For me it’s wasn’t just about the ads, but that the official app is terrible compared to the great third-party clients out there.

Instead of shitting the bed and charging abusive API rates to the third-party apps developers, they could have just made the use of third-party apps require a Reddit Premium subscription at the end-user level. That way they’d have solved the inability to display ads to third-party users by making them pay, and third-party devs could have kept doing their thing without worrying about a hefty API bill.

But instead they chose to be a bunch of dickwads and alienate the devs and give the middle fingers to their most loyal userbase. I left my 16 years old account dormant since.

Bought and revived by Alexis Ohanian? It can only turn out into a dumpster fire. It’s probably just to diversify their data collection in case there’s an actual massive Reddit exodus and the brand name becomes too toxic.

One more reason to have actual open-source drivers instead of binary blobs…

Honestly, I’m just keeping my money in my saving account. No way I’m spending my hard-earned money on overpriced stuff, I can wait a while longer, and I’m considering a Steam Deck as my daily driver. Not a beast, but not excessively priced either.

Some instances like lemmy.world values stability over bleeding edge, and 0.19.3 has been stable for them. They do plan to upgrade to something newer eventually, it’s just that every migration carries a risk of something going wrong.

I suggest whoever has old firmware files to upload them to the Internet Archive (if they allow those).

Canada is doing what every bully victim should do, stand up for themselves. These retaliatory tariffs are a consequence of striking us first.

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Hotdog / Not Hotdog

But yeah, having a semantical image filter could do be a good first line, of course with human oversight.

AI trends

Yeah that part kinda sucks, but it’s not all bad. For example, there’s the offline translation engine that relies on a trained model that runs entirely locally, which is kinda neat and great privacy-wise.

I think you mostly just need to block incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org

I put the conditioner in my hair, then let it sit a couple of minutes while I wash the rest of my body. When I’m done I rinse it all in one go.

That way you can’t work around Microsoft getting a copy of your work no matter what.

Would you say that your game can be played entirely locally of you can’t save your game while offline?

I cannot fathom even using a software that ties a critical feature such as the ability of saving your work to an Internet connection.

At that point, if your software relies on the Internet to accomplish an important task, it doesn’t matter if the app is native or runs some code in your browser if some critical features depends on someone else’s system to work as expected.

Firefox on all the platforms I use.

And I enjoy being a Linux nerd, so suck it Grok.

One more reason not to buy ebooks from Amazon.

The average modern website takes more than this per page to display its content… it’s absurd.

Since 0.19.4 you have the possibility as the instance admin to proxify all external images

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

Some instances at least will proxy the images requests, naking all traffic appears to be from your home instance but it’s not a guarantee. We had to turn it off because of some issues early during the rollout, we’ll look into turning it back on soon.