anonymousab (u/anonymousab)

anonymousab commented on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features mastodon.social/@firefoxw... · Posted by u/twapi

debugnik · a day ago

Unless you purchased some service from them, you didn't donate to Firefox, because that's a Mozilla Corporation project. Donating to Mozilla Foundation funds their initiatives, but not Firefox.

To Thunderbird, however, we can actually donate to.

anonymousab · a day ago

At one point, paying for Mozilla's mullvad rebadge would give money to the corp. If you were already going to pay for a VPN, then it's effectively a donation.

Though, just because money goes to the corp, doesn't mean it will contribute to Firefox' development either.

anonymousab commented on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 wired.com/story/ford-kill... · Posted by u/sacred-rat

LightBug1 · 6 days ago

>> "VW electric van but that's more of a gimmick than anything else."

Really? ... I'm seeing them adopted more widely in Europe now by businesses. Perhaps as second hand or lease prices are coming down. Maybe that doesn't translate to the US ...

Quite nostalgic seeing them run around Central London with business signs on their side... much like the originals. My point: not a gimmick in my experience.

anonymousab · 6 days ago

They don't sell the Cargo version in North America, and the price is a good chunk more expensive than, say, a Ford Transit or similar cargo van.

anonymousab commented on XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox xbox-scene.info/articles/... · Posted by u/zdw

anonymousab · a month ago

I remember installing XBMC with a 360-style "blades" interface and being blown away by how much smoother and nicer it was then the blades interface on the Xbox 360 at the time.

Obviously the OS wasn't doing as much as an Xbox 360 was, but as an end user, it made me perpetually annoyed at what we "could have had" on the 360.

And then Microsoft changed the 360 UI to their windows 8 uwp Tile-style UI with even more ads and I realized that I underestimated how bad things could get.

anonymousab commented on US backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea theregister.com/2025/09/1... · Posted by u/rntn

sickofparadox · 3 months ago

The idea that the average person in America commits even one felony a day is so ridiculous it falls flat on its face after being spoken. How can you even say something like that without feeling embarrassed for believing it?

anonymousab · 3 months ago

Accessing a single website with adblock installed is, in and of itself, potentially thousands of CFAA violations if enforced to the letter.

anonymousab commented on Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe? shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ColinWright

cyanydeez · 4 months ago

Ok, so ignore your goveenment paranoia. Sure theyre out to get you.

But ask yourself, would business do this anyway? The answer is yes. Google needs a growth target and modeling app store lockin and fees is there.

Youre free to live in paranoid government land, but its an unnecessary abstraction. Its actually the EU and US rulings against their monopoly thats driving it.

Again, the paranoia is just drivel.

anonymousab · 4 months ago

> goveenment paranoia

This is just what you'd expect any government that is either competent or greedy to be doing, given the technologies at play.

Calling it "thought crime" is, of course, a bit glib. But things like "we want to monitor the communications of every pro Palestinian university student so we can take proactive disruptive actions" are very real and not so hidden desires and sentiments of modern Western governments.

anonymousab commented on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl

davorak · 4 months ago

> adjusting how the website code executes on your computer is copyright infringement.

I would be interested in how German law works to make this so, IANAL but pretty sure USA copy right law does not work that way. Modification for personal use is normally going to be 100% acceptable under USA copyright law. The DMCA Anti-Circumvention is one exception I know to this but it was and is a big deal for being an exception.

anonymousab · 4 months ago

One of the things that came out of several Blizzard anticheat/Warden lawsuits back in the day is that, technically, the act of running an executable is copyright infringement, because the data is being copied from disk into memory, into registers and into caches.

Running any software that then does anything with the same memory space (cheating software or, say, antivirus) is another, separate instance of copyright infringement on top of that.

anonymousab commented on Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign cnn.com/2025/08/07/busine... · Posted by u/tlogan

PKop · 4 months ago

No serious state would ignore potential conflicts of interest with their biggest adversary related to advanced technology and military affairs:

https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-to-...

No, a CEO should not be able to tell the government to pound sand in this type of situation.

The company he ran for over a decade just plead guilty to illegal chip design sales to China. You may not care, but that the government does is just common sense:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/cadence-plead-guilty-pay...

anonymousab · 4 months ago

Whether it should be that way or not, the United States remains the primary global military, political and economic superpower. As such, US politics also kinda dictate what a "sane state" does; by nature of their stature, they set the bar.

anonymousab commented on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-... · Posted by u/rntn

ars · 5 months ago

> GDPR

You mean that thing (or is that another law?) that forces me to find that "I really don't care in the slightest" button about cookies on every single page?

anonymousab · 5 months ago

That is malicious compliance with the law, and more or less indicative of a failure of enforcement against offenders.

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KarmaCake day3874April 10, 2012View Original