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  • I may have missed something.

    Firefox 127 has introduced privacy tweaks that are causing user dissatisfaction, particularly due to changes like the separation of normal and private windows on the taskbar and the closing of private tabs when the main instance closes on iOS.

    This sounds like it would be the expected behaviour?

    • Despite user complaints, the update includes new privacy and security enhancements such as upgrading subresources from HTTP to HTTPS and masking CPU architecture to reduce fingerprinting.

    This sounds like a good thing?

    • Mozilla plans to address user feedback by reintroducing the “browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled” preference as an opt-in and adding more intuitive privacy settings in future updates.

    This sounds like a good thing?







  • tutus@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.worldI'm giving up — on open source - Blog
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    2 months ago

    I wasn’t implying criticism isn’t allowed.

    But opinions on what somebody should do with their time and project are just that.

    Feedback must be given in a respectful way or it’s not effective. That often doesn’t happen with open-source projects and until we change the culture around open-source, this is going to just keep happening.

    Opinions ate like assholes. Everybody has one. Doesn’t mean its relevant or important. The number of intelligent people who confuse opinion with fact never fails to astound me.


  • I agree.

    Playing Devils Advocate it sounds like the options, for them, would be to stop providing a non-paying version entirely.

    I understand where they are coming from but providing an open source version that won’t get timely security updates feels like it would be more trouble than it’s worth to use.

    If they only want to work on a version that pays for their time I’d suggest they make the whole thing closed source.


  • The self-entitlement in open-source has to stop. This is only one example of a maintainer quitting. There are many more.

    And the shaming of projects who want to make money to sustain their projects also has to stop. Nothing is free. Somebody is paying for it in time, resources or money.

    If you don’t like what a project is doing, or how they’re monetizing, don’t use it. Move on.










  • tutus@sh.itjust.workstoFediverse@lemmy.worldWhat's your take on Bluesky?
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    3 months ago

    That being said, comparing it to mastodon in terms of size at the moment doesn’t make sense.

    I wasn’t doing that. I was really talking about where the Twitter exodus went. I’ve said before, my opinion is that those that have left Twitter are gone and those that want to stay are not going anywhere. From what I’ve seen of Bluesky is that much of that exodus hasn’t gone there, or have stayed if they did. Bluesky feels very empty.

    So what I was really saying is that they haven’t capitalised on that exodus and I think they are too slow and too late to be able to do that now.

    Big question is how viable a small user base is for their company behind it and whether the structure of their system is something a community organisation could keep afloat.

    I think they is a really good question. And it’s something that confuses me (but I don’t know much about their financial situation). They are moving slow which isn’t ‘normal’ for a company. We’re used to them moving quickly, gaining market share and a user base and monetising it. So, assuming they are not going this out of the goodness of their hearts, what’s the end game?