I’m in Australia and it’s shit for everyone. The whole thing was basically conceived by SportsBet so they could advertise on social media with impunity.

My kids are on more social media platforms than I am. So are all their friends. It hasn’t slowed anything in that regard.

I can say, none of the shady bootleg porn sites have implemented blocking. So there’s always that.

I’ve survived so far without doing a face scan or ID check. Most of my social media accounts are over 16 years old anyway.

Maybe it’s all the Pixel 6a handsets with worn batteries.

It was MV3. I had to rewrite the manifest as V2 to get it working.

Drugs are definitely cheaper, more enjoyable and better for you.

So, you have one bad interaction with some jerk, and then you get a life ban that propagates through the whole city?

Seems rather shit. We might as well roll out a social credit scoring system. I bet you don’t even get three strikes.

I would likely avoid any venue with a system like this anyway, so it won’t matter if I’m banned or not.

I’ve been using exclusively since the early 2000s.

On Android, it’s about 10x the size of Chrome. I’m guessing that’s because Chrome uses the OS internals (chromium) for rendering while Firefox rolls its own (gecko).

Firefox still does manifest v2 so adblockers still have full power.

I was debugging one of my favourite extensions this week to figure out why it didn’t work on firefox. It hadn’t been updated in years, so something changed in firefox in the last few months.

I assume the Chrome version still works. I’m not installing it.

The MV3 support in firefox is even stricter than in Chrome. I found that chrome will let you sidestep CSP to make an HTTP request. Firefox won’t.

“Oh shit. We forgot to hide it better.”

If they don’t add this, you gotta pull out the soldering iron before you can communicate with your device.

Still easier to maintain than a Motorola router.

Forcing encryption reduced my spam by about 99%. Spambots almost never have certificates.

It also prevented email being delivered from Nintendo, because they can’t tie two network wires together.

Holy shit I would take a JTAG without header pins over whatever the fuck this is.

The money just goes around in circles, and Elon is in the loop.

The problem is that these tech companies are being valued by this circular cashflow, while very little new value is being added overall (if any).

It wasn’t profitable. This bait and switch was a long time coming.

For AI, Linux users must move beyond [Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) and … to signed, auto-updated, policy-driven snaps.

This is written as if apt repos don’t have package signing, automatic updating or security policies. It does all those things, and does it better.

Mark really has become like all the other South African wannabe-astronaut tech oligarchs.

The datacenters are absolutely paying less than that. If not directly, then through kickbacks from the supplier. The inflated price only applies to us.

It cost about US$36B to run fibre optic cable to almost every house in Australia.

WTF kind of AI project costs twice that?! They’ll have to claw back around $250 per US citizen to break even.

By the time the public own it, it will be a liability, not an asset. I’ve seen my government purchase a telco’s entire infrastructure only to immediately write it off.

Just set it on fire already.

This feels like a setup to the biggest rug-pull in history. The whole thing is going to shit and the taxpayers will be holding the bags.

I’ve done this on VIDAA (Hisense) and there’s a placeholder for the homescreen ads that just say “VIDAA”.