I don’t like my chances of swaying IT. The organisation is too big and I’ll get told I should be using Edge which is the only officially supported browser.

uBlock Origin Lite does work, but it’s predefined lists only. You can’t use the element zapper 🙁

Officially only Edge is supported, but Chrome is tolerated. It’s a full MS environment.

I can’t install anything. I’m lucky I can install uBlock Origin because I worked out later most extensions are disabled too. But I guess it’s only matter of time until that disappears.

Cries in only Chrome and Edge at work 😢

Stole explanation from r/ELI5:

When you stand on the north pole how fast are you moving relative to the earth’s core?

Zero, you just spin around in place once every 24 hours.

When you stand on the equator how fast are you moving?

1000mph, you have to circumnavigate the earth in a day.

This difference doesn’t matter much when you throw a baseball, but it absolutely matters when you’re a storm the size of a country. > This disparity in relative speed rotates the storm since the equatorial side is moving faster than the polar side, and it provides the swirling structure of the hurricane.

But here’s the problem - storms in the north spin counter-clockwise and storms in the south spin clockwise.

That means to cross the equator you have to stop and reverse direction. That’s not happening, and hurricanes never track near the equator because neither the storm itself nor the prevailing winds that push it around can approach this reversal boundary.

Not only is NZ on this map but it’s not even way off in the corner!

Mozilla collects and shares some data with partners to keep Firefox commercially viable

How hard is it to be specific? People are concerned about this, can they not tell us the exact data they share and with whom, or is doing so going to make people more concerned so they are avoiding telling us?

Ah I see how that could work. The stations have wifi or mobile network, then Google Location Services uses that to pinpoint to the station. You will at the very least know the location of the defect to between two specific stations. Then you can use the other sensors to narrow it down.

How well does location tracking work underground?

It’s not that Lemmy couldn’t allow you to follow Mastodon users, the technology allows it. It’s just not high on the priority list to actually develop.

That’s great but can you ship to some more countries or stop actively blocking freight forwarding 😑

Only a single person on the instance needs to subscribe, then the instance with the community knows about it and will start pushing the content to that instance.

You’re on Lemmy.world, so it wouldn’t take long for someone to subscribe (if you’re the first person, just looking also pulls a handful of posts, but no further updates until someone subscribes).

Might be talking about https://lemmy-federate.com/?

You can add the community, and the other instances that have signed up will have their follower account subscribe to your new community. Communities are only federated to instances that have at least one subscriber to the community, so it won’t show in All on instances with no subscribers to your community. That website is a way to help get around that.

Logins aren’t federated, so for counting active users in a community votes, comments, posts is about all you have.

Yes, back then you had to comment or post. These days it also counts users who vote within the timeframe as active users.

From the blog post someone else linked, it sounds like they do have this process but it’s just a process it’s not enforced by their control software. So someone has made a change without following the process, and they mention prioritising getting enforcement into their control panel or whatever.

Personally I think they have a much better track record of not making dumb mistakes than I do…

Huh, we have had users signing up at a higher rate than usual, but we go through bursts and we are generally pretty low volume so I thought nothing of it. Amazing to see you make the front page!

Isn’t this just the path of an immature company?

There’s a guy who is probably a programmer and he makes a thing, starts trying to sell it. Nothing here stands out as bad intentions, it just makes me think of what it might look like if I tried to start a company (a lot of stumbling).

Plus the blog post is pretty clear it’s their personal views. They spend a lot of time talking about the AI crap but when using Kagi it seems less intrusive than Google, and you can turn it off.

I dunno, I’ve seen this blog posted around a few times and there isn’t anything in here that puts me off so long as I treat it as what it is, a subscription for that month, not an investment in the future. If the company goes bankrupt because the CEO spent investors’ money starting a t-shirt company then I’ll just use a different search when they shut down.

Probably worth noting I use a relay email address not my main one, but I do that for almost everything.