Swordgeek

I messed with a few browsers (Librefox and others), but ended up on Waterfox because it’s just Firefox…without much extra shit. It’s faster, lighter, and runs all of the Firefox extensions I love.

It was. I’m struggling to find anything that was an actual improvement in the UI. Most of the changes were trivial and change for change’s sake; but some were awful, and none are clearly better.

Mozilla has stopped working on developing and improving their products, and is now entirely focused on adding trendy terms and garbage, to feed money to their C*Os.

If you’re not sure what my point is you’re not informed enough to present a legitimate argument.

Or maybe you didn’t present your point clearly.

Or maybe you’re just wrong.

These are entirely possible scenarios you might want to consider.

The premise of a web business model is that websites must make a profit - either directly or indirectly.

That’s utter bullshit. Some of us are old enough to remember when the web (or for that matter, the pre-web internet) was there for sharing of information, social interaction, and community. Schools, the government, and nonprofits provided hosting for free.

Later on, ISPs started to add hosting as part of their internet service - along with usenet access and an email address. The cost to them was negligible, especially vs. the benefits of being able to say “switch to us and create your own website!”

Nowadays you can run a site from your home PC in a VM, punch a hole through your firewall, and pay a modicum for DDNS to a custom domain for under a hundred bucks a year. If you’re a bigger site with more traffic, maybe you spin it up on AWS and pay ten or twenty bucks a month.

The very idea that “The Web” is a homogeneous, for-profit entity is a profound and fundamental mistake that is made by every money-obsessed organization around - not just the financial rags like Forbes and The Economist, but essentially corporations as well. Take a look at the support site for your favourite product and try to convince yourself that they didn’t just put the minimum required effort in to send customers into the arms of their competitors.

Such bullshit.

“AI is going to fix everything, so we need a new way to make money.”

1. AI is nothing but a delusional and unwanted waste of energy.
2. The web doesn’t need a business model, period. Money-grubbing billionaires are the only ones who need a business model.

Go to a female stylist. Problem solved.

Why mention it? Because the media has a DUTY to call out a corrupt government! Because they’re not doing their job!

No discussion in the article about fraud or conflict of interest.

None in isolation.

CBC is a pretty reliable go-to although they’re more than a bit pandering these days. BBC is similar. Al Jazeera is pretty reliable for things not related to Islam and Palestine in particular (although they’re not as biased as they could be). AP is fairly neutral. Aside from that, it’s non-legacy Canadian sources like the Walrus and the Tyee, which all have their problems but are good at exposing reality.

A few unsalted mixed nuts from Costco, when I woke up at 2:30 this morning.

Out of misplaced nostalgia, I keep wantimg ZD to not completely fuck up for once.

Alas, I’ll have to continue waiting.

What trend? Lying about being noble while trying to destroy everything in their way?

They’ve been doing that for 25 years now. It’s not a trend, it’s a business model.

Fair warning: it’s likely that your ISP will block attempts at self-hosting a mail server at home.

A more interesting question to me would be "What are the chances that the 2028 elections are allowes to be carried out freely (e.g. without the governing powers forcing the outcome they want)?

If he lives to the end of this term, 100% that he’ll try for a third.

By then, it’ll be a battle between Republican Nazis who back him blindly, and Republican Nazis who want a more competent puppet in power. Oh, and people who aren’t actively supporting fascism. I doubt they’ll make a difference.

I’m not sure if the article had a point, or if it was just scattered fragments of thoughts.

Regardless, I always felt that the death of OS/2 came later, and was due to IBM’s inability or unwillingness to market their products. “We’re IBM! People will flock to us and wait for our release schedule!” But it didn’t happen, and they lost all of their momentum.

Professor Kitzel.

In Canada, it’s easily A&W.

So he’s proud to be a slaver.

May he drop dead of a heart attack at age 25, alone, umloved, and unmourned.