I download albums (through piracy or not) and add them to my modest mp3 collection the same way I used to buy CDs — once in a while when it seems like a good idea. If there’s an album I don’t think is worth listening to again, I delete it.

I’m willing to give it a try at least once if I get to haggle with the cashierbot over the price of my cheeseburger.

Good luck! It went surprisingly well for me, still a happy CustomCSSForFX user despite it not getting updates any more. All I noticed was rounder corners on toolbar buttons (I don’t care), and one or two extra pixels of wasted vertical space beneath the url bar. The tabs and everything else seem unaffected.

It’s tempting to imagine that this might mean Mozilla have started to care about those of us with custom CSS when they do UI redesigns, and done it in a less disruptive way. Or maybe I was just lucky this time.

Edit: Somehow in my initial test of the new version I failed to notice that the autocomplete results in the urlbar were messed up pretty badly. The css I had to reduce the font size and hide all the other bullshit that would be in there was still working but the formatting was bad. For one thing there was a ridiculous amount of space between each item. Only took me half an hour of fiddling with css to get it back to reasonable. Not too bad but I guess it’s still a hard life being a Firefox (or Librewolf) user if you don’t enjoy css hacking. I mention it to avoid anyone seeing this in future thinking that it means CustomCSSForFX is still trouble-free despite being discontinued. It’s not, as of this latest version for my config. It used to be the easiest and best way to give Firefox a truly customizable UI.

In my feed people who post stuff every hour get blocked or unfollowed, unless it’s really good stuff.

You’d think that “no AI” would be an easy feature to implement, and it’s much in demand. Strange that it seems to be beyond the abilities of so many software developers.

Seeding (0)

Your first ever download?

I too had a ghetto blaster, which must sound pretty weird to people young enough to have never heard of them.

True. Enough movies have been made, enough books written. There’s no need for more. Stop creating stuff, everyone — unless you really need to, in which case you might be an artist or a writer.

Search built for the AI era

I would really prefer search that takes you back to the era when search engines did a good job. It wasn’t that long ago.

The monthly active users count there is not down compared to last year at this time, although it’s not up by as much as even the small amount that it was a couple months ago. Holding steady is a departure from the trend, the best it’s done in a long time. I’m just going by memory when it comes to years before 2021 — it’s too bad they don’t show older data there.

Previously I noticed that Firefox user count had stopped declining for the first time in many years. Only later did I realise that it was probably due to all the fuss about Chrome dropping MV2, not anything Mozilla themselves had done. Hopefully this will keep the trend line going up a little further. Who knows, maybe Mozilla will miraculously come to its senses before it resumes the long slow decline.

Not everyone interested in piracy acquires all of their games that way, and even those who do sometimes buy them on Steam anyway — for example to support the publisher. Not that Gog isn’t better, but Steam obviously has most of the market.

This is a piracy-oriented community, so …

So there tend to be a fair number of gamers around.

Weird that Myspace is still “owned” by someone when it’s spent so long not being a thing that exists.

If you’re willing to ask even this ridiculous question here in public, I’m not sure why you’d need to go anywhere else.

This one has security fixes which you will probably want to install somewhat promptly.

Mentioning here that the dev’s objection to F-Droid was that they marked the Holy Bible as “NSFW” would’ve saved us all a click.

The one I like to watch is Mozilla’s own count of monthly active users. Once every year or two I’ll remember to check it. This time, it’s at least temporarily broken out of its years-long downtrend! The total number of Firefox users (not its market share) is up by 2% over 52 weeks as of the latest data point.

The hacker news discussion is surprisingly not bad. Very few Google stans coming in to shill for their corporate masters, and they’re getting soundly ignored and downvoted.

Oh, sorry, did not mean to put that in c/technology.