cecilkorik

>no living being will be able to make heads or tails out of the code we run. Which is fine, because somebody will just vibe code a replacement when it gets too unwieldy and then we'll start the cycle of unmaintainability all over again. Welcome to the era of disposable, limited-use software. While you're all working on dealing with that, don't mind me, I'm just going to be over here admiring all this artisanal, hand-crafted software running in a carefully arranged and manually curated legacy virtual machine with loving attention to detail and thoughtful Feng Shui, where it will be safe and protected from the horrors of the open internet until someday NetWatch finally fires up the blackwall to protect us.

I believe this works but I agree there should be a UI for it (preferably under the “enhanced tracking protection” shield to the left of the URL), and I have to admit I run with RFP disabled too. It’s close, but I think it still needs a little more work to be practical, for most people at least.

The most compartmentalized setup would be to run librewolf --ProfileManager as a command to start the profile manager, you can set up multiple profiles, and it will either prompt you at startup, or you can create shortcuts for each profile with librewolf -P . Each one is basically a completely different instance, with different settings, different history, and different addons. Personally, I think that’s overkill, but it may suit you. The approach I’d recommend, is to leave the default settings on, and once you spend enough time setting up your exceptions and umatrix configuration for the sites you do want to be logged in at or buy stuff with, you can get the best of both worlds in one profile, but admittedly that takes a little more know-how and work, and it sometimes feels like it never ends, but it does get much better once you’ve got 95% of your typical stuff sorted out.

I’ve used both and while Waterfox is pretty good, Librewolf is superior. It’s more aggressive in its privacy settings by default, you can either tone that down or learn to work with it (I recommend the latter, which takes some effort and is a different way of doing things, treating privacy as something you have to actively opt-out of on a case by case basis, which will benefit you in the long run). Unlike Waterfox, Librewolf has also never had a problem where it “accidentally” sold itself to an advertising company and then changed its mind, but even despite Waterfox’s strange and concerning escapades with System1, I still think Librewolf is simply better on its own merits, nevermind its moral purity.

Ah, I am a 99% desktop user so that explains why I’ve never really heard of it. Sounds like a good option for my phone, not that I ever use it.

Not sure how that’s any different than disabling anti-fingerprinting in Librewolf. It’s literally one switch. To me, the value is in the assurance that Librewolf is never going to follow any of these kind of stupid trends, the way it demonstrates they’re actually putting me first, not major websites nor themselves. It’s not about their features or configuration out of the box, it’s more about their demonstrated priorities and decision making process that gives me confidence. I’m not so familiar with IronFox, maybe I should check it out too, but I do know Waterfox has made a number of… questionable decisions in the past. It was literally owned by an advertising company (System1) for awhile, which was very alarming.

So many people mentioning (inferior, in my opinion) Firefox alternatives in the comments and nobody’s mentioned Librewolf? Really? Maybe Librewolf will have to become a hard fork someday if this continues, but for now, it’s just Firefox for people who care about their data. Aside from a few justifiably aggressive default settings, I’ve never had even a hint of an issue with it.

There are fascists subverting every location on the political spectrum, none of them are immune. We’ve been trained to think in terms of “left” or “right” but these fuckers are coming at us sideways and corrupting our whole politcal spectrum at once. Don’t fall for it, pay attention to actions, not labels.

Because the domain name system is the tragedy of the commons. We all share it, and cybersquatters fucking it up for any of us fuck it up for all of us. Companies on the other hand, are just a fucking tragedy in general.

I always just used – instead, because I’m too lazy to remember weird codes and I don’t know what a compose key is, but the intent is the same.

Autistic people were the original LLMs. I don’t care how much data you shove into it, there is still no LLM on Earth that knows more about trains than an autistic guy who knows everything about trains. The difference is the autistic person isn’t completely sycophantic and might be completely disgusted that you don’t know the first production date of the C40-8W.