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blaggle42

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  • AI controls is coming to Firefox

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  • I disagree, if the user has opened up about: has gone in an said, "I want to enable this local plugin permanently" and then says, "yes" to a "do you really want to do this" --- this is enough --- also just think if mac or windows or linux all of a sudden said, "no you can't install the software you want" --- you would be against I would think.

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  • Nah, I think we just need a dialog box - could be like osx - "are you sure you want to allow the plugin that you said you wanted to use? It was built by: you, not signed by Mozilla." Maybe put a "You have unsigned plugins running" tool tip - that gets displayed at startup or every 8 hours.

    Again - imagine if you couldn't install the programs you wanted on your computer - this is current firefox.

    I suppose we are both beating the already-dead-horse on different ends now.

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  • Yeah pretty much

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  • Lol

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  • Again. You are saying you shouldn't be able to install applications on your computer.

    I mean, if that's what you believe. I don't. I think I should be able to decide what I run and where I run it.

    Especially if the company thinks of itself as open source.

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  • Doesn't work. Try to do it without giving them a phone number or installing some other application. You can't. Or I couldn't.

    Then, after you can't and you think, "I'll go to the forums, see if there is a way." You'll find out Mozilla has problems with sign in. I mean come on.. But this is irrelevant, this whole flow is dumb. And it presumes that I shouldn't be able to control my own browser.

    We need a new firefox - just like the original firefox showed that Mozilla was bloat and dumb, we need another that shows the current is bloat and dumb.

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  • I understand what you are saying - but - if I want to install a program on my computer - I should be allowed to do so - the same with firefox --- maybe it might need me doing the equivalent of sudo, entering some password - or just clicking through, "ok, yes I know, extensions can do bad things.", "yes I really know that I shouldn't install an extension if I don't know exactly what it is" 10 times, but --- etc..

    I just don't buy the "attack vector" argument. There are many ways to mitigate, without removing the ability.

    Anyway, in a way this was a good experience - I am going to try to ditch firefox sooner than later now.

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  • I wrote myself a little plugin for firefox.

    It runs nice, and I want to install it permanently. It does something I want.

    Can I? No. Why? Because Firefox... Apparently I'm not adult enough to control my own browser. WTF.

    I have to either get their developer build or become a developer with an account. WTF.

    So I think, I don't want their developer build, I just want this plugin--- I make a mozilla plugin developer account- because apparently that's how I'm supposed to do it- I try to create the plugin upload ---

    Can I? No. Why? Because they want my phone number before I can make a plugin just for myself. WTF.

    So - I ask ChatGPT if there is any work around for this, can it search, I just want to run my own plugin, I don't want the developer build, I don't want the developer account, I just want to run my own plugin- ChatGPT says it can't help me because I'm not adhering to Firefox's EULA. WTF.

    So I give up on the plugin - and today, I just happen to notice Mozilla silently turned on SYNC for my web history for that fucking Mozilla plugin developer account. So I guess I'm sending them everything I ever do on the web. WTF.

    I go and try to find out what information they've stolen from me, can I find it? No. The have some link, to another link, to another link, to another link, which eventually ends up on some page where I can ask them to pretty please send me what information they stole. Why can I not see this without writing a letter! WTF.

    WTF WTF WTF. I hate Mozilla.

    Please let them burn in software hell.

    /rant

  • How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source

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  • This.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Given ample developer resources, what would a "de-ice" app do? What is possible with current tech?

  • ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing

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  • "Big" mistakes. Hmm.. One is saying "put on your big boy britches and get some lunch" and the other was "shooting an unarmed 37 year old mother three times in the face."

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • When will it happen? When are the Nazi's going to be killed? Is it going to happen in drips or all at once?

  • Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

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  • I mean "no, look up zero knowledge proofs"

  • Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

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  • Yes. Look up "zero knowledge proofs"

  • YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

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  • I just want to add:

    If you are in NYC - check out the Chinese and Mexican grocery stores!!! Usually a ton of foot traffic keeps the vegetables fresh. I do most of my vegetable shopping at one particular Chinese store which I find to be the best - [except for the onions (why are the onions so bad - do chinese people not eat yellow onions?)] - and it's fun to try new vegetables!

    Also, strange, and I'm not sure what to make of it - fish in the Chinese grocery stores costs 1/2 of what it at white-people ones.

  • Zohran Mamdani, in the New York City mayoral debate: "Free buses would cost $700M. Cuomo gave more—$959M—to Elon Musk for a failed Tesla factory."

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  • Yeah. He's a super nice guy. I mean- every time I saw him, I just thanked him for his music, especially the string quartets. He probably was like, "oh it's the guy I see in K-mart who likes my string quartets." So, maybe he's not nice, but he was nice to me. I know someone who knows someone who says he is experiencing cognitive decline - so if you want to write him fan mail, now would be the time.

  • Zohran Mamdani, in the New York City mayoral debate: "Free buses would cost $700M. Cuomo gave more—$959M—to Elon Musk for a failed Tesla factory."

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  • You know how in the debate, the moderators posed this, "what if tech company A" wants to come or leave or etc.

    Am I the only one in NYC who doesn't want the big tech companies? If Facebook or Google were going to leave NYC, I would be all for it. All the big corporate tech bros make this place worse, not better- they enshittify everything they touch.

    Small tech, yes, big tech- or fucking "AI company with too much money doing some dotcom-like stupid product" - no.

    Also - one edit - Facebook being in the old K-Mart building, somehow makes sense - except K-Mart was better. Somehow saw Phillip Glass there many a time.

  • Megathread: Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event

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  • I need this on a T-shirt

  • It's been downhill since 2020

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  • I remember this. This was a turning point. That and the bailouts.

    Bailouts said, "I'm for the rich." Flint said, "fuck the poor."

  • It used to be fun

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  • I would

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Why can't California and New York make their own medicare for all?

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Ethics of Luigi