Spiked collars were standard pieces added to punk gear in the 90’s, along with spiked wristguards. It was supposed to look mean/tough.

I missed a trick or something, I know anything has someone who has a fetish for it after 30 years online, but are we saying the public now views standard 90’s punk accessories as fetish gear?

Its a silly default. Might also be to allow people to edit /etc configs with the app since its a basic editor. With enough dummies complaining about “doesn’t work can’t access files in <directory>” the dev may have set that to reduce negative review bloat (seriously look at the flatpak and snap stores and the number of bad reviews due to people not understanding the permissions system).

I would be turning that off immediately until I knew how trustworthy the app was or not installing it, just saying I can see where that default setting might be coming from.

Flatpak could use a permissions prompting api, so a prompt could be displayed to the user when they try to access a file outside the permissions scope, but that’s probably a lot of work to get in place. Maybe something we’ll see in flatpak in a few years.

Until then I think there needs to be some way to point new users to Flatseal and a summary of what these warnings imply and how to grok them.

Sometimes when you get UI experts and users and engineers in the same room they iterate to similar outcomes because its the logical conclusion. Apples design in this case isn’t ground breaking or even original.

If multiple species of jumping spider can independently evolve the ability to see red from different branches of their family tree, multiple dev teams can come to the same conclusion about what is more comfortable for reaching with consideration for left and right handed people on various types of screens.

The problem is so scoped these days, its fairly logical for UIs to come to the same outcome.

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Know what’s even more opt in? An official extension. Installed only if someone wants it.

I switched to LibreWolf and Mull a few months ago in preparation for this. I’ll come back to Firefox if the investors pull their collective heads from their asses.

This deadline they gave their users without announcing it that just passed comes to mind.

https://mstdn.ca/@StaceyCornelius/112679545691589917

Guarantee they give zero shits about anyone’s copyright messages on comment on the 'verse. More tightly they integrate and the more this just becomes Facebook all over again

Going to need to add two more Xs to the name.

I love it, but as someone with a red-green colour blind coworker, I always try to use blue for positive feedback, and orange for negative, as its better for representation for most colourblind types.

“Why the internet isn’t fun anymore” - proceeds to talk about Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.

Completely fails to mention any fediverse sites, or any of the millions of other sites out there.

If you’re the author, the internet isn’t fun anymore because you don’t use it. You visit the corporate websites only. You either never learned how to use the internet, or you’re not interested in actually trying.

Its like the person who never leaves their neighborhood and complains that life is boring.

This. I’m glad they are getting rid of the sham of a kids client. It’s a joke that anyone should think the content is kid safe. No more lulling parents into a false sense of security.

I was supervising my son watch this one day and had to step away for a few minutes to answer the door. When I was gone a new video came on with Peppa Pig murdering her family and all the characters from the show. Actually bleeding and all.

I reported the video, didn’t get taken off the kids platform. So I contacted support - they said it was kid safe.

Kid safe?! Dafuq? I had his account set to under 6 and this is what they consider kid safe?

USA US & Canada

What should have been a tool was designed to be a trap, because greed.

Mull works well on android. Firefox login works too.

Not entirely. There is LibreWolf (Formerly IceWolf) on desktop. https://librewolf.net

Mull is apparently an Android option that’s also a fork, but I’m just installing it now, and can also say its only on FDroid.

Yep. Can confirm as well. And a weaker US democracy would create a power vaccuum in NATO that would very likely be exploited with the power dynamics in play on the global scale in recent years.

The printer firmware, not the cartridge.

Meanwhile, here in reality land:

People are downgrading their firmware to ancient versions likely containing old CVEs because fuck HP and their printer cartridge mafia.

Gee thanks for reporting on the obvious, Jalponik.

We knew this. And even this whistleblower report is old.

What a garbage news outlet.

Yuck, Meta products.