Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Yup, it's true. Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are opt-in by default and announced with very little fanfare, so most people might not even know they're there.

Well, this is me telling you they're there. You might want to go ahead and take a minute to opt out.

Here's the little helpful explainer from Mozilla about how it all works:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

My read seems to be: Mozilla says website surveillance is generally bad and should be defended against. Cool. No notes. Firefox actually has a lot of nice anti-tracking and privacy features there and that's the main reason why I like Firefox.

But, and I swear I'm not even joking a little bit here, Mozilla goes on to say that advertisers might be happier if Firefox itself just tracked you directly and sent activity reports back to them.

Doesn't that sound great?

Now, to Mozilla's credit, they claim to anonymize the activity reports. And you can still meaningfully opt out of the whole system.

But WTF, mate?! I use Firefox *because* it fights against adtech. Or at least it used to. Now, Mozilla just lets adtech right in the front door and hopes you won't notice?

Well, we noticed. Mozilla is damage and we need to route around it.

i feel attacked

LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/

Here’s a story that I wish I didn’t have to write. But it’s high time that we make this a central point anytime, anywhere Threads is pictured as a decent alternative to Twitter and Mastodon. It is only that if you’re a straight, white male.

@macstories

That pun is a K.O.🥋

Don't threaten me with a good time!

>add/remove programs
>never used that shit to add a program in my entire life

Somebody should invent a very small AI which was carefully nurtured to grow within the limited space of a single PC and name it Bonsai Buddy

I've got that crow autism (I collect shit that I don't need)

Blender 4.1 New Features Official Overview https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/d93e308e-7dcb-4a03-a3d5-5bc6c7df65c7

Which is the most fun programming word to type or say?

We've passed $72,000! Just 29 hours left.

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Buenas. Hoy es San Iwata. Es el aniversario de la muerte de Satoru Iwata, programador de videojuegos y fue ese presidente de Nintendo que se rebajó el sueldo a la mitad por los malos resultados económicos de la compañía en 2011 y 2014.

Así que alguna gente (me refiero a Rafa Laguna, para qué mentir) quiere reivindicar este día y que se regale videojuegos a gente que quieres, pero prefiero pasar por aquí los códigos, porque os tengo en mucha estima. Se publicarán los códigos a las 10h, 13h y 16h (hora España peninsular), con alguna letra tapada para que no sea un copia pega en plan guarro.

Se trata de tres juegos a canjear en Steam y publicados entre 2013 y 2022, incluye triple AAA. Todos ellos están verificados para jugarse en Steamdeck. Son de aventuras/acción y son protagonizados por mujeres. Vamos, que son una selección bien maja y cuidadosamente seleccionada. La parte mala es que son para canjear en España por lo que me dice la página de Fanatical...

#SanIwata

Twitter is suspending queer news accounts. 😬😬

https://pstribune.com/2024/07/09/x-formerly-known-as-twitter-suspends-gaydesertguide-and-ilovegay-accounts-among-other-lgbtq-accounts/

You have some hours left to get my two steam games for 50 % off ✨

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Sebastian%20Lind

#gamedev #pixelart

commission

how to make an urban legend in your game, in the internet age

make a rare event that happens in hidden area, like 1% of the time, but every month the game is out, the chance of it happening drops by 0.1%.

the event also doesn't happen if it detects any common streaming software, like OBS.

also, all the assets for the event would be embedded into the binary, so dataminers would have to decompile it to confirm its existence.

oh, and in a switch port, it would disable video snapshots while the event is active

Binary gendered toilets but your options are "femboy" and "enby"