Endy

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by Endy 7y ago
The more we harp on license, the less we can actually save. The problem isn't that it's GPL. The p problem is that GPL is as much a part of the copywrong system as any other license. Three years is inordinately long to support an
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by Endy 7y ago
If one checks on TCRF, it's a lot more common than developers would like us to believe.
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by Endy 7y ago
Yes. I use IRC to chat, to roleplay, to interact with people and the like. Basically, I both can't and won't use Discord (too much Google reliance - the client program is in unheaded Chrome). So I use IRC.
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by Endy 7y ago
Pale Moon uses XUL, not WebExtentions, and provides (subjective) a better browser UX. Only major concern for mass adoption is that it doesn't support DRM content.
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by Endy 7y ago
I'm on mobile, so it's not going to be as verbose as usual. In no particular order: Moving away from large corps, breaking up the homogeny of the web, keeping XUL alive, having a browser focused on the end UX rather than the UI an
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by Endy 7y ago
I suggest that we instead switch to Pale Moon. Whatever you might feel about Moonchild, the browser is solid and reliable. All it really could benefit from would be a wider add-on dev community.
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by Endy 7y ago
Hail Eris.
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by Endy 7y ago
I learned to look at reply-to back when I used Juno & Netscape Communicator. Heck, Communicator used to warn you if reply-to differed from the displayed name.
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by Endy 7y ago
What about the sending and reply-to address? If the account is actually compromised at a system level, that is an IT issue. Again, are people so trusting that they don't check when asked for confidential data?
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by Endy 7y ago
How hard is it to make people understand what a business email should or shouldn't include? If you're being asked for data by someone you don't know, either ask a manager or someone connected to the account in question. Are p
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by Endy 7y ago
Thankfully, my parents were technical back in the days of BASIC & CP/M. So basically it comes down to making sure that the UI/UX they (and I tbh) like sticks over updates. As such, we've moved completely away from Firefo
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by Endy 7y ago
And yet with all this, I still prefer Win16/Win32 paths and system layout as they are implemented for user needs compared to any UNIX/BSD/Linux pathing and system structure.
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by Endy 7y ago
You're right. The preference would be that each person has access to a single part of the black box and no access to anyone or any other part of the whole shebang. Either that or the old way of dealing with people involved in things t
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by Endy 7y ago
The vectors I fear are the potentially malicious brains behind every pair of eyes. Why do you want to see my OS (or really any of my software)? The only reason I can think of is to have access to my files, or to hijack my machine and insta
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by Endy 7y ago
As an inveterate and unrepentant pirate, I can tell you that I would not. It is depriving someone else who deserves a thing just as much as I do. I am not paying my grocer for today's goods that I buy, I'm paying him to keep bri
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by Endy 7y ago
Stealing implies deprivation, not duplication. Digital copying is entirely the latter. And very few physical goods are part and parcel to culture - which should be free in any event. We are losing our ability to create mythology, because
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by Endy 7y ago
You are correct, and what you state with disparaging feeling, I state with glee. The joy of creation should not put food on the table. You should have to work like the rest of us. If you have no time, make time and budget to create in the t
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by Endy 7y ago
Because I don't trust anyone. I feel that human interference is a security problem that can't be overcome and should be reduced by every possible means.
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by Endy 7y ago
For my own part, outside of OS and security software, which I feel should be 100% monolithic and black box, I'm fine with the idea of all text and code of every program and file being available to anyone who may wish to improve it.
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by Endy 7y ago
I disagree. The market would shift. We would see a very clear split between talented and passionate amateurs creating for the joy of creation and large soulless productions which release only behind paywalls. Frankly, I'm all in favor
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by Endy 7y ago
If the media streaming market reaches a price I'm willing to pay, I might stop torrenting and streaming from other sources for the very limited non-free media I want to see or hear.
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by Endy 7y ago
On an inferior system, absolutely. On Windows, I run it either from an icon click or the Run dialog. No terminal invocation is needed.
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by Endy 7y ago
If it's displaying on your site, and cheapening your brand, it's your responsibility to fix it. You allowed the ad to display.
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by Endy 7y ago
Or they'll just keep making more money by expanding, until GDPR hits are viewed with the same level respect as the pirate community views DMCA takedowns.
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by Endy 7y ago
In that alone Seneca thus reported that Roman culture had every right to be dismantled. If you push a man so far that he'll kill himself with a sponge recently up someone's butt, your entire society has gone too far.
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by Endy 7y ago
There is no difference between those last two things. Every time someone talks about a Smart City, I keep thinking back to the horrifying Secret Project video from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - "The Self-Aware Colony". That&
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by Endy 7y ago
Thank you for posting this - you added more value than that entire article.
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by Endy 7y ago
My problem is the pervasiveness of oversight and surveillance. Facial recognition software, tracking software, general surveillance and the like. Tech is the problem here - the solution isn't going to come out without looking like a Lu
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by Endy 7y ago
The QWERTY standard has lasted since the Remington 2, and most devices are based on it. That's what you should teach your children first. If you intend to teach them languages early, QWERTZ or AZERTY might be valuable. If you're t
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by Endy 7y ago
Wasn't it said that English isn't a language, but a bunch of midget dialects in an overcoat who trap nice languages in alleys, beat them, and rifle their pockets for loose grammar?

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