It’s not as if humans slavishly obeying the algorithms was a much better situation than robots doing it. They’ve just sped up the process and it can only hasten the demise of the new technofeudalist content mills.

The Pirate Bay is perfectly fine for that sort of thing.

I think you’ll find most phones come with a web browser. But I can confirm that I do use Vim to edit the list.

Apache and nginx are two of the better-known grocery list servers. Just put a text file in /var/www/html.

If enacted, I’m guessing the main effect of this would be to make “meow” the new standard greeting among a large fraction of the student population in Texas high schools.

Welcome to 2014

Reading in general is of course quite easy compared to reading the Washington Times (my fingers automatically typed “Washington Post” there, a publication slightly more like a real newspaper) which most people would understandably prefer to avoid. In this case there’s no need, the illustration alone conveys the message well enough.

The symbol in the image, which appears conspicuously above the Washington Times article that was linked to, is no more offensive than the text of the article beneath it.

They’ve removed the ability to do it through the normal settings menu a few years ago, so you’d have to type about:config in the Firefox url bar and do it there. You’ll get a warning about how dangerous it is, and then you can type the names of preferences you want to change and double-click on them when they appear to turn those ones on or off. Turning off EME can be safely done without any side effects, but it’s not recommended to change anything else in there unless you know what it does.

It would mean you can’t watch e.g. Netflix and some TV station websites won’t be able to play video — although I’ve found that on others, the TV programs play just fine but the ads don’t work.

Librewolf and the “EME-free” builds of Firefox are the two I know of. You can also set media.eme.enabled and browser.eme.ui.enabled to false in any Firefox-based browser.

One reason to use a browser with no DRM capabilities available is that it tells them in advance you won’t be visiting any more if they try to force DRM on everyone.

To be fair, it’s hard to say what Bethesda has to offer when they haven’t released anything since 2011. [checks wikipedia] Nope, nothing. Unless you count Fallout 4, which I wouldn’t.

Oh no my shameful secret is discovered: I never got around to visiting the zoo when I lived in Toronto.

In most parts of the fediverse, if you see more talk about Ladybird than Servo it means you’re following the wrong people.

Rogue. You’ve heard of Roguelikes? It influenced more than just them. Probably every action RPG owes it something.

It already exists at least as an “experiment” but I guess now it’s nearly ready for full production use. Perhaps the new terms of use text is motivated by not enough people accepting the old merino opt-in prompt as well as wanting to get more third-parties involved in the system. More details here: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/urlbar/firefox-suggest-telemetry.html

When Merino integration is enabled on the client and the user has opted in to Firefox Suggest data collection, Firefox sends everything the user types in the address bar to the Merino server.

They want to intercept your searches and url entries to run them through the privacy preserving data extracting machine in order to collect data that will be sold to advertisers and used to pollute your search results and url suggestions with paid-for links. They were trying to be vague about it so that people would not understand this, and instead all they accomplished was to make people think they want to record everything you type into every web form. That’s my guess, anyway. Maybe they really do want everything.

Indeed, fingerprinting. Preventing it is one thing Mozilla could be working on. Going all-out on it really, devoting significant engineering resources to making their browser fingerprinting resistance bulletproof. Reworking every js api with defence against adversarial use of it in mind. If they’re really that desperate for cash they could sell it as a premium feature for a modest subscription fee, although obviously it’d be available free of charge for those willing to get their Firefox builds from someone other than Mozilla.

Don’t panic, though! Much like the competition does, while we sell your data we’ll tell you all about how we respect your privacy so much more than the competition does. It’s for the best. Driving away all its users is the only way to make Firefox commercially viable. That’s just how capitalism works.

We will collect data about you and sell it, but only after we’ve run it through a privacy preserving machine that turns it into privacy jam so you can’t tell how much of yours is in the jar.