Yes we need them to survive,
yes they’re better than Google.

But no we’re not being too negative/hard on them!

Lately Mozilla has been pulling a lot of anti-consumer yet pro shareholder shit.

AI is a perfect example of that,
unwanted by the majority of their community, yet still forced upon us by shareholders, for now through an optional addon, which appears to be a foot in the door, which can quickly grow into a baked in addon which ships with FireFox by default.

Sources:

• Mozilla asked the community their opinion about AI, the general response was NO:
  https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/td-p/60519
• Mozilla pushed a poll, tailored by shareholders in such a way that the results would appear that we still want AI:
  https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100
  Yet in the Lemmy comments about the poll,
  again you can see that the general consensus is no:
  https://lemmy.one/post/21332325

They blatantly ignore their community,
and for that we’re allowed to be angry with them.

This is actually quite good news!
Hear me out though.

Encryption has been under attack by government instances for a while now.

They always aim to weaken / backdoor it,
so that they can spy on all their citizens.

China abused the backdoor implemented by the US government,
which sends a message across the world,
being: “Do not backdoor encryption to spy on your citizens, or other countries might abuse it”

Hopefully this will put a stop to governments attacking encryption, at least for a while,
since now they’re reminded of the risks which it brings! :)

I like and been using JetBrains IDEs for years now,
and am/was happily paying for a good product.

However I feel like they’ve been going backwards in the last year or 2,
it feels less premium,
and more like your a paying beta tester,
since lately I deal with bugs in their IDEs too often to my liking.

But this news kinda scares me,
usually if something is free,
then you are the product,
paying with your data.

Which I can see happen to these IDEs now :/
Especially in this day and age where massive data collection by big tech is sadly normalized, and where coding data likely is wanted to be trained upon by AI companies with the current ongoing hype bubble and all.

If that would start to happen to JetBrains products, I fear for enshitiffication in the forms of:

• Losing your privacy
• Leaking company secrets

And further once the AI bubble pops,
which will lead to less demand for data,
since there will be less companies.

Happily been using it for a few years by now.

The enhanced privacy, extension and about:config support are great features to have.

Either that, or they might dedicate a whole wing of the museum to all the lawsuits they fired off throughout their history, against independent community fan projects.

Nintendo is a lawsuit company that makes games on the side after all.

= AI bubble

Currently at 30ish hours and still enjoying it.

Reminded me that Bethesda does release some great / huge games.

Albeit quite bugged at release,
but since they (usually) embrace the modding scene, lots of this can be / has been patched and even improved by the community.

The Next Gen update is a stupid cash-grab though, and imo should have never happened…

An official modpack would have been much better.

My “nExT gEn” update experience:

1. Get baited to re-play Fallout 4 through the new TV show + Next Gen update
2. Be disappointed since the graphics aged like milk + Official HD texture DLC sucks
3. Be disappointed since the update broke nearly all mod support
4. Roll back to the release before the Next Gen update + Uninstall the Official HD texture DLC
5. Install 205 mods, and happily play with nearly everything in 4K

FYI, most mods I installed are from:

• The Midnight Ride:
  https://themidnightride.moddinglinked.com/
• ESO-UI High End:
  https://eso-ui.com/fallout4-high-end/

Correct, ChatGPT is proprietary spyware.

If the interface would support self hosted (local/offline) LLMs, then I’m sure people would be much more interested.

I enjoyed the side content,
only some of the collectables e.g. the Vista Points where a bit dull
(however luckily Aloy helps out with them).

HFW is bigger then HZD,
which I don’t mind at all,
actually a bit sad that I’m about to complete it :P

Horizon Forbidden West,
currently going through the Burning Shores DLC.

Truly love the game as much as I loved Zero Dawn,
only 2 remarks are:

• Gear upgrades are a chore/grind
  (Temporarily drop to “Story” difficulty to farm the huge amount of parts needed)
• Machine Strike is not fun
  (Buy/use a “Slaughterspine Piece” to cheese it)

Other then those 2 remarks,
I love everything about the game / lore / graphics :)

No matter the nationality,
spyware is not okay…

Never has been, never will be.
It’s a form of oppression,
and an invasion upon your rights (to privacy).

Is that shit finally banned?
Never signed up, but happy to see that brain rotting app go away.

But I wouldn’t stop there, imo all GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) spyware should get the boot.

English is not my native language,
my mistake, corrected it.

Did not know that,
however it won’t make me change up my mind about Nintendont.

All their previous lawsuites and takedowns against the modding and emulation communities, where not fake, nor trolls, and made me despise them.

Nintendont,
the lawsuit company that makes games on the side, strikes again…

We’re well beyond the point by now of me ever buying anything from them again.
I won’t support such behavior of any company.

Wikiless?
The original project was taken down by Wikipedia, but this appears to be an active fork of it:
https://github.com/Metastem/wikiless

Visit about:profiles I’d guess.

This didn’t happen to me,
likely since I use XBrowserSync:
https://www.xbrowsersync.org/

Legacy software still requires maintenance.
Legacy dependencies still require to be used in new projects.
Dual booting multiple times a day is not feasible.

For those reasons none of my co-workers can fully switch to Linux.

I write PHP on the daily and don’t understand the hate it gets :/

At least I can work on Linux at home while my co-workers are stuck on Windows with their C#