https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/android-users-can-soon-add-emoji-reactions-to-iphone-texts-with-annoying-catch.2366560/page-2

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https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/android-users-can-soon-add-emoji-reactions-to-iphone-texts-with-annoying-catch.2366560/page-6

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/android-users-can-soon-add-emoji-reactions-to-iphone-texts-with-annoying-catch.2366560/page-7

pls

There is too much free space and too many colors and UI elements

I cannot unleash my autism with such a UI

Take it here

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33281148

Found this comical, I hope you do as well!

Orange Site

tl:dr shitty programming

A couple of weeks ago EasyList maintainers saw a huge spike in traffic. The overall traffic quickly snowballed from a couple of terabytes per day to 10-20 times that amount. The source of that dramatic surge, it turned out, were Android devices from India.

What happened to us bears a striking resemblance to what is now crippling EasyList:

• There’s an open source Android browser (now seemingly abandoned) that implements ad-blocking functionality.

• This browser is forked by a couple of other browsers that are very popular in India.

• The problem is that this browser has a very serious flaw. It tries to download filters updates on every startup, and on Android it may happen lots of times per day. It can even happen when the browser is running in the background.

When we encountered a similar problem last year, we found a simple solution: block the undesired traffic from these apps. Even so, we continue to serve about 100TB of “Access Denied” pages monthly!

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33270148

https://old.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/y80nlu/what_starlink_kit_works_in_iran_how_much_upload/?sort=controversial

Tightening the net: Alarming moves to enforce the “User Protection Bill”

As part of ARTICLE 19’s ongoing monitoring work on the Iranian Internet, we’ve put together some updates of note, especially as the Iranian parliament moves closer to instating the concerning Internet Bill that we’ve been tracking.

Recent months have seen user reports and evidence to indicate major slowdowns across Iran’s Internet connections.

Others, in interviews with ARTICLE 19, have confirmed the presiding disruptions, adding that almost all censorship circumvention tools or Virtual Private Networks (VPNs or proxy services) have been either working with great difficulty or not connecting at all.

While the RIPE data didn’t indicate necessarily network-originating packet loss, we are clearly seeing a drop in users and traffic across these two networks through Psiphon, meriting evidence to support the theory that disruptions are being caused by these VPN experiments.

Despite Qalibaf’s assurances for transparency regarding the Bill and its finalisation, Member of Parliament Hossein Nooshabadi noted that even the members of the specialised commission tasked with reviewing the Bill had yet to receive the most recent version of it.

Rubiko’s deep-state ties The app is developed by a state-linked tech company, Tooska, which is owned by Iran’s largest mobile operator, the Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran (MCI).

Fricking naming conventions: USB 4 2.0

DIE IN MINETEST USB FOUNDATION!

I use both

I've been primarily using Firefox since 2005, but Mozilla has gotten a bit too woke[0] for my liking. I've switched to Brave search, and have been using Brave's browser on my phone, and I'm very tempted to switch on my desktops and laptops, too. This feature just might do it for me.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

Being sensible is being woke now? In what way has Mozilla hurt you?

Brave is an ad company basing it's browser on another as company's browser, you know.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33261986

So . . . the EU drives regulation to enforce seeking consent as a mandatory step, followed by browsers like brave programmatically defeating the ability of companies to seek consent? Two wrongs don't make a right.

What is the end game here, it's like watching dumb and dumber. I want a great web experience just like the next person, but not at the cost of jeopardizing the successful freemium model of the internet that has given billions of people access.

You are the first person I’ve read. Ever. Sticking up for consent banners that nobody asked for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33262023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33262063

Switching every individual and organization I can to Brave in the buildup to Manifest V3 launching.

Encouraging 3rd party patching tools to adopt it or the organizations I work with will leave them as a client.

Chocolatey already supports Brave in its packages for Windows.

Feels a lot like the days when Chrome came out and I championed it over Internet explorer and Firefox. Yeah, we all make mistakes, sorry Firefox.

Anyway, Brave seems like a great option to keep extensions alive that can actually block ads/trackers. Chrome is about to can that ability.

More info here for the uninformed: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma...

Why would you switch people to Brave and not to Firefox..? Brave being a cryptocurrency scam should be enough to enough to turn people away, but I'd also worry about the position of a browser which is in a hostile relationship with the browser engine it's based on.

