Notices by James P. :arch_linux: :firefox: :sway: :xfce: (james@mstdn.starnix.network)

@Nishi I would rather you use your asbestos alt @kawa for that. Keep Starnix for tech posting.

If #Mozilla #Thunderbird changes its UI, will there be a fork which keeps the old interface?

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/

@theorytoe See this thread:
https://mstdn.starnix.network/@james/109837820460453945

tl;dr you criticized rust, aral criticized go, and I had criticisms of python and elixir. so I made this post.

I don’t want to use #Go, I don’t want to use #Rust, I don’t want to use #Python, and I don’t want to use #Elixir. What other #programming #languages can I use?

@TechNews I hope to see the end of Blink/V8's rule first.

@coin @futt Yeah DT messed up the instance and had to roll it back 11 days. That's when he decided he was done hosting an instance (something he wanted to try out years before) and he moved to @distrotube. He made the shutdown announcement on 2022-02-08.

#DistroToot refugees moved to other instances, and posted themselves under #DistroTootRefugee so they could find each other. The biggest group of DistroToot refugees moved to https://mstdn.starnix.network, which @splitshockvirus and I are on.

I also happened to have my own Pleroma instance at the time, which I didn't really have a use for until then, but I started using it to follow all the DistroToot refugees in case I wasn't able to find another instance in time before DistroToot shut down. Luckily, #Starnix launched so I continued right where I left off, and I had two accounts on the fediverse, and I created more since.

Since then, I've wanted to find my fediverse posts that got lost in the archive, but I recently found them on other instances and reposted the content under this profile.

If you’re in the #EU, they’re trying to pass a law that will ban #OpenSource operating systems including #Linux and #BSD. Since there are a lot of #FOSS users from #Europe on the fediverse, this bill should concern you.

https://writehere.is/nwo/eu-chat-control-law-will-ban-open-source-operating-systems

The New York Times article they wanted your email address for:

http://frogfind.com/read.php?a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2023%2F01%2F25%2Ftechnology%2Fpersonaltech%2Femail-address-digital-tracking.html

The article can be viewed in #FrogFind by @ActionRetro, as done in the link above.

(Image courtesy of @SuperDicq)

@doctormo @RL_Dane Yeah, I think the death of Flash and the transition to HTML5 might've accelerated this. Then WebAssembly comes along.

@RL_Dane Ah, w3m. I've used that browser before for a bit, as well as lynx.

I think more applications should design themselves for these kinds of web browsers, especially if they will work without JavaScript. And people should add alt text to images as well since the alt text will be rendered in the place of the images on the terminal.

@RL_Dane It's sad that a lot of websites require JS to function nowadays. Even though Gmail has a view without JavaScript, they made it harder to install 3rd party clients (less secure ones, you have to use OAuth2) and you still have to log into Google over the web. And they require the latest browser to work, which requires you to use one of the big browsers. If you're not using Firefox or Safari, you're stuck on Chrome. Without JavaScript, we'd be a lot more free.

@RL_Dane What browser are you using in that screenshot?

This is a thread of all my posts made in September 2022, starting 2022-09-01.

August 2022: https://mstdn.starnix.network/@james/108877589456734650

Be thankful you're not on mobile, where mobile browsers don't even support extensions, except for #Firefox, which will still keep Manifest v2 and be able to block ads on Android. On iOS, you don't get any adblockers.

#Google #Chrome is planning to drop #ManifestV2 in favor of #ManifestV3. This will make it harder to develop #adblock extensions such as #uBlockOrigin, unless you switch to #Firefox.

But Google did a trick. Their replacement still allows you to make Adblock extensions, but they won't work as well, subconsciously leading users to believe that they just don't work, and they get uninstalled. No thinking about trying an alternative like Firefox.

This is part of the plan to track everyone and put ads in front of their face, with no way to disable it. You will see the ads and you will like them.

Be thankful #Mozilla still exists and is keeping Firefox alive. Without them everyone will be using a Chromium-based browser, or Safari (but that's exclusive to Macs and iPhones, sorry).

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uh5Bhw-wyZc

https://machines.social/@trevorflowers/109070912518296797

@dschier Do you have to get a dedicated browser for these filters, or is this for Safari?

@windowsonwindows #MichaelMJD made a video about Windows Refund Day:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=1j9j-Ywjmbk

It was so successful that he even made a follow-up!
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=N1y_mPUQPPA

I hope Michael MJD joins Mastodon someday soon...