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Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request
  • Remember when China told Google to censor web search results and Google said, "No. How about we show those search results with notes that they were censored and why since the sites will be blocked anyway?", and China was like, "You can't show them at all.", and Google said, "Fuck you. We'd rather lose access to the Chinese market than violate our principles.", and instantly shut down any service in China that would require censorship or disclosing private data and closed all Chinese offices working on any of those technologies?

    What a time we're living in.

  • ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
  • Journalist: Read a press release. Write it in my own words. See some Tweets. Put them together in a page padded with my commentary. Learn from, reference, and quote copyrighted material everywhere.

    AI

    I do that too.

    Journalists

    How dare AI learn! Especially from copyrighted material!

  • Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free
  • It's mind boggling to see the volume of content Amazon has produced that nobody cares about. Rings of Power was $89 million per episode. Citadel was $42 million per episode. There are solutions other than, "Higher fees".

    But Upload and The Boys are pretty good.

  • Amazon and Tolkein Estate force author to destroy all copies of his work. Only pirated copies will survive.
  • The explicit, stated purpose of copyright was to encourage sharing of ideas. When it lasted originally 14 years, it worked. Before that, you might have had a great idea and kept it to yourself because why take years of your life researching a subject and writing a book when a publisher's going to immediately copy it and pay you nothing? 14 years is plenty of time to get a return on your investment and most importantly, after that, it didn't belong to you anymore. It belonged to everyone.

    For example, that would mean District 9 and Hunger Games would be in the public domain right now.

  • Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
  • Google used to allow third party payments. It turned out to be expensive.

    This is like forcing Walmart to let companies take up space in their stores rent free and process their own payments. When it turns out a bunch of those little stores are stealing personal information and credit card info and money, those customers go to the Walmart service desk and when Walmart employees shrug and say, "I don't know what the fuck those guys are doing. You see, we give you the big store, but once you step into that smaller store hey are you falling asleep?" it's national news and it's Walmart's fault and they're called to testify in front of congress to get yelled at for not protecting customers. This is a weird precedent.

    I don't agree with Google's decision to force payments through Google. Since congress and courts and media expect Google to police the safety of all apps downloaded from the Play Store, I can't think of a better solution that also respects privacy, isn't, "We'll monitor everything every app does, but pinky swear it's just so we can make sure they're being nice to you."

  • COVID-19 now increasing again, especially in Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, CDC says
  • An mRNA vaccine works like a special set of instructions that tells your body how to make a pretend piece of a germ, but without using any real germ parts. Your body makes, then sees this pretend piece and learns how to protect you against the real germ. It's like teaching your body to recognize and fight the germ without ever having to meet it for real.

    Remember the COVID spike proteins? That's what the vaccine is teaching your body about, not any actual viruses.

  • The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money
  • The article talking about a Cybertruck racing a Porsche

    Electric motors accelerate cars faster than ones with internal combustion engines, so this wasn’t a fair fight.

    Nobody's permitted to compare electric cars with internal combustion because electric is faster? I don't understand the logic.

  • Bill is a pro grammer
  • I agree for inline code comments, like, "# Save the sprocket", right above the line that saves the sprocket. Does this include documentation? Because when I see a prepareForSave function that references 10 other functions and I just want to know, "Is this mutating and how is it preparing for save and when should I call it?", having the author spend 15 seconds telling me is less time consuming than me spending 5 minutes reading code to find out. Anyone who has read API docs has benefited from documentation.

  • Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox
  • Last I checked, Firefox had also been switching to Manifest v3 because they're also combating the tide of add-ons that pretend to do something useful, but actually steal your information. They asked uBlock at least a few times how they could build Manifest v3 in a way that'd be compatible. Instead of the browser asking about each URL, thereby giving the add-on access to personal information, uBlock could tell the browser what to block. uBlock's answer was always, "No. That's not good enough. Give the add-on access to URLs." It seemed to me like every time uBlock was approached, they turned to news sites to complain and IIR, the feature that would have given uBlock some functionality was removed from v3 because if nobody's going to use it, why build it?

    I wonder, now that uBlock has conflated the discussion of, "How much should extensions be able to see and modify URLs you're visiting?", with, "v3 is a war on ad blockers!", how quickly Firefox will move forward with v3, if at all.

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