Nice, that looks incredibly helpful. Thanks for the rec!

Works fine on Android as well (which is weird considering how bad Apple software can be on non-Apple devices). Just need to create an Apple ID and you’re set.

Testing out the trial right now and it’s pretty great so far.

UI is way better than Spotify as well (IMO), plus lossless for the same price as current Spotify Premium. (And it also has a max cache size limit option, so even playing a shit ton of lossless isn’t going to eat up more space than what you select.)

Getting my fucking Spotify library and playlists I’ve built over the years on here is going to be a long nightmare, though.

Nah, I think it’d be called something like… Mozilla Attention Token.

Lol, so they’re going to be training their AI on… AI generated content? The uptick in that shit on reddit has made it more annoying than usual.

That and all the confidently incorrect shit on the site… Not to mention the constant in-jokes. I’m just imagining a chatbot responding to something about how to deal with grief with “I also choose this man’s dead wife!”

Can’t see how this could possibly go wrong.

Just going to quickly shill for The Amelia Project as well. Really fantastic little show.

Why doesn’t he just do it now?

I was under the impression that if you’ve been president, you have the power to do shit like declassify documents with your mind even after leaving office.

So maybe he should just charge them with treason in his mind, it’s the same thing.

Yeah, I can definitely see how my comment could be interpreted that way.

Lol, I probably should have initially added that context.

Anyway, apologies for the misunderstanding!

Whoa.

There was no shaming involved (at least not intentionally). People can wear whatever they want. I’m the last person to complain about people’s choice of clothing.

It was an (amusing to me) observation, mostly because I found it ironic that she’s on the side that praises “modesty” and then doesn’t, as usual, practice what nonsense she preaches.

Also, I thought it was really funny how many times she had to keep pulling the top up to keep everything in there.

That’s all my comment was. A throwaway observation about something I thought was funny.

Puritanical shaming? Man, sorry if it came across that way.

Edit: Oh, was it the “good lord” bit? I just use that term for comic effect a lot of the time. I forget it’s something people say unironically with regard to their beliefs. I see now how that could have been misinterpreted.

I’m used to the term just being random exclamation a lot like how “Jesus Christ” or “OMG” or whatever are used these days. Apologies.

Good lord, that dress can barely keep her breasts contained.

Edit: I should clarify that I meant this as an amusing observation (irony and all, with all their hollow talk of “modesty”) and not because I give a shit what people wear.

Also, was funny watching her constantly pulling the top up to keep from having a wardrobe malfunction.

Lol, reading that “censorship” section alone tells you all you need to know about the author there.

Literally hammering 1984 quotes like they love to do (dude, if Mozilla has the same kind of power as the Party, I must be chilling under a rock somewhere). Even has one of their sections called “Cucking to Manifest V3”.

Back to the “censorship”:

They want to algorithmically decide which content is allowed to be posted, and which isn’t. This is especially relevant in the context of the fake pandemic, during which the whole world has been enslaved exactly thanks to the propagation of the “factual voices” over the so-called “disinformation”. The “disinformation” here includes mentioning the factual harm done by COVID vaccines or even proven alternative treatments for COVID itself. So, Mozilla supports a world where people are harmed without being able to defend themselves.

Yeah, sorry. No. People with this little regard for reality shouldn’t be taken seriously when presenting arguments.

This whole screed is aimed at a very particular brand of user that looooooves to pretend they’re all “facts”, when it’s just emotional outrage over perceived slights. Same ones who complained about DDG when they tried to deal with Russian propaganda links showing up too often.

It’s all very conspiratorial, as is expected, yet offers no real answers because conspiracies very rarely have any.

Also, have to lol at the SystemD shit showing up at the end there as well.

Quelle surprise!

Huh. Didn’t know about that one. Thanks for mentioning it!

it is the best option on Android currently since Bromite is almost always a Chromium version behind whatever is current.

Right now Bromite is unmaintained and has been for a long time. I shudder to think how many versions it’s behind.

If you want a FOSS Chromium-based Android browser, use Mulch. It gets updates fairly quickly and serves much of the same purpose that Bromite did, while actually having a (very slightly) larger dev team.

Edit: Oops. Didn’t realize that Mulch doesn’t have a content blocker. Someone else mentioned Cromite (which does have a built-in content blocker), so that might be a good option as well.

Vivaldi, though it’s source available rather than fully open source. It’s mostly the frontend JavaScript (I think?) code which is proprietary.

Apparently, if you know enough to understand it, you can technically work out what all the proprietary code is and does because it’s all fairly simple stuff and separate from the Chromium base (which they make available on their site), although distributing it would be against their ToS (I guess it’s technically reverse engineering, which is also against their ToS).

It’s been a very long time and I can’t actually confirm that for the current release, but it was at least true a few years ago when someone who knew far more about programming than me mentioned it on their forums. I think some people took a look at it and found some basic theming stuff, but nothing nefarious.

They have a fairly solid privacy policy last I checked. They also have no intention of sticking with Google’s v3 plans.

The only thing I don’t like is they run a daily user count check by pinging their servers. They’ve made it so that there are no IDs, anonymized or otherwise, but it’s still a bit of a black mark on an otherwise decent piece of software.

We did have people developing a new browser engine. It was called Servo and Mozilla went and killed the project.

Maybe it just wasn’t going anywhere and they didn’t think it was right for Firefox, maybe it was experiment for experiment’s sake, maybe it was always destined to be a side project. I don’t know.

It’s still being developed, but doesn’t have nearly as much manpower and funding as it did at Mozilla.

Honestly, my very uninformed opinion is that there should be more browsers developed using WebKit.

It’s still FOSS (despite Apple’s best efforts) and it’s widely supported due to Safari’s market share (particularly on mobile).

I’m just not familiar with how easy it is to implement outside of Apple (I know GNOME Web uses a GTK port), or how well current popular extensions can integrate with it.

Then again, I assume we’d be having the same argument, except complaining that it’s Apple, rather than Google, that has too much control over the web.

Yeah. In my location, it’s a bit closer to $25 when taking forex into account.

When I clicked the “Remove ads” option, so not Ultra. It’s possible they’re linked, which would explain the price.

Incredibly fucking expensive in my location. I don’t know if it’s defaulting to the subscription or something, but it’s about 15x cost of my Pro purchase from several years ago.

I have mixed feelings.

On one hand, it’s nice to have something familiar.

On the other hand, Sync was basically reddit for me, and I’m having something of knee-jerk reaction where I feel like I should be using something “fresh” that doesn’t remind me of my time on reddit.

Like, I don’t actually want Lemmy to feel like a straight up drop-in replacement for reddit. I want it to feel unique.

I like some of the other apps, but none feel “there” yet. Might just stick with the web app for now.

(Also, not open source. I trust the dev, but I just want to be able to install shit from F-Droid or Izzyondroid or whatever instead of relying on the Play Store. I understand the decision and don’t hold it against him at all, but it’s something I’ve always disagreed with.)

Yeah, it was the same with reddit. Common complaint.

Quickest way to deal with this is Settings > Backup > Backup now. Log out/sign in into new account, Settings > Backup > Restore from backup.

Since all the backup does is save local user settings, it won’t affect any accounts or anything like that.