JackbyDev

Then stop calling the button purchase and call it rent.

To be honest, I'm a firm believer that if it's considered required to read the news file for updating then the update tool should be printing that information for you. I used to have a hook that did it, but it was flaky. Also, I saw the creator mention that due to the design of the hooks, it happens too late in the process for some manual intervention to be done properly. But because everyone in Arch has such an obsession with "no bloat" I doubt we'll ever see pacman have that feature.

I don't believe arbitration agreements should be legal at all, but with how conservative US courts are right now, I doubt we'll see it overturned.

I would be careful calling this "de-flock" because one of the more prominent groups against Flock is called Deflock and they already get lies from police calling them a terrorist organization despite never advocating for anything like tearing them down. If I really was putting on my tin foil hat, I'd say this was an intentional false flag operation called "de-flock" to further muddy the waters with regards to the Deflock organization. That's a bit much, though.

Note that I'm not saying folks shouldn't be participating, I'm only saying a different name for the activity would be prudent.

Rhys Darby did a bit somewhat similar to this at a standup. About a Roomba and a Cyber Truck. I don't remember the specifics. But it was about the Roomba wanting to see the world. He's very funny, if you ever have the chance to see him live, I highly recommend it.

you have recourse when stupid shit happens like them stealing your hardware

Just as an aside, you didn't directly say it but may have inadvertently implied it, but the post says BestBuy sent back the extra 32 GB they removed with the laptop. They didn't steal it.

Yes, there are multiple moments where they have to get to a landline to get out. if they could extract via cellphone then there wouldn't be any tension around them needing to extract.

Reread the post. They never leave the matrix through cellphones, only landlines.

Evil Chinese company as opposed to an evil American one?

And yet many Chromium forks are following suit and disabling Manifest v2 support. The idea that these things "don't need support" is silly when we're talking about the Herculean effort of maintaining a browser. Yes, anyone can but when the vast majority of browsers are Chromium forks instead of individually created and maintained ones, how much effort do you think those organizations have?

It's good that browsers like Brave have an alternative means of ad blocking, and Firefox even has Brave's exact same blocker built in now, but the idea that "you can just fork and block" is missing the point.

Google has effectively won. They are the de facto controller of web standards now that the majority of browsers use Chromium. When they began dropping support for Manifest v2 in 2019 it was the same year they said ad blockers were a major threat to their revenue in their publicly filed shareholder statements. This isn't some conspiracy theory either, you can literally go look that up. They dropped v2 because ad blocking was too powerful and gutted it in v3. They know that the ecosystem of browser forks they helped create depends on their dev effort and won't keep v2.

Even if v2 and ad blocking stay around, people still need to get the fuck off of Chromium. It's ads today, but could be something else tomorrow. The problem is Google getting to easily control what like >80% of browsers see and do all because they control Chromium. Even if Google was suddenly like "you know what, we're turning v2 back on," I'd still be practically begging everyone to stay the fuck off of Chromium and get into something Firefox based. This is about so much more than just ads.

Ghostery blocks trackers then sells data about your tracking blocking habits. It was the first tracker blocker I heard of but Privacy Badger is the better one nowadays.

it still boggles my mind that Microsoft developed Edge as a standalone browser as a replacement for IE then just said "nah, let's just use Chromium."