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by Klonoar 2y ago
I’ve started evaluating whether code I want to release even needs to be packaged. In cases where it doesn’t, I just wrote them up as blog posts for people to find. I don’t even bother with significant walkthroughs, I trust people can reason
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by Klonoar 2y ago
> They could have been the privacy-focused browser I don't see how trying to find a privacy-preserving way of dealing with the ad conundrum makes them not a privacy-focused browser/company. You'd need to otherwise cite s
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by Klonoar 2y ago
> Well, that is what Firefox did here. No, let's be very clear here: what Mozilla/Firefox did here was default users in to a setting without good notice on how to opt out . This is different from what was said in this thread
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by Klonoar 2y ago
I have already noted in my other comments that I think the desire for opt-in and/or way more notice with how to opt out is a very reasonable take , even if I don't necessarily agree with it. There's no need to imply that peo
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by Klonoar 2y ago
Even if it was a credible idea, how exactly do you think that Firefox - the browser that the minute anything changes, the internet blows up over - would significantly alter their product in a way to differentiate themselves from Chrome? T
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by Klonoar 2y ago
Well, no, that doesn’t tell us anything about conspiracies. That’s just Mozilla getting money from Google. You can argue that it’s problematic from the stance of Google using Firefox to argue they don’t hold a monopoly - and I’d agree with
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by Klonoar 2y ago
You’re certainly welcome to read it however you’d like. OP specifically said “make the setting do nothing while still collecting the data”. I don’t know about you, but a setting that acts like that would be akin to lying. The comment chain
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by Klonoar 2y ago
Eh, I don’t think my comment is defensive. I also could’ve just ignored the comment. I explained to them that I’m open to discussing but there’s nothing to be gained when the comment starts off in conspiracy theory. It’s an open source proj
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by Klonoar 2y ago
What you call Stockholm syndrome, I call reality. ;P This is an area that we are stuck contending with. Legal solutions are needed here but that path is mired by complex and powerful lobbying. If Mozilla can push for a more private or more
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by Klonoar 2y ago
> One reason is that the people who would be promoting Firefox aren't. Individual promotion of Firefox worked very well when the browser(s) it was trying to displace were effectively frozen in time. Chrome (et al) and Safari are n
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by Klonoar 2y ago
> The default opts the client in instead of the client making that choice to be a Guinea pig in the experiment I think this is a reasonable critique, even if I personally don't find it a big deal. If it's privacy preserving,
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by Klonoar 2y ago
There is so much hypothetical-borderline-conspiracy-theory packed in to this single comment that I cannot find a charitable response. I'd be fine to continue the discussion if you can find a way to engage without assuming that the peop
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by Klonoar 2y ago
> The fact that no one with decision power at Mozilla saw it coming is worrying: either they have zero understanding of people’s concerns for privacy or they don’t care. Or the third option: they feel the tradeoff of HN & co's
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by Klonoar 2y ago
I feel like you could stand to qualify "fun" more here. I don't share your experience - I'll take a Rust project any day - but I'm curious to know what you feel is missing. (Outside of compile times, which are a wel
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by Klonoar 2y ago
I cannot imagine writing a method to return a value less than n, and not verifying that constraint somewhere in the safe method.
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by Klonoar 2y ago
Heh, just got burned by this in the Czech Republic. Far on the east side, hotel advertising A/C but it’s only in a common area - not in the room itself. Just about drove me insane.
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by Klonoar 2y ago
Unless I’m misreading, OP themselves didn’t actually say Rust at all. They just noted that Ladybird is written in an unsafe language. I don’t read this as petty, it’s well noted by now that memory safe languages are increasingly recommended
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by Klonoar 2y ago
Plenty of notable open source projects are on Discord. They have no issues inspiring confidence. (E.g, Dolphin emulator, who seem to have largely moved away from IRC)
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by Klonoar 2y ago
After paying taxes in other countries, and then seeing their standard of living, I think there’s probably more room between US tax spend and “peak efficiently” than your comment would lead someone to believe.
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by Klonoar 2y ago
To this day I direct people to read this whenever the topic of NK comes up. It’s so fascinating and feels like a bit of Internet lore to boot with how much it’s been passed around.
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by Klonoar 2y ago
GUI frameworks in any language often fizzle out when they become hard. Its probably one of the larger cases of devs not knowing the massive undertaking they’re embarking on when they start.
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by Klonoar 2y ago
I know, I used to live there. The joke was the ATM at every 7-11 with the line of foreigners every Friday night. ;P
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by Klonoar 2y ago
> Try to not eat meat in Asian countries. Eh, some Asian countries are easier than others. I've had no issues avoiding meat/dairy in when living in Japan[1]/Taiwan/Singapore, and these are all cases where you can fi
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by Klonoar 2y ago
It is very arguable whether they are “popular” in Japan for any reason at all other than Japan’s glacial pace of change.
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by Klonoar 2y ago
Heh, I used to joke that 7-11 was my bank of choice for this reason.
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by Klonoar 2y ago
I mean, sure. I don't even think 7-11 is the top in Japan, but this is all opinion (ish). My only real point was that they are categorically above their US counterparts, and that it's not just a Japan-specific thing.
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by Klonoar 2y ago
Because you have a not insignificant amount of actors putting AI systems into production. There's a wider picture/downstream effects that no sane (public) company is going to want to take on and potentially be responsible for. ;P
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by Klonoar 2y ago
It's not just Japan, it's largely Asia in general (e.g, Taiwanese 7-11's and Korean 7-11's are also so far above their US counterparts in terms of offerings/feel). (A fun trivia fact is that like 7-11, Lawson also
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by Klonoar 2y ago
As neat of an idea as it is - and I know you're daydreaming and likely not serious - the irresponsibility of it would be very high.
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by Klonoar 2y ago
I mean surely there must be a non-React JS component/widget/etc that you could plop on that page when you need it. What’s the React one you were looking at?

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