[–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to change genders… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even change the ones he cared about to genders unheard of. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice cis-ed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from gender, but not himself.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago

    Braves Adblock is generally very good as i recall. Traditional adblockers block content that is already downloaded while brave blocks it from using bandwidth at all. (Please correct if wrong)

    This is wrong, almost all reputable ad blockers block specific known problematic domains or endpoints from being reached altogether, nothing is downloaded. You can check this in the most common blocking rules out there, such as EasyList.

    This was also the drama about chrome deprecating manifest v1, which allowed for more of these rules dynamically, and in which Google forced extensions for the Chrome browser only to follow a more limited approach in manifest v2, but still network blocking.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I was hoping qwant, with its own (partial) search index, would be immune to it, but searching for neocities also doesn't show any results for neocities.org there unfortunately, or at least it did not for me.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It was first named Phoenix and they ran into issues with the phoenix BIOS because some of their BIOSes had a built in browser. They renamed to Firebird and then found out about the DB with the same name, and that's when they finally renamed to Firefox.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Cool, I've been using RSS Launchpad because it was the only one I found to also work on the android version of Firefox, but I'll take a look 👀

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