Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)

@sylvie Something is funky here. Is it possible this is just something they accidentally forgot to remove carried from Mozilla's code and it's just autofilling the name? I think this is specifically against #LibreWolf 's policy. This violates privacy, security, and freedom.

@librewolf Can you confirm that you're no longer supporting user privacy and allowing in something that users specifically use LibreWolf to get away from?

If you want to have a browser people use, you need to take a stance against this. (I can understand if this is just something that slipped through. Mozilla has lost their everloving minds and there is a lot to remove, but we need an official stance against this.)

If someone has an account, they should report this as an issue:
https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/

Hey @kde I want you to get all the donations you need to keep going and then some, but having popups on our desktops that effectively amount to ads is a gigantic no-no that could push people away for good instead. This was not a good idea and I STRONGLY urge you to remove this "feature" ASAP.

Yes even only once a year is still too often. No ads/etc should ever be a popup within the DE itself. That is never an acceptable practice. I think you underestimate people's well earned hatred of popups and ads. I assure you, they make us MAD.

(I'm getting techbro vibes from the responses, so I'm just muting this. Consider this user feedback and ignore if you will.)

#Linux #KDE #KDEPlasma

@ascii_only I'm glad you enjoy it. If you like, you can setup something that advertises from google and everything else on your desktop. I'm certain it's possible to setup something to put all kinds of advertising on your desktop and make lots of techbros happy.

In the meantime, my point is the majority of people will NOT appreciate this and it WILL turn them away from this.

I seriously think you underestimate the negative reaction that popup ads give people.

@RickiTarr I ABHORED homework with a special passion. When I was at school I was on school time and I did all my work 100%. When I was at home it was MY time. I know the goal was to get people to remember things and such, but taking away from the part of our lives that was supposed to be ours just always felt horrendously wrong.

Yes my grades were as atrocious as you would expect. But seriously, that was my blasted time to live my life. Not theirs.

@Judeau @nafmo Will this grab external resources though?

A lot of sites may directly block recursive activity (falsely — or not depending on how you look at it — determining it to be bot activity.) You'll want to, at the very least, add --random-wait in the commandline so it looks less obviously bot-like (and hits the server less hard anyway.)

Are there a lot of pages? One thing I'm enjoying is the "SingleFile HTML" plugin to save a page into a single .html file instead of a file + directory with broken resources. However, this would give you individual pages, not the equivalent of a functioning site.

I think there are actually tools specifically designed for archiving sites though. Stuff more directly designed to handle external resources and all. Sadly I can't remember them...

@mahryekuh Gotta say, if I was sitting there, starting to feel bored and some special interest came up like that, chances are I'd wake up and start taking more of an interest — including even what they were actually talking about.

@NeonPurpleStar Does this mean what I think it does? (Trying to touch them while they're hot or something?)

I was just inspired to dig through some PS2 stuff as I started rebuilding a new drive for my old PS2. Did you #retrogaming fans know that there is a Phantasy Star 1 remake on the PS2 known as "Sega Ages Phantasy Star Generation 1"? It seems to have gotten... quite a lot more enhancement than the recent remake released on modern consoles. As in they put quite a lot of work into it.

Why on earth wasn't this reused when they did the recent remakes? If they worried people wouldn't like the enhancements they could have made it a toggle or something. I mean... the work was already done, why throw it away?

It looks like the second game got a similar treatment I think.

It seems there are fan translations for these two entries as well.

@jdacee One interesting alternative to normal VPNs if you're determined to go with free might be to use tor. There is a service available that can connect the whole system through the TOR network. Of course, this tends to be very slow, but it's even better privacy-wise than a VPN.

As others have said, you really need to be very very careful with actual free VPNs... Honestly, I'd argue that a VPN is something that you probably shouldn't do free since that puts a company with very low level access to your data that has a vested interest in profiting off of you in a position to... find a way to profit off of you...

@dalias I feel like having to log into a few sites is definitely worth the improved security/privacy/etc.

But I'm sure there are more extreme reasons some people may not be making the switch.

Just, I worry the main reason is most just don't know it exists...

@dalias Though certainly better just to use Ironfox, this is great for those who are for whatever reason not doing so.

@thomasfuchs Every time I watched those CSI shows I wanted to rip out hair when they started just magically enhancing grainy crappy low grade tapes from cheap garage cameras or etc and could somehow pull a tag number from that. Meanwhile, even this many years later than when those shows first started presenting this magic, actual companies putting actual money into this struggle to deal with the necessary detail to get anything like that.

I think maybe I missed that particular Columbo. A local station was airing them a while back, but I guess I haven't seen it because I don't remember that.

@captainarcee @Oregon_Pacifist I imagine you can do it the other way around — find a case for your favorite device in that color.

But yeah, modern phones require a case since they're designed to be big rather than to fit in human hands so no one has a grip on one anymore...

@p_balduino @alice I mean EVENTUALLY there will be poison. The only question is will there be within the time period or not. Sure, depending on the half-life and a bit of luck it could be years. But it could also be a nanosecond...

I feel like that's not worth it no matter how nice the box is.

@alice Yes kitty, but... Poison... It's... not worth it...

@diazona @RamenCatholic I keep running into so many movies that just to me scream "this is what Monsterdon needs to watch!" but I guess there's no official way to submit something?

I ran into a real doozy of a great one for Monsterdon a little while back on Tubi too. We're talking low (none) budget, fighting cultists, apparently some sort of ... ninjas? A training montage, a magic sword that the dude just tosses aside at one point and just, well, everything was so badly done in all the best ways, rofl.

@diazona @RamenCatholic @Taweret No. I posted about it under the Monsterdon tag some time ago, but it may even have been long enough ago that the post has self deleted by now. It was... a pretty low grade movie, lol. Probably an indie self-insert.

I never heard of "Turkish Star Wars" but I bet it still is higher budget and better quality than this thing was, rofl.

EDIT: Ok, this is funny. I searched and searched and searched on Tubi and I couldn't find it. Finally I gave up after like 30 minutes of searching.

And there it is on my screen after I gave up and posted that...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099498/

Empire of the Dark. Wowee it's a bad movie, but the good kind of bad, lol.

@astraleureka @TonyJWells @va3wft @ai6yr Agreed. Pretty much every Casio watch of that entire general time period was reliable, kept good time, and ran forever with just the original battery.

I never had to replace the battery in any of my own, so now I start to wonder. Could it be that it was more an issue of batteries eventually degrading and leaking than them running out that lead to replacements? I guess to some extent it could depend on alarm usage (if you used a bunch of alarms instead of once a day or something) but all in all they really lasted forever on those things...

@TonyJWells @astraleureka @va3wft @ai6yr I actually turned on the hourly chime (on purpose for regularity and easier keeping up with time in general) and it still lasted forever with that on, lol.

@ai6yr @TonyJWells @astraleureka @va3wft There seems to be just a whole retro scene built up around watches like these. It's less visible, but I ran into it a bit when I looked into some stuff like those watches with the little radios built in. (If you really want to see something neat, look those up!)

There was even one (by Casio I think even) that had a TV. Sort of.

Another interesting model from that time period can connect to a computer, but as far as I could tell all it really did was store strings. Nothing nice like some sort of programming or anything.