Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I’m probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to “Shrek (2001) [1080p]”.

To have Firefox summarize a page, simplify the language and then read it aloud to you, shake your phone and then throw it at the wall.

It’s been demonstrated that it’s mostly an illusion, and yet it’s hard to escape the observation that many people who haven’t studied it in detail understand the concept much less well than they think they do.

foreign piracy in the United States

For a moment there I thought they were talking about actual pirate ships sailing across from Liberia to raid the east coast.

I remember wanting that a couple years ago, and finding out then that people had been pointing it out as a much wanted feature that was missing and yet easy to implement for years before that.

Strawberries are a type of berry. They go in a fruit salad, so they’re fruit. Deep in your heart, you know this. Do not believe everything you read on the Internet.

Follow-up question: Can someone explain it in a goofy pirate accent?

Windscribe, although unless you pay an extra $2/month they time out and need to be reconfigured after one week.

they’re just manipulating the DOM

Imagine trying to explain that in court. Yes, your honour, it’s a sort of object-based model representing the document. No, it’s not really a model of an object exactly. Yes, it’s made of bits and bytes, the same kind as you would use in a computer program, but it has that in common with… no, it does not actually object to anything…

That might be the first time I’ve seen a “firefox.com” link.

Probably some kind of translation error. They must mean “privacy”.

Contributing to stupid fucking thread derailments about inconsequential points of netiquette as we have both done here is of course another fine tradition that has been around since the early days of the net. But you know, it’s not like there was a hell of a lot of other discussion happening on this occasion. The original topic deserves a thousand times more attention than it gets.

I have never been so cowardly as to feel the need to use an alt when replying to my own comments.

Welcome to fedi where not everyone uses it in exactly the same way as you.

Do they even care any more? It’s like they’re only pretending to try and make it look palatable.

The most unnervingly creepy government press release I ever saw.

It’s a pretty big change then… They should call it ChromeOS/2 or something.

Why is it up to google?

So, not required on Linux then I guess.

Bear in mind that the people coming up with this stuff are not completely stupid. Completely corrupt and ignorant perhaps, but not so inept that if they write legislation that strongly encourages practically everyone to use a VPN to avoid the bullshit it isn’t a good possibility that their aim (or the aim of those manipulating them) is to generate excuses to eventually make easy-to-use commercial VPN services illegal. Obviously many of us could get around such a ban with ease, but the more difficult they make it the fewer people will do it. There are reasons why not every kid on your average street is an I2P user. What they can’t effectively ban they’ll suppress by other means.