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  • It is not propaganda as it is factual information. If you believe this is 4D chess from Google to manipulate us to dislike Firefox you are out of your mind. https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e this is an actual commit made by mozilla. It was not made by Google.

    Changes include:

    • Removing “we don’t sell access to your data”. Curiously this change is only for the TOU. Presumable because that is legally binding. Idk where the “else” branch is displayed though.
    • Removing this question from FAQ: “Does Firefox sell your personal data? Nope. Never has, never will (…). That’s a promise”
    • Remove another mention in the TOU “and we don’t sell your personal data”. That again was not removed from the “else” branch

    That to me indicates one of the following:

    • They have started selling data.
    • They plan on selling data in the near future.
    • They don’t feel confident that they can keep that promise forever. That is, they see a future where they sell data.

    I don’t like either of those alternatives.

    I don’t know if they are able to sell the data you mentioned. Because I’m not in the enshittification minds of giant American corporations. 20 years ago people would laugh at the idea of buying data about the screen size of a user. But now they do, and use it for fingerprinting. If recent history has shown anything is that most data has some kind of value. And giant corporations will find their way to use that data against users.

    I’ve seen way too many companies that were supposed to be the cool kids and were doing everything morally enshittify. There’s no reason to believe Mozilla is going to be different. They’re showing the same signs.



  • A program being written in rust itself doesn’t guarantee anything, but it tells you what you’ll probably find:

    • Utf-8 support
    • No shenanigans with installations, dynamic libraries and such. Just download and execute.
    • Multi-platform support
    • Low resource usage.
    • semver.
    • Compile with just 1 command if you want to.
    • MIT/apache2 license.
    • No memory leaks.
    • If it crashes, at least it will probably log out something more helpful than “SEGFAULT”.

    Many of those are highly positive to the end consumer.



  • I’m one of those that use PowerShell on linux.

    You can use tmux, vim, sed, awk or whatever binary you want from PowerShell. Those are binaries, not shell commands.

    You can use pipes, redirects, stdin and stdout in PowerShell too.

    I personally don’t regularly use any object oriented features. But whenever I search how to do something that I don’t know what to do, a clear object-oriented result is much easier to understand than a random string of characters for awk and sed.












  • Hardware doesn’t need to be too weird. Back when I bought my laptop, it was a kinda recent model so most of its features didn’t work in Ubuntu (I say Ubuntu because it’s the distro that worked best. Tried many others and they had even worse support). After a year or so it worked mostly, except some things.

    To this day, 4 years later, the display brightness control still doesn’t work correctly.

    I don’t think hiding the problems do any good. The Linux desktop/laptop experience is not good, specially for non-programmers. It’s usable, but not good.