Those descriptions are just alt text put there for accessibility reasons, to help out users such as those who use a screen reader or other assistive technology, and your browser displays it to you when it can't load the image itself. If the image contains text, Facebook will also include their attempt at transcribing it. The "Image may contain" phrasing isn't meant to serve as a "trigger warning" or anything, it's just a reminder that the caption is generated by Facebook's AI (notoriously less-than-perfect) and may not always accurately reflect what's actually in the image.

Dropbox already has Linux support, and they have for the entire time I've used their service. It's running in the system tray right now on my Linux desktop, and while I don't do it any more, years ago I used to run their client headless on some Linux servers as well -- I was doing that before Google Drive even existed. There's no mounting involved, it works just the same as the normal desktop client. You have a folder full of real files, and their client keeps everything synced.

Google can say all they want about how they're trying to protect users against malicious extension updates, but I won't believe a word of it until they change the fact that Chrome still won't:

- Show you what extensions of yours have recently updated
- Show you when a particular extension was last updated
- Allow users to disable automatic updates for an extension

These are pretty basic features, and they're all things the Play Store has done on Android for years. It boggles the mind that they would develop a platform for shipping updates to one of the most important pieces of software many users run without giving the user any real control or insight into the process.

It's 7 PM right now, and the battery on my Nexus 5 is at 86%. The last time I gave any conscious thought to charging my phone was weeks ago. That's just not possible without wireless charging. Who cares that your phone charges slower when your battery never drops below 50%? USB-only means that I would go back to forgetting to plug in my phone when it needs it, and having to scramble to find a (new, not yet common) charger. That's a step backwards, and it's a deal breaker for me.

Let them show the movie in theaters, but display small advertisements below the video with proceeds going to the creators of the 2010 film. Fair's fair, right?

While normally correct, this attack is more noteworthy when combined with the news of Superfish. This was a DNS hijack, which means the attackers would have been able to point *.lenovo.com at the server of their choosing. While I don't believe Superfish was actually running its requests through a subdomain of lenovo.com, this particular type of simple "vandalism" could have just as easily been used to take advantage of Superfish's automatic MITM and intercepted all manner of sensitive data.

Sounds like someone should go to jail. Right?

It's not hard to find.webp

ISP like to cite the fact that so few sites support IPv6 as a reason to not bother rolling it out themselves [citation needed]. If Google can encourage sites to support IPv6, ISPs have one less reason to not give it to their customers.

CloudFlare has also announced that they're planning to roll out free SSL to customers in the coming months.

...and yet, all of Microsoft's flagship products, AFAIK, are the polar opposite of open source. If Microsoft truly thought anything of open source, this should not be the case.

That's it! Australia's government has been taken over by a giant rabid man-eating Wallaby.

That would be CraftScript, which yes, has been around for quite a while. It also uses Rhino.