vinhill

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[–] vinhill@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago

Google does not just show a link. It scrapes the content of the page to build a search index, i.e. consomes the content. This happens without explicit permission and in the past, there were no opt-out ways. Then they use this knowledge to provide search go users and incorporate ads to make money without paying the original pages. Google also started to show you these handy answers by showing some text section scraped from the page.

Like, there certainly is a similarity. And there is the difference that Google mostly feeds users to the original webpage while GenAI can replace the content.

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Content unavailable :(

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Might be the out of memory killer. For me, Mach (Firefox's build tool) usually did a multi-processed build assuming around 1 GB RAM per thread. Run ./mach build -j10 to limit the build to e.g. 10 threads. Or set mk_add_options MOZ_PARALLEL_BUILD=10 in your config file.

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Google sheets isn't FOSS, right? Is there something comparable in libre?

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

Realistically, that would be quite an overreaction and the corporation does have valuable knowledge and skill in creating trains. But how great it would be if this were to cause open source code to be a requirement...

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

She's CEO of Mozilla foundation (charity) but also Mozilla corporation (normal business).

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Though OPs example is easier for the general population to understand.

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are people profiting from this either by owning the investment firms e.g. through stocks or by working in them in highly paid positions. In a democracy, the majority might be for such a law, but certainly not everyone.

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

I heard people pirating old Wii games so that they can be emulated. Also, games with way too many DLCs like Sims.

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

You can file web compatibility bugs on bugzilla.mozilla.org or webcompat.com

There are different ways how bugs are fixed. But someone might reach out to the page itself, find and fix a bug in Firefox or change the web specification if the incompatibility arises from ambiguity around the feature definition.

Firefox can also ship an intervention, basically injecting code into certain websites to fix broken ones.

Some incompatibilities can arise from missing features in Firefox, the web constantly evolves and the Devs sometimes don't catch up. But bugs might still help, as high compatibility-risk features might be implemented more quickly.

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

I think lots of people also don't know how easy it is to migrate all user data between browsers. Also, the added work of changing your phone app is probably too much for the average, comfortable consumer.

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 17 points 10 months ago

As a quite thin guy, I dressed as women for a game once and got several inappropriate comments and people coming too close.

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