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  1. Comment on Mozilla begs courts to allow Google search deal for Firefox to continue in ~tech

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    They wouldn't be a competitor at that point, and it would be seen as damages for stifling the market.

    They wouldn't be a competitor at that point, and it would be seen as damages for stifling the market.

    6 votes

  2. Comment on Mozilla begs courts to allow Google search deal for Firefox to continue in ~tech

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    If I was on desktop, I would have left a more seasoned response, but I was under the assumption that this was a known topic, that Mozilla has always been a hedge for Google against any monopoly...

    If I was on desktop, I would have left a more seasoned response, but I was under the assumption that this was a known topic, that Mozilla has always been a hedge for Google against any monopoly related judicial hearings or arguments, that funding over 80% of their revenue was an obvious hold over Mozilla.

    Their decade plus failures can be directly linked to not wanting to step on the toes of their corporate patron, they can't and won't do anything that infringes on their revenue streams because they can't without endangering their own paychecks, and reality of remaining intact.

    As Mozilla has always been a hedge against a monopolistic justice review, they are an in-situ lapdog, and they have now been finally called to heel as they are arguing that Google does not have a monopoly and should be able to continue.

    The article title buries the lead, Mozilla isn't asking that Google be allowed to continue just financing them in return of google-as-default, they are practically advocating for the entirety of the case to be relieved.

    Mozilla: "If implemented, the prohibition on search agreements with all browsers regardless of size and business model will negatively impact independent browsers like Firefox and have knock-on effects for an open and accessible internet, [ ..] As written, the remedies will harm independent browsers without material benefit to search competition.”

    this article is a bit better than the one posted above

    This is why they have been financed and coerced to be in this position, in nearly all cases, Firefox is a Google product by-proxy, not as a browser company, but as an insurance policy for this exact case.

    On the futility of discussion, I suppose

    I write this not to continue the contribution of the conversation remark, but to only say that I believe that making that type of remark about "contributions to the conversaion" are even worse of a contribution to a conversation, especially as there was a secondary conversation already continuing in response to this conversation at the time you made this.

    It's a weird response to make, and creates an environment where no one leaves any remarks because in all reality, they are all not contributing to the conversation since we aren't in the court case.

    The secondary part makes sense, and I have explained above my reasoning, but the inclusion of the primary response is a bit much.

    Cheers.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript trademark in ~tech

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    That's the point Oracle will make, and then any competing products that use Javascript in any form, any mention, will be liable for destruction by Oracle. You should never test the waters with...

    how much it really matters?

    That's the point Oracle will make, and then any competing products that use Javascript in any form, any mention, will be liable for destruction by Oracle. You should never test the waters with them near, they will destroy you if they want.

    11 votes

  4. Comment on Mozilla begs courts to allow Google search deal for Firefox to continue in ~tech

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    This is going to be harsh, but Mozilla, the lapdog of Google, have finally been called to heel.

    This is going to be harsh, but Mozilla, the lapdog of Google, have finally been called to heel.

    8 votes

  5. Comment on Lilo & Stitch | Official teaser in ~movies

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    Yes, it's a remake, but what people don't understand why Disney makes these insanely easy-to-print-money films, is because they are using them to fund and develop the animation and robotics...

    Yes, it's a remake, but what people don't understand why Disney makes these insanely easy-to-print-money films, is because they are using them to fund and develop the animation and robotics technology used in these films, this isn't purely a 'money-making' initiative, no one wants to really tell the same story over-and-over, but releasing projects such as this, or Lion King, allows you to release a project with minimal risk, minimal marketing budget, and a definite ROI to recoup some (they don't need all) for the technology investment.

    There is a lot of groundbreaking technology used in these productions, and so they sort of solve two sides of the business requirements: money (or seeming returns) for the business, and the more important investment into tech for the future.

    Edit: They're basically elaborate tech demos trying to prove their mettle and keep their budget and research project intact, like a science fair bakesale.

    7 votes

  6. Comment on Craig Newmark, of Craigslist, is giving away $300 million to improve cybersecurity infrastructure in ~tech

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    I hope you don't mind, but I am dragging your comment from a thread I posted earlier (and removed, as it's a dupe), it's just a good take and ties into this.

    I hope you don't mind, but I am dragging your comment from a thread I posted earlier (and removed, as it's a dupe), it's just a good take and ties into this.

    @drannex: "I mean, I get it, every nation is spying on each other, but this seems worrying."

    It's also annoying because for a long time the US was the leader in "lol we've got the tech and you don't" and we used that to hit other nations systems. Regardless of how you feel about that or who deserved it or what you think about our alphabet agencies doing stuff like that, we KNEW how trivial it was to compromise their stuff.

    And yet we've done basically nothing at a legislative level to actually ensure our own shit is in order. Now everyone has teams and teams of talented coders with slush funds to buy 0 days from the few they don't find, and they're screwing us over just as badly. Hell that's implying they need 0 days rather than "hi i'm from IT help desk, need your PW and 2FA so I can get your email back online"

    Should an ACTUAL world war kick off and not instantly devolve into nuclear annihilation, I suspect we're going to see a ton of digital infrastructure across the world implode.

