Mark Twain knew what's up : memes

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

That's the guy from that TNG episode!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I say, indeed it is

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Twin Twain's? That dog won't hunt.

[-] funkless_eck 3 points 2 months ago

and the award for most irritating impersonation goes to...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Rick Sanchez

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For those unaware, I believe it is Time's Arrow from Season 5 & 6 Episodes 26 & 1

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

To quote the great Mahatma Gandhi: "Yes"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I just wish Firefox had a "stay running in the background" option like Chrome so that I didn't have to log back into my Bitwarden vault everytime I accidentally close all of my browser windows.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Seems to be a security feature that is bypassed by a Chrome feature.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Sounds like an OPSEC disaster waiting to happen.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Go to about:config - find option browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab - set to false. If you're only using the close tab button, it will never close out of the program. If you're closing a lot of windows using the window control though that won't really help.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This did actually help a lot, thanks!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It also is very unstable when using multiple profiles. The profiles update individually, so very often you start a second profile and it updates firefox, which makes the first profile not work anymore. You don't really notice that though, it just stops loading any websites.

Also on mobile it stops streams running in the background after some time, so when listening to something via firefox you have to actively use FF while listening, can't leave the phone turned to standby

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

On mobile, I've found that switching tabs before switching away from the FF activity mitigates this. Not sure if it's FF, the website, or Android messing it up, really.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The original quote is every bit as true too

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What about Safari? Why no one ever talked about it?

It's the only browser (that I know of) that allows Netflix streaming in 4k.

[-] vale 9 points 2 months ago

I'd assume because the majority of people here don't use Apple products

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That's only because you use a Mac, on Windows only Edge allows 4k Netflix. It's the integrated browsers that have the HDCP hardware features so it allows 4K

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Could that be achieved with "Chrome on Windows" spoofing on FF?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

No. For 4K Netflix the browser needs to talk to a specific, locked down, part of your Intel (!) CPU. This only works on Edge in Windows or Safari on MacOS (it also works with the Store apps). It never works on Linux and it does not work on Chrome or Firefox.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Waterfox agrees with you to some degree

[+] [email protected] -10 points 2 months ago

Chrome is the pimp Firefox is the whore. Vanilla Firefox is full of spyware from Google.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

How do you figure? Firefox is not a chromium based browser, and Mozilla is not owned by google.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

Yes, Firefox is not based on Chromium but that doesn't exempt it from being full of built-in Google crap

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Examples?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

YOU are the one making the claim so YOU NEED TO PROVIDE THE PROOF.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

just make a check of your DNS requests and open about:config and you will see a lot of google crap

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Absolutely not, and there are other forks like Waterfox and Librewolf which are very much focussed on providing custom versions of FF, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, this forks are better than Vanilla Firefox but I'm not referring to them in this case

Other point, Firefox is not so secure as you think

[+] [email protected] -41 points 2 months ago

All I know is he really loved including the N-word in his books.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

You know that part of Huckleberry Finn where his dad goes on a racist tirade? That was actually criticism of poor whites being ok with their shit conditions simply because they could look down on black people. Twain was based as fuck for his time period.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Mark Twain’s quotes are my goto in many situations. He is based AF, indeed.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

That's because people sure liked to say it around the time he wrote them

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Of all the shit you could call Mark Twain out on, treatment of African Americans isn't one of them. His books humanized them, despite his upbringing in a community where slavery was ordained by the church and state, and his father owning several as well. As he grew older, those views became more and more apparent.

He's required reading material in a lot of Critical Race Theory courses.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Just don't quote him on his view of American Indians.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah, he treated them like subhumans.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Educated 13 year old right here

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Wait - are you saying people didn't have our modern social norms back then? Who would have thought!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Average Twitter user when something doesn't have immediate context

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