You can do either. Out of all Chromium-based browsers, Brave seems to be the only open-source, the most secure and transparent browser with a lot of development capacity.

I currently only use Brave and Firefox on all my devices. Never liked the BAT crap Brave has built-in, but you can disable it and move on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33261988

Losing my fricking shit over this

Post got deleted, here's the federated post

Context: A new instance started up on the Frediverse. The owner of fosstodon.org, some fossstrag instance decided to shut down.

Now, everyone's moving to floss.social, GIMP being one of those on the Fediverse.

It's like brand accounts on Twitter but for nerds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33259414

Unironically a based move from the bongs.

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/y755ue/facebook_owner_meta_ordered_to_sell_giphy/?sort=controversial

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33246016

Facebook parent Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK competition regulator

Meta, the owner of Facebook, admitted defeat Tuesday after U. competition regulators issued a final verdict ordering the company to sell its animated image making unit Giphy. Citing the risk of a substantial lessening of competition in the social media and display advertising market, the Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday that Meta must «sell GIPHY, in its entirety, to a suitable buyer.» It is not yet clear which company will step in to buy Giphy. «We will work closely with the CMA on divesting GIPHY,» the Meta spokesperson told CNBC.

«We are grateful to the GIPHY team during this uncertain time for their business, and wish them every success. We will continue to evaluate opportunities - including through acquisition - to bring innovation and choice to more people in the UK and around the world». In November, the CMA ordered Meta to divest Giphy after finding the combination of the two companies raised competition concerns. Meta tried to appeal the decision.

After a three-month review, a CMA panel ruled the deal would enable Meta to further increase its market power. Giphy has seen a decline in the number of GIF uploads in the past two years, it added. display advertising market. Meta controls nearly half of the U. «Before the merger, Giphy was offering innovative advertising services in the US and was considering expanding to other countries, including the UK,» the regulator said.

The CMA also cited the prospect of Giphy relinquishing its own ambitions in digital advertising in its decision to block the deal. Giphy had plans to launch its own ads but these were quashed by Meta after the takeover was completed in 2020, according to the regulator. The watchdog said this effectively «removed Giphy as a potential challenger in the UK display advertising market». users to secure continued access to its GIFs.

Landmark move

It is the first time a global regulator has unwound a completed deal by a Big Tech company. The CMA is seeking to become a greater force in the battle among global regulators to rein in Big Tech companies.

Based. Not dramatic, but based. May also fit in /h/vidya.

http://discmaster.textfiles.com/

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33254791

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/y7kdqk/lost_something_search_through_917_million_files/?sort=controversial

Lost something? Search through 91.7 million files from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s | Ars Technica

The quest to save today’s gaming history from being lost forever

Discmaster opens a window into digital media culture around the turn of the millennium, turning anyone into a would-be digital archeologist. The files on Discmaster come from the Internet Archive, uploaded by thousands of people over the years. «The value proposition is the value proposition of any freely accessible research database,» Scott told Ars Technica. Scott says that Discmaster is «99.999 percent» the work of that anonymous group, right down to the vintage gray theme that is compatible with web browsers for older machines.

Scott says he slapped a name on it and volunteered to host it on his site. And while Scott is an employee of the Internet Archive, he says that Discmaster is «100 percent unaffiliated» with that organization. One of the highlights of Discmaster is that it has already done a lot of file format conversion on the back end, making the vintage files more accessible. In the Discmaster Twitter announcement thread, people are already using the service to rediscover programs they lost during the 1990s, rare BBS files, ZZT worlds, bitmap fonts, shareware they wrote 20-plus years ago, and vintage music software.

Enlarge / Using Discmaster, you can search through vintage stock photo CD-ROMs on many subjects. «It is probably, to me, one of the most important computer history research project opportunities that we've had in 10 years,» says Scott. «The they are choosing are very specifically compilation and presentation CD-ROMs, like the best shareware discs,» says Scott.

Thousands of DOS games have been added to the Internet Archive

Scott is no stranger to radical acts of digital archivism, having participated in backing up GeoCities, preserving Flash files, making thousands of MS-DOS games playable though a web browser, and more. Com, he's hosted archives of BBS files and CD-ROMs for almost two decades. But until now, those resources had never been searchable with the degree of precision that Discmaster allows. In 2005, he created Vintage Computing and Gaming.

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/y6x80r/pentagon_considering_paying_for_musks_starlink/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/y6pyrj/pentagon_considering_paying_for_musks_starlink/?sort=controversial

r/firefox

orange site

Setting Firefox as your default browser now also makes it the default PDF application on Windows systems.

