Sylos

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by Sylos 7y ago
Right, and I guess this is in particular a problem that Linux/BSD distributions face, where they want to apply small patches for interoperability and the like, but still want to offer it to their users as "Rust".
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by Sylos 7y ago
As someone from the EU: Also a blocker for all these Cookie notices (and I guess also Cookies). I've been test-driving Mozilla's experimental Fenix browser. It already supports Tracking Protection (which happens to block most ads
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by Sylos 7y ago
Half-offtopic: I find it very interesting that Rasbian sticks to LXDE. I thought that was going to slowly disappear, with LXQt having developer attention and there being no path forward towards HiDPI and well, Wayland (because neither GTK2
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by Sylos 7y ago
There's also wlroots-rs, which provides safe Rust bindings for wlroots: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots-rs But yeah, you would still need the C toolchain with this.
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by Sylos 7y ago
You'll have to nudge the F-Droid maintainers for that. They grab the source code and compile it themselves. The app developer isn't really involved, they just provide the source code and ideally ensure that it can be easily built
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by Sylos 7y ago
As aasasd pointed out, it exists, but isn't part of the core distribution. The openSUSE folks include it (Geeko) in the version that you find in their repositories, so that's why you might think that it is included by default.
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by Sylos 7y ago
> This is a common error. Macroscopic "everyday" objects don't have a definite position and momentum. Macroscopic objects are quantum objects. But when the mass is big enough, the position and momentum can be defined simul
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by Sylos 7y ago
I have actually never shared my location, so no idea what features one might want for that, but this one is open-source, so relatively trustworthy: https://f-droid.org/app/ca.cmetcalfe.locationshare
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by Sylos 7y ago
Clearly, it was a revelation to him. Which is Google's fault, not his. Google should communicate clearly and visibly what data they use and for what.
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by Sylos 7y ago
From an accessibility point of view, it's also recommended to avoid links that only span over such half-sentences. Screen reader users will often navigate your page by cycling through the links that are on the page and then they'l
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by Sylos 7y ago
Let me put it like this: I consider it only a matter of time before a lawsuit for this completes and Facebook has to pay a multi-million dollar fine. A lawsuit against WhatsApp was filed in the night that the GDPR became active: https:&#x2
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by Sylos 7y ago
I appreciate the vigour, but it's probably easier to just use an ad blocker: https://f-droid.org/app/org.blokada.alarm
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by Sylos 7y ago
Just get a written permission from all of your contacts that you're allowed to upload their data to WhatsApp, like the rest of us clearly have. Or make it so that no one has anything against you ever. Because people have been sued alre
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by Sylos 7y ago
It's definitely true that Mozilla needs funding beyond what users are willing to donate. Especially with other 'free' browsers available. But all scandals that I'm aware of were nonsense that journalists wanted to believ
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by Sylos 7y ago
In my opinion, that is not really separate. Pretty much all companies constantly whip their employees to get things done as fast as possible. And if that definition of "done" does not explicitly contain interoperability, then even
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by Sylos 7y ago
I think, the major appeal of it is that it does everything. Lots of "productivity"-applications are either TODO-lists or meant for note-taking or good for writing down concepts or are knowledge bases. But you can't really sep
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by Sylos 7y ago
Servo is nowhere near production-ready and there's no reason to assume that it will be anytime soon. Just consider that Mozilla is pretty much working full-pelt on Gecko and merely keeping up with Google. They (as well as Google) are f
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by Sylos 8y ago
Yeah, and with FOSS this is all the more important. No one is going to play your game, if it's not fun. Few people are going to play your game, while it's not yet in some tangible way better than DF. And if people don't play
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by Sylos 8y ago
The trick with this material is that it pretty much reflects sound waves. On the way back, these reflected sound waves then crash into the upcoming soundwaves and they cancel each other out. Headphones with active/acoustic noise cancel
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by Sylos 8y ago
Firefox has still some clear advantages over Brave, thanks to owning their engine. A trivial example is the battery API. It's nowadays mainly used for tracking, but is an official webstandard. Mozilla decided to fuzzy it, so it lost it
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by Sylos 8y ago
Are you aware of the recent WebSQL remote code execution vulnerability? That's a pretty good reason for Mozilla's decision.
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by Sylos 8y ago
One very obvious point which somehow hasn't been named yet, is security. If Blink has a security vulnerability, like the recent WebSQL remote code execution, then in a monoculture that means everyone has this vulnerability.
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by Sylos 8y ago
I think one part of it is that HTML(5) and CSS have become much more powerful. In the past, if you wanted fancy animations or even just moving parts on your webpage, you needed to script that. Heck, you needed to embed Flash for any video o
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by Sylos 8y ago
Yeah, I simplified there. I remembered it being a really insignificant amount that they're limited to, and then more importantly, it's still a non-profit. If they take the money, they're just as well forced to reinvest it int
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by Sylos 8y ago
Oh yeah, as far as I remember, Google (and Facebook) said right away that they would not support DNT, before it became default in IE. With most webpages shipping code from Google/Facebook, that was also already pretty bad for DNT.
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by Sylos 8y ago
They've changed the default since then, again. Here's a source for them having had it on by default and turning it off again: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/03/microsoft_reverses_...
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by Sylos 8y ago
It could have had legal bearing, if Microsoft had not turned it on by default. Before DNT, the way consent basically worked was that companies just assumed you consented, and only if you specifically denied consent, they would have no chanc
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by Sylos 8y ago
> As if they thought I was 65+ years old. I think, it was rather that they thought you were using a touchscreen...
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by Sylos 8y ago
> And the second feature missing is the search highlight in the scrollbar. It's a mandatory feature for my when searching on a long page (like this one for example) to search for "firefox" and find in the scrollbar everywh
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by Sylos 8y ago
And the Mozilla Corporation is a 100% subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. That means their only stakeholder that they could pay out their profits to, is the Foundation, which can't take the money, because it's a non-p

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