And this only just after they enabled a whole raft of add-ons in their mobile browser that have already stripped away so much shit from my daily browsing experience.
I switched last year when Google entered their new phase of ad tracker evil and I bet I wasn’t the only one. Feels to me like Firefox fucked with the money and they’re being brought to heel.
An investigation is being conducted into an apparent altercation between U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and her ex-husband Jayson Boebert at a restaurant, police in Silt, Colorado, confirmed Sunday....
Personally I love when Google Photos pulls together a cute album of my dog who had to be put down a few months back and hits me with that shit on a Monday morning.
I remember when Netscape was abandoned and open-sourced as Mozilla, and it was huge and bloated as slow as hell. And out of that came a project to just pull out the browser part of Mozilla and make it super fast and as portable. I remember a series of early alphas, and even the name went through a few evolutions. First it was called Phoenix, then Firebird, briefly, until they realised Firebird was taken and changed it to Firefox. It had this shiny new Gecko rendering engine and its only rival was IE…5?
When I started my first dev job in 2006, Firefox was far and away the best browser to use because it had an extension that no other browser could match: Firebug. Firebug was the precursor to the standard F12 devtools that every browser now has and it was life-changing if you were a web developer. (Try imagine doing your job without it now.)
Then Chrome arrived and it was shiny and W3C compliant (yay!) and you could pull a tab off into a separate window (wow!) and every tab ran as a separate process (neat!) and Google wouldn’t be evil for at least another decade. Back then, FF had memory leak problems and that drove a lot of us away.
And then Chrome pulled this ad surveillance shit and I was fucking out. I’m so glad that FF is still here.
I let myself be fully engulfed by the Google/Chrome/Android continuum and it’s only recently that I realised just how much of myself I gave away and, while my personal data has long since been propagated to a million servers, I’d still like to try keep some of myself to myself.
It happens every other time when I try to copy an image to the clipboard to share in another messenger app. I’m not sure where the breakdown happens, if it’s Android or the other app or Voyager, but the whole phone slows and hangs for a couple of seconds and the image will either not have copied or it will fail to paste or...
Water bombers flew low over Yellowknife as thick smoke blanketed the capital of the vast and sparsely populated Northwest Territories. Officials say the fire, which is moving slowly, is now 15 km (10 miles) northwest of the city and could reach the outskirts by Saturday if there is no rain....
I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?
Honestly? And I promise I’m not being sarcastic: Reddit and Twitter are still your home. But the same goes for centre-left liberals. It’s not that you’re conservative, it’s that you’re moderate.
Many of the recent arrivals to the fediverse (myself included) are here because we’re fleeing the corporate internet. We feel strongly enough about it that we’ve thrown all our toys out of the pram, abandoning huge platforms to try build this new space. This kind of behaviour isn’t exactly “centrist”.
So this nascent lemmyverse has a wiiiiide breadth of political views but not as much in the middle because those folks are all still on the old platforms. Over here we have Nazis, hexbear and shitposts. And porn. It’s still early days.
I’m not a native English speaker, but I do get most of the slangs. Still, this one got me puzzled 🤔… I really can’t see any relation to motors or boats in this.
It was one of those few 3rd party Apps that still worked. Apparently dev was in talks with Reddit in obtaining Paid-API-Access, but now they cut off his API-Access mid talks without informing him
I’m so fucking happy. I went looking for an equivalent Lemmy community only a couple of days ago and there wasn’t really anything. But now here are the OGs!
Germany: Court says far-right AfD is suspected of extremism (www.bbc.com)
Iranian foreign minister says it will not escalate conflict and mocks Israeli weapons as ‘toys that our children play with’ (www.nbcnews.com)
In an interview with NBC News, Hossein Amirabdollahian refused to acknowledge that Israel was behind the recent attack on his country....
Rulethlic Converts (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I miss bread, says girl, as Gaza food crisis mounts (www.bbc.com)
Mozilla Announces Layoffs, Renews Focus on Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
We can't have legitimate consumer reviews interfering with our profits, now can we? (lemmy.world)
An ad that showed up as I was browsing through the news. Bloody ridiculous…
Officers in Colorado are investigating an apparent altercation between Rep. Boebert and ex-husband (apnews.com)
An investigation is being conducted into an apparent altercation between U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and her ex-husband Jayson Boebert at a restaurant, police in Silt, Colorado, confirmed Sunday....
"Hang it on the fridge" (mander.xyz)
mastodon.social/
Why do you use firefox? (upload.wikimedia.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/2514293
I've been getting crashes on Android
It happens every other time when I try to copy an image to the clipboard to share in another messenger app. I’m not sure where the breakdown happens, if it’s Android or the other app or Voyager, but the whole phone slows and hangs for a couple of seconds and the image will either not have copied or it will fail to paste or...
Chaos, Comedy, and 'Crying Rooms': Inside Jimmy Fallon's 'Tonight Show' (www.rollingstone.com)
Nerd (i.imgur.com)
What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you? (lemmy.ml)
Canada wildfire: all 20,000 Yellowknife residents evacuating (www.reuters.com)
Water bombers flew low over Yellowknife as thick smoke blanketed the capital of the vast and sparsely populated Northwest Territories. Officials say the fire, which is moving slowly, is now 15 km (10 miles) northwest of the city and could reach the outskirts by Saturday if there is no rain....
Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?
I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?
Andy Ngo loses civil lawsuit against Portland activists (www.oregonlive.com)
The Ruins (lemmy.ml)
From nafo.uk/, this is especially poignant.
[WINNER: OPTION B] Choose Voyager's icon!
Voting has ended! Congrats to @fer0n with option B. Thanks everyone for participating! :)...
Why is it called motorboating?
I’m not a native English speaker, but I do get most of the slangs. Still, this one got me puzzled 🤔… I really can’t see any relation to motors or boats in this.
Joey for Reddit went down today (lemmy.world)
It was one of those few 3rd party Apps that still worked. Apparently dev was in talks with Reddit in obtaining Paid-API-Access, but now they cut off his API-Access mid talks without informing him
/r/AccidentalRenaissance moderators have all resigned. The subreddit has permanently shut down and moved to Lemmy. (lemmy.nz)
AccidentalRenaissance has no active moderators due to Reddit’s unprecedented API changes, and has thus been privated to prevent vandalism....
What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too...
titan times at r*ddit (lemm.ee)
I'm going to assume the admins here all have 2FA on their accounts, right?
Right guys?