Lorde’s “master’s tools” speech is routinely misread in tech discourse

Can confirm. As a person with a “tech” background I certainly misread it that way the first time I saw it quoted and went to learn more. It took some amount of actual thinking to understand what she was getting at and how it could be engaged with more fairly in contexts so far from that of the original.

You say “smart move that helps manage risk while having no real impact on anything”, I say “foolishly craven gesture that demonstrates incompetent leadership while having no real impact on anything.”

On my fediverse accounts:

• I don’t have autoplaying media (and I do have noscript)
• I don’t have infinite scroll (although it’s an option)
• There is no “for you” feed based on tracking my behaviour
• I view things sorted chronologically
• I usually see only things posted or boosted by people (or groups) I chose to follow
• I don’t get notifications when someone “likes” things or whatever

And yet somehow it is addictive enough, whereas Facebook and Reddit made me angry enough to quit them forever.

From what I saw of it none of the many failings of Academy were the fault of the actors, and the best thing I can say about the show is that it was good to see Robert Picardo again.

I always thought that having some kind of “kid-safe” mode for web browsers would be a good idea; there are some people who would use that. People whose age doesn’t necessarily have much to do with it. Having a standard header sent to websites to indicate it and making some rules about what they’re supposed to do when they see it would be feasible enough.

It seems so painfully obvious that having a “date of birth” field in systemd is the wrong way to do things and can only go nowhere or else lead to bad things.

Do you mean that the fingerprints are unique among your computers, or that they’re unique among users of “fingerprint.com”? Just wondering. More analysis than you’ve done so far would be needed before you’re ready to start giving anti-fingerprinting tips to the makers of Tor Browser.

Quodlibet is the one with all the features.

At last it’s the xkcd creation myth revealed.

Just think of all the other things that could benefit from a “protective waiting period” to enhance your safety.

Turning off location tracking, using a web browser other than Chrome, using a mail server other than Gmail, visiting duckduckgo.com — if Google really cared about your privacy and security they’d add a 24-hour delay to all these dangerous activities.

How to get age verification into linux? Easy, just tell Poettering that if he doesn’t hurry up and do it first, some non-systemd approach might become the standard.

With a title like that you know it’s going to be 100% FUD. Not that Canonical doesn’t deserve some of it.

Easy. Never run windows.

it only has about 2000 downloads, so proceed with caution

It’s got a github link, the repo is owned by someone who looks legit, it’s existed for a while, and there probably aren’t enough users to tempt anyone into selling it to bad actors. In my view that makes it look about as trustworthy as any unfamiliar extension can, without actually inspecting the source code.

The fork seems to have been around since 2023. Did the spyware version get removed only recently?

It’s a good bubble! Like those little bubbles you get in champagne, except this one’s the size of the entire western hemisphere. It’s so fizzy with innovation it’s going to be worth every trillion dollar bill it incinerates. Your investments might end up worthless but you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you helped bring about the birth of General AI, who will be along any minute now, the superintelligent robotic overlord that will soon rule over your life. It’s going to be so amazing it’ll be worth literally all the money in the world. Stop trying to make bubbles go away. Stop trying to think rationally. The AI will do that for you.

I’d say Enterprise was the only one that inspired a level of dislike that was anything like comparable. But it was no Section 31. Nothing in Star Trek history has been so shockingly bad as that movie, and it’s not like they didn’t make a couple of bad movies before. It’s more akin to the Star Wars Holiday Special, except that instead of feeling any shame they chose to make a whole new series in the same directorial style. Eh well, who knows what the future may bring.

Tetris has a CEO? Does she hang out with the President of Pong and the Mayor of Space Invaders?

Star Trek: Discovery was in the top ten streaming charts for 3 weeks in a row

Only 3 weeks? I watched the whole first season, and some of the second. The first three weeks weren’t bad. A little rough, but as you mention so was the start of TNG. Some of us fans of the old stuff find it hard to stop giving Kurtzman Trek more chances, just because it’s got the Star Trek name. I even watched the entire Section 31 movie and a couple episodes of Starfleet Academy. That’s what it took to convince me it’s really over.

I have seen so many ideas from so many people who very likely could do better, over the years. I hope his inbox is already flooded with a million of them.

At this point, after so many design updates, my tab bar is restyled with css, my window manager knows that the browser is always fullscreen and never gives it a title bar, except when it does but then it’s just the plain normal system one, all the extra toolbars and widgets that can be removed have been removed, and I absolutely never see the “new tab” page. I’m not going to care if the back/forward/reload buttons look slightly different. Here’s hoping I don’t even notice this one…

You’ll notice in the image above that web page content isn’t flush to the sides of the browser window, nor does it extend up to the tab bar. Instead, web content sits ‘framed’ within a rounded container

WTF Mozilla are you fucking kidding me

Do people still spend a lot of time complaining about all the dumb things Ubuntu did? I haven’t heard much about it for a few years, really.