So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.
There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?
So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.
TIL a few people are still making and using "alphabetical" keyboards for the sort of alphabet that starts with ABC. I thought they were forgotten 30 years ago. Last time I saw one it was 1987 and someone had put the key caps on an IBM PC in alphabetical order as a practical joke.
It's why we need more people on the fediverse: So that it can fracture into ten thousand pieces, each of them with its own rules and culture, each of them still large enough to sustain itself, most of them still interconnected in diverse ways, some of them sufficiently resistant to bots.
new tab wallpapers, streamlined menus: Eh, whatever.
vertical tabs, better settings UI: I guess it's probably useful for someone if they do a good job.
AI-generated alt-text for images in PDFs: Oh fuck right off.
Customizable hotkeys: I can't believe you're still not doing it. Wasn't it the number one requested thing on Mozilla Connect? Do it, Mozilla. It's so easy, and so obviously needed. It would serve as a meaningful sign that you've become less user-hostile.
Auto-generated alt-text for all images on the web where it's missing, and an AI that can reliably detect when it's probably worth doing, or do it on request through some kind of api designed for accessibility tools, as an optional extension for people who need it: Now that would be more interesting.
I kind of resent having a pdf editor in my web browser at all. Putting a giant LLM-based image classifier in there seems inadvisable even if it was going to do something more useful than suggest alt text for images you add to pdfs.
Accessibility tools that can describe images, as well as pdf editing, are fine things for Mozilla to work on but they really shouldn't be done as part of Firefox alone. Image describing has way more uses than just what's found in the web browser, and should be a system-wide thing. There's no point in each application having its own. Doing it only for things inserted into pdfs compounds the absurdity. If the accessibility APIs that exist can't handle it, it's time to propose a better one — and maybe go ahead and implement it on Linux. Solving the problem properly would be a more ambitious goal, but one that seems appropriate for an organization with the stature of Mozilla.
Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been...
Ive just installed Linux (Fedora 40 KDE) on my main PC over the weekend, so im a complete newbie and i apologize if some of my questions are nonsensical 😅. Yesterday evening the system seemed to completely lock up at a certain point while playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time (installed & run via steam using proton...
Ah, Fedora 40 is on kernel version 6.8.9 it seems, the bad one for amdgpu, and it doesn't look like their current build is patched to fix it, so it could be this bug. It's fixed in 6.8.10 and 6.9 if you have the ability to upgrade to those. Otherwise you might want to try reverting to the previous kernel version if that's easy in fedora.
(Edit to add that I didn't see the "im a complete newbie" bit... I'm just very aware of this recent bug because it gave me some trouble. Sorry if you did happen to start with a version that has this problem. It's really bad luck if so. But I don't really know.)
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Has anyone else had this problem? I updated my openSuse Tumbleweed today (restart required), and now none of my games work. Most are through Steam, so at first I thought it was that. But I have Cyberpunk through GOG launched with Heroic. And even more, Alien Arena has the same problem, so it’s not even a proton issue (I did...
There was a bug in a few recent linux kernel versions which might account for it if the one you've got is 6.8.9 for example. It was only recently patched and Suse might have had the bad luck to just miss the fix for it before sending you the update. If so I imagine they'll apply that patch soon.
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster’s taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
If it was an app developer who precipitated it, so what? It had to be someone. That does not invalidate the choice of everyone else who participated in it. If you're going to hold an unpopular opinion, it should be a better one.
Taking a look at r/all one day, after many years of only seeing carefully-chosen subs that were actually good, was definitely one of the things that got me to finally quit.
The data being collected is meant to enhance the appeal of Firefox as an ad platform for customers who might want to buy paid placements in Firefox Suggest. Perhaps they also consider it useful as a trial balloon to test the reaction it gets before heading further in that direction. The reaction it gets will not be good.
Speaking of large numbers of user comments, I was just reading the hacker news discussion. Whatever you think of that site, it's full of the sort of people who used to be the core of the Firefox user base. People who would help their friends and family get it installed. Web developers who made sure their site works with more than one browser engine. People who know enough to be offended by changes like this one. People who Mozilla needs to reach if it wants to have a future in the web browser market.
Comments elsewhere are similarly negative. I encourage everyone who cares about Firefox to turn off all the telemetry, or perhaps even consider moving to one of the forks such as Librewolf. If they notice enough of a drop in incoming data collection after this latest move, perhaps there's still a chance that Mozilla will get the message that they need to change course before it's too late.
Recently, Bridgy Fed launched a public-facing version of their integration between Bluesky and the Fediverse. The service is still in beta, and there are a few quirks, but bridged Bluesky and Fediverse accounts can now follow each other....
Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox (connect.mozilla.org)
Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. (mullvad.net)
Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been...
(Newbie question) Did i handle my system crashing correctly?
Ive just installed Linux (Fedora 40 KDE) on my main PC over the weekend, so im a complete newbie and i apologize if some of my questions are nonsensical 😅. Yesterday evening the system seemed to completely lock up at a certain point while playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time (installed & run via steam using proton...
Series 17, Episode 8 - 'The umbrella wink.' (www.youtube.com)
Let us discuss tasks and contestants...
The Road to Digital Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions (www.cigionline.org)
This legislative triad would grant the government sweeping new powers to censor and censure, undermining privacy rights.
Toronto Shoppers Drug Mart ad for unpaid volunteer position has people baffled (www.blogto.com)
A new job posting for a role at a Toronto Shoppers Drug Mart location is causing a stir this week due to the fact that it boldly seeks a worker to …
Tumbleweed update killed my gaming
Has anyone else had this problem? I updated my openSuse Tumbleweed today (restart required), and now none of my games work. Most are through Steam, so at first I thought it was that. But I have Cyberpunk through GOG launched with Heroic. And even more, Alien Arena has the same problem, so it’s not even a proton issue (I did...
What drew you to the high seas?
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster’s taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
Reddit Blackout was just mods choosing to be a personal army for app developer
In my opinion, the Reddit Blackout was essentially moderators acting as a personal army for app developer....
"Thought-Terminating Cliches" (lemmy.world)
[ OPINION] ‘Israelis go back to Europe?’ Some on the left need to rethink their slogans | Jo-Ann Mort (www.theguardian.com)
Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data (blog.mozilla.org)
I believe the settings to disable this on Librewolf are set by default…
You Can Now Bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts (wedistribute.org)
Recently, Bridgy Fed launched a public-facing version of their integration between Bluesky and the Fediverse. The service is still in beta, and there are a few quirks, but bridged Bluesky and Fediverse accounts can now follow each other....