mnglw

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mnglw,

the day it got leaked I tried it and I can verify that it works. They probably fixed it already I’m guessing

mnglw,

[narrator voice: it wasn’t “just as easy as” nor did “everything work great”]

mnglw,

how are you only getting 1% battery drain overnight? my pixel 7 w grapheneos drains 10% overnight and battery saver makes it worse somehow

I would like to know your secrets

You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

mnglw,

DDG keeps changing my search query because its “not returning a lot of results” or because it thinks I typo’d and it is infuriating to me, sometimes it doesnt even inform me that it did, not even giving me a link to click to get to my actual search query

'also noticed that it got worse around the same time google did

mnglw,

eh, ddg is equally bad with it insisting it knows better than me what my query is and “fixing” it, leaving me to have to either fix it or click a link telling it “yes I really did want to search for that and not what you assumed”

mnglw, (edited )

I’m not so much in favor of IP law as I am in favor of informed consent in every aspect of the word.

when posting photos, art and text content years ago, I was not able to imagine it might be trained off by an AI. As such I was not able to make a decision based on informed consent if I agreed to that or not.

Even though quotes such as “once you post it, its on the internet forever” were around, I was not aware the extend to which this reached and that had my art been vacuumed by a generative AI model (it hasnt luckily) people could create art that pretends to be created by me. Thus I could not consent

I think this goes for a lot of artists actually, especially those who exist far more publicly than I do, who are in those databases and who are a keyword to be used in prompts. There is no possible way they could have given informed consent to that at the time they posted art/at the time they started that social media profile/youtube channel etc.

To me, this is the real problem. I could care less about corporations.

mnglw, (edited )

can’t violate the prime direggtive

Firefox with arkenfox.js: Are these extensions still useful?

After a long while, I checked back on the arkenfox.js github page, and they no longer mention two extensions I still use: (1) CanvasBlocker (because if Resist Fingerprinting is enabled in about:config, the per page zoom levels get changed and that drives me crazy), and (2) Smart Referer (because, well, it was recommended). I...

mnglw,

resist fingerprinting resets zoom levels because its used as a way to fingerprint, sites can get zoom levels and the idea is to blend into the crowd

that said, I share your frustration, I have to disable Resist Fingerprint because of that, the persistent zoom levels are an accessibility requirement for me, no negotiations possible.

Ideally Resist Fingerprinting would allow for more granular options because while I understand the “blending into the crowd” aspect of the option as it is now, it just doesn’t work like this for me and many others with accessibility needs, and that should be addressed

(also replying so I remember to check back for replies, sorry for the ramble, Resist Fingerprinting as it is now annoys me)

mnglw,

which part of “no negotiations possible” do you not get?

I would like a more granular choice, acccessibility is not something I can give up, I don’t care sites can fingerprint me with it

mnglw,

I think people should know those are just mutes

its like that on mastodon too, user domain blocks won’t actually protect you from harassment or your data being vacuumed

mnglw,

that is not true, at least in mastodon’s case. Mastodon has unlisted, followers only and direct messages those are visible for the instance admins if your account federates to them. That is concerning. I don’t need Zuck to suck up my private posts

mnglw,

what search engines are actually good these days?

because that’s the problem, they aren’t

search results have gone down a sharp hill lately

I don’t think Kagi is the answer, but there is a problem - a big one

mnglw,

hey I know this is offtopic but have you migrated your mojang account to a Microsoft account? if you didn’t yet, please do so now otherwise your account will be deleted soon, like very very soon, September 19th kind of soon

I know, it sucks, we all hate it but since you mentioned 10 years ago I figured I’d give you and anyone else reading this a reminder

mnglw,

I imagine you’re not going to like this answer but since the genre doesn’t matter: Genshin Impact

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