It's not as though I haven't seen it in years. I don't actively participate, try not to read often, but I maintain my account, mainly so no one can squat on the handle.

You seem really ready to jump on me. I'm not sure why. Hope I haven't pissed you off.

Nope.

You didn't read the "Period" part.

Having an optional algorithm doesn't make all the spam, the slop, the bots disappear.

Changing 230 would provide industry-wide pressure to stop algorithmic delivery.

As someone else noted: "show me all posts in reverse-chrono order" is also an algorithm, so the regulation would have to be really specific.

Thanks, but I gave up on Twitter a long time ago, before the first Trump. The algorithm has turned it into a space where the latest cause of the week was all I'd hear about.

I was on Twitter pretty early (I eschewed just about all other socmed platforms), and it was really very good before algorithmic delivery of content started.*

If there's no algorithm, there's no algorithm to game, and a lot of this awful goes away. See posts from those I choose to follow. Period. That's the way I'd like it again.

Personally, I'd suggest removing the 230 protections for companies that deliver content algorithmically: by doing so they're actively acting as publishers, not neutral hosts for the content of others.

*(the original sin at Twitter was 'breaking replies'. Closing the API, delivering content algorithmically, prohibiting alternate clients all further enshitified it. The Musk disaster is just a coda.)

115LTS for another 6 months also should support my 2010 Mac Mini on High Sierra, which has NOTHING WRONG WITH IT and works great as a TV companion box.

But feh on all this AI horseshit. #donotwant

Interestingly, Mensa used to accept SATs for membership scores. They no longer do (since 1994). Mine would've gotten me in, but I wanted to test in (to challenge myself) and did so.

Didn't stay long. Had a boring and unimportant life experience, and wanted something with a broader community. Others' experience may be different.

"There is no "crime" here, you actual retard."

Hey, guy's from Boston, so he's "retaaaaaded".

"Few people are as paranoid as you."

Yeah, cuz we'll never have a fascist government that ignores the rule of law and disappears people, has masked goons yank them off the street, uses the power of the state to silence people and make corporations and countries bend to it's will.

Can't happen here.

I'm pretty sure I've turned off prefetch at least once, but with all the machine replacements, half dozen RPis around the house, wife and kids machines, VMs, it's maddeningly difficult to be sure I've got all the settings in about:config where they need to be on each machine I sit down at.

Maybe I need to set up my own management infrastructure.

This.

In prefetching links, it visits links on the loaded page.

If it's going to offer performant summaries, it probably has to visit before you ask for the summary.

If it doesn't work this way today, one can bet it will.

"doesn't do anything" is relative:

To offer a preview, either the browser or a connected server must visit and summarize the link (I'm not pretending to know how it works, but SOMETHING must visit the link).

In visiting the link, it may well give the server on the other end details about you and your browser, for ad insertion or much worse - and may do so on pages you've chosen not to visit due to concerns about what may lie there.

If like me you've disabled the standard Firefox home features, preferring instead an about:blank page which doesn't spew your user-agent to dozens of links when you do nothing more than bring up the browser, you'll want this turned right off.

"Women are raised to lie."

Um... Have you met any men?

At all?

When does ANYTHING Google does have to do with privacy or integrity?

1. Don't pay for copyrighted material
2. Don't pay to build out the power infrastructure you require
3. Pay less than consumers for commodity power
4. Profit!

I think "eat the rich" ought to come back in fashion.

I'm politically on the side of sensible gun regulations, and anything that can slow down or stop a mass shooter.

That said, a stunt like this doesn't help a cause that wingnut ranters have been saying features bullshit "crisis actors".

Anything that diminishes people's ability to see real things, believe what they see, should be thrown over the side.

Deep fakes for a good cause are no more noble than deep fake pron.