Singapore’s Airforce Museum
Yesterday, we cycled to the Airforce Museum. Actually, we also cycled there on Monday, but this time it was open. We knew it would be closed on Monday, but because the pool we normally swim at has changed its operating times so it’s also shut on Monday (and every Monday) we chose to journey to the museum in preparation for yesterday’s adventure. Yes, it’s complicated.
What a difference five days make. Monday was stinking hot, and the ride really took it out of us. There are a lot of hills. Friday, the weather was cool (and wet) and came after two days of (what they calle here) a monsoon surge. In other words it rained continuously for those two days. So, the ride was considerably more pleasant.
The museum was fun. As you might expect, there are lots of planes, helicopters, and anti-aircraft weaponry on display. There’s also lots of displays detailing the history of Singapore’s Airforce. There are even a few games the public can play, including a flight simulator. And the best thing is that it’s free (well, all except the flight sim).
I took a few photos. Some are even of the aircraft. But most are of the engines they have on display. I plan to use them as reference photos for some 3D modelling on a project I’m working on.
In any case, we had fun and it was a great day out (despite my eldest falling off his bicycle on the way back. He’s fine).
Who knew that Singapore was building up air defences in 960s. It's a wonder that Raffles wasn't driven away when he arrived. 🤣
#Singapore #Oops #AirForceMuseum
Hello Fediverse admins/mods,
I need help to collate some Nicole data. I've noticed they're exclusively using outlook.com emails so far, and I want to make a big list of known emails to send to microsoft
Please DM me with any emails from disabled Nicole accounts
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Anyone else run a #Mineclonia server? Have you found lapis? My server seems to have none. I found one piece in single-player with the same seed, but it's not there in the server.
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Lapis really hard to find
My friend who's playing my Mineclonia server (latest git, carpathian worldgen) is having issues finding lapis as in can't find any, is there a bug generating it or we need to look in different places??Forgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.
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More Blender Tests
I've been playing around with what I can achieve with #Blender. I'm truly amazed at what my 10yo laptop can handle.
This is made from a ready-made assets, including the mother and child, the grass, and the textures. The landscapes, and trees I made myself. I think the trees still need work, but it's a better start than I hoped.
Of course, this image is still a work-in-progress.
#Blender3D #WIP #Art #Nature #CGI #Landscape
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Celebrating the kickstarter campaign coming to an end with friends, so proud of our progress ❤️
2025 belongs to Pixelfed and the fediverse, what started off with our official app release, and Kickstarter led to 400k new users and a growing team.
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PSA for my friends …
And those of you who have been encountering “Nicole, but you can call me Fediverse Chick …”
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“Pig Butchering” is an exponentially growing scam model, being carried out by trafficked people. It rolls a whole psych warfare + romance + free crypto money scam together with some sort of grandpa-scam entree, and they’re in for a long game.
Mastodon Admins are trying to get rid of “Nicole”, but its a hydra.
DO NOT ENGAGE.
'Pig Butchering’ Scams Lure Victims Into Fake Investments
In the financial grooming scam known as "pig butchering," scammers takes weeks or months to establish trust. Here's what to know to protect yourself.Ken Budd (AARP)
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Depending on where you are, let’s remember that a vast treasure trove of personal data has been mind recently. Not just the predatory acts of Elon Musk, but over the last while we’ve had a lot of data breaches.
I’ve been getting spates of really weird kind of spam finding their way into my inbox, and even my phone.
We can thank the criminal kleptocracy
for making this possible
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @SecondStix last year, I started getting scam calls for the first time ever, after ten+ years of having a spam-free phone numbers 😬 WhatsApp calls from India, robot voices from the UK, SMS about "you need to update your bank details" for a bank I'm not even with, and "your package has been held at customs, please visit (definitely not the legit postal service's website)" SMS.
Sigh.
for a while, I reported every one to the Bundesnetzagentur (German FTC equivalent, I guess?), in the naive hopes they could, idk, get phone companies to block the numbers or smth. But they wrote back they can only act against German phone numbers, and my phone provider doesn't seem to offer any means of reporting malicious numbers.
I kind of expected there would be shared blocklists, like there are in email.
@amberage Re: UK spam -
Oy vey iz mir ! That's it! I have a resume posted on a common employment site. They probably scraped the site and got my phone number, which is of course, on my resume. So glad you shared that with me. Thank you. 🙃
oh is -that- where that came from! I got a DM out of the blue from one of those and thought it was a scambot or something.
