I had the same reaction to the Microslop vs Apple corporateness at first. But they kinda have a point as in that Apple controls the entire stack from hardware to os, while windows is just the os

Just about every piece of text on the photo actually, the brand, the seal of approval thing etc

Did you maybe respond to the wrong comment? I was just making a joke about a user here “dragonfucker” or smt, with pronouns drag/dragself. Idk if they’re still active, I blocked em ages ago

Yes, before long there will be people basing their entire identity on wanting to be fucked by drago… Oh wait

You (the end user) decide how you want to use the internet. The forks you’re probably angry about are the ‘hardened forks’, but whether or not you care about their goals and want to use those is a choice only you can make. Most of what they do is basically change some default configs and remove some ‘bad’(according to the maintainers and the users) features.

There’s also forks like zen that under the hood use firefox, but customize the user experience significantly.

A bunch of forks just add extra functions, patches or defaults on top of firefox. It’s not a hard fork as in they maintain everything themselves, they’re still based on the latest official firefox releases.

Removing AI is one of those patches yes.

There’s always a ‘synergize’ in the translation no matter the input, almost like its mandatory

Not sure if it’s what the screenshot used (all these translator UIs look the same), but Kagi has a translator that allows putting arbitrary language in the language select box. Backed by a slop factory of course.

Fun to play around with and post screenshots I suppose, though I fail to see the use beyond that.

Found violet’s alt account

A full hack of every part of the service is not the only way a user’s password could get known to an attacker. Could be MiTM, could be typo-squatted, etc

If a site is that compromised no measure of auth is gonna help, so little use worrying about it.

That makes it a single point of failure yes, and the rest of the comment you’re replying to goes into detail on what it does protect from even if both passwd and TOTP are in the password manager

Depending on the security needs using hardware based security as a second factor while still requiring some other form of auth is not actually a bad idea.

It’s not actually reduced to one factor, just a single point of failure. If their password manager gets taken it’s a problem, however the generated TOTP is worthless in 1 min. So this will protect the login from cases where the password is known like a compromised website or a reused password.

Edit: I stand somewhat corrected, according to what I can find after diving into the slsk rabbit hole a bit, it basically is like torrenting, except each “request” only goes to a single client instead of the swarm, so while the below comment still applies to the speed of making a connection, the downloader won’t have gotten it from somewhere else as they’ll have been waiting for you.

It is required to initiate a connection from the downloading side though. If your port is closed the only way a connection can be established is by periodic polling by your client… And unless the content you have is really niche, by the time you reach out the downloader probably will have gotten it from someone that was available.

What in the Markov is this comment

Zen browser does exactly this with workspaces which each have their tabs, with the option to pin some of those and/or put them in folders. So if you wanna get away from chromium it should not be too much of a change (not to mention the many things Zen does great over base firefox)

The EU actually was working on a system described above based on some sort of zero knowledge proof (so verification via your gov’t id, but without the verifying party being able to assert anything other than age > 18 or whatever data you want to verify)

Just about every gadget on Kickstarter these days has the option to add tritium vials. “Find your tool anywhere any time” -kinda thing

Unless you are talking about a future where the surveillance state has outlawed basic privacy your statement is just straight false. Sure they are getting there with backdoors in encryption etc, but we’re not quite there yet.

For getting things done it is indeed the best that’s not even a controversial take. For relaxing activities though… The sun is a major improvement in mood and general feeling.