I'm GMing a rifts campaign and this is a session diary, most of the writing was done by the players i'm just committing it to paper :)

Sound volumes are a construct of the mind, maaaaan

you're absolutely right, they're not the same, at least not yet.

I still use firefox, because they still allow adblockers and also partly ideological reasons; i don't want there to just be one rendering engine that exists. But i'm not under any illusion that mozilla is not evil.

If we take Cory Doctorow's framework, they're still in the "be good to your users to get them to use you" or early in the "slightly enshitify to please your business clients" phase, and aren't nearly as far down as chromium is yet.

Mozilla gets (got!!!) most of its money from google to use google as the default search engine, but they've seen the writing on the wall for a while and have tried to diversify their income stream from that.

Unfortunately that means they've kind of abandoned their main claim to fame, "we respect your privacy more than chrome does" because they need to make money and they've chosen to get in to the same business as google. Sort of rational for them but a terrible shame for all of us.

There's now basically two browsers and web rendering engines and they're both maintained by spyware companies.

I'm a backend engineer, and UIs frighten and anger me

I strongly urge you to reconsider this idea!

I would NEVER borat voice your poor wife. What did she do to deserve that?

he's blinking red!

Dog honey sounds so gross

Juicero

m-me?? 😦

Most of the time it doesn't do anything, and I only report people who are very blatantly over the line. The polite hate speech couched in "reasonable concerns and the spirit of open debate" is still rampant.

YOU'RE the nice seeming one 😡

No it's true, graphene OS is great (my phone always changes it to grapheme)

I use grapheme and have for many years, it's pretty good!

I posted there once by using google translate and they were extremely nice in reply but I didn't feel like it would be good to do that too often so I haven't posted there since.

The chapo sub hated the podcast and the podcast hated them. It was kind of funny.

But it was one of the best leftist sibs on reddit (low bar). It was completely immune from right wing brigades and trolls because any time they came in trying to stir up shit people would just all post "show hog" and they'd get mad that no one was taking the bait.

It being banned was sad but also not that sad. Reddit sucks and km barely on there anymore except to argue with people that homeless people are human beings and not vermin. I don't know why I bother anymore.