For a real-world example of a crypto-centric pig butchering scam which made its way into the national news recently, the "Heartland Tri-State Bank", which went under in 2023, shows a lot of the steps. The mark even went so far as to steal from family and friends -- and an entire community -- in order to try and recoup his losses before they all came down on him.
NBC link: cnbc.com/2024/08/21/cryptocurr…
Archived NYT link, which has a somewhat more personal vibe to it: archive.ph/Yyxim
These are just semi-useful pieces of information for anyone who might get targeted: sounds like this "Nicole" is exactly this sort of hook.
Cryptocurrency 'pig butchering' scam wrecks Kansas bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years
Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas failed after CEO Shan Hanes caused $47 million in wire transfers to be sent to scammers running a pig butchering scheme.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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FWIW: Do you think the spamer will be using the name "Nicole" much longer? I doubt it.
@alice @munin @proprietor
And it happens all over the place 🙁
I like the show 'Catfish' (MTV), and while most stories are about younger people, some stories are heartbreaking; people who really believe the person is real, and who keep sending money.
I like that the show, which really evolved, is so well done, with respect, and fun. I really enjoy watching Kamie and Nev helping out.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I was in the middle of one of these scams and partially blinded. Heck of a wake-up call, and rather disappointing that I didn't spot it sooner.
Fortunately, I hadn't got to the stage of handing any money over, and I blocked the person as soon as I read this.
So thank you for saving me from scammers. Lesson learnt: if they look too pretty, it's probably a scam.
@coppercrush Indeed. Time was (in the Olden Days…. ) I used to tell people to remember, every post you see on the internet has a person at the other end of it.
Ah, those long, lazy long-ago summer days … it was true at the time!
I've recieved (and reported) a few of these myself.
Being a furry on a furry-forward instance: this was an obvious scam attempt. If your profile picture isn't an anthromoporphic animal, and you're following me without interacting with any of my posts, AND your profile/posts don't feature *something* that matches the things I talk about, well, I have to wonder why you're even here.
This of course works for everyone (well, except fpr the anthromoporphic animal part, heh)
Question for chicken owners, out of curiosity: what do you think the ACTUAL price of a dozen eggs is from the backyard chickens?
Include: feed, enclosure/repairs, lost chickens from predators, vet visits, chicken retirement lodge, chicken sweaters and hats, etc etc? #chickens
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I haven't had backyard chickens.
Yesterday Jess Piper weighed in,
"If you want to eat the most expensive eggs you’ve ever had in your life, you should have backyard chickens.
Don’t get me wrong, I love them and have raised them, but they are an expensive hobby."
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I sell mine for $6/doz (CAD), and when I'm pretty regular about it (which is...definitely not always, depends on time constraints), that pretty much exactly covers feed.
But, that is not counting the benefits I get from chicks for future chickens, occasionally getting to eat a few mean roosters (so, meat), fertilizer, + all the eggs my family eats.
So, in my particular situation, with my setup (self-sustaining, minimal work, free-ranging flock), I think that's a fair price.
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Sweater wearing chicken
This hen (I don't know her name!) came to Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary fairly recently. She's missing a lot of feathers (typical when chickens are rescued from situations where they were living in cages), which will grow now that she has plenty of …Flickr
I'm trying to envision how the chicken dressing process happens without catastrophic blood and/or eye loss for the humans involved. Full suit of armor, or are they pretty chill about it?
CHICKEN YOGA
Tampa Bay Times: Chicken Yoga comes to Ybor City, and of course the chickens wear diapers
Once diapered, the chickens are “ready for some crescent lunges and warrior poses.”
"So, of course Ybor now offers Chicken Yoga, a unique take on the animal yoga craze that has predominately centered around goats but has included creatures such as dogs, cats and even sloths."
@tiamat271 @me_valentijn LOOK! FREE NAME EMBROIDERY FOR YOUR CHICKEN/DUCK DIAPER!
#chickens #backyardchickens #diapers
Because disposables are so bad for the environment, now Googling "chicken diaper laundry service"
Scheduling errors involving the different species could get interesting ... 😐
Magic 8 Ball says:
Lethal H5N1 rise in function mutation detected in yoga studio chicken diaper bin.
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I always envisioned more of a Book of Revelations fiery sword kinda thing and not this ... chicken shit.
