Cat and Tech enthusiast from Germany. Account by @cyrus@wetdry.world
yes but active usage doesnt mean it was not used?
If their criteria was “at least 1 person uses it at all, sometimes” then it would not have been removed 🤔
likely no maintenance effort at all.
The maintenance comes less from the code and more from making sure that every single menu added or changed in any way continues to behave correctly in three different sizes with themes and everything.
It’s hidden away behind a flag now because it hasn’t been actively used for years on end.
Not the other way around.
It is essentially just extra maintenance of a feature in Firefox that (statistically) not many people use
As such, it’s marked as “unsupported” to make clear that if any issues arise, Mozilla won’t help you with those issues.
The “NO AI” clause is conditional, though.
As mentioned in their FAQ, they will reverse that rule when it is “viable in terms of data privacy and ethicality”
unless the rampant ethical and data privacy issues around datasets are resolved via regulation.
Whilst they aren’t VC-Backed, their servers already had to do nearly 10 upgrades, their “AI Detection” is backed by another, third-party AI, and it’s not transparent what said service is.
And to top it off, it’s a closed ecosystem. You upload your art there, and either Cara dies one day and your following is gone, or they change their policies, leadership or anything else, at which point everyone will have to move again
it’s yet another case where the Fediverse and other Federated networks address the core issue that lead to this disaster - content ownership - better than systems like these do. I’m not hopeful for Cara.
Syncthing does have an Android app, but I’ve never looked into doing anything syncthing-related on iOS because I simply don’t have any iOS devices :/
I’ve resorted to just syncing my fault folder using Syncthing externally, surprisingly convenient
NPUs existed before recall and have other uses apart from that.
If you wanna go nuts on the data, probably Obsidian.md with the built-in Daily Note plugin and the Dataview plugin, which allows you to do all kinds of crazy operations on the data in your vault as if it was a database.
If you wanna go less nuts, obsidian still has tagging, linking notes, daily notes, and all kinds of other stuff built-in and is extensible by things like the Calendar plugin from the community.
And everything is stored as plain Markdown with the occasional hint of JSON (for some plugins) so you’re not locked into using Obsidian until the end of time. Your data is yours.
(I realise this sounds like an ad but I’ve just been using Obsidian for years now and I enjoy it)
Just FYI, SearX is dead. Long live SearXNG
atomic updates 🧠
Alternative Title: Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Bullshit-Powered search and the future of the Hellfire we used to call the “Internet”
They should’ve just moved the other twitter domains too 🫠
This issue comes from the fact that even though the domain is now changed to x.com, it still tries to load content from twitter.com which Firefox thinks is social media tracking because it’s coming from a different domain than the one you’re on.
It’s a hilarious and dumb oversight with this change.
FYI: xManager itself is Open-Source, Spotify obviously isn’t.
no I don’t believe a damn word of what apple’s gonna say on this, I just wanted to get the message out there that generally file deletion works by allowing data to be overwritten, so if the images are local this could very well just be that either it’s showing data that hasn’t been overwritten yet or it accidentally brought things out of the “recently deleted” depending on how long ago it was deleted.
no when I say “overwritten” I mean that the area is set as deleted in the filesystem and the next time something writes to that area the data that was there before is disregarded.
yeah cuz for normal, day-to-day use that’s exponentially slower the more you’re deleting
You can do that when you wipe something.
I mean, to be completely fair, that’s how data storage works.
We cannot really just make data disappear, so we let it get overwritten instead
Hosting data yourself wouldn’t be required, but it would become an option.
You’d have the option of leaving your identity on your home server, or a separate domain/website, or host your data and identity but use another instance to federate.
Though, designing UX for this will be an interesting challenge.