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Firefox wants to expand their testing of the 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' functionality
  • I feel like they added a lot of technological jargon to the the simple thing that is,

    "Every time you click on an ad, we will track it and sell the data to advertisers. But do not worry, the informationis encrypted and only we can decrypt it. Trust me bro."

  • How to use power button to wake up laptop on tablet mode
  • Edit: that was wrong, 31 is convertible

    I might be wrong, but I think I understand why it's happening. Running

    $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/chassis_type
    

    I am getting the value 31 (detachable), when I think it should be reporting 32 (convertible)

  • How to use power button to wake up laptop on tablet mode

    cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/206134

    > Recently I switched to Fedora 40 from Ununtu. Now, I am facing this weird problem, whenever my laptop suspends I cannot use the power button to wake my laptop if it's in tablet mode. It works fine in normal case. Also, this wasn't an issue in Ubuntu. Anyone knows how I can change it? > > I am using a 2in1 laptop (Dell) if it's relevant

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    Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
  • Technically, in a later PR they merged a more gender neutral language, but I don't think there was any official apology to the community.

    I don't comment anything negative, so far as I remember, against Ladybird and decided not to look at the general direction of that project.

  • Linux on non-PCs/Laptops
  • Maybe Domino's headquarters in our country decided it was cheaper to keep using they linux port instead of paying for windows license. I make this assumption because this particular outlet was openedafter the covid lockdown. Though, I have no idea of their rationale behind using Ubuntu.

    It hasn't been long since I completely switched to linux. I have been using Ubuntu for 1 year. Just switched to fedora (after some distro hopping). Honestly, just so glad to be free from snaps and those awful modifications that they make. Maybe fedora has its own flaws, but for now, I love it.

  • What are your favourite extensions?
    • uBlock
    • Privacy Badger
    • Language tools (spell checker)
    • Mal-Sync (automatically updates Anime & Manga progress with MAL, AniList, Kitsu etc. Supports Netflix, Prime and some high seas website)
  • Energy efficiency of Linux compared to other, typically closed-source operating systems
  • I think LF Energy published a report on how open source is more sustainable. Although, I don't quite remember the details of the report, it was more focused on sustainable projects not linux and such. If you are interested you can find more studies that explore the idea more quantitatively.

  • Firefox has a lot of issues, but maybe we don't have any other option.
  • The experience varies depending what you are browsing, but for me, it is plenty good. I can use my misskey account, github/gitlab account, can watch YouTube and few other streaming services as well (although how well or if they run at all depends on what streamingservice you use). Webkit GTK has few issues with touch screen devices, like backspace key of on-screen keyboard not working properly or stylus not working properly etc. Also, the PDF view feels a bit janky.

  • [Solved] New Ubuntu update just wiped out my enitre drive
  • I don't think KDE supports styling libadwaita yet

    Technically, even Gnome doesn't officially support theaming libadwaita apps. The unofficial ways all amout to hacky methods at best (applying an user made css on top of the default style).

  • EFF Says Mozilla's PPA is better than Google's Solution
  • Personally, I don't have a problem with ads. And if those ads can support further development on an open source product I get to use for free then that's even better. What I have problem with is privacy intrusive targeted ads. Even before the internet, newspaper, radio had ads. They sure were annoying, but not as bad of a situation as it is now.

  • EFF Says Mozilla's PPA is better than Google's Solution

    > Mozilla’s system only measures the success rate of ads—it doesn’t help companies target those ads—and it’s less susceptible to abuse, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @FastCompany@flipboard.com. “It’s much more privacy-preserving than Google’s version of the same feature.”

    https://mastodon.social/@eff/112922761259324925

    > Privacy experts say the new toggle is mostly harmless, but Firefox users saw it as a betrayal.

    > “They made this technology for advertisers, specifically,” says Jonah Aragon, founder of the Privacy Guides website. “There’s no direct benefit to the user in creating this. It’s software that only serves a party other than the user.”

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    Can AI even be open source? It's complicated
  • Exactly what I wanted to say. Anything on public domain; movies, books, pictures and paintings should be fair game. Including any databases that allows the uses of it in the given context.

  • Can AI even be open source? It's complicated
  • I feel like one of thr problem is LLMs hijacked the definition of AI. Like another comment said, the way they trained on copyrighted material, it's probably not possible. But imagine there was another model (not necessarily LLM) and it was trained with completely public domain material. For example maybe something trained to find genetic diseases from genetic samples of a person, or detecting asteroids from telescope images. Those could become open source. Now, I am not an expert, but do we consider those AI?

  • Firefox has a lot of issues, but maybe we don't have any other option.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20260243

    > Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled > > > Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.

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    Mozilla adds stupid AI stuff with horrible T&C

    > PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool

    https://queer.party/@m04/112872517189786676

    So, Mozilla adds an AI review features for products you view using Firefox. Other than being very useless, it's T&C are as anti-consumer as it possibly can be. It's like mozilla saying directly "we don't care about your privacy".

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    Why is flathub saying Floorp is proprietary

    I am very new to linux and all the open source stuff (my first post on lemmy actually) so I don't get how this stuff works but flathub is saying that floorp is proprietary. But after a quick google search it says that floorp is open source licensed under MPL 2.0

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