Notices by Rusty Corgi (rusty@cubhub.social)

So, on an iPhone, if you allow an app to have background location access it'll just nag you nonstop until you give in and disable access to it?

How is that not an anti-competitive measure to promote their own Find My network? :corgi_wtf1: Like I get the security side of it, but as a user I should be able to permanently whitelist an app to have background location access.

People defend the decision by saying it's a security measure, which kind of baffles me because 1) no it's not, it's clearly a way to hamstring apps like Tile from using location access, and 2) at that point you're just saying that you deserve to have Apple treat you like you're a complete moron with your own device.

#iPhone #iOS #Apple

@forgifuzzbutt I don't get why they exempt the Find My service from the nag but not their own weather app :corgi_wtf1:

So apparently Bluesky is banning people for posting werewolf porn. Y'know, an anthro wolf, the thing the furry fandom is built around. :corgi_wtf1:

This is why centralized moderation doesn't work. You get one biased moderator and suddenly the entire community is at risk. For all the people who say Bluesky is decentralized (it's not), it's actually Twitter 2.0 just with more buzzwords. :blobfoxdisapprove:

#Bluesky

@aral @GuerillaOntologist @adnan Meh, I can hand-wave it away as that just being how toxic tech is in general, but yeah that was pretty gross.

Picking Firefox instead of Chromium feels like (obviously much less extreme than this) picking Biden over Trump to me, but obviously I hate both of them. It's just harm reduction.

@aral @GuerillaOntologist @adnan Yeah but I'd argue that Mozilla is a victim of Google's market position more than profiting from it. Google put Mozilla under their thumb and Mozilla didn't really have much ability to stop it. None of this is great. :blobfoxmeltsob:

@aral @GuerillaOntologist @adnan Yeah but I'd take that over a browser that's funded by selling AI to Israeli Defense Forces. :meowshrug: Like yeah Mozilla is bad but they're incompetent-bad, not really evil-bad outside of the typical pitfalls of late stage capitalism. That said, I do distrust them enough to use a fork.

@adnan I don't have as big of an issue with the ToS as everyone else does. I just think it's another silly Mozilla flub where they do something without particularly thinking it through. :blobfoxgooglymlem:

Mind you, this still isn't a good excuse to use a Chromium-based browser.

And for all you people using Brave out there, well :corgi_wtf1: 🖕 Brave is run by this guy who hates queer people and believes conspiracy theories about Covid, so maybe don't use his shitty browser that's been caught injecting affiliate links.

#Brave #BraveBrowser #Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. :blobfoxmeltsob:

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... :corgi_wtf1: I hate it here.

#Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS

@itsOasus @alex Maybe there's some tracker blocker I have running that it doesn't like? I dunno :blobfoxconfused:

@alex @itsOasus I turned off my VPN and it still didn't show up. Popped up a Chromium browser and it worked.

So, uh. :corgi_wtf1: I guess it doesn't like Firefox either?

@FediPact Can liberals please realize the relationship between capitalism and fascism finally? :neodog_what:

Cloudflare: Are you human? :neocat_think_anime:

Me: *completely misses the checkbox when he goes to click the captcha*

Cloudflare: LMAO yeah. :drgn_think_science: Yeah, you're good.

Linux Foundation launches Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers initiative with backing from Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Opera

Did Chromium really need more support? :blobfoxdisapprove: I'm not sure I entirely understand the point of this. Chromium doesn't seem like it needs to foster more support since it's basically a de facto web monopoly sponsored by Google.

The Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers initiative will operate as a neutral platform, enabling collaboration while maintaining the existing governance structures of Chromium projects.

So yeah, Google still has unilateral control over the codebase. It'd be one thing if this moved it into a new governance structure for Chromium that gives other members voting privileges, but obviously that would never happen.

