I tried that, and it is a time consuming and tedious process which I eventually failed.
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it is not really a full fork of firefox, it's firefox with a few patches applied and sane default configuration.
then otter, seamonkey, falkon, k-meleon, srware iron, qutebrowser, comodo dragon and comodo icedragon, dooble, midori, epic.
not sure if maxthon and Avant Browser are still a thing
I wonder what could go wrong here ? maybe their history of misbehaving with money and injecting affiliate links in users browsing or the security issues and leaks could give us a pointer or two.
It respects privacy and works quite well (Actually much better than chrome based browser on my machine).
Mozilla management seems to be the issue, not firefox itself.
And instead of the bad UX about:config page, every tweak is in a configuration text file and you can easily override them.
I find the experience way better than vanilla youtube in a browser. It allows to remove all youtube annonyances (autoplay, comments, suggestions, ads, in video ads, and more) and tweak a number of things.
Only a couple downside for me, the playlist support is a bit shaky and once in while a video will fail to load or start and requires closing and reopening the window.
And now my best firefox fix is to use librewolf[2] instead of waterfox instead of firefox.
I had enough of mozilla treating me and my business like sh*t when the silently dropped alsa support on a ESR release and justifying by saying linux distro package maintainer should have not disabled our surveillance and tracking and no one wants to work on ALSA as it is a mess, turns mozilla code was a mess and in a matter of days someone came up volunteering to do the works they refused to, but then they switched their stance to say it's too late they're not going back to alsa just deal with it.
So I dealt with it by switching to waterfox which supported alsa with no plan of stopping and allowed firefox extensions to keep working.
When will mozilla stop hurting its own product by trying to make it the same as google's browser and mistreating their user base and supporters ?
https://reporterre.net/Stress-peur-pression-le-difficile-quo...
A few people were vocal about this before it happened, and things did not go well for them. The Maureen Kearney case is simply unbelievable, this woman was working for Areva and blowing the whistle hard on this transfer of technology, after receiving threat she was found tied up in her bedroom, a letter A engraved in her abdomen, with a kitchen knife handle inserted in her genitals.
The police decided she probably did that to herself and jailed her, while the state attorney prosecuted her. And she was sentenced to prison time and a hefty fine. it took a while before the sentence was overturned and for the truth to come out that she had not faked anything.
In the end, what she was warning actually happened, France is no better and even worse in its ability to build nuclear plants with no actual plant put in service (ITER is a mess, Flamanville EPR is plagued), while China started both Taishan EPR reactors and is now able to sell its ability to build plants to other countries.
Okiluoto started in 2003 and was supposed to cost 3 Bns and be ready in 2009. it took 18 years instead of 6 and total cost is difficult to know exactly but is over 12 Bns instead of 3.
Building this plant (and the Flamanville one) put into light so many issues at so many levels that I am surprised it was completed and actually works.
Though the previously completed EPRs in Taishan was stopped since last june after gas leaks have been found in the primary circuit and framatome asked the US for help. Current talks point to a design flaw and the possibility of not restarting this EPRs is on the table. If this is confirmed, this flaw could also affect Okiluoto and flamanville EPRs.
With last winter trend of France finding design flaws in its reactors and being forced to stop them for emergency repairs and maintenance[1] (affecting the most recent and most powerful ones too), nuclear plant do not seems like a sound sustainable choice at least when France is involved.
[1]: https://www.ouest-france.fr/economie/entreprises/nucleaire-l...
But defects were found that would jeopardize the current evaluation to renew the certification for using them for 10 more years, so the decision was made to stop several reactors for forced maintenance and repairs.
The only climate compatible way is not an alternative on demande source of energy, but the other way around: adapt our energy consumption to its availability and significantly lower our energy use. (see this 2009 piece by low tech magazine[1])
This is the real issue with dealing with climate change: we have to drastically change our way of living, in ways that most of us have not properly grasped and are not ok with.
But it is not a matter of choice, this will happen. It is a matter of choosing to do it in a somewhat controlled manner over the few time left, of to be subjected to this change in a brutal way.
[1]: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/11/renewable-energy-i...
Also we already have a similar level of wrongdoings with the French EPRs.
He basically says that France is currently or close to be facing a industrial failure for the whole existing nuclear plants which means the nuclear safety cannot be guaranteed. The ability to build anything nuclear is out of reach for France who lacks engineers and technical know how which is the consequences of decades old political decisions to outsource to China, there is a lack of anticipation and no plans which is leading France in a probable dead-end.
The current French EPR in flamanville has confirmed what happened with Okiluoto, hundreds of failures, lack of planning, huge delays, low quality with forged document, going over budget by several times.
You may be interested in reading Marc Endeweld most recent book "L'Emprise. La France sous influence" it covers the current state of nuclear in France and it depicts an even bleaker picture than what the head of ASN publicly acknowledges.
[1]: https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2022/01/19/la-poursu...
It is feared that all other current EPR suffer the same design mistake, but there are currently no plan to stop them.
https://gdpr-txt.org/ is a proposed standard to help hosting providers with GDPR compliance by providing detail on the data collected by softwares.
PeerTube Guide for YouTubers Made Easy https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2020/05/peertube-guide-for-youtub...
The micro-payment as opposed to ads model already exists on third party services such as utip, tipee, onlyfans, etc. and is the main source of revenue for most video content creators. When peertube aware content creators explains why they choose youtube as their main platform the given answer is the large userbase and visibility a.k.a. The network effect and dominant position youtube has. Though twitch and tiktok seems to putting a serious dent as many youtubers turn to twitch for live content and interacting with their communities in a healthier way than youtube where toxicity prevails, and with tiktok for engaging with their communities with shorter videos requirient less effort and escaping the youtube algorithm.
Peertube is the free software anyone can use to host video content in a decentralized and federated manner. It's akin to what the personal blogs were on the web a few years back
For the federated part, peertube is part of the fediverse through activitypub.
some real world example of peertube usage: KDE https://conf.tube/accounts/kde/video-channels PINE64: https://tilvids.com/a/pine64tilvids/video-channels Krita: https://share.tube/a/kritafoundation/video-channels Free Software Foundation: https://framatube.org/a/fsf/video-channels
This kind of behaviour is rampant, you even have individual resorting to harassment of people who disagree or said something they don't like. Facebook and twitter revolve around this behaviour, presidents and political figures engage in this behaviour and at least a dictator gained power using it (see duterte in philippines).
Add to this that the larger the corporation and the higher in the hierarchy means the impunity is almost a given (see HSBC laundering scandal, facebook multiple scandals, etc.)
To me the surprise here is that the information got out and that the authorities actually acted on it.
[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-07/how-rodri...
getting rid of facebook is the right move here.
My phone happens to a smartphone that's not running windows/apple/google so whatsapp never bother to release for this phone. Whatsapp being a walled garden it prevents everyone from the outside from reaching people jailed inside.
As you do not have a data plan, I have no internet access with this pocket computer we use as telephone.
Whatsapp is utterly pointless and useless to me, and coherent with facebook way of doing things it actively prevents me from contacting other people, which is shocking to me who grew accustomed to thing like email, jabber or sms .
Also security issues, lack of privacy, lack of proper encryption, censorship, etc. among a long trail of reasons.
Also whatsapp founder quitting and leaving 850millions dollars on the table doing so over the way facebook makes money out of whatsapp and for th way facebook made him mislead the european commission to have them green light the sale of whatsapp to facebook. He also called repeatedly for people to get rid of Facebook services.
for exemple this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp_snooping_scandal and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reception_and_criticism_of_Wha...
Basically facebook being facebook and doing facebook things to the people that were escaping its grasp.