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  • "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

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  • The EU is a large enough governing body to have a significant global impact. And I truly appreciate the progress it makes on important subjects.

    However, it’s still not effective enough. Apple doesn’t allow third party app stores in countries outside the EU.

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  • Exactly. There is a general need to destroy and rebuild a system but it is often dangerous and costly. Especially with regard to a system of laws and government. Improving the system more naturally is far more safe and more achievable at smaller scales.

  • "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

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  • Wow. I 100% agree with you here.

    There’s an element of trust when you buy a product. You trust that the product itself isn’t malicious and is intended to help you in some way. E.g. “This food is safely prepared and won’t poison me.” Harvesting user data and advertising really violate that trust.

    Though it is worth noting that we don’t buy web browsers. We simply use them for “free“.

  • "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

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  • Exactly. It sounds like Mozilla is trying to protect those that aren’t willing or able to protect themselves. It’s a noble reason to do just a little bit of evil. This is roughly the source of my mixed feelings on the subject.

  • "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

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  • While I appreciate your sentiment, this just isn’t realistic in the current state of the world. First, you need to make these kind of tactics illegal enough to incarcerate a person. Second, you need to expand and enforce this law globally. We definitely need this level of global cooperation, but are also soooo far away from achieving it

  • "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

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  • So I read a bit of Mozilla’s documentation about this feature. It sounds like they’re trying to replace the current practices with something safer. Honestly, my first thought is that this is a good thing for two reasons.

    • It’s an attempt to replace cross site tracking methods, which are terrible
    • Those of us that fight against ads, tracking, etc. can simple use typical methods to block the api. Methods that were already using (I think)

    If both of these are true, then it could be a net positive for the world. Please tell me if I’m wrong!

  • Etsy to ban sale of most sex toys, explicit content, and more

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  • Etsy hasn’t been good for years. But I haven’t found an alternative yet. Anybody know what we should use instead?

  • IRS plans to make its free tax filing program permanent

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  • I only have anecdotal info for based on some reading I did last year. As far as I recall, the program and software are new. So they’re slowly building up features for more complicated tax scenarios an in turn, slowly making it accessible to more of the population.

    It’s just a matter of time before this is widely available. I read the post title as “we succeeded in this first year’s test and plan to continue the program”.

  • Surplus Value

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  • Visibility

    It’s easy to understand how income and taxes affect my life. For many jobs, it’s very difficult to understand the value of my labor in a bigger picture.

    I think most people can’t think abstractly and thus struggle to see larger interactions like how money flows through an economy.

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  • It’s clear that you don’t agree with my original opinions. And that’s ok. But it really doesn’t seem so simple and clear. Take a look at the ratio of up to down votes.

    https://programming.dev/comment/10313390

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  • Thanks for pointing this out. I keep looking back at this thread as new people grow annoyed at my comments 🙂.

    At the time I writing this, there are currently 15 upvotes and 28 downvotes on my original comment. That’s clearly negative and that’s ok. But that also makes it the third most voted on and the 4th most upvoted comment in the entire post. Seems there’s a very split opinion in the community here. This is now officially entertaining!

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  • Thanks for the happy comment. But it’s all good. People are allowed to not like my comment. I’m not exactly swayed by the downvotes but maybe I could be just wrong here.

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  • I am not

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  • Potentially. See my edit shove

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  • Ok that is an impressive number but it feels a little disingenuous. You still need to something on your machine to interpret the js code, right? Is that included in the 13k? How much storage does that take?

    EDIT: Well this is by far my most negative comment here. That’s almost entertaining. I’ll share a few more of my thoughts here rather than respond to individual comments. Maybe the context will make this more palatable.

    First, I expect that the js language is doing most of the work here. Which makes sense. But having a browser installed as a prerequisite is an enormous dependency.

    How would that stack up against other languages? Can I build a 13k binary using C? How about C#? I think Go is maybe the most interesting because the binary is entirely self contained by default. No external dependencies aside from the OS. I don’t think this or a similar game is viable with only 13k. Which is fine! I just that I find 13k is disingenuous.

    That brings up the question of whether or not we should include the OS in the storage size. I would think not. But that’s only because the OS is (usually) the least common denominator when we talk about developing software. It’s generally assumed by default. But if someone wants to compare with a game that interfaces with hardware directly, then yes, we should absolutely include the OS as a dependency.

    Now that I’m giving this more thought, I suspect that the devs wrote 13k of code + assets to make the game functional. Still impressive. But the more I think about this, the more meaningless that number gets. Does pre or post compiling matter more? What if we compress the thing as tarball? There’s just too many ways to manipulate this number.

  • "Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions

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  • Ya… being paid to perform isn’t immoral. Honestly, I hope he took a ton of cash from Amazon for the show.

    Amazon is the crowd doing evil crap. Their immorality doesn’t automatically spread to everyone they interact with. Especially, people that aren’t actually aiding their efforts. This one is corporate waste

  • Soldiers in Ukraine say US-supplied tanks have made them targets for Russian strikes

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  • Wait. Who’s genocidal here?

  • [Help] How to change the ports for a Bitwarden server before installing?

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  • Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with installing Bitwarden so I can only offer general advice.

    Port conflicts happen at runtime, not when software is installed. In general, you should be able to install as much software as you’d like that all relies on port 443 but only run one at a time.

    If you’re seeing port conflicts when installing Bitwarden, then I suspect that something is starting the app after the install is done. If this is right, then maybe you can disable the automatic start. Or maybe you can ignore the error at install time, then configure the app, then start it.