I dunno, I'm confused. :neodog_googly_shocked:

#FOSS #Chromium #Google

This isn't that the Democrats ran a bad campaign or put a bad candidate up. This isn't about the leftists who didn't vote or voted third party. This is about America being fundamentally transphobic, racist, and rotten to its core. This is a scathing indictment of American exceptionalism, of how the American system and by extension a majority of Americans actually support fascism if it means upholding white supremacy, the patriarchy, and/or cisheterosexual normativity.

Kamala didn't lose because of policy, either domestic or foreign. She lost because she is a woman of color.

Conversely, Trump won because he is a white man who is every type of bigot one can be, and because that exact thing is popular in America. Americans want that. Those are truly American values.

Could Harris have won if everyone on the left voted for her? Maybe. But that's like asking if Hitler could have won World War 2 if he didn't invade Russia. He was never not going to invade Russia, so it's a pretty stupid hypothetical. That's not how voting demographics work.

Attacking people directly to your left or to your right is stupid, unfounded, and extremely unhelpful. We need to build a coalition now more than ever.

This wasn't a failure on the part of the left, but a resounding victory for hatred, bigotry, and good old America brand fascism that we've been cultivating since before the country's founding. America is intrinsically a fascist place built on the backs of white hegemony, oligarchy, slavery, and genocide. Trump is the most American politician we could have asked for.

Fuck this place, fuck "American values", and fuck Donald Trump. Let's get to work I guess. :meowshrug:

#Politics #USPolitics #Election #Trump #Harris

:dragon_bounce: MAKE SURE YOU VOTE :dragon_bounce:

If this dumb dog can do it, you can do it too!! :pupper_wag: Please make sure you get out and vote, you silly heckin' critters. :corgi_heart2:

🗳️ Find Your Polling Place for Tuesday's Vote 🗳️

#Vote #Voting #Election2024 #Election24 #USPol #USPolitics #Politics #Fursuit #FursuitEveryday #PokemonGoToThePolls

Apple used to waste a ton of hardware specs by putting high end Intel CPUs into MacBooks that'd immediately have to thermal throttle them. I think it's funny that, now that they've developed their M-series chips, they still continued that tradition of wasting hardware by putting really their powerful M-series chips into iPads which don't have the software to do anything with them.

#Apple #Mac #iPadOS #iPad #macOS

I'm very much not the biggest fan of Firefox shoving AI chatbot access into the browser, but the best thing about Firefox is you can at least disable what you don't like. :meowshrug: Or, if you don't like Firefox adding crap that you have to opt-out of, you can use a downstream Firefox fork like Waterfox, LibreWolf, etc. I'm still going to recommend a Firefox-based browser over a Chromium-based browser any day because I think Google having de facto control over web standards is way more dangerous than any stupid crap Mozilla can shove in there.

That said, I do use LibreWolf :blobyeengrin:

#Firefox #Mozilla #AI #LLM #Chrome #Chromium #Google #Browser

So apparently Authorized Fetch does, in fact, work with user-level blocks. :blobfoxthinkgoogly: With that being the case, why doesn't Mastodon have a defederation option where users have an instance blocked by default, but can choose to opt back into federation?

It'd be a really good way to protect user privacy with services like Threads (which doesn't support Authorized Fetch anyway, but still), without it being an outright defederation. With all the bemoaning of Fedi blocking Threads, it seems like that would've been the proper solution instead of telling server admins to suck it up and fork over all of their users' data. Also, for the record, CubHub has Threads blocked, and even if they didn't, they'd block us anyway since we allow porn (and not cub porn ya knobs).

It'd also be a better mechanism for dealing with bridges between here and BlueSky or Nostr, instead of demanding that the creators of those bridges build in their own opt-in mechanism instead, which still feels incredibly unreasonable to me when that features should be built into Mastodon.

#Mastodon #MastoMeta #MastodonMeta #Fedi #FediMeta #Threads #Defederation #BlueSky #BlueSkyBridge #Bridgy #BridgyFed

Please stop screenshotting your Twitter posts and crossposting them to Fedi, especially without alt text. :drgn_sigh: Just copy and paste the text, it's not that hard.

#Fedi #FediMeta #Mastodon #MastoMeta #Accessibility