What would the advantage be of this vs just investing the money yourself or putting your money into a retirement fund like one of the Vanguard Target Retirement 20xx Funds?

Epilogue:

Sorry to hear about your family member's passing. Hope things go as well as they can. Thanks for all of your work on Tesseract, I've been enjoying using it! FWIW, I'm trying out nix (very much a beginner), and I got it running locally with this minimal flake.nix:

{
  description = "A Nix-flake-based Node.js development environment";

  inputs = { nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-24.11"; };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, ... }:
    let
      system = "x86_64-linux";
    in {
      devShells."${system}".default =
        let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
        in pkgs.mkShell {
          packages = with pkgs; [ nodejs nodePackages.pnpm yarn ];

          shellHook = ''
            npm install
            npm run build
            npm run start
          '';
        };
    };
}

I don't really do frontend stuff, so no idea if that's the best way to spin stuff up, but it's working 👍

EDIT: Also, looks like 1.4.31 hasn't been merged into main yet?

Sorry, worded that somewhat confusingly. FairEmail and Thunderbird are both open source apps that I use as clients for my Fastmail account, which probably isn't open source (I haven't checked)

Good name and picture for a magic card. Tried making a custom card with it:

I use Fastmail with a custom domain for hosting, and FairEmail as my Android app and Thunderbird as my desktop client. Pretty happy with that setup, the apps don't do any data mining and are fully open source

That's awesome, posted it over in [email protected]: https://discuss.online/post/16890619

This isn't a one-off thing, it's part of a trend, and that's the part that I'm worried about. If everything was peachy except for one small TOS change I'd shrug and say it was an oversight. Mozilla is dipping their toes into advertising though, which IMO has a corrosive effect that will keep nudging them towards privacy invasion. Here's a few examples:

They removed this section from the FAQ:

Does Firefox sell your personal data?

Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

Why would they go out of their way to remove that unless they're selling it or are planning to? (before and after)

And then the Firefox Privacy Notice states:

Mozilla collects technical and interaction data, such as the position, size, views and clicks on New Tab content or ads, to understand how people are interacting with our content and to personalize future content, including sponsored content. This data may be shared with our advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.

They're selling your data and it's opt-out, not opt-in. That's not cool IMO. They also bought an advertising company, and they're not doing that because they're moving away from advertising as a business model.

Yes, they're saying a few nice things about "privacy-preserving", but good anonymization is hard, they've got a clear trend towards advertising and making money off of selling your data, and there's no good reason for the trend to stop at "just the tip". So to wrap that all back around to the submitted article, here's what they changed to it first:

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

That's super vague, does "selling my data to advertisers" count as "helping me experience online content"? I obviously don't think so, but does Mozilla agree? Here's the updated one after the backlash:

You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

"Purpose of doing as you request with the content you input" is a lot better language that is less vague. It's not perfect (silently adding in opt-out features probably counts as "doing what I request"), but is still way better.

Which is all to say that I think this change was indeed cause for concern, the backlash helped improve the language, and that Mozilla no longer sparks joy.

Thanks, I really appreciate reading context like this!

Have you been to Acme Comedy Club in the twin cities? I'm on their mailing list and they semi-regularly send me breathless emails like "WE'VE BOOKED THIS PERSON". I don't know if I'm just out of touch or if they're exaggerating the importance of the shows, but I don't really recognize any of the names. I should probably just remove myself from their mailing list I guess

Not really sure. Maybe there's a lot of Vegas haters on Lemmy? It was kind an off-the-cuff pick to start the conversation more than some deeply-held desire of mine to visit.

I did notice there was one user downvoting every comment in the thread so far and they got banned. I also discovered piefed's private voting feature, which is interesting: https://piefed.social/post/205362

If you click on one of the yellow boxes it'll show the first letter, and if you click a second time it'll reveal the word

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Nice, that was fun!

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I think Firefox should be considered dead.

They responded to this backlash yes, but only really because of historical accident. They don't want to create a privacy-focused browser, and they don't like their privacy-focused users. They will enshittify, it'll just take longer because they have to play "just the tip" more carefully.

The alternative landscape is not there yet, but there' some hope. Ladybird seems like it's the farthest along, with the dev successfully using it to order a pizza online:

https://xcancel.com/awesomekling/status/1846607417343463524

Servo is not quite as far as Ladybird but is making good progress. Here's a recent HN thread about the 2024 progress update which links to a general progress comparison. The numbers need to be taken with a grain of salt, because Google has pushed through a number of "standards" that nobody else will implement except for them

Thanks for the heads up, deleting

It definitely has that specific meaning, but can be more general (at least IMO, I wouldn't bat an eyelid if someone used this sense with me):

To do something as a means of reducing or eliminating shyness, awkward tension, or unfamiliarity.

Everyone was deathly silent after John went ballistic and left the meeting. I tried breaking the ice with a joke, but it didn't help.

Hard to search through all the blogspam about the topic but personal anecdotal experience says yes, fwiw

Thanks for reminding me of that comic 👍

Yeah, it would be interesting to take an alternate history view of how successful MLK Jr. would've been without Malcolm X providing a real threat. There was a related Lemmy post with some good conversation:

https://slrpnk.net/post/19001797