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Aral Balkan

@ aral @mastodon.ar.al

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Social oncologist.

I make small things.

Unapologetically anti-genocide.

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  • Netanyahu faces mass walk out protest at UN speech (Axios, 2025-09-26)

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  • Anti-Israel protesters block Israeli cycling team in major Vuelta a España race | The Times of Israel (2025-08-27)

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  • Best tool for creating a basic business website

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  • Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one

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  • Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one

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  • Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one

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  • Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one

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  • Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one

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  • @maniajack@mastodon.world Mozilla is a not-for-profit that owns a half-a-billion dollar a year for-profit that gets its half-a-billion dollars a year from Google.

    Or, as their head of public policy once told me: “Why are you being so hard on us? We’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”

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  • Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one

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  • @messaroundmarx@zirk.us 🤷‍♂️

    At least they’re open source so you should be able to see exactly what information is being collected if you dive into the code.

  • Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one

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  • @wonkothesane@mstdn.social * A not-for-profit that owns a half-a-billion dollar a year for-profit that gets its half-a-billion dollars a year from Google.

  • Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one

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  • @Hache @Waterfox No, they can’t dictate terms of use for forks without violating their own open source license.

  • Firefox @fedia.io
    Aral Balkan @mastodon.ar.al

    Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one

  • Firefox @fedia.io
    Aral Balkan @mastodon.ar.al

    Native support for ed25519/x25519 in the browser would be a huge step forward for in-browser/client-side cryptography.

  • Firefox is just another US-corporate product with an 'open source' sticker on it.

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  • @DodoTheDev @Lokjo @librewolf @Vivaldi Yeah, although I just read that they’re using the manipulative “Maybe later” pattern in at least one of their dialogs so that would be a good thing to fix for the future (I’m using Vivaldi too as my default browser.)

    The opposite of “Yes” is “No”, not “Maybe later.”

  • If you don't use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.

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  • If you don't use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.

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  • If you don't use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.

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  • If you don't use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.

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  • @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Guess what, Firefox does the same thing (a refresh will reset your privacy settings and your default browser, all of which affect Mozilla’s revenue streams) but they’re a tad sneakier/cleverer(?) about it.

    (Firefox is not private by default so getting you to reset your settings is how they try to influence you to return to their preferred configuration.)

    #firefox #mozilla #deceptiveDesign

  • Tesla warns that a federal probe into whether it exaggerated the range of its cars may lead to a 'material adverse impact on our business'

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  • Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.

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  • @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Very cool. Here’s hoping to see this in @gnome one day too.

    PS. I’m sure you’re aware of it but, just in case, the window positions/dimensions appear to be lost on the restart. (An issue I have on GNOME too whenever it returns from suspend.)

  • Announcing FediRedirect!

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  • @ManeraKai So if I get this right, you can use this to redirect links to other mastodon servers so that you end up on your own server where you can interact with it, right?

    (Can’t wait to try it out, thanks.) :)