And this is why we not only need to reduce our dependence on China in the long run but also our dependence on the US.

There’s just no way a sovereign state live while depending on US monopolies.

There’s no way individual donations from ordinary people could match Google’s. They’re also likely to be less reliable.

Thank god. I do really believe all the Google money is actively stifling innovation at Mozilla. The only thing they can’t do is building a better browser than chrome is, for fear of becoming a viable alternative again.

So they use the money for some CEO pay. and weird projects while Firefox further falls from popularity.

I hope for the day Firefox’s market share has dropped to a level tha Google just won’t pay any money anymore for the default search engine deal.

That day - and not one day before - innovation will resume.

I did. I rage-signed up for a monthly contribution to the Servo project the last time I read about something Mozilla did.

Recently I go fucking annoyed by Mozilla that I rage-contributed (monthly payment) to Servo.

Mozilla is such a shit show.

In my fourth semester im Uni I could choose whether to take numerical analysis or probability theory.

Most students took numerical analysis, even if the exam typically had a 80% failure rate. (Yes, one of five successed)

It was a completely different with probability theory (Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung). Oh, having chosen it due to these reasons now I know why: The prof loved teaching and was really good at explaining.

Ultimately this shows, people have no idea about probabilities.

Edit: fixed the nunerical typo. No it was not about catholic nuns.

Oh interesting, I knew this joke in a “Budweiser” form, but not that it originated from Monty Python.

So I bow to them.

I’m living in Munich and we also have a bit of a connection to beer. Of the famous Munich beer brands Paulaner and Hacker are partially held by Heineken and Spaten, Franziskaner and Löwenbräu by Anheuser Busch.

Fortunately there are still good independent few. (Augustiner, Hofbräu, Giesinger)

I always want to go to the Paulaner or Hacker beer gardens and put a sticker to the urinal “This is where they make Heineken”

What’s the difference between Foster’s and having sex in a canoe?

There’s none.

Both are fucking close to water.

I fucking love your concept of kinetic sanctions.

He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink

He gets knocked down,
does not get up again
You’re never keep him up again

What about an emulator like 86box or so? And which game is it?

Eating it cold is even faster and still better than microwaving it into a mush.

MICROWAVE?!?!!! Who puts Pizza in a microwave? That’s probably the worst way possible to heat it up. It’d rather eat it cold.

Put it in an oven (or yes, a pan).

You will get a lot of lasagna and only read unfunny boomer memes for a month.

I do think software piracy also was a large success factor. When I was 13 there was one major spot in my city where consoles and computers were sold (within a department store!), and people where “swapping” games even before they bought the hardware. I remember at least one of the store clerks having a small side business providing access to disks and tapes you could copy - right on the machines that were shown in store.

And I learned how to copy the C64’s basic rom to ram and mod small things even before I had the machine myself.

All the kids were gathering round the computers, the consoles were less attractive.

When I got my own C64 in 1983, my first game was Fort Apocalypse. It was not an original. You needed a boom box with dual tape decks to copy these.

Yay, a 25 year old feature with a new UI design.

I’m using FF as my daily driver, but I feel my hatred for Mozilla soon reaches the level of my hatred for Google.

I do wonder (just in my head, there’s no hint to that in the public) if all that money Google pays to Mozilla somewhere has a no-competition clause which says FF must stay more shitty than Chrome.

I’m not consciously of one Innovation out of Mozilla that made FF a better browser, and a lot of interesting stuff has been canceled.

It’s still an OK browser, but it is like it was 15 years ago. While I watch colleagues using chrome reskins which have great tab management (amazing when you use Jira). Only now that we have LLMs people turn browsers into agents - why the fuck is there no cross - request scripting (go to google, search for this, click on 2nd result…). Yeah we have developer tools like puppeteer for that, but having - say python or js to do so would make people use it more frequently.

Browser history. Ah damn, a day ago I saw a page that explained how to do xx with yy while considering zz. How great some decent browse history would be. (And yes, FF, keep it all, but only when I’m at http://weirdkinkyporn.com/, please just store it for a few hours). A single keyword for history search IS NOT ENOUGH. I need to isolate things by adding a number of things, because if I knew the word I’m searching for, I’d just google it anyways.

Yeah, so much more things you could do (and the above ideas are just half - baked thoughts).

But Mozilla needa tha sweeet CEO payments. There’s no money for experimental stuff.

About a month ago, I ranted about that with a few friends, afterwards I rage-contributed to the Servo project.

I just wish Google would cut off that Mozilla money, I really believe that would improve competition.

That no-compete agreement is a product of my imagination, but things really feel like that.

Fuck Mozilla.

Ok yes it’s not bad, for people here it’s just - normal. There’s quite a number of beer fests round the year in Bavaria. Of course it’s the biggest one.

In Munich we have at least Frühlingsfest, Starkbierzeit and Oktoberfest - so something where you can go is always close (time wise). And if not, you’ll just go to a beer garden.

Oktoberfest

I can still remeber the music from the single porn VHS tape I managed to obtain as a teenager.

Ask any foot doctor, type G have injured a lot more people than type F have.

That’s a very revealing view you have about BDSM. No, you don’t need to like it or it doesn’t need to be your thing, still I want to clean up a huge misconception:

Healthy BDSM is all about consent. It’s the central part of it.

“Domination” is kind of a game, and you need a lot of trust to be able to play this. This trust is being established on a foundation of talking things through before on a level where I’ve rarely seen consent applied before.

This is something to take away, so while the domination and submission thing might totally not be your thing - and that’s fine! - relying on explicit consent is something many vanilla people would benefit from.

Do you want this / I would like that / That’s fine with me / Sorry, no that’s not for me. And even on a “no” response thinking “thank you for telling me, now I know more about you”. That’s the base where to base eye to eye level relationships on. It requires a bit of courage and we’re not used to it.

I do think you feel exactly this, things are about consent. And upbringing / media has shed a weird take on BDSM.

*= Btw BDSM in media has absolutely nothing to do with the real thing, as they just skip the part where people just talk for a long time.