Chicken retirement homes are a real thing. The US egg industry just kills the chickens when they are no longer productive (probably goes into canned chicken soup?).
I don't think most chicken owners have the heart to kill the chickens who have been laying eggs for them, but instead they just hang out with the flock.
Home | Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary
Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary is one of the largest farm animal sanctuaries in California. We have a full time-time veterinarian and onsite clinic which allows us to take in animals in the greatest need of care and rehabilitation.Happy Hen Sanctuary
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@TonyYarusso mine is two quail and a rabbit. One flushed so close to me it "blowed up" and the other, left it on a cliff and could not get to it. But rabbits are good protein. Well, rabbit was protein. I'm not a good hunter. But I can get a blacktail or a cottontail anytime I am hungry enough*, so there is that.
* Not because I am a good hunter but because there are 100 blacktail hares and 200 cottontails in my yard ...
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tangential - this video and channel are the best source i've seen that actually breaks down costs, both including bought feed and grown feed, comparing breeds from ancestral to current ones, diet variety, and on and on.
Total Cost to Grow Feed [for] Your Chickens?
$37.61 FOR 10 LAYING CHICKENS
$324 FOR 52 CORNISH CROSSES
$471.51 FOR 52 HERITAGE BREED MEAT BIRDS1,350 to 3,240 eggs/year, about two to five dozen a week
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it's been a decade since I had a flock but in 2015 prices it would be about $2-3/dozen in Oregon with a flock of 30-50 birds. So with inflation, I would hazard a guess at $4-6/dozen.
The main thing that I see drive up the costs of people I know with small flocks is they don't know what they're doing and they make mistakes that cost money.
Like our neighbors can't figure out how to keep their birds safe from the neighborhood bobcat 🙄
There are intangible benefits beyond the eggs, of course...the gentle background noise a small flock makes is one of the most peaceful and therapeutic sounds I know of.
When my neighbors moved to Texas last year their flock went with them, and I seriously miss them.
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They have quite an ordered social structure if you can sit quietly and watch them for a while.
You will not have a grasshopper problem, and you won't have to weed the garden or flower beds. Because they will destroy those with their constant scratching in the diet, looking for food.
Its really not cost effective if you are trying to "sell for profit".
We buy from a local feed store and live in rural Michigan so its not "too expensive", but its definitely not profitable with the number of hens we have.
We also feed them most of our kitchen scraps. Anything we can't feed them goes into compost. When we clean their coop, run that goes into another compost. It all ends up in our garden eventually.
When our number of chickens is running low, we incubate eggs rather than eat them.
We have no vet visits. We have lost chickens to predators, old age, and chicken intelligence. I have had to cull a few.
We don't buy them sweaters or hats.
They live in a shed that we converted into a coop. We built their run out of pine trees I cut down in the yard.
Chickens are very winter resilient as long as they can keep their feet warm.
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That includes the cost of feeding those cute little cheepers you get from the feed store or from a hatchery like Murry McMurry for six months before they start laying eggs.
That does not include the cost of raccoon-proof coops. Raccoons will find any weakness in your enclosure. Skunks will dig their way into possible.
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You need around 1/4 pound of chicken feed per chicken, per day and the cheap runs around $8-$10 for 50 pounds in the US, before they start raising the prices because there is a run on the backyard chicken market. You're looking at around 5 cents a day in chicken feed.
There is more, but the feed is a good starter
I think the solution will be local egg co-ops, where feasible.
Small egg farms, free-range.
At peak, I had 16 hens & had a combo of sex-link brown extralarge & fancy colors hen flock only. Fed organic & they ate scraps. Sold at $5 a dozen or $8 for 2 dozen. Gave a $1 discount for reusing the cartons. That covered their feed, wormer & bedding. I couldn't sell them fast enough to keep up.
I have 7 now. We have enough eggs to glass for the winter & all we can use. They're older and balanced by summer layers & winter layers. None are daily layers by design.
Two coops, $300 each for materials. We hired a homeless guy to build them, let him camp with us & fed him. Add another $400.
The yard is already stockade fenced.
My husband built the runs, 8' high wire interior fences, and netting (Hawk issues). We added solar powered doors (raccoon issues). Add another $1000.
I have a brooding set-up & raised all my friends' birds for veggies. Another $100?
My birds lay for 5-7 yrs & I raise peeps every 3-4 years.
