Nah, they chose it because the ccTLD along with few others had been free for a long time. I was there when lemmy was just a few months old.

Someone made up these reference about marx/lenin claim and was perfect for wankies to circle jerk and the tankies didn’t refute it or went along with it, so it stuck.

Before that the free domains were mostly used for spam/phishing (because it was free), some called it machine learning, my links, my library and so on.

https://dev.to/bauripalash/lets-get-your-own-free-domain-5f16

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/15vrq8o/now_with_freenom_closed_is_there_any_other_way_to/

It will be more than how many people will see it by being just a torrent.

If it’s on peertube, you can just send a link to people and it’ll stream right on the browser (granted it has enough peers which I’m pretty sure it will).

There was an app called Taomix on Android, where you could add sounds on the screen around a marker and the volume of the sounds would vary according to the distance between sound and the marker.

Like you could place a windchime near the marker and birds chirping or a river stream sound a little further away. You could always have new combinations, so that sounds weren’t repetitive.

You could then swipe the marker with a push and it would bounce around the screen creating a dynamic sound like passing through a stream or birds singing on your walk.

Then it got bought out by a company and they made a new version with sounds as an in-app purchase, while the previous app was a single purchase.

Then I stopped using it.

YCombinator is a VC fund trying to pretend like they’re hacker(tinkering) friendly community, when their business model is boosting their own companies/startups. And companies aren’t hitting those profits with people tinkering.

https://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/

In all, that doesn’t align with the hacker ethos. They’re just capitalizing on what it stands for with a lot of techbro hubris.

The first step of limiting their influence is using a different opensource frontend.

https://github.com/rajatkulkarni95/hckrnws

Pathetic putin being scared of little girls being more brave than he will ever be.

Without the ycombinator

https://www.hckrnws.com/stories/46355548

I get what you mean, but the fediverse will likely never overcome state powers and reach. They have so much money, talent, and infrastructure to push propaganda.

The reality is people will have to use US tech and socials to expose Chinese/Russian/North Korean/Iranian atrocities and vice versa Unfortunately that’s currently the only way to gain any real ground.

You can already see how western allied social media and mainstream news tried to hide Israel’s genocide under the rug. And you’ll see how Chinese tech companies try to hide their Uyghur genocide and such.

They’re only amplified because they’re pushed by companies of geopolitical rivals.

Rich and powerful love using loopholes, until poor people get to use them too.

Then they get mad.

modern Nazis appropriate “freedom”, “patriotism” and “Jesus”.

Modern as in, since the creation of the USA? Because all those things were very much part of the US “identity” since the very beginning. And Nazis were very very very fond of US way of espousing “superiority” while spewing buzzwords.

https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/texas-story-project/el-paso-holocaust-influence

Nothing modern about it in the USA.

This should just have been an extension. Having this as a core integration makes the browser have more surface area for attack.

If compromised, it won’t be an easy fix like disabling/removing an extension.

Looks like execs behind closed doors are just trying to water down the Firefox brand until it’s hollow and then jump ship.

They don’t need to move the server to change the algorithm or make auto filters. Do you think this requires physical access to servers or something?

If Chinese dictators supported trump they wouldn’t have been blasting Israels atrocities for all to see. China benefits from showing the world US is failing. You know his son in law has deep ties with Israel, right?

But yeah, always blame the boogeyman, even when your own fascists edgelords are beating the living shit out your country right in front of you. 👌

Now, make up some strawman.

I had just seen this comic.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/59999936

Why are they phrasing it like it’s a new thing?

They are literally on a platform by a company that spearheaded global surveillance.

Blowing up oil tankers at sea is bad, mmkay?

Just divert the oil to power the Ukrainian front lines.

Putler would go doubly mad and maybe severe a nerve or something.

You think these pieces of shit just sprung up out of nowhere?

Maybe your country is shit for a long long time to elect a literal rapist, racist, fraud, nazi and pedophile won not once but twice.

The MAGA favorite good ol’ time was just like 40-50 years ago when people were segregated and they could be racist af. You fucks invade countries and topple government without repercussion.

All the bullying without consequences is just turning inward.

The Hollywood facade isn’t holding up anymore. All the shit is just catching up to you.

US is just a-OK with all this illegal fuckery.

Come back when you hold anyone in the past 50 years accountable. Democrats or Republicans.

The walking dead after season 1 or 2? I don’t even know where I stopped.

Not as much as making things up for clout.

Right, like they surrendered India to, check notes, Indians?

I agree Hongkong and it’s people should get to choose what it wants but portraying it as British surrendering is pathetic revisionist take on its colonialism.

Fuck China and Fuck Britain.

Firefox is going to have a AI kill-switch.

https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782