TurboSkyline (u/TurboSkyline)

TurboSkyline commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3

major505 · 6 days ago

Well, is no mistery that today the best versioins of Firefox are the non official versions like waterfox and zen.

NObody trusts mozilla anymore, specially after they turned into an add company and started paying their CEOs exorbitating ammounts, considering what was being invested in their core business (supposedly making a better browser).

TurboSkyline · 6 days ago

I'm not familiar with Zen, but how do you reconcile that Waterfox frequently lags behind upstream Firefox in terms of security fixes? Yes, you get a perceived gain in privacy, but is that worth potentially exposing yourself to additional vulnerabilities?

TurboSkyline commented on Opus 1.6 Released – Interactive Audio Codec opus-codec.org/demo/opus-... · Posted by u/ledoge

thisislife2 · 7 days ago

Never understood why it didn't get more popular.

TurboSkyline · 7 days ago

But it is popular! YouTube's preferred format uses opus for most, if not all, videos upload in the last ~5 years (they also offer an AAC option alongside it). Several VoIP services use opus, including Zoom, Discord, FB Messenger, and WhatsApp (until recently). Opus is part of WebRTC and thus implicitly available for audio/video conferencing software that runs in the browser. And if you look up what audio enthusiasts recommend you use to encode your lossless music for smaller file sizes, it's almost always opus!

TurboSkyline commented on Self-hosting my photos with Immich michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/birdculture

zenmac · 17 days ago

>> Immich solves the wrong problem. I just want the household to share photos

pixelfed may be what the parent want then. I don't like that it is PHP, but as long as they adhere to the ActPub protocal, we can roll our own in whatever flavor.

TurboSkyline · 17 days ago

Or perhaps Photoview? https://github.com/photoview/photoview

TurboSkyline commented on So Long, Firefox, Part One hackaday.com/2025/11/20/s... · Posted by u/HotGarbage

lukan · a month ago

Nope, main reason is lack of trust.

" but such is the direction being taken by Mozilla that I am not anxious to sit idly by and constantly keep an eye out for new hidden privacy and AI features to turn off with obscure checkboxes. "

But here I can attest at least, that nowdays firefox after a fresh install shows a banner saying they collect data by default. And when you click that, you get directly to the options to turn it off. It is just, that I also don't trust that with those toggles now everything is switched off, or if there is a hidden other toggle or there will be one shipped with the next update.

TurboSkyline · a month ago

> It is just, that I also don't trust that with those toggles now everything is switched off, or if there is a hidden other toggle or there will be one shipped with the next update.

But you can apply the same argument to everything, right? Any piece of software could be taking actions that it doesn’t disclose. Any toggle could assure the user that their settings are respected but not actually change anything. So how do you then trust running _any_ code on your computer?

TurboSkyline commented on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting kevinboone.me/fingerprint... · Posted by u/ingve

tim333 · a month ago

I find it a bit hard to relate to the "privacy nightmare". I've not worried about such things in ~27 years of using the web and are yet to notice ill effects from the stuff he worries about. I don't know if my ads are targeted because I have an ad blocker and don't see any. Maybe the answer to the nightmares in general is not to worry about stuff that doesn't affect you?

Re insurers knowing you've been browsing heart disease etc, I have sometimes had issues like that, more you get a cheap initial price from an insurer/airline/car hire and then they jack it up when you visit again. You can sometimes do better by having a go from a different browser. I regard that more as me trying a hack to get a discounted price than a privacy nightmare but whatever I guess.

TurboSkyline · a month ago

I also think about this sometimes. On the one hand, I have a natural instinct to give away as little personal data as I can, and it intuitively makes sense to me that it’s in your favour to keep as much private as possible; I assume many of us here feel the same way. But on the other hand, it takes a lot of energy to keep track of all the data that you leak, and often you have to give up better tools or workflows for a small perceived privacy gain.

Does this matter? Even if I do everything “right”, nobody around me does it. I can try to keep my shopping preferences and my searches private, but there is so much to gather from everyone else who doesn’t care about this that my efforts are very likely in vain. Even without my cookies, if you have as much data as a big tracker does, you can definitely make pretty good assumptions about what I like.

The response I usually see to this is that if everybody cared about privacy, then the picture would be different. But I’ve been reading exactly the same argument about using Firefox for the last ~15 years, and look where the Firefox share of the market is now…

TurboSkyline commented on So Long, Firefox, Part One hackaday.com/2025/11/20/s... · Posted by u/HotGarbage

TurboSkyline · a month ago

Even though the title suggests this piece is about Firefox, most of it is bashing at Google. The author’s main reason for leaving Firefox seems to be that… others have left Firefox?! That, and the quintessential mention of “AI is now in Firefox” that all these articles seem to repeat.

TurboSkyline commented on Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results torrentfreak.com/google-r... · Posted by u/gslin

mrweasel · 2 months ago

The fact that Google seemingly returns results worse than Kagi, Startpage and Ecosia is just strange, given that Google provides search results for all three of them. Both Kagi and Ecosia uses other sources as well, I don't know about Startpage, so that's certainly part of it, but it still feels a little strange.

From using Ecosia, DuckDuckGo and Bing, I'd also argue that Bing is simply a better search engine at this point.

TurboSkyline · 2 months ago

Don’t Ecosia/Qwant have their own index now?

Do you find Bing better through Bing proper, or just as good through DDG (which uses the Bing index)?

TurboSkyline commented on AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/202... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

dns_snek · 2 months ago

If all you're interested in are the headlines then why not just read the headlines?

TurboSkyline · 2 months ago

Especially in the case of aggregators, I like that they remove, or at least tone down, the sensationalism.

TurboSkyline commented on News Integrity in AI Assistants [pdf] ebu.ch/Report/MIS-BBC/NI_... · Posted by u/TurboSkyline

TurboSkyline · 2 months ago

A summary of the study by NPR, who themselves participated in the study, is [here](https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2025/10/21/g-s1-94424...).

> The study identified multiple systemic issues across four leading AI tools. Based on data from 18 countries and 14 languages, 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue, and 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems — missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.

The PDF report has a lot more detail, including individual examples and analysis of the issues encountered.