smnthermes

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by smnthermes 6y ago
Browser extensions are going to be turned into a web standard, and W3C is controlled by Google, so Firefox will probably lose its adblocking API: http://browserext.github.io/
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by smnthermes 6y ago
> The XUL extension mechanism was permanent technical debt loaded onto the browser because of how it exposed features, basically welding things directly onto the browser's guts, which is a nightmare to maintain. There is no evidence
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by smnthermes 6y ago
> The same is true of lots of other biological metrics. Very high cholesterol can indicate a problem. From the normal range down it's not predictive of much unless it is absurdly low. Low IQ probably indicates a neurological problem
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by smnthermes 6y ago
> For example, any new tech introduced that can be used for browser fingerprinting and user tracking (e.g. canvas, webgl, webrtc, etc) is enabled to every single site by default, just like chrome They even implemented bad web standards w
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Why do they not use the ESR version?
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by smnthermes 6y ago
> Mozilla has always been under-resourced compared to the competition (IE, then Chrome) and taking people off improving Firefox/Gecko to work on embedding never made the cut. Yeah, sure, imitating your competition is the right way t
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Autism is related to high socioeconomic status, and has common factors with high IQ. Well, it's harder to say that autism is a "pseudoscientific swindle": 1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32873
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Idem.
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by smnthermes 6y ago
It's sad that Stallman is citing a fake news website... /s
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by smnthermes 6y ago
It's the greatest shame in the Firefox history.
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by smnthermes 6y ago
As for autism, it's related with a kind of general reduction of gene expression: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328734204_A_theory_...
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by smnthermes 6y ago
"Embrace, extend, extinguish".
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Not Einstein: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/
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by smnthermes 6y ago
> Just look at Goanna / Pale Moon struggling to maintain quality and feature parity now. (Ofcourse they are also struggling because of the design decisions they made What design choices? If they would ride on Firefox release cycle,
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by smnthermes 6y ago
> And yes, it was a deliberate decision, but not for the profit motivations you're suggesting. It was based on maintainability and developer velocity, when we realized we were not going to out-compete Google with engineer headcount.
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Firefox content process has a live connection to the X11 server(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
2 points by smnthermes 6y ago|0 comments
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by smnthermes 6y ago
UXP? https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP
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Add First Party Support for AdBlock Plus-Style Blocklists in Gecko/GeckoView(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
14 points by smnthermes 6y ago|3 comments
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Nuegia Webbrowser: rebuild of Pale Moon removing anti-features/non-free branding(git.nuegia.net)
1 points by smnthermes 6y ago|0 comments
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PrivacyTools Delists “The Great Cloudwall”(github.com)
1 points by smnthermes 6y ago|0 comments
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Copperhead making bogus legal threats to intimidate contributors to GrapheneOS(old.reddit.com)
5 points by smnthermes 6y ago|0 comments
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Arbitrary government rules are never the solution for issues.
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Do you not think it's possible to use fingerprinting to track users?
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Donations exist, LMAO.
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A Theory of General Impairment of Gene-Expression Manifesting as Autism [pdf](cogprints.org)
1 points by smnthermes 6y ago|0 comments
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Rust is NFG. Try again in 2030(lwn.net)
3 points by smnthermes 6y ago|1 comments
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Brave promoting etoro, making fortune from its users who will likely lose money(github.com)
3 points by smnthermes 6y ago|0 comments
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by smnthermes 6y ago
I'd add to this list Payment Request API, it's akin to DRM.
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by smnthermes 7y ago
YouTube uses WebComponents, and its pages are unviewable with Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20200317150441/https://www.youtub...
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by smnthermes 7y ago
YouTube uses WebComponents, and its pages are unviewable with Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20200317150441/https://www.youtub...

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