When it’s apartheid and genocide (something on the order of 10% of the people of Gaza have been killed so far including reasonable estimates of deaths from starvation and disease) I’m not really too concerned about whether or not they call it “colonialism.”

Too long to read? I get it. Here’s the summary. Download Firefox.

Yes. One option is to download it from here: https://librewolf.net/

I had that problem when I used whatsapp five years ago. Amazing that they still haven’t fixed it.

cat `find /sys -name pp_power_profile_mode`

Non-google android is the way to go unless you’re looking to be even more adventurous. Which phone you should look for depends which of the OS options you prefer. No pixel means no grapheneOS. LineageOS is the one I chose, runs on quite a few mostly older phones. There are many others.

If by “advanced mode” you mean the “expert” installer, it’s not in graphics mode so you wouldn’t need the ctrl key.

Edit: Actually there is also a “graphical expert install” apparently, but anyway you may be in text mode. You could instead pick rescue mode from the menu as well.

The “you’d have to prove to someone that you’re an adult” is where we disagree. I was talking about parents setting a “user is a child” flag on the devices they let their kids use. They already know who their children are, no proof is necessary. The device can then send an http header to websites for example indicating that it’s a child user. That part could be mandated and standardized by law. It’s 99% of the problems solved (in legal theory; obviously not every website and app in the world will choose to participate in any of these schemes) with 1% of the dangers.

So long as they don’t go overboard with misguided efforts to make it impossible for children to defeat the thing, it seems fine. It’s dismaying that all the proposals end up with all these ridiculously dysfunctional ideas instead.

When I hear about “device-based verification” what comes to mind is a device that can be put into some kind of child safety mode, by parents who want to give their children phones or whatever. The device then “knows” whether or not its user is a child without any kind of biometrics or identification.

It has some problems and could case a lot of harm if it’s badly designed, but it’s the only method that seems close to workable in any conceivable form. Why is it never even talked about in these discussions?

Did an AI write that, or are you a human with an uncanny ability to imitate their style?

One half of Britons support increasing tax on the other half.

https://theyesmen.org/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_850px/public/2020-11/hallib-whatnoahknew-Slide33.jpg

True, I was ignoring the distinction between the supply of shitty web pages and the supply of attribution-recording advertising opportunities provided through them. Not quite the same thing even if they do seem likely, as you proposed, to be closely correlated in the scenario where Mozilla’s product somehow ends up surviving to become a hugely influential new ad platform.

I assumed that PPA was the new game in town.

It kinda feels like you didn’t read what I wrote. That very assumption is what I was calling optimistic. Unrealistically so, I think.

It seems remarkably optimistic to think that this stuff will shift the supply supply curve of advertising to the right, lower barriers to entry for spammers, and crowd out quality content.

This would require increasing the number of people willing to accept that their web browsers are made by an ad company, that they’ll be subjected to all the ads, and that the software they use is designed in part to measure and analyze the audience of which they’re a part so that data can be sold to advertisers. I don’t think there’s room for that number to increase much further.

More likely, the only substantial result will be Firefox losing ground even more quickly in the battle against a Google monopoly on web browsers and either someone else comes along to take up the fight or we’ll have to give up this “world wide web” thing and go back to writing our comments on bathroom walls, if there are some left that aren’t covered in ads.

The alternatives for Mozilla are: A) Try to become an advertising company, or B) Don’t.

Pleroma and Misskey users literally off the chart

Did this highly scientific study contemplate the possibility that this is in part the result of people feeling like they’re more justified in turning to piracy if a game is burdened with Denuvo?

Spoiler: It does not, so far as I can tell at first glance. It appears that the model is constructed entirely from DRM-crippled games that got cracked, and then then the estimate of how much revenue would be lost by going DRM-free from the start is extrapolated from that based on the assumption that it makes no difference. Maybe it’s true, but the acknowledgement that it “can and often does cause problems, and some developers have chosen to avoid Denuvo altogether because it had such a negative impact on how well their game would run” sort of suggests otherwise.

https://abs.freemyip.com:84/share/_5WuM4QF — be careful following strange links you found on lemmy, but this appears to be the pdf.

It appears to be @[email protected] for those who want to follow it.

To have it post to lemmy I believe you’d just need to address things to e.g. @[email protected]

Isn’t this basically just the old trick of estimating (x * y) as (x + y - 1) when x and y are somewhat close to 1?

You seem to have javascript disabled. Please note that many of the page functionalities won’t work as expected without javascript enabled.

Fortunately, the page did its job just fine and was able to tell me to use javascript blocking without needing javascript to do it.