Yes, this needs to be repeated loudly and at every opportunity. Aaron Swartz was murdered. He paid the highest possible price for his principles by being murdered by the US government on behalf of Elsevier. In a just world, the people responsible for this wouldn’t just have their reputations ruined; they would be in prison.

There are some people that I consider true heroes, and Aaron Swartz is among the foremost. Rest in peace.

Thank you for your work :)

Again, that’s fine? You said Gitea has no future because there’s no company trying to sell premium features behind it. A merch shop and donations aren’t remotely similar to the relationship between Canonical and Ubuntu, and aren’t commercializing the project or making its fundamental purpose profit-driven.

Oof ouch owie. I wonder if there’s a community for juice here on lemmy?

I love lemmy, people post nitter links :)

Tried what?

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think about that kind of sponsorship. In my comment I was thinking of something more like the sponsor relationship between Red Hat and Fedora. However… this thread started with you saying Gitea has no future because

It seems to be FLOSS without a company trying to sell premium features behind it.

Which it definitely does, and is. Gitea also does have sponsors in the same sense as Debian that you mentioned, though not giants like Google or HP.

I also think that saying small projects necessarily stagnate and die is wrong, though, as my other examples show.

Well, when I wrote that I expected that I would keep it short, but I ended up basically writing everything that was lost all over again… such is life. I’ll edit to clarify

Yeah man, Debian has no future. Food ain’t free, someone get them a robust monetisation scheme, a corporate sponsor! Otherwise they’ll stagnate. No idea how they managed to hold on for 30 years without any of that, the poor fellows. /s

I actually wrote two long ass responses to this but lemmy bugs caused both of them to be deleted before I could hit send. Good thing, actually, because I can summarize them in a paragraph. EDIT: well nvm, I ended up typing an equally long one all over again…

Lichess, Stockfish, Tachiyomi, and in the world of Linux, Debian; all these are proudly open-source, proudly non-commercial, going nowhere any time soon, and no corporate daddy. To commercialize itself or seek a profit motive would be completely against lichess’ purpose, and it’s the darling of the chess community - not likely to disappear one fine day, is it now?

Sure, open-source projects can monetize and there’s nothing wrong with that - that’s down to the ethos of each individual project. But for so many of these projects, doing exactly what you’re suggesting would be completely antithetical to their culture and ethos, even their purpose of existing!

I’m just so tired of this “only corporations and self-interested motives will get us anywhere” attitude. It’s so fundamentally blind, so disrespectful to the ingenuity of the human spirit and its desire to strive for the common good. The fact is, many strong and robust projects which have contributed to the good of humankind and are more than just “decent” exist, for no other reason than someone simply wanting to write something cool, or make the world a better place. And they will continue on for a long time, for those same reasons.

I did not expect to read some nonsense that sounds like it came out of a 90’s era Microsoft executive’s mouth (complete with “food is not free”, my god) on lemmy. I expected to read it even less on the piracy community. Steve Ballmer, is that you?

I just finished reading a manga that was translated by random people from a certain anonymous cloverleaf website, for no other reason than they wanted to - not for money, not even to have their names attached to the damn thing, because they’re identified only as “anon”.

The view of the world put forth in this comment denies that what I just experienced is even possible, sticks its fingers in its ears and tries its best to ignore some of humanity’s best work (because acknowledging it would be fatal to the central hypothesis). All to insist that selfishness is the best way forward and that we need the powerful and mighty, the vagaries of money, to give us lemmings purpose in life. It is just such a profoundly sad, empty way of looking at life, I genuinely don’t know what to say…

Another awesome extension from the people behind LibRedirect :D

(definitely check that one out, it redirects big corpo sites to privacy-friendly frontends, eg. twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit, yt to invidious etc. can’t live without it)

It’s the 3 day no poop man! (sorry but you’ll have to bear that title forever)

Thanks, but I worry it may have been a little too assholish on my part. Again, I wasn’t trying to bring OP down and definitely don’t want to be one of those smug “I know better than you and will jump on every mistake of yours” types. I know what it’s like to have those kind of people jumping on your throat for a relatively minor thing, because I’ve made this kind of mistake before. Just want to state again that my intent isn’t to dogpile on OP but to remind everyone to be cautious before assuming.

