Molly

professional computer toucher
official blockchain and "AI" hater

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2024-12-23 19:04:56

just overheard a guy asking the other people he was with where the switch case was, and I was extremely confused for the few seconds it took me to realize he meant a physical object.

2024-12-22 19:58:44

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@nprofile…nn5e I mean, personally, I set my DoH provider to Mullvad, so that tells you the level of trust I have for all these entities. I was extremely disappointed and I think I remember complaining internally when Cloudflare was selected as the initial default. So I agree with your general point, none of these solutions is perfect.

2024-12-22 19:20:47

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@nprofile…j2ha for about 7 years, yeah. I left earlier this year because I couldn't stomach having my name associated with the direction things were moving, it was doing pretty bad things to my mental health actually.

2024-12-22 19:18:28

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@nprofile…j2ha that would be why I no longer work there. :(

2024-12-22 19:17:25

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@nprofile…j2ha ah, that makes more sense yeah, sorry for misunderstanding. I just want the default to be something that preserves security and privacy for most people who wouldn't think to check it.

2024-12-22 19:15:15

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@nprofile…j2ha nobody would read or understand it unfortunately. the defaults need to be secure.

2024-12-22 19:13:41

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@nprofile…j2ha CF in fact was the original default in Firefox before this discovery capability was added, and it still is the fallback.
my problem is that, for the average home user who has no idea what any of this stuff is and doesn't want to, they are now having what was supposed to be an important privacy feature ripped out from under them. in the US at least, the ISP generally needs to be treated as a privacy adversary, and here firefox has effectively disabled a very important pillar of that strategy.

2024-12-22 19:06:34

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@nprofile…j2ha it's defaulting to whatever your "regular" DNS server is configured to tell it to default to (via the CNAME record with which it responds for the URL doh.test).
meaning on a network where no DNS server is specifically configured, it's under the control of the upstream server, e.g., the ISP. this is very bad news for the privacy guarantees that DoH is supposed to be providing.

2024-12-22 18:50:47

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as far as I can tell, doh-rollout.provider-steering.enabled is the pref for this madness.

2024-12-22 18:15:23

just spun up a new Firefox install, and I just happened to check the DoH settings and notice that it's defaulted to... my ISP's server??? so yeah that defeats the entire purpose of DoH for me. don't like it.

2024-12-19 05:36:19

I don't seem to be getting any of these AI features that Apple have been adding to iOS, and I think it must be because my phone is too old.
Or in other words, the iPhone 12 Mini continues to be the best phone I've ever had.

2024-11-30 19:33:57

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@nprofile…42m4 it's not really an official supported feature, but you can also browse to about:translations to get a google translate-like UI

2024-11-21 18:17:07

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@nprofile…svtm corporate values exist solely as a tool to shut down discussion on whatever topics are inconvenient to discuss. they serve no other purpose I've ever seen.

2024-11-16 19:48:14

please enjoy the most depressing screenshot in the history of time
https://wetdry.world/@ipg/113491635810847495

2024-11-09 17:50:40

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@npub1rea…fduv oh that would have just been threatening me with a good time

2024-11-06 03:38:55

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@npub1gnx…d5kh my headache pills were completely unprepared for the task I have given them tonight

2024-11-01 00:07:52

you ever find a cool blog post, send it to some friends you know'll be interested, and only then, after that, do you read far enough into it to see your own name?
no?
just me then.
https://mattgreer.dev/blog/cramming-solitaire-onto-a-nintendo-ereader-card/

2024-10-22 00:22:34

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Also the game right now is full of signs celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Trackmania series, and every time I see one I feel another bone turn to dust.

2024-10-22 00:21:43

Just played a little Trackmania after a few years of not doing that, and I see at some point they added a track element that just instantly swaps out the car you're driving, right there, in the middle of the track. I love that. It's brilliant. I needed a break after about 5 minutes of it, but the whole point of the game is learning to master the most frantic possible situations, and this makes them even more frantic.

2024-10-20 18:57:55

For the two people who can use this information and didn't already know it:
You can use rr inside WSL 2. It used to not work but now it's fine.

2024-10-16 20:46:00

Analogue announced a new console, so I'm gonna tap the sign again:
Emulation that's implemented using an FPGA is still emulation. The only thing that it is inherently better at than software emulation is being expensive. If that's important to you, then go for it I guess. Everything else is marketing and nothing more.

2024-10-10 14:46:45

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@npub1qmx…0hng is there some sense I'm unaware of in which the state of git is something other than abysmal

2024-10-02 16:53:34

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@npub1qdf…wn0r I actually kind of like real golf, and I also love this game.
For a modern implementation of a similar idea, see https://www.gog.com/en/game/golftopia

2024-09-30 04:57:13

so this can't actually be an ad for Experian on my Firefox newtab right? one of the most anti-privacy and anti-consumer organizations on the planet? the same Experian that Brian Krebs just wrote about because that's how shitty it is? what the fuck?
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/113188769358631627
https://media.tech.lgbt/media_attachments/files/113/224/710/923/043/910/original/16eadeef0c7b3276.png

2024-09-13 23:05:50

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@npub1e7p…8w7t Hey I had this too! Still got the manual and most of the discs.

2024-09-13 22:29:27

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@npub1a3r…yhhn I have also noticed this problem and I will probably give this a try. Thank you!

2024-08-19 21:37:02

cannot believe mozilla just made their logo a white flag. absolute most appropriate corporate branding decision possible. incredible stuff. 12/10 design.

2024-07-26 03:01:12

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@npub1s8j…k8k0 they know exactly who's safety they need to preserve. it just isn't yours or mine.

2024-07-14 23:09:52

People seem surprised about Mozilla acting a lot like one of the corporate tech giants that they try so hard to position themselves in opposition to.
My only response to that is: well, yeah, that's why I left there. I couldn't tell the difference anymore either.

2024-07-13 02:25:05

get the fuck off twitter, people. completely. I don't want to hear your excuse, it isn't good enough. leave.

2024-06-28 14:39:27

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@npub16v0…8xn4 Oh. Well. That’s too bad.

2024-06-27 23:30:06

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@npub1ykg…g4jv
https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers

2024-06-27 22:23:15

tech.lgbt blocked by Threads for TOS violations, huh?
in that case, keep up the good work, everybody.

2024-06-05 19:08:23

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Your actual principles are exactly the things that you do when "principles" are hard to stick to. They are expressed in the difficult things. Not the easy things.

2024-06-05 19:05:15

I would not have thought this needed to be said, but today I have reason to think it does, so:
If you claim to be making decisions based on "principles", but you also explicitly admit that sometimes your decisions abandon those for reasons of "pragmatism", then what you have there are not principles. What you have there is nothing.

2024-06-05 05:21:16

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@npub1v5y…7a3f git doesn't quite make me wish I could go back to ClearCase, but some days it gets darn close.

2024-06-03 19:32:59

whenever I see text in any version of Computer Modern, my brain is conditioned to treat that as a warning.
it's never been wrong.

2024-06-03 01:21:07

okay so who called it a kanban board and not an https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmAIb7xTy8

2024-02-08 17:37:40

literally the morning after my last day, and Mozilla just goes and does the one thing it needed to do more than anything else.
I'm not even mad, that's amazing.

2024-02-02 18:38:32

Guess I should probably announce this at some point.
I'm leaving Mozilla. I've met a bunch of great people here, and I owe them so, so much. But it is well past time for me to move on.

2023-05-12 19:41:12

So many things about FOSS would be so much better if more projects/organizations conducted themselves the way the XOrg account has so far.
https://floss.social/@XOrgFoundation/110310698522889726