MrAlex94

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by MrAlex94 3y ago
> Some constructive criticism, if you're open to it: Definitely, much appreciated. You aren’t wrong about the fluff. We did user studies and showed people responded really well to this kind of landing page. I’ll see if I can have so
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by MrAlex94 3y ago
Waterfox is independent again: https://www.waterfox.net/en-US/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterf... And System1 are an “ad-tech” company but the term should be used loosely. The ownership made sense as they are a searc
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by MrAlex94 3y ago
Disclaimer: I develop Waterfox. I think it’s worth noting that Librewolf provides unsigned binaries and at least on Windows, you need to trust a third party service to provide automatic updates.
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by MrAlex94 3y ago
Well, this will provide signed binaries and a "native" (to the browser) update service that doesn’t rely on a third party to update it. Librewolf breaks trust (for lack of a better term) by not offering both of those options. You
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by MrAlex94 3y ago
Years ago, I had the idea to create a clear-net version of Tor, e.g. Tor Browser without the Tor network (was called Aegis Digital, I believe The Epoch Times interviewed me about it). Separate to Waterfox, the idea would be ramp up the priv
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by MrAlex94 3y ago
I’ve been maintaining a “soft” fork now for about 12 years now, most of that time on my own. It’s actually possible to get quite involved and do some cool stuff with the changes you make, while keeping up to date; with the resources the siz
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by MrAlex94 3y ago
Related, the story of William Lyttle[1], the “Mole Man of Hackney”, is rather fascinating. Dug for years underneath his house and surrounding streets in London. He was then evicted by the local council, the house sold, renovated by an archi
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by MrAlex94 3y ago
I’m aware; I’ve been in the industry a long time. They won’t be making anywhere near 1/10th of what Firefox makes, even with 1/10th of the user base, because those are highly specialised contracts. Google typically won’t touch you
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by MrAlex94 3y ago
If I'm not mistaken Arc is also a closed source browser. The company has raised $18M since 2020. How are they expecting to make that RoI for their investors? Monetisation for browsers is incredibly hard, and doing it in a way that resp
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by MrAlex94 3y ago
He worked in the garment industry, for a company that would manufacture clothes for Inditex etc. The programme has a lot of sections. From what I recall: A records module for all the fabrics used, all the designs the designers would come up
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by MrAlex94 3y ago
My father has been developing a Delphi CRUD application for nearly 25 years now as a hobby. It’s quite fascinating—he never saw any reason to change languages or environments, as they have always done what he needed them to do. This release
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by MrAlex94 4y ago
If we’re talking about online payments: > In Europe, however, non-secure shopping was already happening online as early as the 1980s. Terminal-based services including Germany’s Bildschirmtext (launched in 1983), and Minitel in France (l
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by MrAlex94 4y ago
Interesting! A few years ago I started a similar project, essentially a clearnet fork of Tor called Aegis. Problem was, it makes a lot of the modern web very broken. A very niche corner of the web browser market - but a lot of things like W
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by MrAlex94 4y ago
Interesting, thanks for that. Do you know if that only happened the once? I can’t find references to another vote like it. From what I can see elsewhere, the tone seems to have changed slightly since then? > “We welcome the news that the
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by MrAlex94 4y ago
Oddly enough, I’ve heard the same thing regarding doctors voting for a cap. Wonder where that’s from? It’s an awful excuse; I agree with you. If we were to be quite "cold" about this and think of it in a purely beneficial sense to
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by MrAlex94 4y ago
> In short, the NHS is more correctly seen as nationalised rather than socialised medicine, achieving the first three levels of a socialist health service identified here. It can be said to have socialist principles in the limited distri
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by MrAlex94 4y ago
Seems to me it’s a governmental decision? [1] > Despite the NHS’s clear need for more medics, the number of medical and dentistry students each year is capped by the government to control costs, as it subsidises the courses. > The Sec
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by MrAlex94 5y ago
This raises a few questions: * Will this be open source? * Will this support WebExtensions? Assuming they'll have to develop their own implementation since they are using the operating system's own rendering engines, so they will
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by MrAlex94 5y ago
Unfortunately with the way Gecko is structured, the browser requires a lot of connections to the Firefox Remote Settings Server, for: * OpenH264 Codec for H264 playback * Widevine (if you enable DRM, it's disabled by default on Waterfo
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by MrAlex94 5y ago
They are from the last decade or so - I linked them when I was a young lad and as you can tell the website is quite outdated now (and being updated in the meanwhile - takes time though!). Just thought it was a nice way to get people familia
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by MrAlex94 5y ago
If you're interested, DownThemAll has been ported to support newer Gecko versions: https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/tree/master... Waterfox G3+ supports installing bootstrapped/XPCOM
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by MrAlex94 5y ago
This doesn’t paint a clear picture. There are two versions of Waterfox: Classic, based on Gecko 56 that has backported security patches (but is not recommended to be used unless you are desperate to use XUL extensions) and the 3rd Generatio
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by MrAlex94 6y ago
I believe the title is from the EMA press conference, @ 07:20[1] “ The committee has come to a clear scientific conclusion: This is a safe and effective vaccine. Its benefits in protecting people from COVID19 with the associated risks of de
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by MrAlex94 6y ago
From the Oxford study[1]: "To test for asymptomatic infections, participants in COV002 in the UK were asked to provide a weekly self-administered nose and throat swab for NAAT testing from 1 week after first vaccination using kits prov
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by MrAlex94 6y ago
> Weird. Are you sure the tweets talk about the same study? Yes, this is in reference to B.1.351 and the AZ SA study.
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by MrAlex94 6y ago
Unfortunately it's all a mess trying to find it on Twitter, but most mentions are of her and the teams efforts[1][2]. She’s often referenced by others in the field as well [3]. There’s too much out there and I found Twitter quite diffi
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by MrAlex94 6y ago
If anyone is curious, one of the Moderna scientists who helped develop their mRNA vaccine had a thread about this when this first made the rounds: Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/135886946
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by MrAlex94 6y ago
You make some interesting claims, do you have any sources? Would be interested to read more. > They have made crazy claims about their Covid research since March 2020 while serious scientists who have produced stuff that actually works w
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by MrAlex94 6y ago
Not sure if this has changed, but at least on why it's not on iOS [1]: > In a nutshell, the Apple Developer Agreement is the biggest "problem" preventing a Pidgin build for iOS devices. We won't quote the exact text
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by MrAlex94 6y ago
I am the developer of Waterfox - this website comes up often, and misleading would be an understatement. * It treats the Browser Sync service as spyware * It treats automatic updates as something spyware does * The initial launch connection

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