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by intherdfield 8mo ago
https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/shortlog
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by intherdfield 3y ago
Apple already takes this approach to limit some entitlements to web browsers on macOS. See the Passkey entitlement as an example: com.apple.developer.web-browser.public-key-credential https://developer.apple.com/documentatio
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by intherdfield 4y ago
He didn't mean that literally. It's a tongue in cheek way of saying "when you're a 23 year old and you think you've mastered the markets, you don't think about wealth preservation." Original quote: "W
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by intherdfield 5y ago
Donations go to the Mozilla foundation which does "internet advocacy". Donations do not go towards Firefox development, not towards the CEO's salary or Firefox engineers' salary. What does the foundation do? https:&#x2F
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by intherdfield 6y ago
This narrative ignores the fact that many of the executives have been replaced whether voluntarily or involuntarily.
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by intherdfield 7y ago
On macOS, the PDF reader Preview.app runs sandboxed by default. The Preview.app sandbox is not quite as secure as what is used by browsers such as Firefox or Chrome on macOS for web content, so there is probably still a benefit to viewing P
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by intherdfield 7y ago
That seems really disingenuous. Can't you update the article with this important detail?
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by intherdfield 7y ago
I don't think you mentioned that the student doesn't have to pay back Lambda after 60 months of deferred payments. That seems important. From the Lambda site: "The income share agreement has no interest. It's a flat perc
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by intherdfield 7y ago
> FTFA "People who drank hot tea daily but didn't smoke or drink alcohol every day had no increased risk of oesophageal cancer." Actually, it's the opposite. From the article, "Some studies have suggested that on
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by intherdfield 8y ago
Apparently, the two are related. From the post, "We’ve recently learned that Google Accounts has slipped their schedule for using Web Authentication to register new credentials. This delay is attributed to security key support on Andro
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by intherdfield 8y ago
"The second vulnerability was in Microsoft Windows. It is a local privilege escalation in the Windows win32k.sys kernel driver that can be used as a security sandbox escape." https://security.googleblog.com/2019&#x
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by intherdfield 8y ago
This came up last month and a Tesla driver had this to say. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16822623
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by intherdfield 8y ago
> What prevents a new update to revert this or cause other safety problem? One would hope it's a culture of safety first at Tesla where all software changes are extensively reviewed, heavily tested in the real world and using whatev
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by intherdfield 8y ago
Which simply means it is because the car's AI isn't good enough to classify that object as something it should slow down for versus something it can ignore (like an empty plastic bag drifting across the road.)
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by intherdfield 8y ago
That is very significant! Your comment suggests that Tesla's claims about the driver having his hands off the wheel for x seconds before a crash could be wrong. If the sensors detect the drivers hands are not on the wheel when they act
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by intherdfield 9y ago
No, they can still see the IP address of the site you visit.
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by intherdfield 9y ago
Hi, I'm your ISP. Now that I'm not limited by net neutrality over-regulation, life is going to be better for you. Hacker news and those other niche new sites you visit are niche sites and as such have a lower routing priority. If
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by intherdfield 9y ago
It's pretty close to being the same thing. You're downloading Firefox at some point and not verifying the binaries you get match the source. Unless Firefox provides fully reproducible builds on your platform from an open source co
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by intherdfield 9y ago
>> one has to trust Mozilla not to do that. > > Exactly. One has to trust Mozilla every time one visits > the page. They could easily configure it to be malicious > one time out of a million (say); what are the odds that &
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by intherdfield 9y ago
From the article, "a University of San Francisco study of data from 1988 to 2008, extended to 2013, demonstrated male nurses made an adjusted $5,148 per year more than female nurses. This inequality has persisted over 20 years with no
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by intherdfield 9y ago
> Nope. Dropbox has never claimed they don't have access to your files I don't mean to nitpick and it's been a while, but Dropbox used to claim that "even our employees can't access your files". People calle
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by intherdfield 9y ago
> Hard to love when the broken extension ecosystem prevents the use of vertical tabs for these scenarios. Here's an in-development vertical tabs extension using their new extensions API. https://addons.mozilla.org&#x2F
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Dropbox Drops Photo Galleries(dropbox.com)
87 points by intherdfield 9y ago|77 comments
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by intherdfield 10y ago
> Publishing it after the fact for review by > the public doesn't make sense, and calling for it is > petty. Carmack isn't calling for it to be published. He only said he thinks the system should work that way.
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by intherdfield 10y ago
> You could say the same thing about anything people do in secret. I don't think that makes sense. There is no attempt to generalize this to things people do in secret. There is no claim that if something could risk your reputation
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by intherdfield 10y ago
Could you explain why you think this is a threat aimed at the expert witness in this trial? Any time someone publishes a work, they are putting their reputation at risk. If the work is bad, the whole world will know they did it. Carmack is
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by intherdfield 10y ago
You're both right, but when it plays out in public, someone has to get fired.
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by intherdfield 10y ago
The article describes how a college with 2000 student email accounts couldn't get Google to unlock their administrator account. And it wasn't resolved by Google until the legal situation with the fired IT employee made the news. T
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by intherdfield 10y ago
It's reasonable to want to know the answer rather than to be content that Elon Musk must know the answer. Asking the question isn't an attack. I found a few reports online.
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by intherdfield 10y ago
Apple has a large enough hardware footprint. They now need to compete on AI. I imagine a lot of their resources are being put in the catch-up-to-Google bucket. There have been a lot of blog posts saying Apple doesn't know who their cus

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