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We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43801404
Following in the footsteps of Hashicorp, Hudson, etc. Zed has chosen to cash in the good will of its now substantial user base and start going to full corporate enshittification. Among other things like minimum age nonsense, they have also added binding mandatory opt-OUT arbitration.
I find such agreements very troubling, because it gives up public funded dispute resolution for private which nearly unanimously benefits larger entities, it lowers transparency to near zero, and eliminates the abilities to act as a class and to appeal. But I worry most will just accept it, as is the norm.
You can however opt out by emailing [email protected] with full legal name, the email address associated with your account, and a statement that you want to opt out.
I'll just consider my days of advocating for Zed as an interesting new editor over and go back to Neovim bliss.
https://zed.dev/blog/terms-update#links-and-contactOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldWe Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43801404
Following in the footsteps of Hashicorp, Hudson, etc. Zed has chosen to cash in the good will of its now substantial user base and start going to full corporate enshittification. Among other things like minimum age nonsense, they have also added binding mandatory opt-OUT arbitration.
I find such agreements very troubling, because it gives up public funded dispute resolution for private which nearly unanimously benefits larger entities, it lowers transparency to near zero, and eliminates the abilities to act as a class and to appeal. But I worry most will just accept it, as is the norm.
You can however opt out by emailing [email protected] with full legal name, the email address associated with your account, and a statement that you want to opt out.
I'll just consider my days of advocating for Zed as an interesting new editor over and go back to Neovim bliss.
https://zed.dev/blog/terms-update#links-and-contactOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldWe Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch
Following in the footsteps of Hashicorp, Hudson, etc. Zed has chosen to cash in the good will of its now substantial user base and start going to full corporate enshittification. Among other things like minimum age nonsense, they have also added binding mandatory opt-OUT arbitration.
I find such agreements very troubling, because it gives up public funded dispute resolution for private which nearly unanimously benefits larger entities, it lowers transparency to near zero, and eliminates the abilities to act as a class and to appeal. But I worry most will just accept it, as is the norm.
You can however opt out by emailing [email protected] with full legal name, the email address associated with your account, and a statement that you want to opt out.
I'll just consider my days of advocating for Zed as an interesting new editor over and go back to Neovim bliss.
https://zed.dev/blog/terms-update#links-and-contactOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldHappy Thanksgiving! What are you thankful for?
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, because it celebrates the harvest and can be treated as a day for gratitude. My family also calls it T. Hanks Giving and celebrates by eating pie and watching Tom Hanks movies.
I’m thankful for many things, this year my puppy. He has been great for my family and my mental health personally. For what are you thankful?
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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Framing Logic - The Insane Influencer Logic That Tricked Millions of People
Interesting new logic analysis channel on the scene and it seems very well done.
Slow motion what now...
I find the hard puzzles take a long time too.
Said of Mozilla’s recent change to terms and privacy.
NeovideProject - A macOS application that manages Neovide instances per Git repository, providing a seamless project-based editing experience.
I like smooth scroll. I love Neovim. So I use Neovide. But I really wanted a nice way to manage instances per git repository / project, including server / remote socket management and allowing files to be opened into the correct instance. It detects running instances and opens into or switches to them accordingly.
This is also integrated into Finder and open via a swift wrapper. So one can, for example, use raycast to quick switch projects.
Check it out if that sounds interesting. There is also a longer video guide on the Usage wiki.
https://github.com/theherk/NeovideProjectOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldZen Browser - A very nice, Firefox-based, clean UI browser
This has gotten some attention, especially about a week ago, but I really hope more people will continue to try it and, if interested, support it. It is Firefox, but heavily modified to please a different audience that prefers a slightly different UI than Firefox. It has some of the appeal of Arc, Vivaldi, and the Sidebery extension.
In my view, it is very promising, and all competition in this space is good. Here it is on Github, also.
Get YouTube share URL sans tracking query param
When you copy the URL for sharing in YouTube, it adds a query parameter now, so=blah, for tracking the source. This removes that. It could of course be smarter and stop at either the end or the next parameter, but since I haven’t seen any extras, I just remove everything after.
What is your favorite anthropology documentary?
I am especially interested in the initial migrations into the Americas 15,000+ years ago, but our community is small and my interests large, so... any great documentaries are welcome.
Dear YouTube; About that Chapter Skipping Feature
Please, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, allow us to disable this chapter skipping feature (the one where tapping left or right to bring up the scrubber, then double tapping the other direction because 100% of people want to skip that direction some unit time - 10 seconds by default). This ends up feeling random and is just vexing.
It is the worst feature added to any software, maybe ever in the history of computing. How many hours are wasted trying to figure out where one was in this video? How much power and network bandwidth is consumed fighting this feature that I’ve not seen a single comment online of anybody benefitting from ever.
This feature is adding to human suffering by wasting energy and damaging people psychologically. Go please, look online, and consider castigating the creator of this feature in the public square. And then take a good hard look at yourself for not stopping this evil from ever being added in the first place.
Yours aye, Sane People
Has The Browser Company made any statements about Manifest v3 and Arc?
I’m curious if they have made any public statements on the topic. Now that the deprecation of MV2 is back on a schedule, a lot of Chromium forks will be affected by the change.
I’m a huge FLOSS and Firefox fan, but Arc’s UX is unparalleled in my view and I’ve switched for the time.
I can’t find anything on their website, YouTube, or Discord that makes a firm statement on the topic, but it would be very reassuring if they would or have.
State of current alternatives
There are currently several applications available for iOS to access Lemmy instances. Each of which has its own benefits and drawbacks. I love Voyager (or wefwef as I still like to call it), but even the installed app is I believe just a repackaged PWA. So I’ve been looking at alternatives that vary from PWA to native Swift implementations. The list I’ve checked out so far are.
- Avelon
- Bean
- Mlem
- Memmy
- Voyager / vger.app
I know Lemma is forthcoming, also.
I’m wondering what others current preferences are including values like price, license, governance, and features.
It feels to me like the days before Apollo arose where there were many great Reddit apps, but none that stood head and shoulders above the rest. Does anybody feel there is an app shining to that degree yet as Apollo did once it hit the scene?
