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If we start with the idea that a significant number of Google search users are on outdated, unpatched, and unprotected versions of Microsoft Windows, and we introduced the idea that a self-professed "torrent site" might in fact be a vector for malware ..

What would you actually want Google to do?

Help you bookmark that?

@thomasfuchs Good to know Safari is okay to use as well. Unfortunately, my employer requires us to use Chrome.

@thomasfuchs @lisamelton to me it looks like it is google collections, not google chrome bookmarks.

https://www.androidpolice.com/create-google-collections/

@thomasfuchs Yes, but I prefer Libravatar (https://www.libravatar.org).

@thomasfuchs that's still a thing? I think I created one like ten years ago but had no use for it, so I voted no here on a technicality

@thomasfuchs Yes, for Lobsters, because spinning up a job system and independent vm to process images securely is such a large task.

@thomasfuchs I mean, I'd see it implemented happily.

Let's shit websites filter out themselves, because I am pretty sure Firefox will be blocked pretty quickly to enforce chrome (or one of it's derivatives) as the only standard.

Maybe we don't even need ad-blockers anymore, because the shit websites filter out themselves XD

@thomasfuchs Fun thing though

"How will we prevent this signal from being used to exclude vendors?" talks about excluding certain browsers, because it's very clear which browser is used.

Would be funny to use their own tech to block chrome browsers though, with a warning "You are supporting anti-privacy browsers! Please use a better browser."

@thomasfuchs While I understand where you're coming from, putting the blame on the end-users (99% of whom have no idea about these things) really rubs me the wrong way.

@thomasfuchs is this with a bayer filter or something?

@thomasfuchs That design makes a lot of sense for a 3D UI. For for a 2D one…?

I think the competition for them isn’t Meta, games consoles or one of the headset makers for PCs.

The competition is themselves, they’re basically creating virtual Macs.

That’s why it’s priced how it is and positioned 80% as work device.

Will it work, for work?

They already make the best computers, and those don’t make people nauseous looking at them, and you don’t need to strap anything to your head. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@thomasfuchs wish alt text could be disabled in app and just be an option.

@thomasfuchs Actually, Twitter sometimes gives you boobs *and* a Nazi.

(Alt text: Photo of Sebastian Gorka sporting man-boobs and holding a rifle with scope.)

@thomasfuchs My site's full feed includes boobs (and other anatomy). I hadn't noticed whether they have alt text, I'll check next time they go by.

Bluesky: I don't know much about it. But now I know a little more about it.

Reply guys: for the love of fuck don't reply with "that's unpossible", or "use flubbertwoot beta" or a link to the Mastodon roadmap.

Please think about why these are not valid or wanted replies to anyone who is asking to make Mastodon more useful for more people.

@thomasfuchs if many people talk about this, The Man With The World’s Most Sensitive Skin™ will get to change it…

@thomasfuchs That's his legacy.

I was ordering salt, just FYI.

We've been using Maldon for years, it's the best salt. And yes, one salt can taste very differently from other salt, even though technically it's all sodium chloride.

The shape and size of the salt crystals and additives (or lack thereof) make it taste and feel better than I like other salts.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io SCART? IDK...

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io we must go back to the chonky laptops please ​:aamiyadeskbang:​

@thomasfuchs that guy with the CRT makes me feel so claustrophobic ugh, imagine having to get up to pee

@thomasfuchs I didn't see the CRT at first because I literally had the problem the guy with the laptop had -- my thinkpad fit very neatly right under the top of the seat in front of me and then the guy in that seat reclined it and wedged it so hard I thought the screen was going to shatter. 😬

@thomasfuchs I've acquired some original Apple logo stickers over the years, one decorates my new MacBook Pro M2

@thomasfuchs

I was thinking Apple should be flying a rainbow Apple balloon over their Battersea Power Station offices.

@thomasfuchs 💯

@thomasfuchs Furthermore, those name folks think moderation in 95% banning nazis, spammers and other obvious undesirables. They're maybe 5%, the other 95% of your time and energy is in getting rid of extremely popular abusers with massive fan clubs full of averagely normal people

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And that moderation is often an unpaid and extremely thankless task. People almost never contact customer service to say thank you, and you can tell many have not considered that before becoming a host.

@thomasfuchs That’s part of the reason if I make a server it’ll be for me and MAYBE a couple other people. Moderating myself is already a full-time job.