The comic is seemingly intentionally ambiguous as an attempt to provoke consideration.

The point is, that’s a preference, not an innate ‘better,’ I generally use librewolf myself, but when the list of ‘problems’ with the browser is a set of optional things that you specifically have to turn on to experience, it’s kind of like saying pizza is bad because you don’t like pineapple, banana peppers, black olives, and chile flakes.

Woman: I am experiencing pain.

Power: Bah, you’re just complaining because you’re a woman.

Man: I too am experiencing pain.

Power: Bah, you’re just complaining because you’re a woman.

Transwoman: I too am experiencing pain. Hunh… Maybe I am a woman.

Power: Nope, you’re just complaining because you’re a wom-, uh… man…? Er, wait… how do we patronize you? What the…?

Transman: I also –

Power: Stop! Just… Stop thinking and feed the machine that makes us powerful, damn it! Fuck’s sake, this was so much simpler when we could just claim divine right.

Not to be antagonistic, but

• chrome fork - much of the browser world is this
• crypto shit - opt in not mandatory
• leaky VPN - opt in not mandatory
• bad search - opt in not mandatory
• ad engine - opt in not mandatory

So, basically, it’s a chrome fork, and some people prefer chrome based browsers, so it’s purely preference?

It’s not about me. It was never about me or some art that I don’t have. It’s about you and people like you, and the lies hidden in silence.

The issue is not with the ‘you do you,’ but with the ‘but I would never.’ People only express the negation as applicable. You wouldn’t, for instance, say ‘I would never run backwards to Turkmenistan,’ because there is no reason to assume you would. If we all spent time saying the obvious negatives, we’d be babbling non-stop from waking to exhaustion. It’s more like the guy who says ‘I would never wear a dress.’ It doesn’t say openly that there’s something wrong with wearing the dress, but he wants you to know he’s not one of those lowly dress-wearers so badly that he’s going out of his way to say it. When you say ‘but I would never display such’n’such class of art,’ it is inherently a disavowal to place yourself apart from those who would. It is a signal, not silence. You can ignore the hypocrisy of your pretence, but it’s there regardless. The prejudice of the ‘but’ phrase is just as present in ‘but I would never’ as it is in whatever follows ‘I’m not a racist, but…’

Now that I think about it, I’m realising I didn’t set it up specifically after switching from windows. It just kept doing the same things I set up before. It does mostly imitate keyboard input though, except for the ones I set as mouse actions (rapid L/R clicks) which still does that. Maybe the designers actually gave it some memory of its own. And yeah, the extra button use has all been in gaming so the proton/xwayland thing would make sense.

I’ve been using my 18 button mouse for ages now without issue. I’m kind of wondering what was happening behind the screen now.

I’m using Voyager and it sometimes gets stuck on the posting comment spinner, so sometimes it seems to post and doesn’t or seems not to post so I hit it again and end up double posting.

That’s the sneaky thing about IP based projects. Even if it was a small indie team, even if they were in love with the original book, even if they had incredible respect for the original author and their work, a book and a game, or a movie, or an episodic show, are so inherently different as to make any IP deal simply a lie. They use different techniques, methodologies, and structures such that they can’t produce anything like the same experience, even with the same plotline. It’s a mask to trick people into buying the product, and the wildest part is that the mask can work so well that even the makers don’t realise it’s a mask.

Being uncomfortable with it in your own home is only different in that you actually have some control over what is displayed in your own home, but the irrational judgement of the art based on the non-artistic conduct of the artist exists regardless of whether you have the power to force your judgement onto others. It all still applies. There is an implied moral superiority in the statement of ‘You do you, but I would never,’ in the same vein as someone who makes a point to say to gay people, ‘You do you, but I would never.’ Saying ‘I didn’t say you couldn’t do it’ is the same ‘I’m not saying anything like that. I’m just asking questions,’ excuse people use to get away with making all sorts of implications that they know they can’t really justify.

It’s unfortunately not weird, but common, that you’re unable to admit your counterexample was not applicable because it ignores the vast majority of artists who, while they each may have other skills, are not indicated as having other skills by their status as an artist.

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‘I saw I got a message from you and took a double shot before I opened it, just to be safe.’

It’s fun how the gender signifiers mean so much less now that the abyss, who we all know is 100% a ‘taker,’ not a ‘giver,’ is coding masculine but gets fucked by someone coding femme, whether it’s with a strap-on or some girl-wang.

The fullest widom is knowing it all depends on your goals and risks. This is not a universal binary.

The funny thing is, this is essentially the same as today.

‘We’re making AI. AI is the most powerful tool humanity could ever build, able to comprehend everything.’

But LLMs don’t actually understand anything.

‘Oh, yeah. But we’ve got all this compute power and all this storage. We’ve opened another 13 datacenters. We aren’t at AI yet, but we’re getting closer, and closer, every day.’

Never, ever buy anything based on IP. That is pure familiarity bias, a trick to make you think it will be good. In the particularly susceptible, it can even create self-delusion and confusion. (X is good, therefore this other thing that licensed the name ‘X’ must be good. It doesn’t feel good, though. No, clearly it is my feelings that are wrong. X is good so ‘X’ must be good. It uses the same mouth sounds. How could it not be?)

A change in medium is inherently a different product and can never be the same as the original. As anyone who has seen a movie based on a book can tell you, there is zero guarantee the movie will have anything more than a passing resemblance to the book *coughEarthseacough* and maybe not even that. *coughWorldWarZcough* Oof, pardon my coughing. The bullshit fumes coming out of the marketing and licensing departments are making it hard to see.

I just saw something about this the other day. Internet advertising has apparently begun the process of swallowing its own tail. Cory Doctorow was talking to someone about it. I can’t remember who it was though.

Depressingly, yeah. I keep circling back around to how harmful advertising and marketing are to society. We need to ban advertising, full stop.

And that kind of knee-jerk avoidance of anything uncomfortable is at the core of reactionary thinking. If it makes you uncomfortable to be near something a child molester has touched, will you abandon their victims? The home they lived in? The clothes which they owned once but that others could use? The sidewalk they walked along to get to the scene of their crimes? Shall we all expel the things that make us uncomfortable? Some people are made uncomfortable by foreigners, and people who look different. Don’t tell me ‘but that’s different.’ It’s not. It’s the same reactionary childishness, and it might make you uncomfortable to acknowledge it, but that’s why we can’t use discomfort as a measure.