Redjard

foss is about a lot more than not paying.

It’s about trust, being able to know what software is doing. That is in the source-available part. I can never be as certain a pirated (or legitimate) binary blob isn’t secretly leaking telemetry or documents off my system, or doing anything else of the infinite things I dont want software doing.

It’s about safety, from poor decisions and hostile decisions. If my foss software is enshittifying, I can use a fork, which can be created with comparatively little effort and can still otherwise track upstream. With proprietary software I am completely fucked, and with a pirated version best I can do is continue using the old version, being locked out from any new features I do want.

It’s about security. Both in the sense of the trust benefit knowing there are no intentional backdoors, and in the bug sense where foss simply does better in identifying vulnerabilities before major malicious actors do.

Our modern world and especially proprietary software fucks you in plenty of ways, and most of them aren’t an easily visible price tag. More and more software corporations are earning most of their money from spying on or abusing the users of their software, even for paid software. This money is spent on doing things to the users they would never want, otherwise why would you need to pay? It is money they will earn back when you get denied health ensurance based on your unreleased draft of a book you were writing that chrome sent to googles servers for “virus scanning”, which the insurers ai flagged as a mental health risk indicator.
I recommend you don’t participate in the global expetiment of how much intransparent software can ruin your life.

I built it 6 months ago on a 3700x, took 3h. Where firefox took 20 minutes

I would not say that necessarily. I asked the Gentoo people and they had similar setups with 12h. At 4GB ram it’ll mainly come down to swapping, so disk speed.
If the 5 days were you experience, was it using a slow hdd?

It appears they just did, as of a few minutes ago while I was looking into it

Here is the now open private components repo under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
And I forked it just to be sure

On lineageOS 20 it records the exact android build string as the Software for me, so “Android lineage_pdx215-userdebug 13 TQ3A.230901.001 b30079afa2”. Which is probably enough to uniquely identify me, and you if you have a less common phone or are on an older or uncommon version.

Needless to say I am pissed.

Even with OCR, couldn’t your copy at least in theory be laced with strategically placed minor word changes? Say throughout the book you pick 30 spots to change a word without changing the meaning of the text, or you introduce a typo. If every copy gets a different set of those that would be a unique identifier.
I think I have heard that being done with imperceptable changes in films sent for showings in theaters.

2 days ago I commented on an empty post, and as per usual reloaded right after (habbit from the reddit days with their unreliable servers). After reloading it also fetched 2 other comments, I think one about half and one 1 hours ago. I did notice the timing as suspicious, my comment was short so it would be unlikely for federation to happen right in that window but not the previous hour, right?

Maybe the federation you are seeing is triggered by some kind of interaction?

Actually it happens on the forked profile too now, restarting ff did not clear the cache there and it only occurs on newly opened pages now, so what I assume happened was I initially tested while ubo was not yet updated, since the laptop has been sleeping for a while. The browser generated a bunch of cache entries for my test pages and those continued working when ff updated ubo. Clearing the cache now has it break on all pages and fix itself when ubo is disabled like on the other device.
Therefore this seems like a clear ubo issue, independent of platform and other factors. All 3 affected profiles have similar ubo config, so I’ll investigate that now. However it is not a firefox issue, I will move the issue elsewhere.

I have Pinned it on uBlock Origin.
ubo seems to prevent creation of cache for pages while it is active.
Testing around with enabling and disabling addons, I saw the issue disappear. I then reenabled all addons and the issue was still gone. So I restarted and it came back. Then I disabled one after another, and got to it being ubo. I then tried disabling it, loading a “gallery page” and an entry on it, then reenabling ubo. The pages were still cached, but visiting a different entry would reload that one every time. Same for any other newly opened “gallery” and “entry” pages.
This explains why this didn’t happen in the test profile, which has no addons installed, but the mirrored profile on the laptop does have ubo and ff on the same version, however I do not observe the behavior there. I will investigate further.

I have now tried this behavior on more profiles and devices (originally I tested on 2 profiles), and it it seems this behavior isn’t universal. On the same device (gentoo linux) and a laptop (windows 10) I do not see this behavior. One profile (my main profile) has many historic changes, the other though is quite new and not very unconventional settings wise. Both see this issue. The third profile on the same device is basically empty, only used for testing a few times.
However the win10 profile is a fork of my main profile from 1.5y ago, and should thus be similar in usage and configuration weirdness, yet it works just fine. The only Idea I have right now is it being related to the number of tabs open, since the two profiles seeing the issue have probably over 100 over multiple windows, while the other two only have a single window with maybe 10-20 tabs. Through opening a number of heavy tabs I could not recreate this yet. A restart doesn’t fix it either, meaning the tabs in their unloaded state would still contribute if that were the cause.