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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • With NAT existing, I’m not sure there’s a significant reason to switch anymore.

    Plus the “surprise” privacy and security benefits of just… not having every network connected device directly addressable by anyone else on the global network. The face of the internet and networking in general, plus the security and safety concerns around it, have changed dramatically since v6 was first created.


  • It won’t effect the core.

    The last time he threatened this was the last time he changed his license, because of retroarch making a core of Duckstation in the first place. The Duckstation dev seems to have a real problem with anyone using his code, down to declining bug fix pull requests because he was pissed off at the people complaining about the bug in the first place.

    He claimed Retroarch violated the licensing when they made it a core. Not sure if they actually did or not. Wouldn’t put it past them as the Retroarch lead devs have done shit like that before. So then they forked his code from before the original license change and used it to make the Swanstation core.

    I honestly thought that the Duckstation dev had followed through with his threat years ago and had stopped development.

    Either way, it’s best to just ignore emulator dev drama like this. Just use the best software and ignore the authors. Unfortunately a lot of them have personality and/or psychological issues that lead to a disproportianate amount of drama.


  • Does anyone else wonder where all this recent FUD about Firefox’s funding is actually coming from? No offense meant, but this really doesn’t seem natural to me.

    Firefox’s funding has been this way for well over a decade. Why does it only suddenly matter now, when Google is under a lot of fire politically and making a lot of anti-consumer moves in rapid succession?

    Maybe there’s a ton of people who truly weren’t aware of this, but I really have to ask what the motivation is behind the tech news outlets suddenly talking about this all again. It’s not new information. It really doesn’t qualify as news.

    Firefox has been more or less doing fine for multiple decades now, regardless of the main source of their finances. While I don’t agree with their continued fad chasing, I have no concerns about the longevity or trustworthyness of their core “product”, the browser. I’m even less concerned when I consider the large, diverse, and healthy community of forks surrounding it.


    Edit:

    More to the topic: Gecko is why Firefox is important. More specifically, the fact that it uses a unique underlying engine. Doesn’t matter what they call it, just that there is an open source web browser engine that exists at feature parity with commericial and closed source browsers.


    More edit:

    As far as Mozilla’s decisions making sense in terms as a business, I really could care less. To me, Mozilla’s existence is to ensure continued adequate funding for Firefox development and maintenance.

    Any further pursuits in the realm of things that would be good for open source software and privacy are important but secondary to keeping their primary product, the browser, alive.

    It’s also vitally important to note that Google has a basic business contract in which they pay Mozilla to make Google the default search engine in Firefox. That is it. They don’t own Mozilla or Firefox, have any direct seat on the board, or have any postion with them involving decision making or influencing. No one knows what happens behind closed doors, but there has never been any quantifiable reason to believe that Google is pulling Firefox’s strings.





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    10 days ago

    ~~You ok CustardFist? You’re stuff’s always been weird but it seems to have taken a decidedly sexual slant in the ones I’ve seen lately.

    Also, there are impossibly few women turned on by having a doctor rooting around in their privates. That last facial expression overwhelmingly pushes the whole comic into the territory where I’m questioning if these aren’t some way of not so subtly sharing your personal kinks with the world.~~

    Edit: Nevermind, just checked your profile. For some reason a ton of your recent stuff hasn’t shown up during my doomscrolling. Guess it’s time to try a new sorting algorithm!




  • While I’m not against an anonymous stand for what’s “right”, that really was the tipping point for a lot of changes on 4chan.

    It really fuelled the idea that anonymous should have some sort of goal of justice rather than just doing things “for the lulz”. It normalized the concept of shamelessly bringing your internet culture of choice out into the real world regardless of appropriateness (most of the protests were really just 4chan irl meetups, not really protests).

    The biggest change was the sheer amount of public attention it drew to the site. That brought in a huge influx of new users who didn’t care to conform to the existing board culture (for better or worse). Things changed considerably following all that mess.





  • there was something I could somehow magically fix if I just kept pushing myself through the rock in my way.

    This is one of the worst “thought traps” out there. The biggest change in my life was when I decided to learn to work around/with my flaws rather than through/against them.

    I don’t mean give up and never try to improve, like a post I’ve seen here where someone got mad at their friends because their friends should just expect them to be late because ADHD. I mean stuff like that I set as many alarms and reminders as it takes, rather than deluding myself that “one alarm will be fine if I pay attention”.