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[–] 271 points 2 years ago (21 children)

I feel like we’re regressing back to the Netscape Navigator/Internet Explorer browser war days, when browsers were openly and intentionally breaking functionality on competing sites.

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  • [–] [S] 157 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    You're right. It does have the same energy to it, doesn't it? But of course, it also feels like that kind of regression permeates nearly every layer of society now, which is really sad. We should get angry before it's too late.

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  • [–] 148 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

    Some of us have been fucking furious for over two decades now and it hasn't done shit except increase our blood pressure and having all the dumb fucking dimwits around us acting like we're crazy for being upset at how absolutely fucked things are.

    I've been angry since my early twenties. I'm in my forties now and I'm still angry but guess what I'm fucking tired. Which is what the people in charge want, of course. They want us so broken by this system that we give up on fighting back because it's hard to fight back when you've been diagnosed with a fucking disease that will bankrupt you financially.

    They have us right where they want us, and most people are too toothlessly uneducated to even fucking know it's going on and get so so upset when you get angry for good fucking reasons. "Please calm down" bullshit from motherfuckers enabling the shit streaming down our fucking faces. It's fucking lunacy.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    We live in a beautiful Corpocracy and you will fucking love it, god damn it!! Drink the Disney to distract and calm your weary mind. Consume more and you will feel alive again. Promise! Ignore the crimes of the corporations, without those you wouldn't have The New Thing you adore and you wouldn't be yearning for The Next Thing! You NEED The Next New Thing.

    Its fucking sickening. I'm in my early 30s and it feels hopeless. Surely the masses can see the sheer manipulation and control that governments and corporations have over us. Why aren't more people irate that They are raping the Earth to line Their pockets, fucking Us over in the process?

    Everyone has been polarised into an "Us vs Them" mindset. Keep us divided and channeling our collective rage at each other, lest we actually find power in our overwhelming numbers. It hurts.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Worse. We are directly headed for the Novel Messenger vs. Lotus Notes times.

    Only the things you brought from your connector supplier will work.

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    [–] 97 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I only use my programming for good. For instance Bat_Count.exe lets the user enter a number and then the Count from sesame street will count to this number and say “Ah ah ah!” at the end.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    [+] 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)
  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Not with that attitude. There is no reason we can't cultivate alternatives like PeerTube. No video platform starts with a massive library and if we actually want to take back our digital rights then we have to put our foot down and give a hard "no" to trading those rights away just because we really want to watch a particular creator on a corporate platform. It's the only way to not only stick it to Google but also let creators know that viewers will not tolerate the likes of Google.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

    I think the hosting is the real problem. For something like Lemmy where it's just text it's not too expensive, but when you need to store and stream videos for free I have to imagine most people wouldn't be able to afford that without charging for it and the moment you start charging you can't compete with YouTube anymore

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    i think the solution could be a FOSS torrenting site where everyone hosts their own videos (or maybe a stream only site?). people are already willing to fork over for netflix so maybe if the content quality was extremely high theyd shift (e.g. nebula)

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    I assume they wrote it as 5000 and it got changed to 5E3 by the minifier as it saves a byte?

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is so much better because of the Geordi template.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ah it's the web so

    await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, 5000));

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    This seems like a pretty dumb thing to do to try to wipe out a browser with 2% marketshare.

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Obviously there a people in charge now who will never understand the Streisand effect. They could have kept it quiet and just... allow... the technical adept users to do their thing. Now, they are the laughing stock and get unwanted attention. Also, from my layman understanding, this shit won't fly in the EU at all.

    Or, to say it differently: This is the best thing to happen to Mozilla in quite a long time and I'm a fan.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I'm out of the loop. What happened? Did someone decompile their code and find definitive proof of a throttle for Firefox?

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    some explanation

    To be fair, they used setTimeout() and not thread.sleep() because the latter isn't possible out of the box in JS ^^

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As long as working around it is as easy as it is nowadays, I just think it's funny.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    marketing and bean counters drag down every good idea. That and the belief all the world's problems can be solved in one paragraph. I used to return a 5 second sleep for bad login attempts. Just to slow down the bots trying to brute force a login. video over increasingly cheap bandwidth for a screen the size of a postcard will soon be replaced with a simpler solution. This is progress. another one bites the dust.

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