aevaSep 8, 2023

ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on

chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox

another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee

Show threadaevaSep 8, 2023
90% of you are in this picture and I don't like it
Show threadIvan Sagalaev Sep 8, 2023
@aeva funnily enough, I remember a poll on Mastodon (pre Musk migration) where Firefox turned out to be the majority browser, which surprised me a lot. May be it's time to run a new one.
Show threadfirewyreSep 9, 2023
@isagalaev @aeva feels like classic sampling bias, early mastodon users are exactly the kind of people that would use firefox
Show threadaevaSep 9, 2023
@firewyre @isagalaev the real sampling bias has been that my mentions have been complete dogshit since this hit 127 boosts. I figure it must have jumped over to the reddit clones branch of activitypub around that point.
Show threadIvan Sagalaev Sep 9, 2023
@aeva @firewyre had the same problem, but some good folks suggested I could mute the conversation. Which for some reason hadn't occurred to me before that :-)
Show threadaeva
@isagalaev @firewyre oh I mean, well, yes, and I even went and tacked an indignant vaguely threatening "muting this" post to the thread yesterday, but then for reasons I cannot explain, I've left the whole thing unmuted as a joke at my own expense to which I'm also the only person laughing. I tell myself it's a setup for a "don't believe everything you read on the internet" joke but no one's walked into it yet
Sep 9, 2023 at 8:40amWeb