Firefox will now steal default PDF behavior if you choose to make it your default browser (honestly why would you?)

With the launch of the “Independent Voices” collection, Firefox is introducing 18 new “Colorways.” You can now access a “Colorways” modal experience via “Firefox View”; each new color is accompanied with a bespoke graphic and a text description that speaks to its deeper meaning. The collection will be available through Jan 16. (For more information, check out our SUMO article.)

This "feature" seems to be cause the most drama, at least on the Orange Site. It's honestly beyond stupid and it makes me chuckle hearty to myself. You can theme your Firefox with a color, but some of those colors will go away because reasons.

They also added a "Private Mode button" and are making it seem like a massive new feature when

Private browsing is no longer private if you advertise on the task bar that you have a private browsing window open.

Below are some random user reactions from links above. Be sure to check out the links though, especially Orange Site, those guys are going nutso!

Jesus, can you just say "we've got themes?" No one is going to remember Firefox as the next MLK Jr because they let you turn the window chrome orange.

Hooli is about people. Hooli is about innovative technology that makes a difference, transforming the world as we know it. Making the world a better place, through minimal message oriented transport layers.

I love Firefox but the hubris is takes to think a few themes for your app is a betterment for the world is hard to fathom

I have to repost it aagain: Firefox: the last remaining mostly independent, maintained and reasonably popular browser.

Even if it were inferior in any aspect to other options, I'd still use it for the above mentioned reasons.

This guy thinks a browser that only exists due to Google makes it only 'mostly independent'

And still no vertical tabs, sigh

This also popped up in /r/firefox but I can't read Eurocell so I don't know if it's related

incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org

If you use Firefox (may God help you) be sure to check out

Brave or Vivaldi

Hello. This is Matthew Butterick. I'm a writer, designer, pro­gram­mer, and law­yer. I've writ­ten two books on typog­ra­phy---Prac­ti­cal Typog­ra­phy and Typog­ra­phy for Lawyers---and designed the fonts in the MB Type library, includ­ing Equity, Con­course, and Trip­li­cate.

As a pro­gram­mer, I've been pro­fes­sion­ally involved with open-source soft­ware since 1998, includ­ing two years at Red Hat. More recently I've been a con­trib­u­tor to Racket. I wrote the Lisp-advo­cacy essay Why Racket? Why Lisp? and Beau­ti­ful Racket, a book about mak­ing pro­gram­ming lan­guages. I've released plenty of open-source soft­ware, includ­ing Pollen, which I use to pub­lish my online books, and even AI soft­ware that I use in my work.

In June 2022, I wrote about the legal prob­lems with GitHub Copi­lot, in par­tic­u­lar its mis­han­dling of open-source licenses. Recently, I took the next step: I reac­ti­vated my Cal­i­for­nia bar mem­ber­ship to team up with the amaz­ingly excel­lent class-action lit­i­ga­tors Joseph Saveri, Cadio Zir­poli, and Travis Man­fredi at the Joseph Saveri Law Firm on a new project---

We're inves­ti­gat­ing a poten­tial law­suit against GitHub Copi­lot for vio­lat­ing its legal duties to open-source authors and end users.\

We want to hear from you. Click here to help with the inves­ti­ga­tion.\

Or read on.

https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/

Edit: Nothing changes

Currently we have this guideline:

Help keep this hole healthy by keeping drama and non-drama balanced. If you see too much drama, post something that isn't dramatic. If there isn't enough drama and this hole has become too boring, POST DRAMA!

While I have posted non-drama, this is a drama site and posts that aren't dramatic in this hole have been allowed. However, your average pinkoid and at least one poweruser who gets very mad at every hole's content that has a pink username (still like him btw) gets mad when something non-dramatic is posted. I have retained a drama-lite approach to the hole.

However, I've been thinking about revising the guideline above to require at least one dramatic or funny link in the post if you will post boring tech content. Meta posts asking for advice or whatever would still be allowed. If the news article is funny, then it's optional but recommended to post dramatic content. At least a reaction from Hacker News, /r/technology or any other tech sub, twittertards, /g/, etc. Meta posts asking for advice would still be allowed. While the content won't change much, you would no longer be able to post boring shit like this.

Should we make a change to the guideline and require posts to be dramatic or funny?