I hate those. Even worse are error messages that are clear, descriptive, and wrong (“incorrect username and/or password” when actually the server or your internet is down)

“Mom… dad… I’m a closet”

"I live in Japan

without the J"

Rook thinks he’s so clever until he gets clobbered by that bishop

Humanity had a good run. Until the evolution of rocketspiders.

All gifts are accepted by Aranaktu

To my undestanding chess is based on the Arabic game Shatranj, based on the Indian game Chaturanga, and in both games the piece next to the king is the “general” or “minister” which moves one space diagonally.

https://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/shatranj.html

https://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/chaturanga.html

If you think about it, and I suggest you don’t, this is a Markov model for all people regardless

Your unit files should be launching daemons, common typo

Come on, this has been a thing for the last 19+12i years

It really looks to me (a non-lawyer, non-legal-expert) as if the “oh we just need the rights necessary to fulfill the requests you make to Firefox” terms are kind of trying to confuse Mozilla-the-organization with Firefox-the-software-running-on-your-computer. Like, they seem to be saying that if you e.g. submit some text to a comment box on some website, then in order for Firefox, i.e. the copy of Firefox running on your computer, to send that text to that server, it is necessary for you to grant Mozilla, an organization that does not own your computer and whose computers are not running your copy of Firefox, all the rights necessary for them to send your data to the requested server.

It’s as if they’re trying to say that the copy of Firefox on your computer is considered to be part of and acting on behalf of the Mozilla organization and therefore anything it does, even actions directly requested by you like loading a page when you click a link, are legally the actions of Mozilla and not you. Which doesn’t make any sense to me. Like, if a user uses Firefox to do something illegal is Mozilla then liable for that? If I go into my file manager and make a copy of a file whose contents I own the copyright to, do the makers of the file manager and of the filesystem and of every other piece of software in the chain all need to be granted the legal rights to make copies of my content, just to protect against me turning around and suing them for copyright infringement over the copy I myself instructed the file manager to make? That seems completely bonkers.

My understanding is that websites have this sort of language in their ToU because once you submit a comment / post / whatever to be displayed publicly, it is necessary for software running on their server and under their control to then transmit copies of your content whenever someone loads the page. But when you operate Firefox as a web browser to access a (non-Mozilla-owned) webpage, no server owned or operated by Mozilla should be involved in the process unless you have explicitly opted into telemetry, data sharing, VPN/proxy services from Mozilla, etc.

The glass is twice at big as it needs to be

Next they’ll eliminate the stripe and put up share-the-road signs with the stick figure

When I first learned that Reddit would be pricing out third-party apps I was angry and upset, but I still entertained the notion of maybe continuing to use old.reddit on the desktop (until they inevitably killed that). I like many of the communities there and didn’t want to give them up. But then came the AMA and the leaked memo and the crushing of the protests with threats and strongarm tactics. Everything spez wrote dripped with contempt for the community and the moderators that had made the site what it was through their unpaid labor. The message became clear: “Let the little users cry it out. They’ll have their little tantrum and then they’ll settle down and accept that the reality is that we can do anything we want to them and they have to just accept it. Their communities, their conversations, their culture, it all belongs to us, not to them. We have everything and they have nothing”. I’m not going back to that.

I never stopped using RSS even when it supposedly “died”. Right now I have FreshRSS running on my raspberry pi since I like subscriptions and read state to sync between my machines but don’t like to depend on some company for that. I use Reeder for my iOS devices, which can sync with FreshRSS. For all folks say RSS is dead, I find a lot to fill it with. Blogs (yes I still read blogs like it’s 2005), webcomics (most comics with their own site offer one, and webtoon generates them for its comics, though it looks like tapas doesn’t or at least I can’t find any feeds there), tech news sites, scientific journals, lemmy and mastodon generate feeds for users and communities, even YouTube still generates feeds for individual channels. There’s a lot of feeds still active out there.

It’s very interesting and I remember wishing for a long time that “two-server” protocols like email would start being made again. I already switched from Twitter to Mastodon last fall and don’t regret that in the slightest. The community here seems nice so far, and the UI is simple and clean.

I’ve encountered some glitches like the live-update feature seemingly changing what post I’m viewing and mixing comments from the two posts. The instance I picked has had some performance issues and has gone down a couple times, but I’m chalking that up to a mass influx of users and activity (of which I’m very much a part).

I could use a browser extension that just adds an “open this post/community/user in my home instance” button when I’m browsing another instance so I can interact. Also some ability to put a link to e.g. a community in your post text that automatically sends you to that community via the instance you are viewing the post in.