If you’ve never heard of this, that’s because it got a very small rollout to only Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
This is in relation to YouTube Premium Lite, and not, as this shortened article implies, Google Podcasts.
I think it’s getting down-voted purely because OP’s title is essentially “mIcRo$oFt bAd!” instead of describing the issue. It’s not getting down-voted anywhere else this article was cross-posted to, where they used the article’s actual title.
VS Code has an optional feature that can allow remote access, which could be [used/abused] to [access/breach] otherwise secure networks. Because the executable is signed by Microsoft, it won’t be flagged as malicious by antivirus/malware scanners even though it could easily be used as such. The article shows the steps the author attempted to detect and block this tunnel functionality, with limited success.
I swapped to Chrome a long time ago, probably around Firefox 7 or so, and never really looked back. I didn’t really have an issue with being part of the Google ecosystem, and they were still in their embrace phase. It’s been a while.
I have both browsers installed at the moment and under Linux/Wayland/Nvidia, Firefox definitely performs miles better (actual HW acceleration!) but Chrome still feels more practical to use, in my opinion. I think my main hang-up is that Chrome’s “Tab Groups” suit my approach to web browsing better than Firefox “Tab Containers”, even factoring in how Multi-Account Containers can make them more useful.
“Unified branding” kinda misses the entire mark of “federated but decentralized” that this network of services is supposed to be all about.
You’ve mocked up a really clean looking theme, but I’d never use it personally because it’s light-mode and it would burn the eyeballs out of my head at night.
Meta can do whatever they want with Threads, in the exact same way that mastodon.social is it’s own independent instance and can do as it pleases.
If Mastodon users want to follow or even see content on Threads, it’s entirely optional, depending on your current instance’s stance. You can always move to another instance that shares your views (and there will be plenty that do) and has defederated from Threads, or you could roll your own instance and be in control of what instances you interact/federate with for yourself.
People also seem to be refusing to learn what federation is and how that works
Yeah, I’ve seen plenty of new communities that have already shuttered to “move to X instance where the users are” that would make me laugh if it weren’t so annoying that they’ve just decided to squat a community that could flourish locally if someone else took it over.
Yeah, but when did ‘most common’ matter to a social network trying to push a totally different paradigm of federation?
If anything, it should be a malaysian .my TLD so it just ends up being lem.my instead, but seeing as the entire point of the Fediverse is that there’s no one central authority figure, this whole thing seems silly. 🤣
I believe this is either a major design flaw of Lemmy (or lack of any design) or it is precisely what the creators intended, and the software is being greatly misused.
The design is as intended, and everything is federated at an Instance level, not a Community level, which always seems to be the thing that doesn’t click with people. You pick a home instance, and can view content across the fediverse from that location, regardless of platform. These platforms (Lemmy, Mastodon [twitter], Pixelfed [instagram], Friendica [facebook], PeerTube [YouTube], Funkwhale [Spotify-ish], etc…) are then independent silos of content accessible from anywhere.
I don’t think we need to split users and content into separate instances, but I agree that having a platform agnostic approach to user accounts would probably benefit the fediverse in the long run, as currently when you pick your home instance (say Mastodon, for example) that user interface becomes the window you see the rest of the Fediverse through.
Ideally, we should be able to have an account on a Mastodon instance @[email protected] that could be referenced and logged into from a Pixelfed instance for that experience, then jump to a Lemmy instance and see that content through that intended UI, all while playing some music on FunkWhale in another tab. I think we could expand the current system out to make this happen in time, but most of these federated platforms are still in their infancy.
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