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This article is just the biggest justification for using an adblocker. Just imagine none of this nonsense affecting your system resources and user experience, just uninterrupted co…

What exactly is the threat model here of preventing Joe Nobody Famous or Important Poweruser from rooting the hardware they bought and paid for? If someone has physical access to y…

People are overreacting to Clippy's intrusiveness - firstly you could replace Clippy with other characters like the red ball Dot, or a dog and cat (the latter would curl up and sno…

What passes for a desktop app these anyway is just some variation of Electron - bundle the website along with a Chrome instance and serve up the resulting 300-400 MB bundle as a 'd…

They always could be local. Thunderbird, MS Outlook and other email clients have supported it for years. Plus there's dedicated desktop feed readers like the Qt based QuiteRSS, whi…

>An OS should be mandated to come with a browser than supports some locked down functionality What for? Online banking worked perfectly fine on standard web browsers over HTTPS for…

They have a pre-emptive defense of Electron linked to, that others have refered to here. The criticism of Electron apps isn't merely RAM or sluggishness - it's the modern tendency …

IBM in Nazi Germany was no different from other German owned companies in being conscripted to do what the Third Reich ordered them to; the headquarters in the US obviously had no …

Only if you consider hosting the entire infrastructure for concurrent video streaming to millions of users as 'inserting themselves'. Before Youtube there was no way to distribute …

>We technically didn't need more than 640K either. That old chestnut again - this was true for MSDOS PCs in 1981 when the quote was said. It was still true 10 years later for whate…

Ah yes, brilliant reasoning. "You carry one device that can be tracked as long as you're carrying it so what's the problem with having tracking baked into your vehicle?"

>Now, whenever you download some giant 300-500mb Electron app There's the mistake right there. Electron is to be avoided like the plague; if all I want is the same dumb touchscreen…

I don't have to imagine it at least on the internet - I've been blocking all ads on all my devices very successfully since 1999. In fact now I can't stand having to look at or use …

>I have little issue with what happened and have no concern about Mozilla and privacy. Others clearly do, so your dismissing also ironically adds nothing like the comments you refe…

Wrong. Every company exists to be profitable; how ethically they go about it is a different topic. Companies aren't charities.

>Seem to tolerate high income inequality or even see it as a good thing. A free society will by definition be unequal; people have different priorities and abilities, and wealth ac…

Gotta love the change in terminology. 'Unhoused' people instead of homeless, as though their being without a place to live is now someone else's (the American taxpayers') responsib…

>With the Trumpenreich looming Weren't they useful the last time around, when 'literally Hitler' totally murdered freedom of speech until Biden the hero restored it?

It uses a hard fork of Firefox's Gecko engine called Goanna, and is independently developed other than a few security patches from upstream. It has considerably diverged from conte…

Bought a Pebble in 2018 and used it with Rebble. Loved the OS and interface - but the device was far from robust. The rubberized buttons eventually cracked and it became unusable b…

>We have 5-6 small (~50k people) towns, all well connected. Everything happens on Facebook. Network effect is always the party pooper. If everyone's using Facebook it's unlikely th…

Mastodon is a Twitter clone, nowhere comparable to Facebook. An endless microblogging format may not be ideal for a local community, as compared to a regular forum (which is just o…

Just reloading won't help, you need to actively train the algorithm by telling it what videos you don't like and why. It also lets you stop showing recommendations from a given cha…

Of course it's an Electron app that unzips to about half a gigabyte for the Linux version thanks to having to bundle a whole Chrome browser runtime. Totally insane for a streaming …

What's wrong with 2005 where desktop user experience goes? Why is the new sexy only 'let us remove all user choice and customization, throw decades of stable desktop UI features li…