GeckoEidechse

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by GeckoEidechse 3y ago
Maybe OP felt addressed xD
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
In regards to Mozilla creating an Electron alternative, they already tried that. It was called Proton and it never caught on but was solely bleeding money so they had to shut it down again.
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Seems like there's a now an account for it on Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Well the article is a about German health insurance so without mentioning it explicitly it's not clear that you were talking about the US system :P
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Just go to about:compat in Firefox and you can see them. Most of them are simple UA locks but some require more advanced logic.
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Currently the 3rd most requested feature on Mozilla Connect is native vertical tabs: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/native-vertical-tabs-li... Any chance we could see something like this in Pulse Browser or
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
On the topic of Twiter, Mastodon, and the Fediverse, why do federated FOSS alternatives to popular platforms not offer a read-only version of said platform as one of its instances to augment its lack of content? In the example of Twitter, N
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Yeah no, modifying logic of a binary application as large and complex as modern web browsers is slightly more involved than the Discord frontend mods that essentially just tweak some CSS and or HTML and JavaScript.
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Repairability and device thinness are by no means mutually exclusive IMO. When LTT did a review of the Framework laptop for example they also did a size comparison with a similarly specced Dell laptop and found that the framework both thinn
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Planned obsolescence? Batteries are consumables, so once it's dead the consumer is essentially forced to buy a new model.
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
While the limitation to newer models sucks. The fact that thanks to (planned) legislation Apple feels pressured to make parts available to consumers is an absolute win for right to repair. Is Apple doing as much as they can to make this as
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
As much as I hate the whole cryptocurrency hype myself, I think I agree that a proof-of-work requirement on spam detection that pays in the hosts favour could help solve spam to some degree.
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
I wonder if a general solution could be to make the visit more computationally demanding to the visitor than to the host, e.g. some form of proof-of-work. I guess captchas already do that in some sense but they require the humans to do the
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Austria and Switzerland definitely have better train service than Germany. In fact the Austrian federal railways (ÖBB) even bought up the majority of DB's night train routes after DB considered decommissioning them ^^
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Bringing us back to the discussion about threat models :P
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Yet some of the tactics of spammers/scammers are so obvious that it's surprising YouTube doesn't provide simple solutions for some of the case. For example a common example as MKBHD mentioned is scammers impersonating channel
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
Yeah I switched away from Wire again due to constant notification issues (yes battery saving options are disabled on Android). My session has since timed out and trying to log back in on either mobile or desktop just causes the app to crash
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by GeckoEidechse 4y ago
While this was not stated in the linked post, other sources said it will be limited to x86 chromebooks that run 11th+ gen Intel CPUs or equivalent. That basically limits it to models that cost >800$ making it a very niche product.
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
As others have already mentioned, the process is interestingly enough reversible (to some degree) by simply subjecting it to a colder environment like a freezer for a bit.
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
Maybe a bit off-topic but will upcoming Matrix Live also be hosted via Matrix VoIP now? ^^ (At least the smaller ones like interviews where the number of participants is <=8 until compatibility with SFU is done)
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
https://matrix.org/faq/#what-is-the-difference-between-matri...
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
Why not just use FluffyChat? https://fluffychat.im/
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
Yes but the current UX for that is terrible. With the proposed MSC linked in the blog post, Matrix will additionally gain Teamspeak/Discord like voice channels [1]. With this we could finally have a proper Teamspeak/Mumble bridge
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
While you could use it for hosting a business, I wouldn't recommend doing so without some business plan that offers SLA. I might be incredibly unlucky but I had two major multi day downtimes with Init7 (neither their fault). If you dep
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
I had similar issues where I had to basically restart both the pipewire and the Bluetooth daemon after each reboot before being able to connect my headset. My "solution" was basically to drop using pipewire for now.
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
The issue though is that this will give the sender of a message the impression that what they are sharing will stay private, even though there are from a technical standpoint no such guarantees.
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
Windows Store?
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
Same. I may have bought a PinePhone but it's running mobian with phosh, so all the heavy lifting to get a working phone UI was done by Purism including GTK libraries like libhandy (now libadwaita). I'm ever grateful for their work
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
> Let me pay for Firefox development directly Same. I already donate to the Mozilla Foundation but I'd love to fund Firefox more directly.
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by GeckoEidechse 5y ago
I mean a reason SMS gets its hate is because the moment you send a message across international borders you start paying ridiculously large sums of money (compared to the amount of data transferred) for every single message. If you now take

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