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Comment Re:Journalism died decades ago (Score 1) 127

Most people with their casual interest in current events and high school educations arent equipped to handle figuring out what's real or not via their social media feeds.

Instead, they believe that things are real because they saw them on a three-letter shit factory on the teevee, because they aren't equipped to know that it's a lot of bullshit. The difference is, they might find some facts on social media.

Comment hard to know (Score 1) 117

It's hard to know if I got down modded for suggesting that Firefox is not perfect, which we all know, or that Chrome is a way for Google to collect your info and sabotage ad blocking, which we all know

Comment I use FF but (Score 0) 117

I do use FF almost exclusively, but there are real problems.

Performance is indeed poor. The browser is indeed flaky. Pocket is indeed a problem but they never should have bought it. They have indeed watered down their privacy promises. And mobile Firefox has atrocious memory leaks related to JavaScript. I have to kill it several times a day because it uses all my phone's memory.

But chrome is a privacy disaster so it's not all roses either, and the various other credible browsers are all chrome skins.

We need a new project to revitalize Firefox. The Mozilla foundation is just never going to do it right.

Comment Re: same same. (Score 1) 202

I don't see rolling release as a big problem, but then, I have root on ZFS and another Linux install on a separate disk. I can snapshot before any update, and if it blows something up, I can revert.

To my mind it doesn't matter for a corporate context either, because you can test and then deploy.

I used Debian with systemd until I had a boot problem which I couldn't solve without a debugger because it breaks early boot logging. Then I fucked off to Devuan because fuck that.

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