My point is that what we fear bible‑thumpers can do, qur’an‑thumpers are already doing in several parts of the world, so they must be treated as an equal threat.

I love Handmaid’s Tale, I suggest you reading Persepolis as well, this is one is a true history though.

Word (about being practically useless). I have been using it to automate some stuff, like when I’m creating a json I just paste a bunch of data there and ask it to format for me, but I have to do in small batches and constantly correct the way it’s doing… Chat GPT was way better, but I don’t want to use it anymore
Sometimes I use AI to grammar check me (I’m not a native speaker) if I’m unsure of what I’m writing or I absolutely want to write stuff correctly, I did it a few times in Lumo, but I didn’t use it enough to compare with duck.ai, so I can’t say if it’s better or worse - but I always add “don’t rewrite, just point errors, ignore slurs, ignore slang, ignore informal language, ignore internet lingo” etc etc, and they go and rewrite my sentence changing everything hehe (again, Chat GPT was way better)

I’ve read this on GrapheneOS page

“Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they’re currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn’t have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox’s sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn’t happening for their Android browser yet.” https://grapheneos.org/usage

And all I use is Gecko-based hehe (although on desktop), I’m currently using Brave just to have some old/disposable accs logged, but I’m looking for Chromium alternatives… and I just looked at ungoogled git and it seems like I have to download a bunch of stuff to compile it myself, argh, I hate that :P

I’m also in no way qualified to check code, so I just trust that if something has a lot of forks it means a lot of people are looking at it.

I’m sure some are, actually in the last Israeli incursion in Lebanon our government sent planes to rescue several of our citizens that were there and majority seemed to be Muslim, but they were probably part of a newer immigration and I’m not sure if there are communities or if it’s individual families that immigrated, because the historical mass immigration that we had here (which started in the 1880s) and founded a strong community was actually running from Muslims. As I said, it’s the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their own countries, it’s not just some small community, so they are very well spread and integrated, they even founded our most important hospital (which, by the way, is called Sírio-Libanês). How do I know? Well, turn out I went to college just to study history, but I do personally know Syrian/Lebanese descendants because, as a I said, they are not few, I went to school with several, they introduced me to arak, great times, also my mom’s godfather was Lebanese… but that doesn’t matter because I’m sure you already know everything about me and my country’s history.

I’m always amused by the amount of people who think Muslim is a race… my country has the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their countries, all very cool people with the most delicious restaurants and a very proud of their culture… none Muslim, though. The immigration actually started with people fleeing from Ottoman religious persecution.
I miss the pan-Arabism, but the USA has managed to slowly crush all secular regimes and groups in the region, first by training and arming radical religious militias to fight the Soviets, and then doing that just to take control of the region’s resources, and all that was left were destroyed cultures ruled by religious fundamentalists.

Yeah, yeah, all these books say do A and don’t do A and the hypocrite choose which he likes better to say which is right and who’s the true Scotsman… theoretical or historical contexts matters little on street-level reality. Meanwhile, I can safely say all the crap I want about Christianism and even wear anti-Christian symbols, however one must watch his back if he does the same with Islam.

I thought that by always referring to books in the plural, calling it the desert trilogy, and mentioning the Dark Ages, it was obvious that I’m not singling out the burning of the Qur’an as good… in my country, it’s not Muslims who have infected politics and try to push religious law, but a sect of fundamentalist Christians… yet, the laws they want pale in comparison to sharia, so I feel sorry for countries with people on the streets calling for sharia.

You are asking the wrong group to stop being asshole*

Burning religious books is a reaction to religious people being assholes… when they are not assholes people don’t burn their books. It reminds me this cartoon I saw once, a priest beating a guy with a huge cross calling him sinner, infidel, or whatever, and then the guy gets fed up and takes the cross from the priest and breaks it, then the priest starts crying religious intolerance.

She is pretending the Muslims are ok with it and he is just being silly and juvenile and no one cares, but in reality Muslims have already rioted and murdered several people for it.

Yeah, the real reason is that the followers of these books want to push their beliefs onto others, turn them into laws, and ignoring them won’t make them go away. In every place where the followers of these books became the majority, the minorities are extremely repressed. The last time we were entirely ruled by those books, it was known as the Dark Ages, but there are several other countries currently living in their own Dark Ages because of the same desert trilogy. That book literally says its followers should kill me and others just because of the way they were born, so fuck it, it deserves no respect from anyone, it has nothing to do with race, it’s 100% religion.

Thank you for showing the difference between the magical land of the internet and the real world.

If people following those books could stop trying to impose their stupid beliefs on others, that’d be great… You don’t see anyone burning Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist texts, do you? Well, I mean, except for when we see Muslims destroying historical and archaeological sites of these and other religions because they’re not their religion…

because it goes against lemmy.ml ToS of no homophobia, no sexism, etc

but would you over Brave or unGoogled Chromium?

Yep, they are afraid of violent fundamentalists but also of liberals trying to cancel them…

I wanted to test this DuckDuckGo browser and had to create firewall exceptions to improving.duckduckgo.com and staticcdn.duckduckgo.com just to be able to install it… I already had it blocked because sometimes I use duck.ai and the connection to those domains serves no purpose to the service, and I had already opt-out of the “anonymized” telemetry, so I don’t know why I was still connecting to improving.duckduckgo.com… off to a bad start.

Hmm, yeah, perhaps it’s better not to have those by default, as it is privacy/security‑oriented… It would be fun to discover how many users change those settings though, if only they gathered telemetry data xD

I just remembered this documentary I watched about industrialized food, and when they created cake‑mix powder in the '50s the housewives didn’t like it because they didn’t feel like they were making the cake, so the industry removed the dried eggs from the recipe just so the housewives would have to add the eggs and whisk the cake themselves and feel like real bakers… look at us, we are so selective about our software and like to fine‑tune it to our needs. If it already came all configured for us, we would feel like normies hehe

I don’t think LibreWolf should allow that DRM crap and other vanilla shit like that, but I don’t quite understand the project aim. Is it to be a browser for daily-use or a browser that is to be used only for when you want extra privacy (so it doesn’t try to be convenient)?

Mullvad is quite broken for daily-use, and I guess it wasn’t designed for that anyway. You can’t save password, cookie exceptions seems to not work properly… you seem to have to either erase everything when you close the browser or erase nothing, so in that way LibreWolf is way more friendly for daily-use - I especially liked being able to add Enhanced Tracking Protection exceptions, because I few sites I visit has CORS chatboxes.

So although very configurable for daily use, the out of the box experience suggest the project is not for that?
If everyone using allows saving browsing history, passwords, and add cookie exceptions, I guess those should be the default (most bad reviews I saw complained about it, because not having those as default put it into the “inconvenient” class of Mullvad and Tor), and a prompt asking if you want to stay logged to that site when you save a password so that it’s automatically added to exceptions would be nice too hehe