XLE

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

Sorry for the mediocre source, but it looks like it got its facts and translation right.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 34 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

Any idea if these threats are actionable? He's not a US citizen to just fine or imprison.

 

A Texas federal judge late Wednesday overturned a Biden administration rule designed to keep prosecutors from getting the medical records of patients seeking legal abortions or gender-affirming care by boosting privacy protections for women’s reproductive health information.

 

A 21-year-old tourist has described the horrendous treatment he allegedly received after being denied entry to the USA due to a meme depicting JD Vance as bald being found on his phone

[–] XLE@piefed.social 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Custom Search Engines: Firefox now supports adding even more search engines. To add a custom engine, right-click a search field of a supported website and select “Add Search Engine”, or go to Settings > Search > Add (below the search shortcuts table) to manually enter a search URL.

"Settings > Search > Add" was already available in Firefox for Desktop, but you manually had to travel to about.config to add the missing browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh boolean and set it to true. You've been able to do this for at least 4 years, and it's worked on Android for a while too.

Maybe they finally finished polishing it up.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Apology accepted.

Crazy how Mozilla has done so much stuff that people just forgot

[–] XLE@piefed.social 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Firefox doesn't let you use alt text anywhere, except for the most ridiculously niche location.

People who want to see it when they browse webpages get nothing.

It's only if you

  • open a PDF in Firefox
  • and then choose to edit it
  • and then choose to add an image
  • and then choose to add alt text to it
  • and then choose to generate alt text instead

If Mozilla cares about accessibility, what a weird niche of a niche of a place to put it.

[–] XLE@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don't need to be a source code expert to understand what Mozilla has done, thankfully. That's not a technological hurdle the average person should have to overcome. I know more than most people have the privilege to know, and further gatekeeping (any gatekeeping) is unnecessary.

If that was not your intent, or for other people who are genuinely interested:

https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature

If gatekeeping my comment was your intent, I would be happy to track down the source code as long as you made an extensive effort to get Mozilla to remove the code that collects your data...

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

A speaker labeled "Palantir" crackles to life. "Wrong answer. Would you like to try again?"

[–] XLE@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

It's good to watch Mozilla pouring their time, effort, and dwindling funds into the most important features - AI ones!