fabrice_d

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by fabrice_d 29d ago
The e/OS/ CEO said during an interview [1] that GrapheneOS, being a security hardened product, was especially useful for p*ophiles to evade justice. This is totally unacceptable. People defending e/OS/ (and Murena, same
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by fabrice_d 1mo ago
All models come with some bias. Given Meta's track record, I would not touch anything from them with a 10 feet pole.
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by fabrice_d 2mo ago
If you can, try again (don't forget to start with `./mach bootstrap` to install dependencies) and open an issue if the build fails. SpiderMonkey is shipped pre-compiled for most architectures, so it's not a big hurdle in term
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by fabrice_d 3mo ago
A pure AOSP distribution is now lacking a lot of basic apps. Distributions like LineageOS or GrapheneOS fill the gap with their own, but pure AOSP is totally unusable.
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by fabrice_d 3mo ago
You can switch to the AppView from https://mu.social/ and you'll get editing working.
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by fabrice_d 3mo ago
> You can’t even accurately calculate things like post likes. And maybe that's a good thing.
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by fabrice_d 4mo ago
I don't believe this is a good solution: users will obviously click on that add-on install dialog box without being better informed and protected against malicious / buggy / attacker controlled web sites. Hopefully they will
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by fabrice_d 4mo ago
It has build.rs that will run as soon as you compile the dependency. That's not the same thing but pretty close to a post install script: it's very likely to run.
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by fabrice_d 5mo ago
It's very naive to believe the "no influence" part. I will never give to Ladybird given their closeness with fascists. Is that the kind of influence they expect?
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by fabrice_d 5mo ago
If you are interested in new browsers / web runtimes, Servo publishes binaries monthly: https://servo.org/download/
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by fabrice_d 5mo ago
Probably because they don't leverage cosmetic filtering yet: https://docs.rs/adblock/latest/adblock/struct.Engine.html#me...
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Servo Baseline Readiness(webtransitions.org)
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by fabrice_d 7mo ago
I encourage you to read the short paragraph at https://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-co...
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by fabrice_d 7mo ago
> Perhaps, but in fairness the project was started in 2018 when Rust was still new and unproven. Rust was already proven in 2018, and I'm pretty sure they went with C++ for other reasons.
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by fabrice_d 7mo ago
You can't compare the choices made to evolve a >20 years old codebase with a brand new one. Firefox also as Rust support for XPCOM components, so you can use and write them in Rust without manual FFI (this comes with some baggage of
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by fabrice_d 7mo ago
Did you factor in the highest cost of life (including housing, healthcare, retirement, etc.) in the US in your 50% ?
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by fabrice_d 8mo ago
WhatsApp was using libsignal (the C version) when I worked on the KaiOS integration in 2017/2018.
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by fabrice_d 8mo ago
This is a cool project, and to render Simon's blog will likely become the #1 goal of AI produced "web browsers". But we're very far from a browser here, so that's not that impressive. Writing a basic renderer is rea
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by fabrice_d 8mo ago
Some people looked at some of the authors background: https://gameboat.bearblog.dev/the-resonant-computing-manifes... There are actually things to be very skeptical about.
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by fabrice_d 8mo ago
Some people are also opposed because of the negative externalities when building and running AI systems (environmental consequences, intellectual property theft), even if they understand that agentic coding "works". This is a vali
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by fabrice_d 10mo ago
Mozilla Corp. has > $1B in the bank. Their pockets are not empty.
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by fabrice_d 10mo ago
The billion laughs attack has well known solutions (basically, don't recurse too deep). It's not a reason to not implement DOCTYPE support.
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by fabrice_d 10mo ago
> I can get the source of the kernel, including all drivers, running on my android phone with a few clicks and build a custom ROM. No, most drivers are closed source and you can just extract binary blobs for them. They run as daemons tha
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by fabrice_d 10mo ago
According to Mozilla's own data at https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware Windows (7, 10 & 11) make up 84% of their user base.
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by fabrice_d 10mo ago
Most of Firefox user base has always been on Windows, not Linux. What OS do you think the "techies" that promoted Firefox to replace IE in the first place were running?
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by fabrice_d 11mo ago
Indeed, I did not see that!
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by fabrice_d 11mo ago
No, the phone variant of HarmonyOS runs on top of a Linux kernel.
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by fabrice_d 11mo ago
It is absolutely Google's security issue if they use an open source project with that license: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/HEAD:/COPYING.... and then expect volunteers to provide t
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by fabrice_d 11mo ago
Related: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/21817 You should likely join https://servo.zulipchat.com and ask questions to know where to start.
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by fabrice_d 11mo ago
On the web, if your server is compromised it's game over, even if the publisher is not malicious. In app stores, you have some guarantee that the code that ends up on your device is what the publisher intended to ship (basically signed

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