AlexanderESmith

Their fine? About… three fiddy.

I think it’s more that they’re indifferent to it’s users all together.

That’s not what I said.

Your comments seem to be targeted at admins/mods who are paying attention, and acting in good faith (which we would all hope is common, but sometimes isn’t). Mine are more on the user-side.

People should be able to see who agree/disagree with them. I honestly don’t see a benefit to hiding this data from them.

I’ve seen it argued that votes being visible might cause abuse, but if the admin/mods/tools are doing their job, the result is the same, visible or not. No?

People who post and vote anonymously have no incentive to stand by their comments and votes. Anonymity is how we allow trolls to troll. We already allow fake names with no limits or verification, and now we’re trying to protect their fake reputation, too. And for what benefit, exactly?

Hiding votes like this also allows pretty much anyone to generate as many votes in whatever direction they want. If we could see the votes, we could at least see patterns in reused accounts or personal instances. Without that, anyone can always be “right” by spamming themselves with upvotes, and whoever disagrees will always “wrong” when they get spammed down.

What’s the point of voting at that point? May as well remove votes all-together, since they’re even more pointless than they were on reddit.

I didn’t start using Vivaldi because they support V2, I’m choosing to keep using Vivaldi because of their continued support of it.

I used to use Chrome for testing, but I’ve dropped it entirely now that ublock doesn’t work.

If Vivaldi also drops support for proper ad blocking (I prefer ublock, but Vivaldi has their own blocker that doesn’t use any addon framework, not V2 or V3), then I’ll go elsewhere, but it sure as hell wouldn’t be Firefox unless there was no other option (there are a precious few to even try, but I would try them all before going back to Firefox). And it would probably have to be a fork, in a desperate attempt at some amount of feature longevity.

Also, I don’t give Google control over shit. You’re making a ton of uninformed assumptions. My browser is a client to access content - nothing more - replaceable on a whim. I don’t feel the need to interconnect every software, account, or hardware that comes my way. Those who do are trapped by their laziness and desire for convenience, and almost none of them have any idea what they’ve given up.

Thats not “will stop”, that’s “may stop if it becomes unsupportable”. Google would have to be activly adding code that fucks with V2 support in order to make it impossible to support it. It’s not gone until it’s gone.

Meanwhile, in Firefox land, they had no external pressure, and continuously removed features the users wanted, despite outcry from those users.

Is Firefox the better option just because its not Chromium based? That’s not clear. What is clear to me is that I don’t particularly trust Google OR Mozilla to do the right thing, and (despite using Chromium as a basis for their browser), Vivaldi is doing everything I’d want a dev to do. I wouldn’t put it past them to stop taking updates from the main Chromium repo and just start doing their own thing (if Chromium becomes too much of a pain to deal with).

People are complaining that having a mono-browesr is a problem, and I don’t disagree, but Google and Mozilla are both assholes that don’t listen to their users. Maybe we should be paying more attention to that than which codebase they use.

Well, there is the fact that it’s only true because it isn’t the judge that makes the decision about ignoring age for the purposes of the trial, it’s the prosecutor.

Did my post suggest that it was the judge making that decision? I only indicated that the judge was speaking in that hypothetical because judges are the ones who announce the sentencing. Don’t put words in other people’s mouths.

Doesn’t understand the point of the post, then calls it dumb. Classic. Do you even know what I’m referring to?

And your point is? How does that make what I said less true?

“You fucked up so bad that we’re ignoring your age for trial/sentencing, but now that were here… Meh we’ll just give you a slap on the wrist.”

- Literally no judge ever.

And Microsoft

Because God doesn’t like lying and scheming… unless it’s in his (loosly defined, unprovable, constantly shifting) design.

They’re morally right and you’re morally wrong. Why? Because they say so.

I mean, Vivaldi absorbs whatever changes they like from Chromium, but it’s not whole cloth. Vivaldi is specifically not implementing V3 and maintaining compatibility with existing addons.

Everyone keeps talking about switching to Firefox when Vivaldi is right there. It’s chrome without Google’s shitty practices.

I’ve been using raw Git for a while now. Glad I switched from GitHub for personal projects.

Can’t share worth a shit that way, but 90% of my code is highly specific, personal scripts that I just want to maintain history and notes for. And a book I’m writing.

It’s less the storage than the bandwidth. Both are huge though

I’ve only been a member of two gyms, and they both let me out of my membership over the phone. One was 24hr Fitness in WA, and the other was some big chain in AZ (can’t remember which one)

Where the heck were you that there was a “dine-in” fee at a Subway? I’ve been to that restaurant in half a dozen states and never seen that.

Actually, I didn’t think I’ve seen any restaurant charge for that, ever.

Also, wtf does that have to do with subscription services and auto renewals?

Beep. Beeeeep.