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by adrianmalacoda 9mo ago
That assertion is also highly debatable. To me no part of releasing software under a free license implies a "stewardship role."
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by adrianmalacoda 9mo ago
The usual package for Firefox on Debian is `firefox-esr`. 44.18%. https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=firefox-esr The `firefox` package is only in `unstable` and thus installing it requires jumping through hoops.
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by adrianmalacoda 1y ago
The non-JS challenge[0] mentioned in the blog post is one based on HTTP meta refresh. The (hypothetical) WebAssembly challenge is proposed as an improvement on the existing JS proof-of-work challenge[1]. 0: https://anubis.techaro
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by adrianmalacoda 6y ago
Are they locked into github (using their proprietary APIs) or just using it as a git backend (using standard git tooling)? It's not clear from the article.
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by adrianmalacoda 6y ago
(IANAL) Yes, Lucasfilm actually owns several trademarks on the word droid, mainly in toys, computer games, and entertainment. Interpreted broadly, these trademarks cover "smart" devices, which are generally used to interact with e
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by adrianmalacoda 6y ago
Related: The origins of Doom's sound effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bgFpss0YFE Sound effect in question (104/107) is "FIRE, BALL - IMPACT AND LARGE FIRE BURST, RUMBLE" from The General Series
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by adrianmalacoda 7y ago
It was XBL (XML Binding Language)[0] that was removed, not XUL - which is being phased out and replaced with HTML where appropriate. 0: https://briangrinstead.com/blog/xbl-in-firefox/
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by adrianmalacoda 7y ago
> Eventually, Google replaced most references to SpottedFig.org in their documentation. They inexplicably left this one though Small nitpick: this is spottedfig dot com , a domain which they still control.
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by adrianmalacoda 7y ago
They're not "being weird about it." It's explicitly not "a Linux distro" because they intend for the kernel to be just another freely interchangeable component (as is mentioned), although I suppose there might
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
> using proprietary software make you a bad person We don't believe this. We argue that free software is important[0] because it gives users control over their technology, and proprietary software is bad because it denies users that
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
Proprietary software developers "love FOSS" when they can build their products on it. But, if users desire those same freedoms, they're suddenly fundamentalists or zealots.
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
Copyleft does not restrict "use," only distribution. In the case of VLC, the only people who would be restricted are people who want to make proprietary versions of it, and I can see why VideoLAN aren't too concerned about th
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
The list of allowed WebView implementations is baked into the ROM and, by default, only includes the AOSP WebView and various flavors of Chrome.
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
I'm not very familiar with TunnelBear but they appear to have instructions on how to connect from GNU/Linux with OpenVPN[0], so you might not even need their proprietary Android app to use their service. [0] https://www
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
I believe TunnelBear is highlighted because it is proprietary, not because it is evil (I'm not even sure if the author considers proprietary software in general to be evil; the author uses the word in reference to proprietary Google
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
There's something to be said for having a known good source of software that you can trust. GNU/Linux of course follows the same model, where you're expected to get the majority of your software from the distro repository. So
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
Free (Libre) Software is very often gratis as well, and generally breaks the "if you're not the customer..." rule. In the case of Android, there are community-maintained forks that do not include any of the Google stuff.
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
Given Pocket's inclusion in Firefox, it seems that Mozilla does indeed consider a "news feed" to be a "core function" of their browser.
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
I don't think your pedantic coworker's criticism is unreasonable at all. APIs, HTTP or otherwise, should communicate what they actually do as best as possible. I have no idea what "blue" is supposed to mean in context, a
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
This does not claim to be a markup language. According to the repo history, it did... 5 years ago, until someone noticed and corrected it.
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
There is also e.g. Chocolatey[0], which IIRC is the closest thing to a GNU/Linux package manager for Windows. I install and update from Chocolatey whenever possible. [0] https://chocolatey.org/
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
There is a libpurple/Pidgin plugin for Discord. As you might expect, however, it only exposes text chat and not any of the "rich" features such as voice chat or emote reactions. I don't know of any free software full rei
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
I recall when Mozilla announced that they were dropping legacy extension support, people were upset. Firefox legacy extensions pretty much had free reign in the browser internals, making them very powerful, but also making performance impro
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
Fellow Atom user here. According to Lee Dohm, Open Source Community Manager at GitHub, "Atom remains key to GitHub. Our product roadmap is set, and the team will continue all of their work." [0] [0] https://github.com&#
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
My thought exactly. For something that can easily be self-hosted, I feel a focus on a handful of "major platforms" is the wrong approach. Already people in this thread are saying that smaller well-known instances are "not maj
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
GNOME is a free software project (as self-described[0]) not merely an "open source" project. Therefore, while GitHub's place in the "open source" ecosystem and its contributions to said ecosystem are well known (and
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by adrianmalacoda 8y ago
Wouldn't be the first time that happened. Go had the same "issue." [0] The ticket was eventually closed with status "unfortunate" [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
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by adrianmalacoda 9y ago
Memory-Alpha[0] lists that rule as "Knowledge equals profit" so probably a mistake. [0] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition
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by adrianmalacoda 9y ago
There was indeed a rule at one point that apps had to be written in C, C++, or Objective-C. This was allegedly implemented in order to ban cross-compilers such as Flash compiler[0]. Presumably they would either require the source code to ve
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by adrianmalacoda 9y ago
If I'm understanding it correctly, though, prepending while(0) or even if(0) to the JSON would prevent the attack, because the JSON object would not actually be executed. I think they were asking if there was any particular reason to p

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