lilac 💀🦋🌺

Genuinely feeling like we need to organise an anti-Chrome movement in the same way we needed an anti-Internet Explorer movement a decade ago, the difference I guess being that Microsoft eventually joined the movement to kill it, whereas Google are unlikely to

Chrome is almost as dominant now (north of 60%) as Internet Explorer was during the second browser war

Unlike Internet Explorer, which did much of its damage by becoming the market leader and stagnating, the team behind Chrome is taking steps to actively sabotage user safety features and the standards upon which the open web is based

There are at least a couple of attempts to combat this but they're very basic

Anyway tl;dr for the health of the web please stop using Chrome and its derivatives¹; use Firefox or Safari, or consider other non-Chrome-based alternatives like iCab. Google do not deserve to be entrusted with this much influence in this post-Don't Be Evil era

1. Yes, that includes Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, etc.; they all use Chrome's rendering engine and will almost certainly follow Google's lead on technical implementation and engine features. And that's on top of Brave being founded by one of the worst people in tech, and Opera being pretty much as bad these days.

Piracy forced the creation of the streaming economy because their only choice was to make it easier to stream than pirate. Now every streaming service is racing to the bottom based on the belief they have captured the audience forever. The only ethical solution, therefore, is to start pirating again.

not only has streaming gotten worse, piracy has gotten better.

i did some research recently and found that there’s a whole suite of “collection manager” tools that make the whole process obscenely easy (assuming some level of technical skill to get through the initial setup), from automatically downloading content at a preferred quality to getting it correctly tagged and sorted for Plex or Jellyfin or whatever media player thing to display it

you can even get an app to manage it all from your phone

not that i’m doing any of this obviously. just thought it was interesting and wanted to share. for educational purposes only 😉

mostly so i can keep track of how many Nic Cage movies i’ve seen (currently at 34% of movies he’s acted in)

coincidentally i also learned that you can set it up so movies added to your watchlist (or any list) will automatically sync with Radarr

which like idk might be kind of cool if you were the kind of person who pirates stuff i guess 🙄

somebody, no expert
said that in the eastern desert
that theres two legs beside an old barrow
visage lying in the sand
with a sneer of cold command
commissioned by some hubristic pharaoh

well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
emperors die and forget whats forthcoming
didn't imagine we'd forget whats dead
for his arrogance belied a heart that fed

passions well-read
lifeless and dead
look at what was stamped on the stone there
the flattering sculptor's words
the circling carrion birds

my name's
ozymandias
these are my works
despair
all ye
who are mighty
see yours vanish
like air
yet nothing but this remains
endless desolation, his domain