Same thing here. If I don’t see a source code repository, the result is an obvious no-go. Especially because I’m pretty sure there are others, similar projects that either exist in the wider closed source space.

Accountability is an important thing for these kinds of apps. Unfortunately, if you don’t have a reputation online, that’s about as bad as having a bad reputation. No offense intended, it’s just inevitable.

The post got removed a year later, by Reddit filters?

wtf

Anonym Private Audiences is currently in closed beta, supporting early-use cases where privacy matters most.

Wow that really is private! So private we can’t even see what it’s up to.

Differential “privacy,” based on what I’ve learned, seems to be a joke. The only thing it does effectively is hide the fact you’ve disabled it, if you choose to disable it. But if other people disable it, it becomes easier to identify you. The best move is to not participate, which should encourage other people to also not participate…

And if you’re one of the unlucky few people still using it, its developers basically need to choose where on a sliding scale from “anonymous” to “useful” they want to start collecting your data. And there is every prerogative for them to push towards “useful” and away from “anonymous.”

It operates separately, and is not integrated with, our flagship Firefox browser.

Doubt…

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You might want to avoid “total anything death” phrases

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tnd-kill-behead-roundhouse

You wouldn’t even guess this would be on the Keet homepage, but the developers can’t help themselves. They just see dollar signs.

As your app grows, Holepunch lets you evolve into a business without compromises. With Bitcoin Lightning and USDt micropayments built-in, it’s easy to implement and use powerful paid features in apps. Peers control their own data, including how it’s bought and sold.

“Peers control their own data”

I really hate how “sovereignty” has become a dogwhistle for “sell your data to us.” And they make it as easy as possible to sell yourself out, irreversibly, for mere pennies. Maybe that’s the fantasy: since “code is law” in Cryptoland, get somebody to sign over their identity with code.

By all accounts, this sucks.

I tried the link preview feature on a link to the English Wikipedia article about Touhou Project, and the LLM’s key points are just hilariously bad. For some reason it’s focusing too much on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch (which the LLM “thinks” were both released on August 15, 1997). I have a screenshot 6 days ago when it wasn’t a Firefox Labs feature yet in my Misskey:

https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/a6d86p8n26

Tried it today in an updated Nightly and the key points are still the same lol.

Source

Recently, they made a blog post triumphantly proclaiming creating two divisions for AI. To me, that sounds like two divisions that are about to get laid off.

Amazing how your post history illustrates you only care about one topic. Like the last time I saw one of your posts:

These articles are getting so obscure, that you probably had to peel through a good amount of stuff that people here would find way more relevant.

And based on other articles from this same website, they are American exceptionalists. And not competent about technology. Here is another article of theirs, “how autocrats weaponize AI”, which was published last month and refuses to mention the Trump administration among their list of autocrats.

The article is also extremely stupid, misrepresenting how Signal works.

Encryption apps like Signal use AI to ensure secure communication and protect activists from government surveillance.

I don’t know what the author was smoking when they wrote that, but Signal does not use any AI.

Okay, so for those of us using third party apps like Thunderbird, everything is done using app specific passwords, which is great

The new feature for Email App Passwords for external email programmes

But if this is a new feature, how did third party apps work before? Could people just not use them if they enabled 2FA?

Edit: …a decentralized Monero exchange

There’s the Monero shilling I expect in every comment

How does this affect people who upgrade? They just have Firefox plus a second browser?

I think the purpose is to find a source of revenue so that they don’t have to ruin their product. There’s a lot of potential good here, in addition to the unfortunately undeniable potential bad.

Until the lawsuit between Steve Teixeira and Mozilla reveals the truth, I’m going to withhold my judgment about how fascistic Mozilla was internally.

Teixeira claimed Mozilla conducted an audit that found them pretty lacking in the equality department IIRC, and Mozilla’s own lawyers disputed many things but not that.

You can close a group and reopen it later.

I thought tab groups on the desktop were neat but ignorable… Until browser vendors started implementing stuff like this. Now it’s basically a halfway point between an open tab and a bookmark. Excellent for organization.

tl;dr the article says that

1. People were downloading sketchy Chinese VPN apps
2. China compels companies to share data with the government

This research is interesting, but right about now, the average American citizen is in way more danger from the US than China.

Consider switching up your exclusive “China Bad” posting a little. These articles are getting so obscure, that you probably had to peel through a good amount of stuff that people here would find way more relevant.

You said you were done responding, so at least have the dignity of demonstrating a little bit of honesty where it is most apparent.

It seems

Any “privacy” improvements from random instances are not part of the core code structure

The privacy improvements are from the ActivityPub protocol. The author cites them.

Edit: …and the spammer who keeps copy-pasting the same irrelevant spam from thread to thread is back

Don’t be a jackass and don’t spam.

The trouble with the thing you quoted twice in a row - unnecessarily padding out your post - is that saying “Mastodon may not be perfect” does not cancel out Pixelfed’s massive security issue.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Non-malicious servers aren’t supposed to do what Pixelfed did.