Most of the time it’s not like they are meeting other people. The commitments are like family visits every other week, traveling, studying, fixing something at home and so on. Occasionally it’s some birthday party or something. It’s mostly that everyone is busy all the time. Which I do understand but it takes a lot of of effort to organize something.

if any, and we can’t convince product that making sure the feature works, or fixing bugs on a 2-3% browser is priority.

That’s exactly the problem. If all the people that should know better promoted Firefox in stead of shitting on Mozilla it would not be 2-3% browser. Linux is hitting 5% market share and it’s way more complicated to switch OS than a browser. It doesn’t make sense that even less people user Firefox. Of course it’s just my opinion but I believe that consistent effort from the community to warn people about Chrome and promote Firefox would help it keep sufficient market share to stay relevant. Instead, even here on lemmy, people love to complain about Mozilla and promote other browsers. So yeah, great job everyone.

No, it’s absolutely not like oil & gas. Average person has very little impact on the energy policy of their country but has huge impact on the browser they are using. And I’m not talking about the ignorant people using the default browser without understanding the difference between Chrome and Google. I’m talking about all the technically literate people that should known better but chose to use Chrome because it’s slightly more convenient. The people that attack Mozilla for not being able to compete with Google with fraction of their resources. When the only way to browse the web is with Google account I will definitely remember those people.

Don’t remember the name but I used it couple of times in corpo settings. I think it weird that we have to organize meetings with couple of friends the same way we organized team buildings. I mean, weekends are for resting. Why everyone has everything booked months in advance? I spend every weekend actively but I don’t have a lot of plans that I can’t drop to meet someone.

Maybe they died?

For me the issue is that everyone is always busy.

Me: hey, how about we meet next Friday

Person1: I can only do Sunday from 17 to 19

Person2: I can only do Saturday

Person3: I can do Sunday but from 19 to 21

Person4: I can only do the Friday after that

Or even better, they take 5 days to reply and in the end say something came up.

But once I manage to find the one date that fits most people and plan something people do show up.

I always thought recommendation algorithm will do it but the progress stopped at some point. We had apps recommending videos, music, feeds, news and so on for a long time but it never evolved into recommended careers or recommended places to live. Not in the sense where some algorithms that tracks you all the times tells you what your next important life choice should be. I don’t know anyone who’s using AI like that yet but I can see it happening in the future.

Thanks for checking. That clarifies things a lot.

I guess we’re fucked. reCaptcha is not used for visiting websites but for registering or submitting form. I can think of couple of cases where I’m required to complete captcha for online shopping or, ever worse, for work. Step by step they will force us all to either use approved devices or be locked out of big parts of the internet.

This is of course thanks to all the people shitting on Firefox over the years and saying that Chrome is just better and that there’s nothing wrong with giving Google control over the web. So yeah, thanks.

99% of internet users don’t know what a torrent is.

Oh, I thought they are talking about browsing on their phones.

That still makes very little sense. What if someone has an iPhone? What if I am browsing on my phone? What if I don’t have my phone near me? This sounds like some optional, extreme case feature. Like when they are pretty much sure you’re a bot but the website optionally gives you last one chance to prove you’re not instead of just rejecting your request.

At that point, reCAPTCHA will forgo the old image puzzles and require you to scan a QR code with your smartphone to prove you’re human.

What is that supposed to mean? What QR code? Just any? I’m supposed to find some QR code laying around and scan it? Or will the webpage display a QR and I’m supposed to scan it with my phone using a mirror or something?

What happened to good old single serving sites? Does every site has to have some useful info now?

That depends on the country. You should switch your software to US locale.

Google will invest in it.

They also taste terrible now. They added some special coating. It’s all because of lawsuits:

https://7news.com.au/news/queensland-mother-calls-for-ban-on-button-batteries-after-death-of-daughter--c-13125914

Why is this pig wearing Trump’s makeup?

I have downvotes disables on my instance so I really don’t care about them. I know groupthink is strong on lemmy. Usually I just ignore it but when I’m bored I like to poke people a little bit. Some people are actually interested in discussing things, most just follow the masses. It’s disappointing but that’s internet for you.

you are one of the “I don’t have anything to hide” kind of people

The way you confuse basic concepts is amazing. I use encryption, I use e2e encrypted communicators and I don´t use social media but for you, just because I don´t support anonymity on said social media (which people are free to use or not) I “don’t have anything to hide”. And you’re argument to show that my ideas are bad for democracy is… slippery slope. Well, I followed closely what happened in Poland and Hungary over the last decade and I know that it was not anonymous comments online that saved democracy in those countries. But for people like you fantasy solutions solve fantasy problems. So you’re right, we won’t agree.

Oh yes, we need anonymity online so people can pirate football and libel others online. Great argument. You totally convinced me.

And yes, la ley mordaza made protests illegal… Why do we have protests all the time then? Parties from far left to far rights have public meetings and marches all the time. Worker’s unions strike and protests all the time. Who is being oppressed by the socialist government now when Vox is participating without issues in all elections and people express support for them freely? Podemos emerged when PP was in power and lost support because of internal scandals exposed by free press when they were part of the government. In Andalucia, where I live PP is in power, the country is governed centrally by PSEO. Free elections happen all the time, opposition parties win elections all the time. But yes, if they can only get age verification in place it will all devolve into a corporate fascist state… I really don’t know how someone can seriously believe that.

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