In summer it's probably half that, because of higher production.
we run 25-30 chooks in our village and we try to make sure feed medicine and infrastructure is rolled up in the cost we pay NZD$0.80 an egg
its possible that we are still subsidising the per egg cost in terms of free labour, and maintenance, repairs and expansions of the habitat have sometimes come from different funds
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The error is in treating the chickens in isolation. Consider them as a component in a system and the payoffs come from many angles: waste reduction (they eat food scraps and weeds), pest control, soil improvement, and intangibles like entertainment and companionship.
Reducing everything to a narrow set of inputs and outputs is the same sort of mistake that commercial agriculture has made in promoting swathes of monoculture dependent on fossil inputs.
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it depends a lot on the coop you get, the feed, if you buy chicks or pullets, etc. I might guess like, $8-10 with a nice coop starting from pullets to 3 years out. Maybe more... But you also get amazing fertilizer, eggs to give away to friends, and cool chickens to hang out with, so yeah, maybe you would almost break even before. Probably better than break even now and over the next few years.
Edit: coops can range from a under $100 in scavenged materials to $20k+ for crazy luxury coops. I think "very nice" is towards the low end of that, and "completely absurd" is maybe half way up. We had a nice one, but that also meant that it was built for us and assembled on site by the builder. We never had racoons or rats.
I would also recommend the deep litter method.
We went a little overboard with ours but our coop didn't ever stink. We dug out about 2 feet down under the coop, built a base from cinder blocks, and filled it with sand. The base of the coop was raised up, so the litter was always dry. We used wood shavings for litter (iirc, pine... Which wood is important because chickens have delicate respirator systems). When it was time to clean, we'd scoop shavings out to the yard and let them decompose. After a year or so we could dig down and get the best compost ever.
We also made PVC feeder and waterer so daily we'd open and close the coop, and weekly we'd clean and refill food.
So yeah, also important to consider the work involved but I feel like that was nice and it helped order our lives. Also the kids loved the chickens.
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When I was younger, my mother had a few dozen of backyard hens and a handful of roosters. Feed is pretty cheap, and leghorn layers (the cheapest and most productive breed) are also pretty cheap as chicks ( which they send to the post office rather hilariously)
A coop, heaters, water and food dispensers, and, most of all, your own labor, otoh aren't cheap.
It isn't a good investment, but can be a hobby that helps pay for it's self. You're MUCH better off growing expensive "fruits" like peppers and tomatoes if you want to reduce your grocery bill. IME
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#Chickens
#BackyardChickens
#Eggs
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Sadly I think we are very close to our government saying poor people should eat grubs.
Maybe farmers can let them pick insects off crops.
The big picture cost depends totally upon how crazy you go with chicken housing and accessories, and how much ground they have access to.
Our flock has the luxury of roaming our acre in the summer, so food costs go to basically zero since they eat all the bugs, seeds, and plants they can find. Electricity for heating their coop/water in the winter is a factor to consider depending on your climate. Food pellets are a negligible cost.
hot take: the cost depends about 90% on where you live.
If you live in a place where chickens are comfortable in the climate year round, you already have running water through a nearby paddock, you have a place to put the waste and you have plenty of excess scrap fruit/veg being produced on site, then chickens are probably free. In fact they are unpaid workers. Maybe they pay you.
If you live in an apartment, all those ecological services (temperature control, water provision, waste disposal) are provided by you/the grid and a chicken becomes extremely expensive.
In suberbia, small towns and rural fringes it's much harder to decide if it's economical, because you have a mix of ecological services and human provisioning.
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The coop is the biggest expense and varies quite a bit depending on size, materials, etc.
Not including the coop, I figure my eggs cost about $1.50/dozen.
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I couldn't even begin to make an accurate guess, but it's definitely not cheaper. A buck an egg or maybe even more.
If people think it's about cheap eggs, they're way off - it's about self-sufficiency and getting healthy eggs from healthy birds that aren't abused in a factory farm.
We always joke that it's only a money saving proposition if they start laying jewel-encrusted eggs😀
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Exactly this. I have never calculated the cost of the birds, set up, the building, fencing, straw, maintenance etc. I only want to make back the cost of feed as I go along. It was a few years ago that I raised my price to $7 because I was feeding organic feeds. It's not that I think organic is better for the birds or the eggs, but more that I wanted to support organic agricultural methods. Now since the price of organic feed is twice that of conventional, (and conventional is the price that organic was only 5 years ago) I feed conventional and charge the $7 per dozen. My wee hens are happy and, so far, healthy. (seriously fuck bird flu) I could sell any number of eggs I could produce but I'm keeping my flock small and only sell 3 dozen a week on top of what we use.
