breakfastmtn
He/Him
Sneaking all around the fediverse.
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breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Trump Madness Prompts Asian Realignments?2·2 months agoYou have to post an article, bud.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•Coopers European Lager questionEnglish3·2 months agoYep, exactly!
Recipes are usually described as all-grain, partial grain, or extract. Partial uses extract for the heavy lifting but you steep specialty grain for flavour and colour.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•Coopers European Lager questionEnglish5·2 months agoCongrats on your first brew!
You end up with darker beer using extract instead of grain because of Maillard reaction during processing. It may end up looking a bit lighter once it clears though.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Trump's Joint Address to Congress Megapost:8·3 months agoMore than 120! I couldn’t make it through 5. No idea how people can listen to him talk.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Bernie Sanders Rejects Carville’s Advice for ‘Strategic Political Retreat’ for Democrats: ‘Been Playing Dead For Too Many Years’ Already7·3 months agoStrategic retreat… Cajun style.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•New Terms for Firefox from MozillaEnglish11·3 months agoMy original claim was that, in addition to gedaliyah’s points, the TOS gives them permission to perform basic browser tasks. My last comment was about the same thing. The TOS is relevant because 1) it’s the basis of this entire discussion and 2) the changes in the TOS conclusively prove my original claim.
As to “data collection” in this context, those words do not appear in the TOS and are not rights Mozilla is asserting for use of their software. It’s a fiction you invented. That was the point of me pointing out the use of the word “use” – describing that term and distinguishing its meaning from the thing you made up.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•New Terms for Firefox from MozillaEnglish31·3 months agoMaximum wrongness on your part.
This is the original text that everyone flipped out about (OP: “WHY DO YOU NEED MY DATA TO MAKE FIREFOX WORK???”):
When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.
It has since been changed to:
You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.
Use. When you input a url, that information is used to resolve an IP then fetch a webpage. You’re granting a right to complete tasks you assign using information you input. They have permission to send your post content to a server, but they don’t own that content. This should be very obvious in the revised text.
Wasn’t the Twitter “bridge” just bot accounts though? It’s a bit different with Bluesky because they’ve said that they completely support bridges between AT and AP but just don’t have the resources to work on them themselves. Anyway, ActivityPub co-author Evan Prodromou gave an interview yesterday where he included Bluesky as part of the Fediverse because of the bridge.
Personally, I consider them to be both part of and not part of the Fediverse, I guess. I wouldn’t send someone there and I also kind of think they’re a bunch of dicks for re-inventing the wheel instead of contributing improvements here.
I think that ATP and nostr are sometimes included as part of the Fediverse because they both have bridges that allow connection. Without the bridges they’re isolated.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•New Terms for Firefox from MozillaEnglish131·3 months agoEven writing a post, you’re entering data through Firefox into the post box. We just don’t consider that data. It would be pretty quiet around here if you couldn’t do that…
new users haven’t been checking it out as much – a month ago this was driven by external events (mostly Zuck turning pro-Trump, I think.)
A lot of users came over from TikTok too. There was a more organized TikTok campaign to get people to move to Pixelfed. Plus the ban and removal from stores gave people a bigger push to move.
It’s also non-Americans and bots. Probably giving the FSB thousands of votes in every poll!
breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Dan Bongino made his name in podcasting, with plenty to say about the FBI4·3 months agoIt’s ‘a fox for every henhouse’ but the foxes are also idiots.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato Fediverse@lemmy.world•John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and PixelfedEnglish2·3 months agoI just got it on the dl instead
breakfastmtn@lemmy.cato Fediverse@lemmy.world•John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and PixelfedEnglish212·3 months agoAnyone have a link that works for Canadians, you MONSTERS?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/08/business/trump-tariffs-stock-market/028fcb2c-debc-5537-9e9c-5e53d80ada9b