I don’t mean all Lemmy users. I mean a surprisingly large amount that non-stop hate on Mozilla and Firefox.

I’ve even seen two users that hate Mozilla/Firefox so much that they wrote about it in their account bio, which I find crazy.

I have the recent release and it’s great.

The colours are good, it’s HDR, has good surround sound support.

It looks and sounds fantastic.

Picard more I guess. I’d certainly prefer to serve under Picard, without question.

But both of them are what Starfleet and the Federation needed at the time.

My feelings about her differ depending context, I think.

As a character I think she’s great. As a person I don’t. As a captain I can see either side, but personally I lean towards “this person should not have unchecked power” tbh. Some of her actions really are needlessly callous.

Her ruthlessness is often great when the situation calls for it, but some things like her literally torturing Paris for 30 days in one episode really rubs me the wrong way.

I feel like Janeway would be a good first officer for a more “gentle” captain. Like Colonel Tigh is to Captain Adama on Battlestar Galactica.

Literally everyone hates Adobe. At this point I’m shocked there hasn’t been a consortium of companies pushing for alternatives.

It’s not even just about the money. So many companies rely on a workflow and business model that Adobe can change on a whim at literally any time they like. That’s a level of trust I’m surprised that so many companies and governments are completely fine with.

You know, you’re the first person I’ve seen that’s shared the same view as me (not that I’ve spoken about the topic much! lol)

Woman admits that she has performed an extremely benign sexual act before - ghasp! A girl has given someone a blowjob before!

And more than that, she has a “dumb” accent! Let’s make endless memes about her online basically calling her a slutty moron whose only life skill is sucking cock.

Honestly no wonder women feel pressured to pretend they have no sexual desires

I don’t think it should’ve been opt-out, but Mozilla’s ad metrics development is very much the direction ads on the web should go in. It is impossible to determine who you are from the data. They’ve truly done a good job on creating an ad model that’s privacy friendly, and would be a material improvement to the web.

It’s a way to still have ad revenue funding the content we all consume, while also still maintaining privacy. It’s a good thing. It’s just the opt-out aspect for existing installs that’s bad.

That said, I’m personally a proponent of just using adblock lol

Unfortunately that has not been the case for me. Some sites for buying concert tickets don’t seem to like Firefox.

I’ve had problems with several Microsoft sites we use internally for work ever since Edge went to Chrome.

It’s not Firefox’s fault. Mozilla is abiding by web standards.

No they didn’t.

They’re still there. Ublock origin is the god-tier adblock, and it’s still there. It’s even a Recommended by Mozilla extension.

I know people on Lemmy often, for some reason, hate Mozilla more than Google or Microsoft, but Mozilla very much still caters to people who want to block ads, despite the disinformation on Lemmy.

Sainz isn’t as good as Leclerc. And now that team is getting Lewis fucking Hamilton.

I’m optimistic about Williams, but I’m tired of Vowles making bizarre comments.

From needlessly being rude about other drivers, to acting like they have a guaranteed championship or something just because they got Ferrari’s second driver. He’s been hyping up Sainz for months now, in a way that’s felt a bit weird.

Doesn’t go against anything he’s ever said.

More’s law is at the most fundamental level a observation about the exponential curve of technological progress.

No. Let me reiterate:

Moore’s Law was an observation that semiconductor transistor density roughly doubles every ~2 years.

It is not about technological progress in general. That’s just how the term gets incorrectly applied by a small subsect of people online who want to sound like they’re being technical.

Moore’s Law is what I described above. It is not “technology gets better”.

I am so tired of people, especially people who pretend to be computer experts online, completely failing to understand what Moore’s Law is.

Moore’s Law != “Technology improves over time”

It’s an observation that semiconductor transistor density roughly doubles every ~2 years. That’s it. It doesn’t apply to anything else.

And also for the record, Moore’s Law has been dead for a long time now. Getting large transistor density improvements is hard.

MakieLab still exists, even though it is now owned by Disney. YouTube still exists and has its own CEO despite being owned by Google. Skoda still exists and is its own entity despite being bought by VW.

I don’t see how his wife being the CEO of a company that got bought by Disney counts as him making points from an unsavoury position.

Firstly, people are not their spouses. Secondly, there’s no proof I’ve seen that this company goes against the things that Cory speaks of.

Her running MakieLab (which might indeed utilise DRM, idk) doesn’t invalidate her husband’s point.

To my knowledge, the ‘AI’ Mozilla has currently is an offline (and completely private) language translation feature, and enhanced screen reader functionality for blind people.

I don’t think those are bad. They make the web more accessible. If they were branded as machine learning features, I doubt you’d be taking issue with them. Literally the only reason people complain about this is because of two meaningless letters being used in the release notes.

Ah yes. That classic bogeyman of F1. Any time someone gets criticised for anything, just blame the British press. Be it when Alonso does a move the stewards doesn’t like, Max getting booed at Brazil in '21, etc…

As if most of the complaining about this clown doesn’t come from people directly in F1. E.g. Max, Lewis, and others calling his swearing ban nonsense.

If anything the press, British or not, has been frustratingly quiet on this. But I guess that’s because they’re naturally on the side of advertisers, who also want no swearing or personality in sport.

Yes. Imports/exports are as follows:

• France, 7.6%

• Norway, 3.3%

• Belgium, 1.5%

• Denmark, 0.9%

• Netherlands, 0.6%

• Ireland, -1.9%

There’s a remaining 0.1%, which comes from pumped energy storage.

It’s been hovering around the 0.5% to 1.5% mark for years, but it’s finally gone now.

For the past 12 months, this is how the energy mix of the UK has looked:

• Wind, 32.1%

• Gas, 26.6%

• Nuclear, 14.8%

• Biomass, 7.0%

• Solar, 5.1%

• Hydroelectric, 1.4%

• Coal, 1.1%

The remainder gets imported, mostly from France and Norway, so is likely primarily Nuclear and Hydroelectric.

Stopped watching netflix because they banned sharing accounts and £18 (24 USD) monthly was too much for just one person. Cheaper plans didn’t have 4K or 5.1 audio, so it felt like a waste when I couldn’t even use my setup as it is meant to be used.

Never watched prime because I refuse to pay for something then still see ads.

Now I either source stuff by other means (🏴‍☠️🦜) and put it on my media server, or I use BBC iPlayer. Not sure if that’s a thing outside of the UK, but zero ads and decent quality programming is something I’m happy to pay their fee for, especially when it also goes towards funding ad-free TV, radio, news, sport, podcasts, etc.

It’s fucked how greed has completely ruined the streaming market. Back in ~2010 it felt like the market was going in such a positive direction.