Feed
Zip ties
Screws
Shredded paper bedding (free)
Predation and accidents happen
They do attract rats (even with clean feed techniques), so abatement measures my be a cost
If I still had them, I would add ppe to the costs because of bird flu.
If you can't afford eggs, you're probably working too hard for this hobby and don't have the space
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we sell $5 USD per dozen chicken eggs, sized large, CA complaint, local mom-and-pop grocers. Feed cost is always a concern, but it's the hours in labor that gets you (people misunderstand that it is farming). We cover costs but profit isn't there; we think of it more as good thing to do for folks around us.
Backyard chickens is a whole other thing; I had calc'ed cost at $1.04 a dozen for 6 hens (the max we before the farm back in 2010).
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Farmers markets are a good resource for extra food scraps, & no food goes to waste.
We're in the city & built a strong, enclosed coop (dug down 2 feet and laid wire underneath their run cuz of critters and haven't had any problems).
This whole "vet visit" thing really cracks me up. There aren't too many vets that will look at a chicken. Sadly, chickens are somewhat disposable, not like the family dog at all. When they get sick, you do what you can to make them feel better, but if they die, you usually don't cry over it.
I'll admit that I don't even bury my deceased chickens. There's a large sagebrush at the far east end of my property where I deposit dead things; scavengers take them away.
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(If your not using Bash, you might also need to press CTRL-C.)
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I've been playing around with this during my free time. Getting the lighting right has proven quite a challenge. Those that follow me on Mastodon might know I made an earlier version with just the blood moon. For this, I almost completely remade it. The only thing I kept was the moon. I even used a higher resolution star map.
It looks much better against a darker background. Lighter backgrounds drown out the stars, ripples in the ocean, and even the iceberg.
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#PennedPossibilities 603 — How would you describe your MC’s handwriting?
About as well as a particularly immature three-year old, although that might be overstating its legibility. He still gets his Cs and his Gs mixed up, which once caused an 'incident' that required much grovelling to avoid retribution. Lords don't like to be called that word, and especially not as a salutation.
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Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?
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Ahah bad timing for this 😂.
FYI, Sylvestre from Mozilla replied on HN:
"Please don't read too much into this ;) We moved from self-hosted Discourse to hosted Discourse. The transfer was initiated late from the Mozilla side (my bad) and the automatic system from Discourse kicked in." (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…)
@dannycolin Ai in itself is fine. Local LLM translation in Firefox is really good and I'd take it over Google Translate any time. If Mozilla is planning on adding local LLM summary of webpages, fine. If they train it on their own systems and not on user's I'm fine with it.
Firefox is the only browser that still gives us flexibility with about:config. Don't like the Labs panel? You can turn it off. Don't like this or that? You can turn it off. They just need to fix their communication.
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LibreWolf Browser
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
That is in all the other browsers and annoyingly difficult in FF - edge even has built in automation rules so you can for example open outlook in your own profile and admin portal in a separate profile, maintaining separation but allowing links to work.
@ketumbra @GoatsLive I did this in Firefox with private tabs. Is it even easier in Waterfox or other browsers??
For me part of it is that in my efforts to engage as little identifying usage information as possible with any one piece of software, I typicaly don't make full use of all available features, even ones that might be useful or convenient. I'm likely to dismiss something called "profiles" as an extraneous feature that would likely turn out to be siphoning data at astonishing rates LOL 😅
But the profiles should help you - distinct cookie jars and history to keep your work/personal/underworld lives separate ;)
@GoatsLive @itsmeholland Eso se puede hacer en Firefox, Librewolf, waterfox y otros derivados de Firefox con la extensión ”Multi-acount containers"
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@itsmeholland @rice @GoatsLive I do have keepass and is great, but I'm talking about not having to do that.
If I'm browsing shit and want to go into, let's say, check my mail, I don't want to put the credentials there.
I'm already securing the computer enough that you need physical access to it, but that's why it is important to me to have a secure browser that won't do shit with my data, just letting me doing daily stuff without a hassle.
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I’m with you wrt looking for a solid fully functional #Firefox fork that “just works” 😉 with little or no tweaking. I also can’t imagine living without multi-account containers.
From the initial replies it sounds as if #LibreWolf or #WaterFox are good choices. Anyone want to offer pros cons or comparison of those?
