT, because I’m lazy like that).

I really should just delete my account, but I somewhat still like the programming subreddit - about the last bastion that hasn’t completely gone to shit over the years.

That includes lemmy, right?

Right?