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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Why is that asking too much? Dunno, just as with FB/CA, users have agreed to what befell them. Relevant extract from LGPL 2.1: "THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE LIBRARY IS WITH YOU." EDIT: /s
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Why am I getting downvoted? I sincerely wonder what is so objectionable in my comment. Most uses of 7-zip are one-off events that last around a minute long. Most users aren't decompressing terabyte-range files. It makes no fracking dif
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> no one Plenty of people recommend Firefox despite it sharing processes between tabs. More than 10 years after MS sandboxed IE.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
For virtually everybody even 500% slower would be acceptable. 1% is 10 second, one-time cost, which is objectively a fool's bargain.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
This all seems incredible. > They also wanted to erase me from the history of the project. I was wiped out of the AUTHORS file. If your characterizations are accurate they defrauded your users as well and in a major way. Many of your use
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by RaleyField 8y ago
>MS didn't really lose any money from this but they claimed that they did. Users potentially have. End users were deprived of genuine restore cds.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> People seem to forget that Ubuntu is just the front door. You can totally turn all their crap off The issue is trust. I don't like my companies trying dark patterns on me, even if it's in ToS.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Since then, I'm a happy Linux Mint user. Mint defaulted DNS server to OpenDNS.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Hold me back. The installer is over http.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> which gets Wayland somewhat right Wayland has been in development for 10 year, let's hope they fix it in the next 10.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
This passes for closures in PHP: function ($arg) use ($capturedVariable) { return 1; } I rest my case.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Can I apply to YC if I turn this text into a template? Fortune 500 company right here.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Nothing happened last 100 megabreaches, why would now be any different? The public doesn't care. Only media cares and only because Trump benefited.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> slightly Dude what are you on about? VirtualBox is 1GB minimum, better 2 and has to virtualize gfx card, meanwhile electron is talking to gfx drivers directly and takes 100-200 MB if used correctly.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Your post prompted me to check my own Even Viewer. After some frenzied searching for the meaning of "Remote Desktop Services" entries in my own logs I figured that alarm seems to stem only from unfortunate naming of events that Lo
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by RaleyField 9y ago
> lawless society Things aren't black and white. Every country is lawless to a certain degree. Otherwise there wouldn't be any robberies in countries that aren't "lawless" (whatever that means). One difference be
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by RaleyField 9y ago
Buy Nokia if you need Android, you get only first-party shite that Google provides. And it receives updates.
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by RaleyField 9y ago
Why do you think most Android phones stop receiving months after release and flag carrying ones one or two years after release? And what firmware in a HDMI decoder is supposed to be fallible? And why can't updates be supplied via USB s
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by RaleyField 9y ago
> will ever include something as ridiculous as samba.tv Pleasant surprise: Microsoft Store -> "..." button -> My Library.
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by RaleyField 9y ago
Might be against terms but it pisses me the fuck off that Superfish[0] incident has been forgotten, by people that should know better. No, Ars Technica, it's not professionals' paradise as long as it's being produced by the s
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by RaleyField 9y ago
> They are deeper into the matter than both us Or execs are driving a bus into the wall. It wouldn't be the first time that happened for sure. > I'm also not aware of Chrome being less explodable. It used to be. It only took
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by RaleyField 9y ago
It's helluva more completable then any VR project Mozilla is going to try. It will be another Firefox phone project. And you don't have to repeat 20 years of Firefox to complete Firefox, a lot of it were dead-ends like XUL (themed
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by RaleyField 9y ago
Military has had their HUD which is a form of it. I predict you could sell AR/VR only to niche consumers and military and it will remain a gimmick for consumers like 3D television was. So it's a great move for Mozilla if their tho
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by RaleyField 9y ago
Am I the only one thinking VR for consumers won't happen for the same reason 3D television didn't happen 5(?) years ago? It's too clumsy. If you aren't gonna walk with it then it's 360 display that makes you vomit,
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by RaleyField 9y ago
That's the new 3310. And also, why go to the moon when you can climb Mount Everest?
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by RaleyField 9y ago
They can afford it. They can also afford to put a man on the moon, but it isn't necessarily financially reasonable for them to do so. Think of Microsoft as a collection of teams, each team can't afford to spend "Microsoft&quo
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by RaleyField 9y ago
> USED FOR YOU
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by RaleyField 9y ago
Decent considering the magnitude of the needed effort. I use it to occasionally play Age of Empires 2 on Steam running over Wine. It is playable, but has still some bugs. For example embedded browser doesn't work with Steam and there&#
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by RaleyField 9y ago
Ideal scenario are inventions that _require_ billion dollar investments to be discovered (aka big pharma). Anything that can be reinvented by chance independently without much effort if there is demand for it shouldn't be patentable. P
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by RaleyField 9y ago
To people downvoting - you are all a bunch of morons. And e.g. this is an insult that is sanctionable under section 185 of german criminal code as it is mentioned in the new NetzDG act which would make ycombinator liable to 5m€ fine should

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