Watching the slow decline of Firefox over the past 15 years has been like watching the final breaths of a beloved pet. Now I'm with Brave, and happy. But I can't deny that uneasiness feeling that we may end up with just Chromium derivatives and Webkit.

Privacy Guides

"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again - Privacy Guides

I'm somewhat of a solo gamer, which is why I avoided Warframe back then. I wouldn't touch a modern MOBA even with a barge pole. But now I'm curious. For me, it was more like Serious Sam: non-stop walking and shooting. It kills time and stress. Oddly enough, I liked the strange online experience of Death Stranding.

I sympathize with the author of that article. These gilded cages of platforms are a menace. Sometimes, choosing whether you will use an Android phone or an Apple one is like having to choose the feudal lord who will rule over me. https://shanetully.com/2024/07/hey-google-what-happened-to-all-the-fun/

You nailed it about Mastodon and the "fediverse." When you leave X or Threads for a fediverse instance, you are essentially changing from a corporately ruled world, which at least has somewhat clear rules, to the hands of a completely arbitrary tyrant. Your online identity can be terminated simply because one moderator, who is a friend of the instance owner, is bipolar and in a bad mood.

That Thailand is right now pushing CBDC on its citizens is appalling: a nation that had 20 constitutions since 1932, and is the 4º in number of cups worldwide, is basically creating a non-anonymous ledger with fully traceable transactions, and KYC requirements. Just imagine if such a tool fall in the hands of an authoritarian? At least they went with the token based solution instead of the fully dystopian account based one.

Well... shit hit the fan in USA. Someone pulled a Bolsonaro on Trump. I'm not experienced with the American electorate mindset, but I do believe that an idiot just handed over the election to Trump.

Quick test to check if a company is engaged in pseudo-security practices that only makes the life of their personal a hell: do they use two-factor authentication using SMS codes? If yes, there you have it. Usually, companies like that signs for the full bullshit package and goes all in MS 365 cloud solutions.

Incompetent governments are just as bad as evil governments. Never forget the message of Brazil from Terry Gillian.

As much as that comes as a surprise to me, just after installing NetBeans 22 to give it a try, the Apache GitHub repo for it is actually quite active lately. I really thought that NetBeans was handed over to Apache to die. This is good news. I love this IDE. Actually, I like IDEs more than programming editors. Sorry, Kakoune.

GitHub

Pulse · apache/netbeans

Apache NetBeans. Contribute to apache/netbeans development by creating an account on GitHub.

We in the tech world are in a race between authoritarianism and freedom.

Bread slice + eggs + milk + vegetable oil + butter = french toast. 🤤

Nothing annoys me more than going that feeling sleepy at 23h, going to bed, and... keep rolling on it up to 4am without falling asleep. Damn.

I relate so much with this. Let's be real here: most companies are after AI just because shaddy investors demand them to make something out of thin air, so more clueless people will invest in stocks of this said company to raise its value.

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity