Ash @quarky@glaceon.social
curious folks: a complete diff of Wii U system software 5.5.5 https://pastebin.com/LVz6UMmd
(it's very short)
hey, if anyone can figure out exactly what OpenSSL function X509_STORE_get1_certs does (undocumented apparently) I would very much appreciate it, understanding exactly what changed in wiiu update 5.5.5 hinges on that function
the wikipedia article for Generation Z kinda reads like a surrealist art piece about trying to understand the fellow kids
I know the entire concept of generations is about making sweeping assumptions, but like, woah
shoutouts to sentences starting with "teenagers nowadays" in an article about people up to 24 years old (assuming a '97 start, I've seen some sources talk about '93)
the ternary operator is easily the best thing in c-like languages
Ash
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everyone wants to give lesbians a sword, but too few are asking which sword is the correct one, aesthetically and tactically, for the lesbian I care about
Ash
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Drinking water and staying hydrated for extra glossy fur!!! #EeveeCareTips 
Ash
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@quarky even if you disable "top pages" it shows up so I had to enable them, disable sponsored sites and then disable it again
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@Lazol ..ah. I might have made a post theorising about how they might do that kind of thing and taint the search bar. sad to hear they in fact, have done so already
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@quarky thanks, the thing is the same pops up if you click into the address bar - amazon and eBay are prominently displayed there. Not that I use that feature much but its been irking me for a few days now and I couldnt find shit about it anywhere until now
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just gonna post this graph again [ from http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html ]
so I guess I should start thinking seriously about a backup plan...... Konqueror? IceWeasel? bit stuck here
they do actually link to their provider's privacy policy - "adMarketplace" https://www.admarketplace.com/privacy-policy/
from that it appears this company's bread and butter is sponsored search results, custom search bars to favour ads, predictive results, that kind of thing
and, one will note, right above their brand new ad spot in Firefox is.. a search bar. the browser's search bar. I think I can read between the lines w/r/t what mozilla's future plans are here
"This project started as a fork of Dockerflow, used it as a solid foundation to implement a simple Express-based proxy server for link replacement experiments in Firefox."
- literally all the information I am given
also shoutouts to this article both
- admitting they share "anonymised technical data" with the advertising partners, with that text being a link
- the link, instead of leading to something like a privacy policy or list of that data, leads to a *GitHub repository* which appears to be for some kind of proxying server
so that did not answer my question
seems I have been Selected for a trial of Brand New In Browser Advertising like I'm an Opera user or something https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy
hmm mozilla does know that I am trusting them to handle things like my complete browsing history right?
guess I'm not sleeping huh. the guitarist is pretty cute tho I like his beanie and dances
light caps
up past bedtime and I have JUST NOW watched the Call Me Maybe video and noticed the twist at the end
it's been 9 years
