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by mozball 2y ago
Apparently the same DRM is also enforced in the Apple Vision Pro as MrWhoseTheBoss discovered in his review. Except in that case, Apple's DRM pipeline extends all the way up to your eyeballs instead of your HDMI TV. That realization ab
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by mozball 2y ago
I am sorry but it is possible to write a privacy policy or Terms of Use that is clear, concise and reassuring to users. If a statement or word is confusing they can use the next sentence to clarify what that means. Whatever ambiguity in wor
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by mozball 2y ago
I mean nixpkgs is the largest linux repo there is.[1] I think anyone can upload a package, similar to AUR : [1] - https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/total edit : By official i meant something backed by a
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by mozball 2y ago
You seem to be in the ballpark : "260 million for 'software development expenses'" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances Still that leaves ~ 400 million dollars for a privacy
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by mozball 2y ago
If people are misinterpreting mozilla's legalese, that is mozilla's fault for making these terms vague, broad and easy to misinterpret. Also i am not convinced your interpretation is correct. Mozilla Firefox didn't have a &#x
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by mozball 2y ago
Disabled auto-update until this is clarified or alternatives can be found. I for one don't agree to these 'terms of use'. If people are failing to understand Mozilla's legalese, it is Mozilla's fault for making them
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by mozball 2y ago
Genuinely asking : Who is behind librewolf and why should i trust them? They don't seem to be available in any official repos yet other than ones they self-published
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by mozball 2y ago
Apple's 1 billion+ users across the world should protest this ludicrous overreach of power since the UK is essentially declaring digital sovereignty over all of them. In the meantime maybe consider alternative cloud storage providers.
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by mozball 2y ago
According to WaPo, the secret order demands blanket access to cloud data from any user anywhere in the world : http://archive.today/79dA3
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by mozball 2y ago
Yeah. Basically a Librem 5 with the useability of Android.
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by mozball 2y ago
A black sharpie over the offending led indicators will fix that. Now you can enjoy your sleep uninterrupted by dreams of manhunts and mephistophelian bargains.
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by mozball 2y ago
I reckon at least as profitable (probably more) as every other forgettable model in the currently oversaturated market all trying to target the same segment in the race to the bottom. We don't care about cameras or games or ai. We are
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by mozball 2y ago
It is very puzzling. We have a plethora of brands from chinese, korean, european and american companies to kickstarter-funded projects to reskinned odm designs in developing markets,- all vying and clawing at each other to stand out in an
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by mozball 2y ago
The native app won't work though. The problem alluded to by grandparent comment and in linked-article.
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by mozball 2y ago
Your banking app is not going to work on Linux either. If Android is fundamentally broken then fork it. My point is, it seem smarter/easier to take Android and make it more linux-like than to take Linux and make it more Android-like. A
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by mozball 2y ago
Google et al pour billions annually into making android a first-class and dominant mobile OS. I think the FOSS community should leverage that and focus on liberating Android instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.
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by mozball 3y ago
Your paranoia is warranted. Like i replied in another thread up, there are a couple thing you can do. Use multiple browser/profiles. Keep a separate profile or two with no extensions for banking, shopping, email and other important s
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by mozball 3y ago
- An addon like vimium shouldn't need too many updates so auditing and disabling auto-updates might be worth it. - Firefox has 'recommended' addons. In addition some of the more popular addons are security vetted (Their addon
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by mozball 3y ago
>My understanding is that random extension is able to read and send somewhere almost all my data when I read my email, do online banking, etc. Depends on the permissions requested by the extension but often yes. The permission "Can
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by mozball 3y ago
It says "using HTML5 and web sockets." Does this mean the application freezes if the connection to server is disrupted? Could developers use this to make web-based apps along-side desktop clients? If so , Desktop frameworks like G
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by mozball 3y ago
Is the f-droid account part of the sale too? Will f-droid users be compromised?
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by mozball 3y ago
Many moons ago, an acquaintance sold his app account ( with apps like battery saver apps etc ) to an Israeli company. As i recall, in that case, the acquisition was for data-harvesting purposes.
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by mozball 3y ago
In which case foreign governments, the EU and the like who collectively represent the interests of the other 7+ billion people, should start levying taxes, penalties and fines on Google and haul it and the US in front of international agenc
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by mozball 3y ago
Multiple profiles is fully supported. It's just hidden behind a clunky UX. Also check out firefox containers which is to profiles what docker is to virtual machines.
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by mozball 3y ago
Google Search is notably absent in your list. If this proposal becomes standard in Chrome, You can be sure Microsoft and Apple will follow Google's lead with the same or their own similar implementations. See Microsoft Pluton and Apple
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by mozball 3y ago
If this isn't the straw that breaks the camel's back, there is never going to be one. Google needs to be broken up. They own the browser market. They own the web (through Adwords). They own Search. They own mobile. They own most o
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by mozball 3y ago
If there is little money in VPNs, how is it that they are funding half the youtubers out there, potentially outbidding everyone else for the adspace.
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by mozball 3y ago
Yes. I don't know why though. I don't understand why they can't host and run their own OpenVPN instance. Or why MozillaVPN is only available in 30 countries (mine not included), 4 years after announcement. Or why i haven&#x
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by mozball 3y ago
I visited Practical engineering and tom scott's websites and AFAI seen they embed youtube videos in their websites. I couldn't find astronaught's website. Its not even linked to in his youtube channel.
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by mozball 3y ago
Microsoft is exactly the kind of company that would throw its full backing behind this google proposal, seeing how they have spent the last 20 years working towards the same goal. See Windows 11, Trusted Platform Module, Pluton, Palladium,

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