Mozilla isn’t doing anything to Firefox. The Anonym purchase you linked to was literally to acquire a technology they developed which would, if implemented web-wide, end the dystopian nightmare of privacy invasion that is the current paradigm where a few dozen large companies track everything everyone does on the internet all the time. “Privacy preserving” isn’t just a buzzword in that article - privacy is actually preserved, and the companies involved (including Mozilla) learn nothing at all about you - not your name, not an “anonymous” identifier, not your behavior, nothing. Moreso, Anonym didn’t just create this technology, the entire company was purpose-founded to create this technology.

There’s a lot of misinformation floating around about Mozilla in particular at the moment. Very little of the animosity they receive is truly deserved once you dig past the narrative and find out what Mozilla’s actually up to, and why.

The old forums aren’t dead yet. I still visit a proboards forum with five active users!

This absolutely doesn’t come from informed experience, and is speculative drivel, but:

I think just mentioning that you “designed your own major” may help a lot in various types of job search. Regardless of what the actual process is like (I have no idea), it sounds impressive, and makes it sound like you’re a person with a lot of initiative and drive. That could help make up for any perceived competitive disadvantage.

Of course your mileage may vary, especially if you’re applying for a job that would heavily revolve around topics covered by a very specific major. But sometimes it helps to stand out, and “I designed my own major” could help you do that.

Whenever they put that “Dear reader, if everyone reading this sent $X, etc” notice at the top of an article, I send whatever the amount they mention in the notice is.

I’ve only ever noticed it like 5 times since I started doing that a bunch of years ago - not sure if that means they don’t ask that often, or if it means I don’t visit them often enough to always see it.

Instructions on how to contact any online acquaintances or communities that should be informed of your death

To drive your point home: More Californians voted for Trump than Texans.

Same domain. Every email is just the username it’s associated with @ the domain (Not gmail). The passwords are different between account and email (And no two accounts anywhere share passwords).

As of right now I have 19 already-created email accounts just waiting to eventually be associated with some account I’ll make for some service in the future. Any time I get low I’ll make a bunch more at once. I have almost 60 accounts across the internet using this system already. It does get a bit annoying when certain sites want to email me a login code every time I log in.

!casualconversation@lemmy.world

Makes sense. I’ve been considering making an identical alt on beehaw, but I’m still holding out hope they’ll refederate.

Different randomized username on everything I sign up for. I do it so you can’t google my username on one platform and find me on another. Each account also gets its own unique email address.

The best I can say is that I was MSN Instant Messenger buddies with someone who now has 2.4 million Twitch followers, before they started streaming.

Which is to say, I’ve never met a famous person.

Any insect that touches my skin realizes the error of its ways and peacefully leaves me alone.

Gonna go with Firefox as both my most-used piece of open-source software, and the software I see as most important to its ecosystem. If Firefox fails then we’ve just got Chromium-based browsers and, I guess, Safari.

It’s not as good, but it’s still a lot better than I expected it to be before I joined. Once it has 5-10x the current userbase I think it’ll be just as good.

One of my favorite things on reddit was being able to click on an interesting post, then just read dozens and dozens of other peoples’ comments. I find that like 70% of the posts I find interesting here have like 0-3 comments.

There are some growing pains too - for example, I wrote this reply up, then upvoted you, and upvoting you deleted my message so I had to retype it.

My addiction is reddit-style content aggregators. My current drug of choice is Lemmy.

I could very easily quit if I were going back to reddit. And I quit reddit much easier than I thought I would with Lemmy to take its place.

But I would not easily be able to quit both without replacement.

Can’t quite remember if it was Donkey Kong Country on SNES or Pokémon Blue on Game Boy Pocket, but one of those.

The article I just linked says they’re extending support to 7 years: Out to 2026 for their 2019 model, the Fairphone 3. The article also links to an older article talking about how the Fairphone 2 ended up with 7 years.

I’m in the US so the Fairphone was never really a consideration for me, but if it’s available whenever I need my next phone I’ll definitely look into it. It’s pretty annoying to be using Google’s own phone, and still only have access to 3 years of OS updates.

You can do even better than five years with Fairphone (…Speaking as a Pixel user)

Don’t get me wrong, I’m impressed with Lemmy - it’s doing an amazing job handling the migration, its structure makes a lot more sense than I thought it did when I was a newcomer, and its functionality is both adequate and actively evolving. My wishlist is mostly minor usability details and it seems like that’s something they’re actively working on - even the text posts and youtube videos thing I mentioned in my previous message has already been added as a feature on lemmy.world today alone.

I just use the desktop site - not really a fan of mobile anything. Didn’t even do reddit on mobile. Hopefully what you’re describing will roll out to more instances sooner rather than later though.

Edit: I do actually have a button to expand text posts - it’s a small square that appears on the right side of titles. Not sure if it’s brand new or if I just never noticed it until now. Cool.

Edit again: Youtube videos also can open in-line now, plus some videos from other places. Awesome. Guessing it’s related to this update