@steve_zeke @GoatsLive Switched to LibreWolf for my daily driver over a year ago, minimal fuss and no regrets
Now FireFox feels like unusable adware in comparison
It's mediocre thinkers of the sort you see embedded in the bowels of every large enterprise elevated into the stewardship of something they don't understand.
They're the sort of people locked into the orthodoxy of what others are doing — not looking for the best, simplest, or easiest routes forward but rather the *safest* routes forward — the same ones everyone else is pursuing.
They squandered Mozilla's unique position and can't fathom why they're locked into this perpetual decline.
Greed and Trump.
As Trump is now in power, all these large corporations will feel empowered to be more pro money, pro selling data, pro fucking users data, pro I don't give a damn as I won't be investigated.
Browsers and search companies will ALWAYS find a way to sell data - openly or avertly. Cookies, now fingering, next will be fisting.
Think of it as "The precession of the perihelion of marketing." Leadership inexplicably is never where the (classic) theory says it's supposed to be...
@mozillaofficial and other social/capital hybrids making big wonky loops again and again in plain sight reveal something more general that's too low-level to be seen with the naked eye...
...That our theories of value, incentive, growth, and wealth need fundamental, alienating rewriting. That's happening, though we forget today's store-brand Relativity took many decades of uncertainty, this will too.
"It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?"
I think ruining projects is a side-effect, not the purple/goal. Management/CEOs want to wring the most short-term profit they can out of an organization while they are running it. That usually means damaging the product/reputation in the long run, but they'll be retired by the time their greed becomes a problem.
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@distrowatch I still think one should not attribute actions to malice when they can be attributed to stupidity, but it's quite clear that an action can be both stupid and evil at the same time ...
I mean, chaotic evil is fun if done right, but it's a hard class to play properly.
@CubeRootOfTrue That's often true. But it only looks "stupid" from the user's point of view, not the CEO's point of view. From the CEO's point of view they are doing something very smart - getting a big pay day and getting out.
When something looks both smart and evil, then it's usually malicious.
Firefox lost a long time ago, but had guaranteed income from the default search engine deals. They tried many things over the years to create another revenue source but failed.
I heard from a Mozilla insider that upcoming fallout from court cases (from even before the current administration) will make those default search engine deals illegal. Which is kind of a good thing but now the org is facing its end and dissolving in predictable ways
@kevinrns The situation they seem to be in now is that they're actively destroying their product reputation.
They won't continue making money on the brand they torched, Google or not.
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Sorry for my slowness, of course.
I don't understand the many groups of decisions Mozilla has been making.
I prefer to think its group think, "oh they will accept this, its no too bad, everyone's doing it" and not malfeasance, dishonesty.
I still think appropriate coders, orgs of privacy, online rights, democracy and the intertubes 👉 hold a conference 👈 on enforcing standards, transparency and control to the user.
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If the #CEO position had a term limit and had to be a worker before and after being ceo and the employees all voted for a president each year or two... Oh wait that's a #coop not a #corp
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@hobs hey thanks for replying!
so basically it’s like if companies were incentivized to be more democratic. Imagine!
Follow up: do you think coops are more democratic than unions ? Or is it apples and oranges
Good question. Both have internal democratic processes, but with coops that process encompasses the entire organization hierarchy, all the way up to owners and executives. With unions its more of a competition thing. And union management's interests aren't always 100% aligned internally.
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Quite absurd how a CEO can broker a deal, working for an organization like Mozilla in this manner
#CEO #Mozilla #Firefox #Thunder #Thunderbird
When the Mozilla Corporation was spun up and Firefox was transferred under it, the writing was on the wall: Mozilla had been captured by VC techbros whose long-term mission will be enshitification. Freemium services, acquisitions, data collection. It's the only formula for value these VC types know.
All C-levels and Board members need to be purged, Pocket and VPN and the other nonsense needs to go, and Mozilla needs to only create a browser. Only a browser.
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I think @mozillaofficial should hand over #Firefox to @torproject and let #TorBrowser become the new #upstream!
I mean, @thunderbird / #Thunderbird got taken over by it's community as well. Not shure if they have any relations beyond #Trademark and some #Hosting infra at #Mozilla...
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Does that mean that the changes at #mozilla won't reach #thunderbird and emails stored in it?
@0xF21D YES!
I'd say @thunderbird is hands-down the better alternative to #Outlook in every shape or form!
