You don’t have to be a millionaire to be “self made”. Tons of average joes consider themselves to be. The distinction is relevant.

“I will have you know I’m a self made man, just like my millionaire father and his millionaire father before him”

FTFY

The most annoying part for me is the fact that none of them have the capability for annual recurring donations. It’s literally monthly or ad-hoc, which is fucking stupid and basically hands more fees to the banks.

Librepay/Forgejo had the best I’ve seen, which encouraged me to double my donation (to minimize fees) and said it’d remind me in 2 years.

The monster!

Good. Opt-out is authoritarian dogshit, and should be illegal.

It’s better to treat incompetence as maliciousness, than to treat maliciousness as incompetence.

The benefit of the doubt should only apply in the absence of a longstanding pattern of behavior to the contrary.

IMO Mozilla has run out of goodwill.

Until someone hacks your brain, or just puts a keyboard in front of you and lets the chip do its thing without your consent.

With 700 million bots conducting marketing and psychological warfare ops it is!

This would actually make a huge amount of sense. Your brain literally chemically rewires during puberty, so I imagine there’s also varying degrees of memory pruning based on frequency of access and interrelatedness.

Related: https://scitechdaily.com/mapping-neuroplasticity-how-pregnancy-rewires-brain-architecture

I had a fine childhood. Nothing I would consider abnormal in a traumatic or negative sense, and the fidelity of my memories have always been limited. Some brains just aren’t designed to hold onto the past … which is quite comical because I the things I do remember, I remember strongly; even when they’re essentially irrelevant. Oh well.

My phone has been on silent permanently for the last 2 decades, so I miss 90% of calls. Only answer when it’s a known contact and I’m actively looking at my phone.

Not really. The problem with FOSS licensing is that it was too altruistic, with the belief that if enough users and corporations depended on the code, the community would collectively do the work necessary to maintain the project. Instead, capitalism chose to exploit FOSS as free labor most of the time, without any reciprocal investment. They raise an enormous amount of issues, and consume a large amount of FOSS developer time, without paying their own staff to fix the bugs they need resolved — in the software their products depend on. At that point the FOSS developer is no longer a FOSS developer, and instead is the unpaid slave labor of a corporation. Sure, FOSS devs could just ignore external inputs, but that’s not easy to do when you’ve invested years of your life in a project. Exploiting kindness may be legal, but it should never be justified or tolerated.

Sure, FOSS licenses legally permit that kind of use, but just because homeless shelters allow anyone to eat their food, and sleep in their beds, that doesn’t make the rich man who exploits that charity ethically or morally justified. The rich man who exploits that charity (i.e. free labor), and offers nothing in return, is a scummy dog cunt; there are no two ways about it. The presence of lecherous parasites can destroy the entire charity; they can mean the difference between sustainability and burnout.

FOSS should always be free for all personal, free, and non profit use, but once someone in the chain starts depending on FOSS to generate income and profit, some of that profit should always be reinvested in those dependencies. That’s what FOSS is now learning; to reject the exploitation and greed of lecherous parasites.

Didn’t they suspend, or greatly hinder, that recently?

So source available. Not open source. Got it!

The system was built by sociopaths.

There is 1 way to stop login attempts. Use an alias provider (e.g. simplelogin.io), and change the account emails to a randomly generated alias.

Even if you used the same password everywhere, as long as the email/username for the account is randomly generated the password is essentially useless.

There isn’t even a fucking “cloud”! Why do they lie to us so brazenly?

Serverless = you don’t see, and have no control over, any server.

You are serverless. You are forsaken…

Less oopsie-whoopsies than I would DIY, either way.

The problem is that they auto-opted all users into it, without giving notice or warning about what it is. They’ve done this before too with other “experiments”. The problem is that Mozilla becoming an ad oriented business is bad for user privacy. No different to Apple’s shift from hardware to services. The fox is infiltrating the hen house. Line must go up, and the users always pay the price for that with their data.

Turns out a user base who hates ad tech and surveillance capitalism doesn’t want ad-tech or surveillance embedded in their browser. Who would’ve thought?