No I didn’t overrated. Users where opt-in in ad tracking by default after that Firefox update. Users were not notified about this. And “privacy-preserving ad measurement” is misleading on purpose, I don’t understand why you would fall for that too.

This all happened when Mozilla bought an ad company called Anonym. I’m fully done with Firefox now. I moved to a Firefox fork.

What is not true? Mozilla is lay off people with a move to AI: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/. And invested millions into AI: https://digiworld.news/news/65190/mozilla-invests-30m-to-launch-mozillaai-and-redefine-the-next-era-of-ai. And are hiring a lot of AI engineers specifically: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/listings/

After Mozilla introduced “Allow web sites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement”, I was out for good now. I moved to forks like Floorp, LibreWolf or Waterfox.

I’m not sure why all the down-votes… But I’m not lying… Look at: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/. Or https://digiworld.news/news/65190/mozilla-invests-30m-to-launch-mozillaai-and-redefine-the-next-era-of-ai. There are literately millions invested into AI by Mozilla.

And they are mostly hiring AI engineers as well: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/listings/

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I myself have much success with Linux Mint (eg. Cinnamon edition). I love Mint… It just works… It’s stable and I can focus on doing my work under Linux, which is software development mostly. But I just don’t have the time to debug my distro, fixing things and compile stuff myself. I already need to manage multiple PCs & servers running Linux. Hence I went with Linux Mint on both my desktop PCs as well as my laptop I’m currently typing on.

I tested things like: bluetooth, wifi, speedtest, webcam, shortcuts (eg. sound buttons or brightness buttons at the top), trackpad, multiple finger gestures. The only thing I didn’t yet test is the finger print reader, if it has one?..

Framework laptops can also come with many expansion cards, like HDMI, DisplayPort, network (LAN) port, USB a, USB c, and so much more. I also tested those in-/outputs. Thus far everything seem to work nicely. I did switch the wifi card, I replaced the stock wifi card with a Intel AX210, which seems to work much better under Linux in terms of not only speed, but also signal strength. Let me know if you want to know more…

yeah I know… It’s not ideal. I don’t recommend it.

Agreed, if you can effort is, buy a domain and use it for email. I also have melroy at melroy dot o r g. However, I still redirect my mail, since I don’t like paying for services haha. That being said, I’m planning to setup my own mail server (I finally now have the infrastructure at home and static IP, needed for this).

Anyhow, DNS also needs to be replaced by something better.

I dare to say it: 70% of the devs are not quality focused to start with. They are already happy if something, somewhat, sort of, works. And then not even ship a unit test with it.

It’s still youtube… And if you talk about Tor, the Tor network is not gonna like this kind of traffic. Video streams are too heavy for the Tor network. Maybe I2Pnet… But again, it’s still Google YouTube.

THat sounds great! Gmail can be easily replaced, by like Proton mail or something… Youtube is also very hard… It’s a vicious circle, “Youtubers” try to host their content elsewhere but nobody is looking. While some users also want to get rid of the youtube platform, but since most people are still and keep watching on YouTube, the content creators keep uploading there…

I agree. But to be very honest, de-googling is very important but not always very easy. So I did personally move away already from Gmail. I also now host my own Nextcloud instance, which I use for my agenda as well as contacts. Meaning I also don’t sync or store contacts or anything in Google. I don’t use any cloud services for storage either, again Nextcloud (self hosted) solved that for me.

Then I was never using ChromeOS, so that helps, I’m only using Linux. However, I do have an Android device. It’s really hard to get rid of that, maybe a custom ROM, is that valid? Anyhow, and last but not least Google search, Google images, Google maps, etc. I don’t want to go from Google Search to another big Microsoft corp, so moving to Bing is a no go. That also means all those meta search engines is also not a good alternative, which includes: DuckDuckGo, ecosia and alike… Qitchain, presearch or Yacy isn’t working for me either. It’s just not good enough.

Thus finding a good search alternative is hard! I’m actually considering as a software engineer to build my own.

Mozilla is only focusing on AI stuff.

It’s about time we try to de-google.

Eaxctly my point as well here… https://kbin.melroy.org/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/461269/-/comment/4095583

Sure!

• More and more (AI) spyware / malware is getting injected into projects and operating systems. Without the user consent. Mobile phones, laptops, desktop PCs, smart devices, etc. This comes from companies, but also from governments (no, not just China, but also US and EU).
• AI bubble itself will burst for the “normal users” and most companies who won’t really benefit from AI / LLMs as they thought they will. This will be apparenty only after several years. Where the highly skilled developers left the companies, and you are left with software engineers using AI tools which generates wrong code. The damage LLM (like AI Code generation) is doing and will be continue to do in the upcoming years is very untransparent, but it won’t be nice. We suddently are not getting AGI.
• More research and efforts will be put into alternative computers, like computers based on biology. Like using living cells. After all nature is so much more efficient then our current technologies. This could fix the energy demand issues we now see with AI.
• Biology computer will then also create huge moral issues. Since, how do we know the cells are not becoming aware? How do we know it won’t feel pain or the cells are feeling trapped? After all, we, humans, don’t even know how conscious really works and self aware.
• Users & companies want to get back in control over 5 or 15 years from now. So their could be a big move back from “Cloud” to on-prem. You are already seeing this now with the fediverse.
• The internet becomes too much centralized and controlled by goverments. Blocking public DNS IPs. Overruling them. The only answer would be is to create a much more decentralized internet alternative, so over 20 or 30 years from now (so we can still talk which each other about issues in the goverments par example). The current internet is just too fragile. And the root of the problem is already DNS. Meaning you need to basically start from scratch.
• Over 80 years Windows might only be used by corporate businesses. Most people might only use Android or any Linux based distro. This mainly depends on how fast we change our education process, so young people learn about alternatives. And schools should stop promoting and forcing people to use Microsoft products only. If schools won’t change, then we might have a huge issue, and this topic won’t be valid.
• Google will be split into multiple companies.
• Microsoft might be split later as well into multiple companies, but only much later, after Google.
• … Should I continue or stop here…?

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Looks like a fun game in general.

I didn’t saw it earlier… :P

The thread itself is actually already 1 year old. Well, look at the screens above. Somebody asked for a follow-up, so I gave a follow-up of both the average posts by day for Lemmy as well as Mbin… The trend is still up.

And… for the Mbin users out there. Here is the same average posts by day, but on the Mbin platform.

It seems that. 1) Cumulative graph is removed, because cumulative doesn’t make sense. There is an average graph though. Average Lemmy Posts by Day… 2) In just a single day the numbers of this new average graph exploded… that can’t be right… 3) What about all the spam posts!??