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I agree but, at the same time, what they did to K9 Mail absolutely sickens me and genuinely makes me question if they have some nefarious motive.
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The account drawer was the straw that broke my back but for me it's more about bloat. Before Thunderbird's involvement K-9 was one of the quickest apps on my phone and it just did it's job. I don't need my mobile to sync with my laptop because that's exactly what IMAP is for. If I need something powerful I'll go to my laptop but on mobile I just want it to be quick and painless. Nothing wrong with forking K-9 and creating Thunderbird for Android on top of K-9 for those that want extra features but the majority that were using K-9 were doing so *because* of it's simplicity. Telling us K-9 would continue to exist and then essentially just building Thunderbird and releasing a "branded" version was the wrong thing to do. I miss when K-9 ran on old and under-powered phones - it no longer does that.
Maybe you don't have a nefarious motive but forcing features onto people who don't want them isn't a good look... And is kinda exactly what Mozilla is self destructing over.
@kkarhan @0xF21D @nixCraft
Yesterday, I tried to help a friend by looking up a kitchen appliance on the Sur La Table web site to see if they carried the product. A few minutes later, I got some spam from some nonentity calling itself surlatable@safeopt.com thanking me for "checking us out." I had not logged in and Firefox was configure to delete cookies when it closes.
I put both on my shit list: what would you do if visited a store and they had someone follow you home and put trash in your mailbox?
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Should we make the Bookface theme the site's default for friendica.world?
Or should we leave it at the standard 'frio' theme and let users decide for themselves.
I'm just thinking users might not know about the Bookface theme. And in my opinion it makes the site more user-friendly.
Reply with your thoughts!
(In the screenshots, you'll see I chose green as today's accent color for the theme.. don't worry, that's not the default 😀 )
Default:
Bookface:
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But from your post I understand I can choose this theme already? I'll to change it immediately.
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@Ruud from my five seconds of testing: it looks much nicer on mobile and fixes Frio's weird tag spacing issues. I'd like to give it a go on desktop before I make a determination for myself, but it's looking good so far.
Edit: I do wonder why the logo is upside down though
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I did switch to Bookface and like it. I'm using it as my default here. I've been exploring so many different platforms the last couple months and Bookface feels more natural than some interfaces I've used on other platforms. Thanks for adding it!
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Improvement
Looks like friendica.world has been more stable for the last few days. That's good.
Now there's time for some other improvements. Let me start by upgrading the Bookface theme to the latest version 😀
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It's a bit hidden in the settings, but yes, you can change to Bookface in the Custom Theme Settings.
Settings > Display > Custom Theme Setting > Appearance
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Yeah, that's what I meant by it's a bit hidden. 😉
But... If you are currently using the standard theme (and are on the account settings page) you can click ">>" in the top left corner to get to other settings.
After you've changed to Bookface it will be the bottom left button that does the same thing.
You should also be able to click here:
Settings > Display
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Yeah, the ">>" will show different things depending what tab / page you're on.
You need to be on the settings page (the account settings) for ">>" to show other settings.
Glad the link worked though!
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@RaccoonForFriendica version 0.4.1 has been finally released! I was waiting to fix a couple of old issues but I realized I was keeping people waiting too much since almost 2 months had passed since the previous stable version.
If you were on the latest beta, the only new feature is the possibility to see in every timeline the "source platform" each post is coming from (Friendica, Mastodon, Lemmy, Misskey/Sharkey, Pleroma/Akkoma, Kbin/Mbin, WordPress, GNU Social, Pixelfed, Peertube, GoToSocial, Diaspora, generic ActivityPub and more are coming).
If you were using 0.4.0 there are a ton of improvements, the most important of which are:
- feat: add per-user rate limits;
- feat: suggest hashtags while typing;
- feat: swipe navigation between posts;
- feat: exclude stop words from timelines;
- feat: add shortcuts to other instances ("guest mode");
- feat: open post detail as thread;
- feat: post translation;
- feat: followed hashtag indication;
- feat: show source protocol for posts;
- enhancement: support for embedded images.
This version is also available in the production track on Google Play, so you don't have to participate in the beta program any more to get it.
Let me know what you think about it, enjoy your weekend and as always #livefasteattrash
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Btw, is it intended that Raccoon is not restorable with Neo Backup?
After restore it crashes after launch. Not sure why, didn't have time to have a look at logcat.
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