Melpomene

Yeah, last HP I bought got returned immediately because I couldn’t fucking print or do anything without registering the printer. Like I want HP monitoring every print job and scan because marketing.

I think I ended up getting a Brother because at least it worked without access to the Internet.

in order to disable all ads, data collection & telemetry, and unwanted extensions in Firefox you need to go into about:config.

This, so much this. I’ve agreed to give Firefox a shot for a few months and the amount of up front config I had to do was insane.

Thing is, I think they understand it well enough. This is never, ever about safety and is 100% always about control. They continue to push these bills because they want to chill anonymous speech and destroy privacy protections and they’ll keep doing so until they get their way or are voted out.

While I admire your optimism, the fact that US intelligence agencies have been caught -repeatedly- violating citizens’ privacy under cover of covert programs… I can only asssume this was more of the same.

It is absolutely always one of those two, and they try this shit every session. Better solution? Kick any politician who signs off on these bills out of office and make it crystal clear that they’ve been booted because they’re anti-speech and anti-privacy.

If we reach a point at which AI can do the jobs of artists without a real loss of quality, I expect that unions will lose a fair bit of bargaining power. Disney has never been shy about sending their work to cheaper, less powerful people… I have no doubt that if they ever can, they’ll just fire their human artists and go with free (or cheap) AI.

Joke will be on them when AI achieves sentience, I guess.

Less featureful, terrible violation of privacy, no way to easily delete just threads, gives a known bad actor a strong foothold…

What could go wrong?

The best anyone can do right now is to migrate off of Twitter entirely. As long as Musk is in charge (or in charge through his puppet CEOs) the site will be a cesspool of toxicity and hate. I’m honestly not sure why reputable people are still using the site… guess the view and media exposure are better than doing the right thing and leaving?