What’s the story on the TOS change? This is the first I’m hearing about it.
A while ago they changed their TOS from something along the lines of "We will never sell your data" to "Your data is safe"
Readit NewsLauraMedia commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3
Feels like I've been hearing "Update X makes Y worse" or "Update X destroys hardware Y" a lot more this year with Windows. Seems like they are fully embracing AI at Microsoft.
Quote from the CEO of Anthropic in March 2025:
"I think we'll be there in three to six months where AI is writing 90% of the code and then in 12 months we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code"
Given the horrible stability of Windows this year, it seems like Microsoft went all in on that
LauraMedia commented on Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest) · Posted by u/pera
Isn't it odd? All those tech CEOs tell us that we won't be able to live in a world without AI, how AI will be within every single app, service or codebase eventually...
And then they constantly try to shove it into their products, with no way to disable it. I'm assuming the user data would show that quite a lot of people would turn it off, so to not ruin your own statistics for the next shareholder/investor meeting, you need to force them
From the pinned comment:
Jimmy Wales left the studio after the first question. He had introduced himself as the “founder of Wikipedia.” On Wikipedia itself, he is referred to as the “co-founder.” Of course, there is a factual difference between being the sole founder of a company and founding it together with others. Jimmy Wales called this question “the stupidest question he had ever heard,” saying it had nothing to do with facts, which is why he was ending the interview. In fact, however, the question was in line with Wikipedia's claims of factual accuracy, which Wales did not want to fulfill in relation to himself. We regret that he ended the interview after 50 seconds—journalistically, this question was completely correct.
LauraMedia commented on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition minecraft.net/en-us/artic... · Posted by u/SteveHawk27
As I understand it way back in the early Beta days of Minecraft obfuscation was added to avoid mods being embedded into the JAR and it being released as a combination enabling piracy of the game with mods embedded.
This has been a pain to workaround for years as the modding scene has gotten bigger. Hopefully this makes modding a bit more accessible.
Yeah I still remember when you had to manually patch your minecraft.jar with mods. Always remove the META-INF directory so it works. Back then, when you installed two mods that were incompatible with each other, you had to throw away the whole minecraft.jar and start again.
This already changed A LOT when Forge and later Fabric came out, with a simple patch system akin to BepinEx and a mods folder.
And in the Linux community, "run" apparently has a slightly different meaning than what ordinary people are used to.
I thought the same but let's not pretend Windows is a holy grail for compatibility anymore. Especially when it comes to older games, this facade / image breaks down fast.
I once tried to play Trackmania Nations (not Forever or United Forever, the ESWC one) because that was the first entry of this series I played. I still have all the files from back then so I thought it would be as simple as installing it and running it. Other games such as Trackmania Sunrise came with the nasty SecureROM DRM that will break your current installs, but ESWC was always free to play and without DRM.
Well, after install, I played a lot in my first sitting. A few days later, my Windows install was broken. I used a restore point before installing Trackmania, everything was back to stable. A few weeks later I tried again, same situation, a day or two after install, my Windows would break.
I thought it was a general system instability, maybe some weird configuration and the game only triggers that specific bug. So I did a full clean reinstall. And installed the game a few days later. Who would've thought, my Windows breaks yet again.
What I'm trying to say is: I've been running Fedora on my main PC for 2 years now and the game has been installed via Proton for 1 year. It never broke, it always just worked.
LauraMedia commented on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program pyfound.blogspot.com/2025... · Posted by u/lumpa
Then the brave thing is you accept the grant and let them take it to court. Get a court ruling against them, which in our common law system establishes case law
The administration can try to press charges, but they don’t control the courts
According to recent events of this US administration, there are two things that could follow after a court decides in favor of the PSF:
* They will ignore it and still claw back the money, with force if needed
* They go higher and higher through the courts until it lands on the table of the supreme court that conveniently sides with the administration.
You can't win a fight in the system. Law is broken and not reliable anymore.
When I was working in audits, I used to record everything happening on my screen with 3 fps and then rewatching it with 10x speed, just not to forget anything.
When Recall was announced, I was in minority who thought it was super cool technology.
I think there is a difference between "I can audit the code, it's encrypted, I want to run this and want to use this" and "Microsoft installs it, it's not encrypted and wants to turn it on by default, potentially sharing data to them soon(tm)"