This is why ublock origin is an essential security tool.

I'm highly skeptical of anti-GMO claims. Usually they come from the same family of pseudoscience as anti-nuclear and anti-vaccine

Not at all surprised, motherboard firmware from most vendors has always been a steaming pile of shit code, often not even built to spec.

They have the money and resources to comply with it, but any small competitor won't. So Microsoft will gain even more dominance in the market

The issue is whether the data is collected by a known third party tracker domain which would be blocked by an adblocker

This one is already in the default uBlock filters - Badware risks

I also strongly suggest adding https://big.oisd.nl/ as a filter list. It's a large and well maintained domain blocklist (sourced from combining lots of other blocklists) that usually adds lots of these sorts of domains quickly and has very few false positives.

If you want to take it even further, check out the Pro list and Thread Intelligence Feeds list here https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists

These can all be added to a pihole too if you use one.

Friends don't let friends not use ublock origin

Any post mentioning Wayland or btrfs is guaranteed to have at least 60 comments

Winamp published their code as "open source". Problem is...

1. It wasn't open source, it was proprietary but you can see the source code.
2. Their custom license didn't even allow forks, which is against GitHub TOS
3. The codebase apparently contains proprietary code from third parties that they don't have the right to relicense.
4. The codebase apparently contains GPL code from third parties that they probably didn't have the right to make proprietary in the first place

For a company that claims to be desperate to cut costs they sure do have a lot of money for frivolous lawsuits...

Ogg Opus for all lossy audio compression (mp3 needs to die)

7z or tar.zst for general purpose compression (zip and rar need to die)

I don't think it's quite as simple as someone just forking it. Realistically, a browser is an extremely complex piece of software that requires a lot of organizational effort to maintain, deal with security issues, etc. Pretty much every other piece of software on a similar scale I can think of (the kernel, KDE, Blender, Libreoffice) has some sort of organization behind it with at least some amount of officially paid work. All the major forks of Firefox or chromium follow quite closely to upstream for this reason (which is also why I'm skeptical of Brave's ability to maintain manifest v2 long term, despite their probably genuine best efforts to do so).

I do wish that Firefox were developed and funded by an organization specifically dedicated to developing it. This could of course happen if Mozilla dies. But that's going to require someone starting it, which is not at all a small or cheap task.

I could also see a future where Oracle or IBM buys it 😂🤡

Lmfao, this is exactly what conservatives think all socialists are. Tankies are such terrible optics for advancing the left

Copying is not theft. Letting only massive and notoriously untransparent corporations control an emerging technology is.

It also might appear lower due to people using vpns for for torrenting on residential networks

Zip uses very bad encryption that is vulnerable to a known plaintext attack. Do not ever use PKZIP encryption for any purpose https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack

Benzene is used to make a large portion of all chemicals in existence, as it is a basic building block of organic chemistry. That doesn't mean it's in the final product.

This is an asinine headline capitalizing on scientific illiteracy for clickbait. No different than complaining about dihydrogen monoxide in food.

Just use silica gel packets

It seems like the headline is deliberately written to be funny (I did get a good laugh out of it) and the actual event isn't quite as nottheoniony. My understanding is that the court faced the question of whether the lawsuit could proceed against the doctor individually, or against the insurance company. It's bizzare but rather unsurprising and understandable that the lawyers of a doctor faced with such a claim would try, even if it's likely to fail, to have it pushed via the insurance company.

The court made the right decision of course, but this just seems like business as usual for lawsuits.

I think it would be reasonable to defederate from blahaj.zone. A majority of the toxic, negative, and aggressive comments I see on Lemmy seem to come from users of either blahaj or hexbear. The admin very intentionally curates a cult-like community by posting provocative posts and then banning everyone who expresses even slight disagreement. They have engaged in and doubled down on false accusations of CP against the lemmynsfw admins, which demonstrates that they are a risk for other instances be federated with. I normally very strongly oppose dedederation, but I think blahaj is a great example of when it makes sense. This is because the admin seems intent on starting drama rather than working with other instances to resolve conflict. It almost feels like some form of religious extremism lol

I of course block the instance from my account to avoid seeing posts from there, but toxic users are still visible on comments.