Uhh, if you were the kind of enormous asshole that Elon Musk is, would you want to ride in any unarmored car?

I don’t understand how people get so easily manipulated into hating someone that has done so much to change our life’s

1. Not all change is good, you dimwitted simpleton.

2. It’s lives.

I feel like there’s a difference between various moderators power-tripping on their own little fiefdoms, and a site wide policy.

There are two people Trump will never blame: himself, and Putin.

Not to mention the patron saint of mediocrity was really good himself:

Was that 77,000 just the federal workers that they were forced to rehire?

“Shady Pines Resident”

Hey, I heard Shady Pines burned down in a mysterious fire…

He may not be consciously aware of it but he does know it. That insecurity is what drives narcissistic sociopaths like himself and Trump.

Also Stewart is something Elon is not: educated.

Jon Stewart knows his shit; Elon Musk knows he’s shit.

America is such a failed state we couldn’t even do that part right.

As the saying goes, “orbit is halfway to anywhere.”

Getting into and out of gravity wells takes far more fuel than moving between planetary bodies. A space elevator that can take cargo from lunar orbit to the surface and back removes one difficulty, while being slightly less sci-fi-ish than a terrestrial elevator.

The one comforting fact about that is that each of those groups are smaller than the one previous: there are more Black Americans than gay Americans, and there are more gay Americans than trans Americans. As each group gains wider cultural acceptance, the fascists have to target smaller and smaller groups to keep the hate that unites them going.

Eventually we’ll see this same bigotry directed towards left-handed Thursday sock-knitters.

He’s since deleted the post, but in a followup comment he mentioned the irony of talking about becoming a warlord using a picture of Max, a noted warlord killer.

As typical for all right-wingers, Musk is utterly incapable of critically examining art.

I don’t know if Trump is a Russian asset, but he’s doing all the things a Russian asset would do.

Should that license then also clarify that the kernel will not clean my dishes for me?

Of course it should. It should also clarify that you’ll only get a blowjob on your birthday and you’ll have to do your own taxes, you deeply unserious person. 🙄

You do not need to give Firefox or Mozilla permission to “do” anything when you simply navigate to a website or perform a search, because the only entities involved in that transaction are yourself, your ISP and the website. NOT Mozilla.

Again, as I’ve already pointed out this is not correct. You don’t interact with websites directly; you interact with them through your web browser.

To be super clear here: Yes, Firefox as an installed application has complete and total access and permission on anything you ever do or say or send, and always has done since day 1. And that is absolutely fine, because that data did not go back to Mozilla.

Except you don’t know that. You can’t say what expectations you might have had with whatever data you provided because there was no policy published to say what Mozilla might have done with it. Now, there is.

Does Notepad need a license to interpret your keystrokes and save them to a file?

Oh look at that, a privacy policy in Notepad that tells you how Microsoft uses the data you type into Notepad.

Interpreting my keystrokes and formatting them as an HTTP request to the search engine should not require any online service

It doesn’t. The policy covers what happens after that. Sure, open up Firefox and type whatever you want in the address bar and you can be as private as you want. The second you press Enter is when Firefox does stuff with what you typed, and Mozilla is saying that when you push Enter you give them permission to do that stuff. You’re giving Mozilla permission to send your search to Google for midget porn, or to post your pro-Trump rant to Facebook, or email your great-Grandma’s secret oatmeal raisin cookie recipe to your ex-wife.

It’s turning an implicit use of a web browser (“Of course we’re sending your search to Google and nowhere else wink”) into an explicit use (“When you provide data to Firefox, we’re gonna do this with it, cool?”)

That’s the thing: you do interact with the web browser. It’s literally the first thing that has to happen before accessing the Internet.

You don’t type directly into Facebook; you don’t search Google directly. You type into a text box in web page rendered by your browser. Your browser handles the HTTPS encryption as well as sending everything you type to the next layer in the network stack. That’s what Mozilla’s policy is clarifying- the very act of typing data into Firefox means you’re giving data to Firefox, so they’re telling you what happens to that data when you do (which is not “send it to Mozilla”).

I agree, and so does Mozilla. From the linked blog post:

Regarding our position around licensing, we need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use the words you type into Firefox to perform your searches, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice. We’ve added this note to our blog to clarify, so thank you for your feedback.

Here’s the Privacy Notice referenced above. While I agree with you that they are vague about their “Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors” they supply data to (read: Google) they do provide ways for you to request that data.

Seems weird. Should the linux kernel be getting my permission to send what I type from the keyboard to Firefox? What about when the kernel sends what firefox does through my wifi card? It gets silly real quick.

Should they not? Do you want everything you type on your computer, even stuff that’s not meant to be seen publicly, to be sent somewhere without your knowledge?

A few months ago everyone was in an uproar because Microsoft wanted to do that very thing with Windows Recall. Why is that idea preposterous just because Firefox is telling you about it?