I only know of https://system76.com/ but have no personal experience with them.

There are very few sellers that have pre-installed Linux laptops which is what majority of people buy. So Linux is automatically discarded as an option in all those sales.

Opt out is not real.

This will remove the widget entirely. If you think you might actually like the widget’s other features (calendar, weather, and news), you can “X” out a particular ad, and it won’t pop up again. But then you’ll get another ad.

Meta has designed the glasses to not work if someone covers up the LED with tape.

Firefox also uses Google’s Safe Browsing API. They even direct users to contact Google for removal of false flags as they can’t do that themselves.

To request removal from the list of reported phishing sites, use this form provided by Google.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work

These type of regulations often apply only when you have x active million of users to prevent issues like this.

https://streamhatchet.com/reports/2024-yearly-report-in-live-streaming-trends/

Technology definition is so broad that it could fit 90% of the general news into it.

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/technology
• https://www.britannica.com/technology/technology

I understand that everyone feels that technology should only apply to what they think technology is, but that’s why there is a section in the sidebar to specify what it means in this community.

Twitch has no competiton. As of 2024 they had 61% of total watch time across all live streaming platforms. It’s the kind of share that other industries would kill to have. None of the other streaming markets or even VOD platforms can achieve these numbers.

Take music streaming, Spotify only has ~32% of the market share even though they are kind of ubiquitous with music streaming at this point.

The real story here is the insane monopoly power that Cloudflare has. Even updating robots.txt files without your input (though it did require opt-in at some point). One monopoly power trying to fuck over the other one is not the win you think it is.

I think it’s going to kill free search engines because it can go do a search on all of them at once in seconds and no human will ever see those ads.

So sites will move to paywalls or aggresive WAFs and those LLMs will become useless at the same time succeeding in killing search engines leaving no viable alternatives.

Already half the public internet is inaccessible without allowing to be heavily fingerprinted and be tracked just to prove you are a human user.

You don’t need to subsidize EU industry at the taxpayers expense to achieve economic independence. Refusing cheaper goods for arbitrary reasons just makes EU look stupid. The key is to buy on your own terms under which you never give foreign nation control over you.

Look at France. Their whole country is built on sovereign independence in critical areas. They achieved it buy building their own industry, while taking goods deals from other countries, not by refusing them and making their own people lives harder.

What EU should really do is accept the cheap solar panels from China but under their own terms. No remote access data, storage in EU only, and enforce EU legal jurisdiction for all disputes. China needs a market, they will accept those conditions. It would be huge win/win for both sides.

Moving away from cheap goods to protect non-existing industry doesn’t makes any sense, but that’s what corporate “centrism” gets you in the EU. Buy cheap while you build your own industry and then when you reach competitive state you can change the terms.

The code is owned by a nonprofit foundation, but a lot of the assets and other compnies like an ad agency is owned by their for profit wing.

Most of those forks rely on Firefox upstream updates. Apart from some of their specific features and disabling of existing ones, they don’t develop the actual Gecko engine. We would really need someone with resources to take over the development.

https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages/

He’s not wrong. Even more, with them worshiping at the king Trump altar they will even be able to buyout all the competitors that were hurt by these tariffs (no regulators to stop them) and make their monopoly even stronger.

We would be really struggling to stay alive pay ourselves millions in salaries.

Good to see. CryptPad has been go to for collaborative docs for years now.

Did you ask school teachers if they want to be armed?