    12 votes

  7. Comment on Craig Newmark, of Craigslist, is giving away $300 million to improve cybersecurity infrastructure in ~tech

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    Note: $300m = 200m + 100m initial from earlier this year.

    “I think a lot about this,” said Newmark. “I’ve started to fund networks of smart volunteers who can help people protect infrastructure, particularly [for] the small companies and utilities across the country who are responsible for most of our electrical and power supplies, transportation infrastructure, [and] food distribution.”

    “I think a lot about this,” said Newmark. “I’ve started to fund networks of smart volunteers who can help people protect infrastructure, particularly [for] the small companies and utilities across the country who are responsible for most of our electrical and power supplies, transportation infrastructure, [and] food distribution.”

    Note: $300m = 200m + 100m initial from earlier this year.

    11 votes

  9. Comment on China has utterly pwned 'thousands and thousands' of devices at US telcos in ~tech

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    I mean, I get it, every nation is spying on each other, but this seems worrying. In other news, Craig Newmark, of Craigslist, is donating 300m to fund cybersecurity for the US.

    The senator added that China's activities make Russia-linked incidents like the SolarWinds supply chain incident and the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline look like "child’s play."

    Warner told The Times the extent of China's activity remains unknown, and that "The barn door is still wide open, or mostly open."

    I mean, I get it, every nation is spying on each other, but this seems worrying. In other news, Craig Newmark, of Craigslist, is donating 300m to fund cybersecurity for the US.

    “I think a lot about this,” said Newmark. “I’ve started to fund networks of smart volunteers who can help people protect infrastructure, particularly [for] the small companies and utilities across the country who are responsible for most of our electrical and power supplies, transportation infrastructure, [and] food distribution.”

    “I think a lot about this,” said Newmark. “I’ve started to fund networks of smart volunteers who can help people protect infrastructure, particularly [for] the small companies and utilities across the country who are responsible for most of our electrical and power supplies, transportation infrastructure, [and] food distribution.”

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    Not that its directly inr reply to you but I believe with rclone you can also use vfs with serve and spin up a SFTP or WEBDAV server, but I could be wrong. I typically use the WEBDAV command to...

    Not that its directly inr reply to you but I believe with rclone you can also use vfs with serve and spin up a SFTP or WEBDAV server, but I could be wrong. I typically use the WEBDAV command to view my S3-like buckets since it's so much easier and better than any other resource.

    Rclone is seriously great!

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    You can use the VFS capabilities, which is what I mostly use. Creates a virtual file system, when you go to 'open' the file, it will autodownload, has a cache flag as well. This is the most recent...

    You can use the VFS capabilities, which is what I mostly use. Creates a virtual file system, when you go to 'open' the file, it will autodownload, has a cache flag as well.

    This is the most recent command I had saved in my access:

    sh -c "fusermount -uz ~/OneDrive; rclone --vfs-cache-mode writes mount OneDrive: ~/OneDrive"'

    Edit: May have misread your comment, if so, my bad! I hope this helps whoever out there to get it started. Super useful.

    Edit 2: this script uses fusermount to force mount to a directory in your ~home folder, if one exists, it will close and reopen, this is great when you set it as a startup script in the background.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp

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    No, but you can use rclone and it will be a thousand fold better than anything produced by Microsoft for Linux for this case.

    No, but you can use rclone and it will be a thousand fold better than anything produced by Microsoft for Linux for this case.

    6 votes

  15. Comment on Wicked, Dune, It, and deceiving the audience about two-parters in ~movies

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    I really don't see the issue, people expect sequels if the first one was great enough, and most would hope that the writers are cognizant of that fact and try to write to that expectation. You go...

    I really don't see the issue, people expect sequels if the first one was great enough, and most would hope that the writers are cognizant of that fact and try to write to that expectation. You go into a movie hoping it does well enough to have more, if it doesn't, then it doesn't, but the expectation is that you might get a glimpse into another world.

    Not only that, but Dune, Wicked, are both part of a series, muliple books, and while I abhor the musical of Wicked, the books are some of my favorites (I so wished the movies were based on the books and not the musical).

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Tabernis - Alveus Umbrae (2024) in ~music

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    Interesting, the system automatically marked that as a 'mailto' link, didn't know that was in the markdown parser for the site. Might be something to look at removing since that's the standard way...

    Interesting, the system automatically marked that as a 'mailto' link, didn't know that was in the markdown parser for the site.

    Might be something to look at removing since that's the standard way of writing out usernames on the fediverse these days, and I very seriously doubt we need mailto links on here by default.

  18. Comment on Tabernis - Alveus Umbrae (2024) in ~music

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    - @frederictouzerie3547@youtube.com in the comments

    This is how I imagine what medieval Daft Punk would have been like

    - @frederictouzerie3547@youtube.com in the comments

    1 vote