I think a lot of folks are going out of their way to misunderstand what happened. Yes there are other similar projects and containers. No, none come from a long established COMMUNITY RUN PROJECT. This is something akin to the difference between VirtualBox and OpenBSD’s vmd. Ones a product with a “free” tier, the other is a community project.

Here in the US it seems practically as bad. And the Internet is just as bad - big tech’s stuffed with DSA activists - Marxists - who create lists of wrongthinkers to share with people like The Atlantic Group and Joan Donovan.

Well as they say, freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences. I recommend arming yourself and carrying a concealed handgun.

Freedom of speech in a civilized country generally also includes freedom from violent retaliation for saying the wrong thing.

I'm fine with being insulted or yelled at for my views. But if someone physically attacks me for my views, that means something has gone very, very wrong with society.

I hope that is sarcasm

Remember the CTS Labs thing where some Israelis from across the hall from Intel’s facility there did a giant smear job on a fake AMD vulnerability and then Bloomberg picked it up? The same Bloomberg who sells little information services which people are supposed to rely on as conveying factual information?

It’s useful to me, FireFox’s arbitrary and capricious changes have angered legions of former fans who either now barely tolerate it, or who moved on.

Useful as in useful for knowing whether the successor was better than the predecessor. Without this information, you cannot fairly assess whether the changes where worthwhile, given the inherent cost in breaking established workflows for current users.

It's not possible to make a fair assessment without doing this because users (read: you) are biased towards what existed regardless of whether the successor design may actually be worth adopting.

Why is it my job to be “fair” to some giant corporation? This isn’t some person we’re talking about.

IceCat 68 here, never “upgrading.”

If you look at her Twitter history you can see she’s a big fan of political activism in the workplace, something that more and more companies are treating as both toxic and unprofessional. Virtue signaling on Twitter almost seems to be a requirement if you’re one of these activist people employees, so it’s kind of tough to demonstrate your performative woke-ism to your legions of fans yet keep the fact that you intend to use your job as a social activism platform secret all at once.

Go ahead and browse her Twitter. She’s toxic and rude.

Minidisc was a HUGE commercial flop, with a paltry number of releases. It found utility in some pro audio racks but in no nation did it ever come close to replacing DAT in pro audio applications, or cassette tapes for music copying or distribution.

> Minidisc was a HUGE commercial flop, with a paltry number of releases.

What I remember from my minidisc days were that at least the ones I owned were all recorders. Even though I bought zero minidisc albums, I had a few minidiscs with albums recorded from CDs.

Even though minidisc wasn't ubiquitous, I'm not sure that the number of releases is a good measuring stick.

You are equating the number of commercial pre-recorded MiniDisc with the success of the format but that's just not how it works.

MiniDisc replaced tape, not CDs or records. Its raison d'etre was recording your own discs.

It never even matched tape, in terms of blank media or devices sold yearly even at its peak even in Japan.

Why was 3M storing their data on Volkswagen’s servers? /s

Do people load remote images in 2021?

That's like asking "do people allow javascript when opening webpages in 2021?"

It's common for browser-based email services (such as Gmail) to default to loading remote images.

Nah, it’s radically different.

No browser disables JavaScript by default, and disabling it is never a first-class feature: you have to manually figure out when it’s broken things and decide what to do with it.

Meanwhile, there are comparatively major webmail and desktop clients that disable remote image loading by default (e.g. Fastmail’s webmail and I think Thunderbird on the desktop), and all significant clients at least support disabling loading remote images. And in such cases, if any remote image is blocked, the client will put a “remote images blocked” banner with a button to load remote images. This is a first-class feature of email clients.

My impression is that Gmail prefetches ALL email images, and then serves them to the reader via their CDN. (Checking a random email in my inbox demonstrates this, https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/...)

As a result, I thought there was no signal for tracking pixels? I might be wrong though

They know when google loads the image, which is when you open the email.

It is in fact on the fly when you open it.

All Gmail does is proxy the request to hide your IP from the server hosting the image file. Gmail does not change the timing of the request, the URL, or the image file.

Yeah. Something I did not expect when I became a mail administrator was meeting a lot of people who actually read those marketing newsletters I spend so much time trying to avoid.

I've got a constant contact sender (a local chamber of commerce) in my tickets right now who sends exclusively pictures of text.

The default setting in Gmail is to load remote images. You can disable it in Settings but 99% of people don't know that.

I really don't think it should be the default setting, but it is.

Those that do get counted and optimized for. The rest of us might as well not exist.