Crespyl

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by Crespyl 9y ago
In fairness that parallel supercomputer was built for wrangling absurd numbers of triangles before it turned out to also be good at doing small groups of rectangles.
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Is that mostly going to broadcasters of things I actually want to watch, or the ocean of random channels that I have no interest in but are always included?
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There's something to be said for being wary of browser makers influencing the web unduly, which we already see to a much greater and more damaging degree from IE/Microsoft and Chrome/Google; but mixing user-agent policy with
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Only to roughly the same degree that it's possible to decompile x86/64 binaries to C or C++. It depends heavily on the specific optimizations and obfuscations used, whether or not debugging information was left in, etc. There&#x27
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This apology from the CMO is only the start of what I hope to see. What lesson they learn from this remains to be seen, based on what steps they take to prevent this happening again. The fact that any "lessons learned" from the P
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I hold Mozilla to a much higher standard than other large tech organizations. This particular incident shows either massive process failure (allowing marketing to auto-deploy code without sufficient review), or that no one in the review
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Loss of trust is a very real consequence.
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There's something to be said for firm moderation in public forums, but there's a point at which it starts to look like evasion and shutting down discourse rather than making forward progress and winning hearts and minds. I hold Mo
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Those are tragic to read. There's some really good technical work still coming out of the org, Rust, Servo, and the various pieces of Quantum have me more excited about software than I have been in a while; but the increasing number of
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by Crespyl 9y ago
You're right that "studies" is designed for distributing/testing experimental features, among other development and debugging uses. I'd dispute any characterization of LookingGlass as a FireFox feature though, and f
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Its existence is fine, in fact I wouldn't even mind seeing more collaborations of its kind. The problem is that auto-deploying marketing software (inert or not) over a channel expressly described as being a tool for development, debu
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Advertisement or not, it is software created for the purpose of marketing, increasing brand awareness/engagement. More importantly, it is software that has nothing to do with improving FireFox, collecting telemetry, error reports, runn
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by Crespyl 9y ago
If you want to take an ideological perspective, the big picture of this is that the browser maker is willing to push advertising software to people who didn't ask for it, over a channel that wasn't built for it, to further a polit
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by Crespyl 9y ago
How about this: I opted into FF telemetry and "studies" with the understanding that some extra data would be collected and experimental features or specialized debugging tools might get pushed to my browser (like the last "st
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I was fine with the Shield Studies program when I understood it to be a tool for improving the browser. This is clearly an abuse of a development/testing/telemetry tool to deliver an advertisement. Trust is hard to win and easily
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Well... what we get instead is "this browser isn't IE, we don't support it. Get IE."; only now it's s/IE/Chrome/g.
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Quite the opposite[0]. "Free Basics" was the name of the program, and it only allowed access to Facebook and whatever sites whichever sites Facebook (in all its infinite wisdom) decided were appropriate for the users to visit. Th
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Facebook wants NN gone, so that they can sell their curated "Free Basics" plan with ISPs, blocking everything outside of Facebook and maybe Wikipedia. They want to lock low income people into the Facebook bubble.
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What the market asked for is "the new phone", which frees up the manufacturers to select whatever (lack of) features makes their lives easy, and the market has demonstrated that they will keep lining up to buy the newest and most
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I don't think so, but I usually see people just typing notes for the viewer either directly on the command line (and then erasing them) or as # comments.
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That is precisely the problem. If the notification were rendered as part of the page by the web server, no one would have issue with it (though it would likely be blocked by adblockers anyway). It's the fact that the ISP is modifying
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by Crespyl 9y ago
It could be argued that the new "improved" rewrite versions are strictly downgrades compared to the extensibility of the original.
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Most authors do not write books that are as desirable as Harry Potter. Most developers do not make games that are as accessible or extensible as Minecraft. Would your ideal system deny them the rewards of creating something massively succes
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Since IPFS is based on content addressing, if a node tries to spoof a piece of content, any peers trying to fetch from the malicious node will immediately see that the content provided does not match the desired hash. I'm not sure how
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Replaceable with what? Some lab-based process that produces the same products at the same volume with less impact on the land? Would that be such a bad thing?
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> Loot boxes were essentially the main pitch for the Diablo I Having not played Diablo, I'm not very familiar with the history. I know DII at least had a significant secondary player market for items, but the idea of loot boxes bein
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But a weird thing to give the label "Person". They could have selected one or more notable humans involved.
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It essentially comes down to bitrate. Even with 1080p, there's still a noticeable bump in quality when you go from the "just enough" streaming bitrate to the "here just have the whole thing" version from a local d
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And even though it's not a focus, Roku still has a perfectly usable Miracast/WiFi Display implementation that works with any Miracast source. I've used it successfully from both my android phone and win10 laptop.
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I'll third the praise for Roku. The only annoyance is that they put ads on the homescreen, (but that can be blocked at the network level), and that different apps tend to have slightly different/inconsistent UXs, for example press

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