freeAgent (u/freeAgent)

freeAgent commented on Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page trackerninja.codeberg.pag... · Posted by u/spacedrone808

I miss the magical feeling windows releases like XP and 7 gave you. Now it’s an exercise in crossing your fingers and hoping the next update doesn’t use more dark patterns to destroy your privacy and security.

freeAgent · a day ago

You don’t even really have a legitimate reason to hope for those things at this point. It’s just a matter of how much worse MS are going to make it.

freeAgent commented on We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online themarkup.org/privacy/202... · Posted by u/amarcheschi

freeAgent · 14 days ago

AI tools tend to ignore noindex, etc. when scraping training data, so finding data removal request forms may be a great use case for AI!

freeAgent commented on How to Firefox kau.sh/blog/how-to-firefo... · Posted by u/Vinnl

jeroenhd · a month ago

I tried Orion after reading this, but other than uBlock Origin I haven't had much luck with getting extensions to work. I guess the extensions I use don't really overlap with the 70% they do support. If they've been working hard on this for years, I have to wonder what will happen first, actual mobile extension support on iOS through Kagi or a Firefox release for iOS.

The entire Orion browser feels like a beta product to me. But at least I've got uBlock on my work phone now, so that's cool I guess.

freeAgent · a month ago

It is literally in beta, so it feeling like a beta product isn’t surprising. It does work with the extensions I need and it’s my primary browser on iOS, but I still find it too buggy and crash-prone on the desktop. That seems to be improving, but it’s not convinced me that it’s reliable enough yet.

freeAgent commented on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA open-web-advocacy.org/blo... · Posted by u/yashghelani

ThatMedicIsASpy · a month ago

What a load of BS. How can I test my website on safari without owning Apple hardware? I can't so I don't.

freeAgent · a month ago

It’s relatively easy to own Apple hardware when one lives outside the EU, but basically impossible to use that hardware to run their own browser engine on iPhones or iPads.

freeAgent commented on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable androidcentral.com/phones... · Posted by u/Bluestein

chappi42 · 2 months ago

calyxOS is _not_ similar to GrapheneOS

freeAgent · 2 months ago

It’s similar in some ways, like being de-Googled, more private than Google’s Android OS by default, etc. Both are based on AOSP. They are “similar.”

freeAgent commented on uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS testflight.apple.com/join... · Posted by u/Squarex

SG- · 2 months ago

Not most, they have figured out a few and they don't work very well.

freeAgent · 2 months ago

What do you need that doesn’t work?

freeAgent commented on uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS testflight.apple.com/join... · Posted by u/Squarex

eddythompson80 · 2 months ago

Last I tried Orion was a couple of months ago. I wouldn't really say "figured out" per se. Like I see the vision, I like the vision, but I'm waiting.

freeAgent · 2 months ago

I mean that they figured out how to support (most) browser extensions on iOS in their browser, unlike Firefox. They haven’t figured everything out, but I do daily drive Orion on iOS. I still prefer Firefox on desktop due to stability (and Orion’s extension advantage in mobile doesn’t extend to desktop).

freeAgent commented on uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS testflight.apple.com/join... · Posted by u/Squarex

HexDecOctBin · 2 months ago

It's a shame Firefox on iOS has failed/refused to support third-party content filters [1] since 2019. Just because they can't bring Gecko doesn't mean they shouldn't try to gain mindshare for the Mozilla Firefox brand on one of the biggest platforms, yet they refuse to put in the resources.

1: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/5198

freeAgent · 2 months ago

Somewhat ironically, you can install and use the Firefox uBO extension on Orion for iOS. Orion/Kagi figured out how to do it before Firefox/Mozilla.

freeAgent commented on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-c... · Posted by u/booleanbetrayal

majewsky · 3 months ago

In the stable state, both situations (immediate writeoff vs. amortization) would indeed be identical (assuming constant salary expenses over time).

The problem is that, when switching from the immediate writeoff regime to the amortization regime, you do not have a backlog of past-year expenses that are in the process of being amortized, so there is a sudden jump from being able to write off 100% of relevant expenses to only 20% of them.

Given that shareholders are notoriously interested in short-term profits, hitting profit targets requires either expanding revenue or slashing expenses.

freeAgent · 3 months ago

Yeah, and that cliff is why they put this change into the 2017 tax reform. It'll goose federal tax revenue for 5 years in the back half of the CBO's 10-year projections to make the changes appear revenue neutral overall. In any case, the impact started in 2022 and it's now 2025. We're already over halfway to steady-state.

freeAgent commented on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-c... · Posted by u/booleanbetrayal

freeAgent · 3 months ago

I don't understand why this article is written as though amortization of R&D spending's costs is the same as completely eliminating their tax benefit. It seems that this essentially causes a large spike in tax revenue in year 0, which will revert to the mean in years 5-15. Companies now amortizing R&D essentially just have to build up those years of R&D spending backlog. Once they have reached their amortization threshold, they're essentially receiving the same tax break they had before.

Right?

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