Google makes everything worse

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Crunchums » Sat May 29, 2021 4:40 am

hey arti do you have thoughts on Brave https://brave.com/
i have seen a bunch of advertising for it and it seems like a thing that you would be paying attention to
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Post by haplo » Sat May 29, 2021 4:54 am

brave always struck me as the browser for people who want to pretend they care about privacy. it's still probably a lot better than Chrome though

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Post by Shiny Days » Sat May 29, 2021 8:18 am

Crunchums wrote:hey arti do you have thoughts on Brave https://brave.com/
i have seen a bunch of advertising for it and it seems like a thing that you would be paying attention to
it has some neat features totally outside of being a web browser, like, uh, tor support, and now they even support some decentralized domains, and then they have a thing where you can give fractions of money to people who create content ... somehow. that's ... cool. i don't know all the details but i do know that they didnt give that money to a guy, tom scott, way back when. this is an old fucking controversy though and maybe the system just didnt work then. how long does this have to haunt the guys

but then, uh, last year, the guy running the thing got caught sneaking affiliate links into the browser for crypto stuff, so everytime you went to <some> website you were actually going to said website through the brave affiliate link. running a browser is tricky and making cash off of a browser is even trickier, so it's kind of understandable. almost understandable? not really

firefox got just as fucking desperate a few years back, and very recently just laid off like two hundred and fifty guys, for an idea of how hard it is to make cash. that's why guys like google and the explorer team have so much of an easier time because uh who gives a shit if their browser makes any money? and chrome is currently using its monopoly to basically obliterate the internet advertising industry, while protecting their own, so even if chrome makes them negative money, uh, it's doing ok

but anyway, after a guy does that once, some scummy thing, then you gotta kinda wonder. it's like if the d00d broke into your home and then you just continued living next to them / near them, because, eh, it's probably fine. they didn't think they'd get caught and they did, so, you know

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Post by Shiny Days » Sat May 29, 2021 8:28 am

if people are concerned re privacy, brave's major selling point, then vivaldi has extensively documented everything that their browser does re privacy, and it's even in very plain speech:

https://vivaldi.com/privacy/browser/

they do collect some shit, though, so absolutely they could be losing points, albeit they promise they're anonymizing it. and then re the information im not sure why they need your specs but location / whether or not you use the browser does make sense. they make all of their money selling being a bookmark to people.

i guess they could make that a little bit more optional like how steam occasionally asks if you'd like to participate in a survey. and the guy who made it is already rich because he sold opera to china, but he does have an office and a lot of staff that he's got to pay for.

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Post by Shiny Days » Sun May 30, 2021 11:40 pm

Google made it so difficult to turn off giving them your information, like your location, which you can't do anyway, that even their employees can't figure it out

https://archive.is/QYw62

"When Google tested versions of its Android operating system that made privacy settings easier to find, users took advantage of them, which Google viewed as a "problem," according to the documents."

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Post by Shiny Days » Sun May 30, 2021 11:42 pm

Also if you have / use an amazon product then you have about ten days to opt out of it providing your internet to your neighbours

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05 ... neighbors/

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Post by Ashenai » Thu Jun 03, 2021 6:58 am

firefox changed its look and I don't like it :supo:

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Post by Dantes » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:39 pm

Ashenai wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 6:58 am firefox changed its look and I don't like it :supo:
Eh. It's not that bad. You'll get used to it soon enough.
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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Shiny Days » Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:08 pm

Windows 11 (soon)

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Post by Shiny Days » Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:20 pm

There's actually been a lot of Windows stuff happening recently. We just got a new "big" windows update, the May update, but it wasn't at all significant. There's only two of these a year and it was one of them so it still gets to be called the big update. Later this year, in the fall, we're getting the second, and that's gonna be, like, actually relevant. Windows is being completely overhauled, at least graphically. Outside of the new icons, though, people probably aren't going to notice, and you might not have noticed that they flattened their colours in your start menu in the last big update. But, look, in the design space going square edges to rounded edges (rounded edges to squared edges in eight / ten to round again) is kind of a big deal. Outside of that though we don't actually know because the redesign hasn't actually been announced, just teased a bit.

Also Windows Chromebook competitor operating system got axed. It hadn't actually been released yet and it was kind of silly that Microsoft was trying to make a worse version (simpler version!) of their operating system ,instead of maybe just spacing things out a bit better for fingers in ten, but what do I know. One of the big pushes for this fall or the new windows is that theyre going to work with developers so that those guys get a fair shake or whatever ... in this totally free and open operating system that doesn't take a cut of anything because you'd release your shit on a webpage and not the windows store, obviously

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by haplo » Mon Jun 07, 2021 9:14 pm

why is the hotkey for "strikethrough" in google docs ctrl+alt+5 instead of ctrl+alt+s?

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Post by Doug » Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:38 am

Looks like France is fining Google $268 million

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Shiny Days » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:29 am

haplo wrote:why is the hotkey for "strikethrough" in google docs ctrl+alt+5 instead of ctrl+alt+s?
huh, yeah, why is that

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Shiny Days » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:30 am

currently i cant connect to most of the internet because a single cloud service is having issues

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Post by Crunchums » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:58 am

oh i just assumed it was my problem
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Post by Blissful » Tue Jun 08, 2021 11:45 am

Shiny Days wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:30 am currently i cant connect to most of the internet because a single cloud service is having issues
lol same
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Post by Shiny Days » Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:39 am

Shiny Days wrote:currently i cant connect to most of the internet because a single cloud service is having issues
it turns out this was because one guy changed their settings

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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by Shiny Days » Thu Jun 10, 2021 2:52 am

Shiny Days wrote:Windows 11 (soon)
correction: Windows Sun Valley

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Post by the_zoomies » Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:36 am

5rikethrough 5urious

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Post by Dantes » Thu Jun 10, 2021 2:18 pm

Shiny Days wrote: Thu Jun 10, 2021 2:52 am
Shiny Days wrote:Windows 11 (soon)
correction: Windows Sun Valley
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Re: Google makes everything worse

Post by haplo » Sat Jun 12, 2021 1:13 am

One MILLION comments on this thing... who knew that hacking people would be so easy.
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Post by Crunchums » Sat Jun 12, 2021 2:35 am

i like that because i have never owned a car mine is [middlename] Not Applicable
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Post by Shiny Days » Sun Jun 13, 2021 5:14 pm

whoa would you look at that duration. this must be because the event is at eleven eastern time
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Post by Shiny Days » Sun Jun 13, 2021 5:18 pm

i'm also guessing that they chose start up themes to get us nostalgic for the event starting

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Post by Ashenai » Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:27 pm

I don't like the round corners and the taskbar looks horrendous. Everything else seems basically the same

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Post by Shiny Days » Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:31 pm

there's kind of no point to the start menu anymore if it's just a collection of icons that you could just have be in a folder, but i guess there's also no reason to not just have a folder of popular shortcuts with a special icon either

edit - and you can't have the shortcuts not be in a folder, and instead just be centered on the taskbar, because then that's just apple's os

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Post by Ashenai » Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:34 pm

I already have a folder of popular shortcuts, it's called the desktop

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