I believe that cryptography and decentralization beats federalization and ICANN domain names as an end goal to a more decentralized internet. There's already bridges between activity pub and nostr and they seem to play nice together. I can imagine a world in which it's almost seamless between two or three decentralized & federated protocols.
And to those that are upset that a few relays ask for or require crypto transactions, keep in mind that some mastodon/lemmy/activity pub servers demand payment and I'd be hard pressed to find one that doesn't accepted crypto donations.
More money in the hands of working class people + equal or less of working class goods = essentials worth more
The problem would be that working class people need different stuff than rich people spend/invest a bulk of their money on. If a billionaire can't afford a yacht or a mansion that won't effect the price of bread or single family homes if the working class still has an inflated money supply.
I'm not an economists, nor do I have the solutions to any problems, but I think the above concept is pretty set in stone.
As much as I'm not a fan of what Twitter and social media platforms are doing, I think this is non-news with a misleadingly bad sounding headline.
Sure, they'll collect employment history if you use them to search for a job, and sure they'll collect fingerprint hashes and the like if you choose to use that to sign in, but from the sounds if it unless you specifically use those features that they're working on you're not effected.
Exactly, but in America for a while all of the outlets and a vast majority of the politicians were saying the same thing (that there were WMDs) for a while - or at least that was what I've pieced together since I was too young to to understand politics at the time. My point was more so that it was wrong, but in the event something like that was the only narrative allowed on American social media platforms and search engines society could be worse off by it.
Lol, cheese DRM. Just when I thought more DRM was impossible.
I don't like that this video is so downvoted, but I do see where the downvoters are coming from. I too use Firefox (or more specifically, the Gecko engine at least) because it lacks app the Google pushed stuff (e.g. WEI, Manifest V3) and is better for privacy, but have had a bone to pick with Mozilla too on occasion.
So many features have been broken or intentionally disabled for periods of time (e.g. saveing pages as PDFs or desktop extensions on mobile being locked behind the Dev options). So many "features" have been implemented that I don't like (e.g. ads, tracking, pocket), and so many critical features (e.g. PWAs) don't exist entirely.
Their money making methods are also not my favorite. Ads, data collection, payouts from Google, and selling repackaged services (e.g. Mulvad VPN resold as Mozilla VPN). I know they gotta make money so I'm torn on if I should dislike that they're doing that. But even Brave with Brave ads and Bat are opt in, in order to disable all ads, data collection & telemetry, and unwanted extensions in Firefox you need to go into about:config.
I also have mixed opinions of their activist work. Despite what the video says they do actually use their money and resources in the free software space to perform audits and offer grants to products. They've also always been anti open web to a certain extent. Back when they were doing podcast and some Nazi sites got taken offline through domain providers they took a cautiously pro stance to that. I've no love for Nazi's but when you start using the Internet's centralized powers to nuke non-illegal content from the internet itself it sets a bad precident and is certainly anti open web. Even though that's an edge case, and the slippery slope fallacy is technically a fallacy, it's still continuing onwards as they argue bloggers and individual creators should be de-ranked out of the fear they could be providing information counter to "official" information; and that they should be outright censored if they do go against said official information.
(yes I don't believe the earth is flat or that lizard people control the world - but look back in history and think about all the times the "official" narrative was wrong. WMDs come to mind. Open debate is important)
Again, I'm saying this as a person who uses FF and would like them to claw back a huge share of the marketplace. It'd take a lot to get me to switch to Chrome. At the end of the day though, I don't want the Libre option to have a huge list of drawbacks. But at the end of the day, how many non-technical users will think the same way, and if the market share drops too much more and if Google makes even more changes how much will Firefox even work on the web without it becoming unusable.
But I come at this, and assume the video does as well, from the point of "I hope this thing I use and like becomes better".
Most paywalls can be bypassed by disabling JavaScript, which Unlock Origin can do on a site by site basis if you click on the advanced icon
Pro tip: Adblock + JavaScript disabled (Ublock Origin can do both) will block most paywalls
Virustotal is great to scan anything you download that does not contain sensitive information, and ClamAV + TK will work locally to scan anything that contains sensitive information (e.g. documents sent by others) or things too big for Virustotal.
Like others are saying, there's less of a need for antivirus on Linux since there's less easy entry points (e.g package manager over downloading an installer) and less (but far from 0) malware made for Linux. But we all probably download app images or get documents related to job searches at some point and I personally prefer to scan almost file that I get from a remote computer.
I believe IOS was being forced to allow different browser engines by the EU so there may be more options soon
I'm pretty sure Google (and potentially other search engines) de-prioritized blogs and forums. There's plentry of both out there, although less than there were originally, they're just being cut out of some search results