@rbreich
I remember both times you kneecapped Hillary Clinton, and long before that, Al Gore.
At one time I respected you, but I realized at some point it was only because of your flowery mastery of language, rather than the quality or value of your opinion.
Firefox is just another US-corporate product with an 'open source' sticker on it.
Their version 128 update has auto checked a new little privacy breach setting.
If you still use a corporate browser, at least do some safety version! We mainly use @librewolf based on firefox. (yes, we know, a stable european or even non-US browser is still considered 'futuristic' in europe)
@arstechnica This is another tragic example of how humanity over and over again destroys some of its most beneficial creations only because some - unfortunately - intelligent individuals play unfairly and abuse a system to gain a personal advantage. And just like game theory tells: in the long run everyone has to play unfairly or otherwise fault by default... classic lose - lose
A fix? Most likely impossible as the gatekeepers benefit from the current system.
@arstechnica for as long as the platform lasts, my movies-on-disc choice continues to be the library. Not because I can't afford a digital copy that may just suddenly stop working, but because I love libraries and hate giving more money to expensive streaming megacorps who actively hate me.
@arstechnica I had to check the date on this post.
Twice.
Are you sure you don't mean blurays or something at least? People seem to be so silly about resolution even in things that don't need it (I, for one, care more about the quality of the story than about whether I can see how open the actor's pores are that day) that it's hard to imagine most of them watching 480i all that much these days. In fact, interlacing was meant for analog CRTs and looks horrible on digital displays.
@arstechnica Rocketry is hard, the fact that SpaceX has it down to an (almost) fine art, makes it easy to forget for many, just how incredibly difficult the engineering is...They'll have this solved and sorted pretty quickly to everyones satisfaction,, to that I have no doubt.
@rbreich It has perplexed me for a long time when people say "tax the wealthy" but they balk at a flat tax where everyone would pay a percentage without loopholes.
This piece is good--it shows that the little people, you and me, we don't get to make choices, real choices.
It is also a bit disingenuous: it dismisses Clooney right off hand, without addressing that the actor, who had a fund-raiser for Biden just 3 weeks ago, reports that the Biden that he interacted with during the fund-raiser was the same Biden as the one in the debate.
Nancy Pelosi gets it: she asked the party to give Biden time to figure this out.
@arstechnica One wonders why we even report on such things anymore. (/s) Republicans only like something if it makes life more difficult or impossible for minorities.
@arstechnica I seriously can't see how people can't see that calls for privatizing things with no limits won't result in, well, no limits. In such a system it's not lowest bid wins, it's everyone finds the absolute highest bid they can get away with and then just focus on marketing to convince people their way overpriced service is better than the other way overpriced service. Marketing works a lot better than pricing for competition it seems because that's just how humans are.
@georgetakei I'll say it again: replacing "colored" with "person of color" will lead to both accidental tongue slips and people using the former intentionally and then claiming a tongue slip.