I edited the comment to remove the unnecessary snarky chromium bit. !@[email protected] I’m sorry if this comment made you feel shitty. It isn’t what I intended to do.

These are literally default search extensions from Mozilla that come with every vanilla Firefox install - some basic digging would’ve told you that (in fact, your very screenshot shows that the extension IDs come from Mozilla). They’re what allows the search options for those sites in Firefox. If you go to search settings and turn those search engines off, they have zero effect on you. Or better yet, simply hit “remove” in those settings to completely get rid of them, which makes them no longer show up anywhere, even about:debugging.

You’re welcome to move away from Garuda; it just wouldn’t change anything. You could also fork the code to remove the extensions by default, but at that point ask yourself why neither LibreWolf nor the Garuda team found it necessary to remove these extensions by default if they were actually a privacy threat (and again, you could just remove them yourself in 5 seconds through search settings).

Honestly, these default search providers could potentially be removed simply because more privacy-focused users have no reason to use such search engines, but that’s something you should take up with the LibreWolf/Garuda team in a polite discussion.

Here, this post could potentially affect Garuda’s reputation for something that’s completely harmless and is 2 layers upstream from them (FF > LibreWolf > FireDragon). It also makes privacy enthusiasts look silly and paranoid.

I understand why seeing these would make you suspicious, but the next step would be to look it up somewhere rather than jumping to a conclusion.

OP, I’m not trying to scold you (and I’m sorry this comment feels that way) . Rather, this is a reminder to everyone here: please do some due diligence before posting stuff.

(P.S. As someone who once also used this distro and browser, I would also recommend to just setup FF or even LibreWolf the way you want instead of using this specialized distro fork. Not for any malicious reason, but simply because important security updates are bound to come late to a fork of a fork.)

Yeah, I feel the same. The consequences weren’t even all that extreme. And more importantly, it’s really not his fault that Epic set up the group that way, and the grown men malding and screaming at a child like melodramatic pissbabies are truly a clownshow. I laughed out loud at the “Lock it. Lock it now.” guy - how can one sniff their own farts to such a degree?

oh, it happens all the time lol

a great recent-ish example is the time some kid PR’ed a dumb readme edit to an Unreal Engine repo which was used only for making people sign a TOS before getting access to the engine’s source code, which led to… this.

Honestly, using uBO (which is really the only blocker anyone should be using) I never see those popups anyway. And that list apparently causes unintended connections to google servers (warning, there’s some drama in this issue between the ublock dev and the list’s dev, but gorhill comes off more reasonable here.)

So really, just turn on most of the filter lists in uBO settings as per your need and you should be good to go.

https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/265796

here you go, keep in mind that it’s 2 days old so probably best not to comment on it and shake up a pot that’s now settled. just sit back, read and laugh instead

(wish i could give you a properly formatted link that would load the post in your instance instead of booting you off-site, but as of now i don’t think there’s syntax that lets you share proper links to posts, like there is with communities. does each instance just number every post on the network by itself? so far that’s what it’s been looking like to me)

thankfully, that isn’t really the case on your (which also happens to be my) instance.

we’ve been blocked by precisely one actual instance - the predominantly German-speaking feddit.de, for having open signups, which i’m sure is something we could hash out with them in the future. (technically there are also instances that block us which are run by single persons for their own use. in effect, this amounts to a single user blocking us for themselves, which obviously is fine).

we ourselves have defederated from precisely one instance - lemmygrad.ml, the political one for authoritarian communists. this was probably done to avoid unpleasant political spam posts from showing up. personally, i think we could get rid of even this one block as the users can decide whether to block that instance for themselves or not; i might post asking about it later.

and most importantly, the admins here have explicitly stated that the policy is to avoid defederation at all possible avenues. this statement more than anything really made me feel like i chose the right instance.

FMHY for the win!

thank god someone else is finding humor in this too. i laughed at the sheer absurdity of half the comments in that thread. people can really easily lose all sense of proportion