MrAlex94

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by MrAlex94 2y ago
> Waterfox is a browser that began in 2011 as an independent project by Alex Kontos while he was a student. It was acquired and then un-acquired by Internet-advertising company System1. Its site does not, at least at the moment, have eno
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Fundamentally I think having people pay for a browser is a hard sell. I do think complementary services being sold to fund the browser are a good idea though. E.g. VPN, search, bookmarking service - great. Charge for them, have the money
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
You aren't wrong, at all, but as mentioned I have run into issues with this in the past. I don't have enough income for the rigmarole Mozilla would put us through, even though I attempted in the past. FWIW in regards to features:
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
I had solicitors involved, they basically said you are in the right, but they have more money. Not a hill worth dying on.
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Support MV2, MV3 like Firefox, and also supports "classic" bootstrapped extensions, if they've been updated, which you can randomly find on Github.
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
For anyone interested in what features there are (I should really have this on an article on the website, but also... how do you market all this? I went for a 'generic' landing page as I assume the average person cares little) Ple
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Mozilla have made legal threats in the past about mentioning ANYTHING to do with Firefox. So I steer well clear. The irony(?) being we used to be listed on the Mozilla website :) https://web.archive.org/web/201212292105
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
While branding System1 an adtech company is correct, its bread and butter [at the time] was search aggregation and in effect contextual advertising (System1 didn't want to deal with PII). The ownership made a lot of sense, and of cours
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Waterfox is independent again. Also some comments on System1: https://phanpy.social/#/mastodon.social/s/114080867102764721
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A Comment on Mozilla's Policy Changes(waterfox.net)
140 points by MrAlex94 2y ago|182 comments
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
> I don't see how regulated entity is better in any way than individual. I feel you. Regulatory bodies have definitely fallen short in many cases, and we've seen concerning proposals from governments that threaten digital priva
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
I might have differed with Brendan Eich on a few matters, but he was a good steward of Firefox in my book. When Mitchell Baker took the reins, Mozilla became rather more heavy-handed towards us - the irony being that Waterfox was once proud
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Ah, the client is OSS, that’s good, appreciate the effort on reproducibility - I know how tough that is. In theory I suppose that makes running one of the nodes less of an issue. Would you guys ever be open to hosting a relay for other part
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
When I setup the DNS over Oblivious HTTP service for Waterfox, one of the most important parts of our setup was that each step was controlled by a different entity, which was also recommended by Fastly. In our instance it went Client (Water
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Scalable, high performance Ethernet forwarding with CuckooSwitch (2013)(dl.acm.org)
2 points by MrAlex94 2y ago|0 comments
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
I use a Azure Key Vault[1], and jsign[2] to do this. You can execute it on any platform that supports Java, so I have Linux builds cross compiling to windows with clang and then sign with jsign: https://github.com&#x2F
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OPNsense 25.1 Released(forum.opnsense.org)
1 points by MrAlex94 2y ago|1 comments
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Related: https://www.deciso.com/opnsense-marks-10-years-of-innovation...
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
IPv6 support would be ideal :) https://feedback.render.com/features/p/ipv6-support
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Related to this is the Buck Bumble[1] theme song[2]: > “That’s the whole point of it, we didn’t want to do sort of boring techno stuff as well, or jungle, so we picked speed garage, it’s funkier than house and garage.”[3] [1]: https:&#x
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Surely the scudo[1] memory allocator, which was implemented in Android 11 has helped here as well? [1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/06/system-har...
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
> Any idea what that compile time might look like for each of the M4 configurations? Unfortunately not, but I'd hope to see a reduction to under 10 minutes with the M4 Pro at the very least. > Also, how often do you have to compi
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Parallelisation of compilation for large codebases. For example, an M2 Max with 96GiB of RAM takes about 12 minutes to compile the Waterfox (aka Firefox) codebase from scratch. Any reduction in that time saves a lot of my life over a large
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
I'd like to pop in and say Waterfox also has a list of comparable features: https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/1ff0kzz/comment/l...
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
I'd be curious for your comparison to Waterfox, which added vertical tab integration a while ago.
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Weirdly enough, JPEG-XL support is actually fairly decent in Firefox already and there were patches developed by the community that work well for things such as color profiles, animation support etc. I’ve had them in Waterfox for a few year
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Realistically, compiler flags and config flags have had diminishing returns on Firefox builds for a few years now. Mozilla are very quick to update the toolchain now, compared to before as well as taking care of curated CPU-dispatch where n
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
It’s a shame there’s no open source equivalent to auto-dispatch code paths that Intel’s C++ Compiler has: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/dpcpp-cpp-compi... At least, not that I’ve foun
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
> You know perfectly well that point 1 is completely irrelevant in the world of open-source. Genuinely, why not? Open source projects go through ownership changes (as unlikely as they may be), social engineering, etc. In the unlikely cha
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Yes, I'm the developer of Waterfox :-) > Plenty of feature trade offs to compare though with Librefox. Yes, for sure. Definitively different goal alignments.

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