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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

Several useless slop paragraphs in that article - seems to have been written by LLM.

Human summary: Brave is a Chromium-based browser that is recommended by some for privacy. It's created by homophobe and Republican donor Brendan Eich, who was asked by several Mozilla employees to resign and led to half of Mozilla's board to step down. After OKCupid started pointing out his homophobia to Mozilla browsers users, he finally quit.

After that he created Brave with millions of dollars from amongst others Founders Fund’s FF Angel, Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital, and Digital Currency Group.

In 2016 the "Brave Ad Replacement" was announced which would replace ads on pages with ones injected by Brave, paying in crypto.

Brave collected donations in their crypto on behalf of people like Tom Scott without asking them, and when Tom found out and told Brave to stop, Brave said "refunds are impossible".

In 2020 Brave Browser silently injected referral links into URLs of crypto wallets containing Brave's affiliate code.

By default they display sponsored images as the background for the home and new tab pages.

In 2021 Brave Browser exposed the .onion domains people visited as part of the DNS traffic so their ISPs could track users.

In 2023 Brave announced that they'd be selling their search data to AI companies, and prevented sites from opting out of this even if they asked not to be scraped by Brave.

In 2024 Brave deprecated their option for Strict fingerprinting protection.

Brave also paid for advertisement whenever users searched for "Firefox" in the Play Store, displaying "Forget the Fox", which Brave's VP (who promoted NFTs and FTX with AI) denied - meaning he was lying or didn't find out before denying it.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

It's sometimes an answer, e.g. !LeopardsAteMyFace@lemmy.world

A psychopath being injured while trying to harm others, deserves to be shamed. That might not be the case with Seamus here, but it oftentimes is.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago
  • Nina Simone - "Strange fruit" Invidious (which I prefer to the Billie Holiday versions)

Honorable mentions:

  • The killers - "Goodnight, travel well" Invidious
  • Maiya Sykes, Postmodern jukebox - "Boulevard of broken dreams" Invidious
  • The rolling stones - "Paint it, black" Invidious
[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I don't think "absolutely nothing" is true. Epstein and Maxwell went to jail.

"nowhere near enough" would be true.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Looks like the videos are now gone.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Tries to become a permanent resident of a country whose omnicidally greedy citizenry re-elected Trump. Shocked when fascists treat him the way fascists treat people. Asks Irish government to raise his case with, I shit you not, Donald Trump.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bill Hicks (video):

By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. [...]

There’s no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers, OK, kill yourself.

Seriously, you are the ruiner of all things good. [...]

No this is not a joke. You’re “There’s going to be a joke coming.” There’s no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourself. It’s the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself [...]

I know all the marketing people are going, “He’s doing a joke” There’s no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend – I don’t care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. [...]

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too: “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart.”

Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking, evil scumbags! [...]

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Quotes from Jesus according to the gospels:

"If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also." Matthew 5:39

"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you," Luke 6:27

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Please downvote click-bait titles.

 

[Thanks morgunkorn for replying to show where it is: on our Profile pages, 4 lines beneath our usernames.]

How can I find a list of the Lemmy posts I've saved in my browser?

Saving posts are done by clicking on the star icon. Once saved the icon becomes orange.

Can't find them on my Profile page, or via the Search page, and searches seem to only answer it for apps.

 

Edit: copying the font to /usr/local/share/fonts/ fixed it. (I downloaded Debian Xfce a while ago because of how much I dislike Snap, so I'll soon replace Xubuntu with it.)

I recently installed the font “Atkinson Hyperlegible” on Xubuntu 22.04.3 (via right click, Fonts 41.0), and I use it as the Xfce UI font and the default in Mousepad and LibreOffice without any problems.

However in Firefox 120.0.1 (64-bit), Snap for Ubuntu, canonical-002 - 1.0; it’s not listed at Edit, Settings, Fonts; or Fonts, Advanced…

When I view an HTML page where the CSS’ body has font-family:"Atkinson Hyperlegible",sans-serif; it also doesn’t use the Atkinson font. That page also doesn’t use Atkinson in the (Epiphany GNOME) Web 45.1 browser.

Any ideas on how to get Firefox and Epiphany to see it?

 

Jeffrey Kaplan's lecture helped me better understand international relations, war, authoritarians, capitalists, etc. (reading guide (PDF)).

 

Did the Staten-Generaal supervise the Heeren XVII, was it the other way round, were they usually the same people, or did it not work like that?

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