They promised to open source it 7 years ago when they bought it and now they’re snatching it out from under users and shutting it down. Mozilla is getting better and better at emulating its Silicon Valley idols
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0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Technology@lemmy.world•Resistance from the tech sector against trump's facism21·2 months agoThe point I was making here is you start sabotaging & can end up harming people that may have been allies
How? The call to sabotage was against fascist programs, like surveillance, illegal arrests, etc. How would sabotaging those hurt people who could have been allies?
Second, the more you start demanding people do what you want else you’ll sabotage, attack them, etc
That is nowhere near what is happening here. We have a system of laws that is being broken. Nobody was calling for sabotage when those laws were followed. But people who use less aggressive methods to combat fascism, i.e. writing op-eds, speaking publicly against administration policies, leading protests, have started facing punishments. They are preventing the normal exercise of civilian power, so we have to escalate to sabotage or similar actions. That doesn’t make us like fascists because we are not the ones defying and breaking existing social norms and laws. This is a ridiculous argument.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Technology@lemmy.world•Resistance from the tech sector against trump's facism3·2 months agoThe post didn’t promote consumerism in any way. It said, if you’re a tech worker you should unionize and sabotage authoritarian work where you can
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Firefox@fedia.io•Join Mozilla in testing the new Firefox address bar!6·6 months agoso, now, Firefox detects if you are on a page that has search capability
Didn’t Firefox have this years ago through OpenSearch and Mozilla removed it.
Moving the shortcuts at the bottom of the URL bar dropdown into a more prominent position
They’re moving always visible icons into a menu that takes an extra click. Years ago these used to be actual buttons that you could click to perform the search with that engine.
It’s like they’re bragging about their feature regressions.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz•Handheld consoles are the industry's next battleground | Opinion10·7 months agoIve been a console gamer for twenty years and I bought Decks for myself and my wife. For me, console gaming was about convinence and comfortability (and group play). The deck nails both of those, with the addition of cheaper games and full PC capability, while consoles have been regressing on convinence. The Deck also has an easy path toward the big screen group play I enjoy with accessories
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz•Valve's Deadlock adds proper Steam Input support with Steam Deck improvements and a new hero21·8 months agoI think it’s slightly misleading saying they’ve added a new hero on the title, when in reality they’ve just added a very very pre alpha stage hero to the hero labs
The game is still unreleased. The whole game is pre alpha
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers1·9 months agoThat’s not a contradiction, it’s maybe an incomplete argument. And I was relying on my previous sentence that mastodon has a history of steamrolling other implementations to imply that they would do it again and were already warning about that. But none of this even matters; I’ve made a follow up comment that lays it out more explicitly.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers111·9 months agoI didn’t cherry pick a statement. I included the part where they said the very first draft.
I did fail to explain how its a power grab, but that’s was only because I thought it was a fairly obvious one-to-one point. I’ve also added another example. But lemme try again.
- Mastodon has a history of pushing features that affect interop with other implementations without seeking feedback from other implementations or outright ignoring the feedback they do receive.
- A member of the mastodon team wrote a FEP to formalize a setting related to search indexing. This was the right way to go about it. yey Mastodon was working with other implementations. But that FEP didn’t receive positive feedback and it seems like it was abandoned.
- Now mastodon is trying to standardize something using the ideas from that FEP, outside of the FEP process (which is the agreed upon way to collaborate between implementers).
- They’re warning on their site that they have deadlines and may not incorporate feedback if they can’t resolve it without breaking deadlines.
- They are under no obligation to incorporate it after their initial draft and, historically, mastodon is unwilling to update their work to incorporate other implementers’ feedback.
A more collaborative way to do this would have been to seek feedback before making a grant proposal and making the grant proposal jointly with other projects so they weren’t the only ones getting paid for it.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers85·9 months agoMastodon has a history of steamrolling other implementations.
This means we might not always be able to incorporate all the feedback we get into the very first draft of everything we publish
The site even warns that theyre on a deadline and may not incorporate feedback.
