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That’s a great list of nice things that are easy to take for granted. While reading it, I couldn’t help but think of the “What have the Romans ever done for us”

That’s a great list of nice things that are easy to take for granted. While reading it, I couldn’t help but think of the “What have the Romans ever done for us” scene from Monty Python¹. I didn’t know about Text to Speech (TTS) but personally wouldn’t have much use for it. The other things I didn’t recognise is VR. I’m guessing this refers to Firefox Reality on the Oculus Go VR Headset² (which seems to be no longer available). ¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ ² https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-reality-oculus-go-vr/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-reality...

dathinab 3y ago
> Firefox Reality on the Oculus Go VR Headset yes, through not limited to the Oculus and it kinda folded Hubs (https://hubs.mozilla.com/ https://hubs.mozilla.com/) into it and and I think there was a bit of additional research level stuff never ending up in user hands but both are somewhat dead, idk. if Firefox Reality still works with any VR headset at all (it might still work with non standalone headset usage) and Hubs is shutting down end of March, a community version still exist (Hubs ~= somewhat like VRChat from the idea but not as VR specific and just less interesting in general) same for most other things they are either dead or fizzled out (and some are stables, but don't bring users, like pdf.js) One thing I forget to mention is FF does a lot of work to reduce fingerprint-ability of existing interfaces (while trying to avoid breaking websites by changing/breaking existing interfaces, like some other more privacy focused browsers do). A bunch of this is done in context for the tor-browser but also benefit normal FF. Sadly you using FF ads more information to the fingerprint then any of the protections due to better fingerprint protection (something which is true for any form of privacy protection not used en mass by every one).

dathinab 3y ago

> Firefox Reality on the Oculus Go VR Headset yes, through not limited to the Oculus and it kinda folded Hubs (https://hubs.mozilla.com/ https://hubs.mozilla.com/) into it and and I think there was a bit of additional research level stuff never ending up in user hands but both are somewhat dead, idk. if Firefox Reality still works with any VR headset at all (it might still work with non standalone headset usage) and Hubs is shutting down end of March, a community version still exist (Hubs ~= somewhat like VRChat from the idea but not as VR specific and just less interesting in general) same for most other things they are either dead or fizzled out (and some are stables, but don't bring users, like pdf.js) One thing I forget to mention is FF does a lot of work to reduce fingerprint-ability of existing interfaces (while trying to avoid breaking websites by changing/breaking existing interfaces, like some other more privacy focused browsers do). A bunch of this is done in context for the tor-browser but also benefit normal FF. Sadly you using FF ads more information to the fingerprint then any of the protections due to better fingerprint protection (something which is true for any form of privacy protection not used en mass by every one).