FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Given the Firefox stuff that's happening and the announcement of ladybird, I think it's a good idea to mention a browser project that's got no controversy I can see but could use time and money, @servo.

Servo is a browser engine made in Rust, it was made to be an experimental engine by Mozilla but the Linux Foundation is hosting it now. What I especially like is how modular it is, compared to other engines I feel I can make a better browser with it and its components help other projects too!

If you want to see a browser that can be maintained in pieces instead of monolithically it's worth checking out! they need serious CSS/flexbox help to get up to par with other browsers but the webGL and WASM is top notch.

#servo #ladybird #firefox #chrome #privacy #safari #browser #foss

Friendly reminder.

why is showing superior to telling? prove it to me. you can't invent a rule that isn't broken by a genuine classic. you have to take it on a case by case basis and at that point "show don't tell" is a worthless hermeneutic. if the exposition doesn't work, you should be perfectly capable of explaining why without pinning your whole analysis on a false dichotomy

that's it. i've had it. no one's allowed to use "show don't tell" in a video essay anymore

@whitequark libfloof!

beans

one of funniest things in swedish political history is how, after the election in 2014, a new government was formed by a somewhat unpopular agreement between left-wing and centrist parties, and the obvious acronym for the name of the agreement was the swedish word for “die!”

actually you can. here on the fediverse the elon word filter doesn't apply

you can't say san francisco any more. you have to say san frannontransco

Thanks Durango Worker

#Capitalism #exploitation #workingpoor
#Amazon #makeAmazonpay #organize #union #solidarity

Today, I'm in the quarterfinals of the #BigMathOff. My entry is the math behind this surprising calculator trick AND showing that this trick has a second trick up its sleeve. Check it out, and vote on your favorite entry between now and 8:00 AM BST. https://aperiodical.com/2024/07/the-big-internet-math-off-2024-quarter-final-4/

@mcc Google Chrome, or even degoogled Chromium, is NOT "a more privacy-conscious browser". It's 1000x worse. Yes this is (yet another) betrayal by Mozilla management clowns, but in browsers like in politics, "X betrayed us" doesn't justify "so we should turn to Y who was 1000x worse to begin with".

So this, from Firefox, is fucking toxic: https://mstdn.social/@Lokjo/112772496939724214

You might be aware Chrome— a browser made by an ad company— has been trying to claw back the limitations recently placed on ad networks by the death of third-party cookies, and added new features that gather and report data directly to ad networks. You'd know this because Chrome displayed a popup.

If you're a Firefox user, what you probably don't know is Firefox added this feature and *has already turned it on without asking you*

Anyway, I guess that's a lot of typing. The TLDR is:

- There is now a feature labeled "Privacy-preserving ad measurement" near the bottom of your Firefox Privacy settings. I recommend turning it off, or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.

- I have filed two bugs on Firefox about this, which I am choosing not to link to dissuade brigading. If I have not been banned from the bug tracker by next week I will file another bug about the ChatGPT integration in nightly

‪i am a well-known hater of Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth. that software doesn't deserve to bear the GS name.‬

‪SCVA more than deserves it, on the other hand. if you're interested in one of the fullest expressions of the 90's home computer music production dream, please check it out‬

‪it's still a beast though. 1600 melodic instruments, 63 drumkits, 64 insert effects, and it has different “maps” that let you use varyingly faithful versions of sounds from previous Sound Canvas modules, from the SC-55 to the SC-88 Pro. it even has the SC-55's MT-32 bank‬

Roland are discontinuing “Sound Canvas VA” on September 1 😢

https://rolandcloud.com/news/Sound-Canvas-VA-is-being-discontinued

you should buy a lifetime license for this VST while you still can, I guess. it's $69.

the announcement implies they might eventually replace it with something else, I hope that's true