Excel is maybe the one place I can see AI being useful because lots of people can describe what they want a spreadsheet to do but not actually do it.

I just wouldn’t trust it to do it right

Brave has great anti-fingerprinting measures I just wish I could get that without installing crypto malware on my pc

Considering the appeal was rejected I have no choice but to take it as the Reddit admins also taking it literally (even though appeals are likely automated as well)

I’m free to Luigi all day long then?

My Reddit account got permabanned because I replied to someone saying that scientists should open up their brain to study it. This cartoon suggestion was apparently a horrific violent threat.

Reddit is just gonna be bots by the end of the year

There’s a big chunk of the Linux community that will always want to gatekeep it and push out anything that makes it easier for the layman to use

Plenty of pro-Palestine protesters have targeted allies (or at least uninvolved third parties) in real life, ie attacking pride parades, so unfortunately I don’t see why being on the internet would make things any different. Some people are just desperate to be heard and habitually pick the worst possible way to convince others to listen. Not ruling out intentional shit-disturbers but it’s never only that.

If YouTube offered premium without music for a discounted price I’d probably be willing to pay for it. But I just want no ads, not a bunch of bundled stuff.

You’re forgetting the part where the video is coming from a cache server that isn’t designed to do this

That’s not on Google Play so it doesn’t affect it. I honestly don’t know what the point of this is.

Who in the world asked for Carmen Sandiego

My university had student apartments, each had their own router. No weird rules since it wasn’t the university’s network at all, it belonged to whoever lived in the apartment. Full router access, connect whatever, put it in bridge mode and connect your own if you want.

To many, federation is a solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist for them. In their mind, the early model of federation is like email, a problem that was “solved” years ago by having one corporate product that was much better than others (Gmail).

To add, on top of that, the fediverse is like if gmail could just randomly decide to stop receiving emails from outlook addresses and there’s nothing any user can do about it except make another email for when they want to email outlook users.

I don’t think fediverse proponents know just how catastrophically this terminates their entire pitch in the minds of 99% of internet users

OP those minimum requirements are taken directly from the Meta Quest 3 support page.

“Normie blocker” is just how abnormies rationalize bad design

I started on beehaw and moved here because they got too defederation-happy. I don’t want to post on an antisocial network, if I want to be alone with my thoughts I won’t go online at all. It’s a valid choice for them to make but I believe in Lemmy because I want a non-corporate non-evasive Reddit, which kinda needs lots of different communities.

It’s really strange how they specifically mention HTML5 canvas when you can run any fingerprinter test on the internet and see that Firefox does nothing to obfuscate that. You can run a test in Incognito mode, start a new session on a VPN, run another test, and on Firefox your fingerprint will be identical.

Advertisers track you with device fingerprinting and behaviour profiling now. Firefox doesn’t do much to obscure the more advanced methods of tracking.

Reddit is probably too big to completely disappear but if they keep isolating themselves from the rest of the internet they could easily lose mainstream appeal and end up more like a SomethingAwful

Brave randomizes the output of fingerprinting techniques like canvas rendering, system fonts, installed devices, etc in a way that makes you look like a real, consistent user providing real data that still allows the site to work, while still changing the output from one session to the next enough that sites can’t tell you’re the same person.

Firefox claims to block all this but if you check their site they explain how it actually works:

Firefox protects users against fingerprinting by blocking all third-party requests to companies that are known to participate in fingerprinting

We’ve partnered with Disconnect to provide this protection. Disconnect maintains a list of companies that participate in cross-site tracking, as well a list as those that fingerprint users.

This does nothing to actually disguise you. It’s the equivalent of putting a paper bag over your head when you think there’s a security camera. You stand out because of the bag and you don’t know where all the cameras are so you’re still being tracked when you don’t know it.

I hate the idea of Brave because Chromium’s dominance will ruin the web but Firefox does not protect us.