EDIT: they also mention a “setting” that determines if a user/post is searchable. theyve presented a FEP to formalize this setting but nearly everyone else had issues with their proposal. as usual for mastodon, this looks like them sidestepping external feedback and just doing what they want
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Fediverse@lemmy.world•New Feature to Highlight journalism on Mastodon9·1 year agoIt’s a cool feature, but it sucks that (once again) the mastodon team is taking control of fediverse-wide features and ignoring outside criticism.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Steam@lemmy.ml•Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they’ve never played7·1 year agoAnd if some indie dev lasts a little bit longer because I threw away a few dollars, i’m all for it
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Firefox@fedia.io•Mozilla Did a Reddit AMA About Their 2024 Firefox Priorities… See What You Missed10·1 year agoDoing an AMA on mastodon would be a horrible experience for everyone. Others have pointed out the obvious difference in reach, blocks/defederation means some ppl may not even be able to participate, participants might never receive questions, users from different instances wouldn’t be able to see sibling comments, etc.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Firefox@fedia.io•Mozilla Did a Reddit AMA About Their 2024 Firefox Priorities… See What You Missed3·1 year agoPWAs were not liked when they came out.
By some ppl. There were also ppl who did like them. As soon as the desktop support was axed, fans of the feature started complaining immediately.
at the time, people in general did not like PWAs as a concept. Independent of the browser
Again, I think this is a sampling issue, because my experience was the complete opposite.
And one of the key parts of PWA features was the “Progressive” part. The site works without those features and you don’t have to use them so removing the support never made much sense to me.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Fediverse@lemmy.ml•dansup: "An open source/self hosted and federated Tik-Tok …" - Mastodon4·1 year agoThen, there is TikTok algorithm which is a common critic of the app but is how you get a never-ending flow of content which isn’t uninteresting enough for you to turn the app off
I think there needs to be some kind of discovery algorithm for new users with an empty feed (or even existing users who just wanna find something new) but a federated alternative doesn’t need something as powerful as the tiktok algorithm to be a decent replacement. It doesn’t need to surface a “never-ending flow of content” because it doesn’t have a financial incentive to keep you in the app endlessly.
that looks like a console
Not just looks, but provides the UX of a console. So you buy it, plug it up, log in, and immediately start playing. Even consoles don’t provide that streamlined UX anymore, but ppl want all the benefits console used to provide with all the benefits PC gaming provides now. But the key part is the PC benefits don’t get in the way of the ease of it. You don’t have to install or administer a linux distro, you don’t have to twiddle settings for every game (unless you want to), etc
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Fediverse@lemmy.ml•Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers ?2·1 year agoRelying on the competence of unaffiliated developers is not a good way to run a business.
This affects any site that’s posted on the fediverse, including small personal sites. Some of these small sites are for people who didn’t set the site up themselves and don’t know how or can’t block a user agent. Mastodon letting a bug like this languish when it affects the small independent parts of the web that mastodon is supposed to be in favor of is directly antithetical to its mission.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Fediverse@lemmy.ml•Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers ?2·1 year agoPeople have submitted various fixes but the lead developer blocks them. Expecting owners of small personal websites to pay to fix bugs of any random software that hits their site is ridiculous. This is mastodon’s fault and they should fix it. As long as the web has been around, the expected behavior has been for a software team to prioritize bugs that affect other sites.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Fediverse@lemmy.ml•Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers ?93·1 year agoThis issue has been noted since mastodon was initially release > 7 years ago. It has also been filed multiple times over the years, indicating that previous small “fixes” for it haven’t fully fixed the issue.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.ioto Technology@lemmy.ml•YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked5·1 year agoyes exactly what sneezycat said. I was being sarcastic and pointing out that Manifest V3 was always a crackdown on ad blocking and nothing else.
but thats not what theyre doing. im on mobile so dont have the link handy, but they mention in a different article that they think Pocket has been superseded by AI and tab groups. theyve harvested the bits of it they want and have no use for the consumer service now but its not about narrowing their focus.