the main probrem isn’t really what data is used for verification, but what data is made unavailable without it. if some conservative asshole decides that resources on sexual health (or alternate sexualities) are pornographic, then that information is effectively gone for everyone under 18 or without an account.

it’s the basis of orca fullspectrum!

orcaslicer allows you to add filaments needed for a print and paint your model with them, and the snapmaker fork simply picks the closest match of the colors and materials you’ve chosen to the ones it has loaded. you don’t really need to care about which extruder has what, as long as you set the right type of filament on the printer. and if you use rfid spools that’s also automatic. you can of course override that in the slicer if it selects the wrong filament.

the easiest way to start with is to simply fetch the loaded filaments from the printer and use those. when snapmaker orca is connected to the printer you get a “loaded filaments” section in the selection dropdown.

several studies over the past few years have shown that a majority of people do not use ai and actively pick products without ai when given the choice. going after the majority feels like a better business decision.

most things. swimming, jogging, balance, juggling, knitting, whittling, lathing, bathing, dogs, pogs, poker, snooker, cooking, docking, greeting, seating, studying, cuddling, fishing, threshing…

oh believe you me i am incredibly concerned about all of it. but they didn’t listen to feedback, is the point. it’s still there, it still pops up randomly due to no accessibility research, it’s still blue.

they added an ai summary section. it’s disabled by default but it consists more than half of the popup and if disabled has a big blue button on it that activates ai features, the only big blue button on the popup, and it says “continue”. or, it does now. it used to be bigger and say “See more with AI” or some shit.

all of that is correct and also basically what i said. the reason it became a big deal was because of accessibility. the definition of a “long press” is short enough that older users, who tend to hold the mouse button down for longer after a click, were suddenly seeing popup windows everywhere and, believing it to be an issue of the site they were on, assumed their popup blocker was broken. the timing was adjusted to one second in an update and also the long press shortcut was made optional.

when it was pointed out to mozilla that having a popup containing one big blue button in a popup with fancy graphics around it might also be harking back to the popup ads of yore, and that it might compel people to click on the only visible button on instinct, their head of firefox did an interview with pc world where he countered this with, and i’m paraphrasing here, “nuh-uh”. this was in reference to an ama they did where several interaction experts weighed in with frankly pretty standard stuff: don’t surprise the user, don’t shove things in their face, don’t draw attention needlessly.

this condemnation coming after they enabled the link preview popup by default because “it’s not ai” and having a big “activate ai now!!!” button take up half of it, and then doubling down when people rightfully pointed out to them that this is a textbook dark pattern, makes it hypocritical.

puppy linux! an entire live graphical desktop system with browser and office suite compressed to fit in 300MB, so you can run it from RAM and use the USB for storage.

advertising is just propaganda without a cause