[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

The fact that visual collage can exist so easily, and yet audio collage is facing an uphill battle, some 40 years later, feels like a big indicator that copyright law in the US still needs a massive overhaul

[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

I wonder if that's because there's a high rate of overall mortality, i.e. they're only living past 30 sometimes?

[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

Noo! I was going to eat that mummy!

[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

I swear every accusation from the alt-right is a confession

[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

Only a rather small group of people were even able to consume milk past infancy without negative health effects, and that's mostly because they were the ones that survived the famine that necessitated surviving such a diet. Lactase persistence is a recessive gene

[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

Chromium is open source, too, but so many projects putting all their eggs in the same basket gives Google carte blanche to push any standard they want as a new de-facto standard before the rest of us can decide on whether it's ready or needs changes or is just bad.

[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

It gets further complicated by things like OneDrive. My mom was surprised a few weeks ago by how much stuff was being saved to the cloud instead of in a local folder, because Windows doesn't make it particularly obvious when one is in the local Documents, or the OneDrive Documents

[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

The one and only time I tried Limewire. I feel spoiled these days with Soulseek

[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

Counterpoint: most Javascript on the web is obfuscated to all hell. While technically you can see the code that's running, it being obfuscated is definitely not in the spirit of FOSS, and largely the open source components of servers are being used to prop up all the closed-source stuff reaching end users.

[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

I'm somewhat curious as to whether you plan to switch to another browser when Google finally pushes Manifest v3 and/or Web Integrity API

[-] chocobo13z@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago

Gecko, the underlying engine behind Firefox, is an entirely different code base from Chromium

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