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by Sylos 9y ago
Applying this to contacts, too, would also make it somewhat less impossible to use WhatsApp and similar messengers legally. If you don't know why it's illegal: WhatsApp uploads all of your contacts to their server. Granted that th
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by Sylos 9y ago
"Allow once" is different from "Allow just this one picture". With "Allow once", they can still scrape all your pictures, they just have to do it in one go. Custom ROMs unfortunately can't really do much t
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by Sylos 9y ago
I mean, Internet Explorer and Safari are pretty much named the same as Konqueror. Only Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera and Vivaldi manage to be even farther away from any sort of association with the internet.
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by Sylos 9y ago
The depressing part is that there is actually somewhat of a point to that. I despise Google, Facebook et al and I develop a webpage in my freetime for a club that I'm in. I'll gladly work an extra hour, if it means I can avoid sen
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by Sylos 9y ago
Here in Germany, a new social network called Vero, seems to be making some ground. It's following the same model as WhatsApp of it being free to join for anyone up until a certain point and then they'll charge money. And yes, I do
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by Sylos 9y ago
You can root Lineage OS with one of the su downloads from https://download.lineageos.org/extras Afterwards, you can enable root in the Developer Options. You don't need Chainfire's SuperSU, if that's what yo
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, I also think it depends on what you're doing. I'm currently in the middle of writing an application with Java, which is more or less just a GUI to enter things into a database. And both, the GUI code and the database code, i
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by Sylos 9y ago
Don't even need to highlight the words. Just hit the end-key and then press Ctrl+Backspace three times. I know. It was just an example to illustrate the sort of syntax that you'll find more of. If I myself actually properly knew V
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by Sylos 9y ago
Then you don't actually know Vim. Vim is at the end of the day also just a text editor, so no, there's no things that it does that you cannot achieve in some way or another with any other text editor. The point is how quickly you
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, radial menus typically are displayed around your mouse cursor, so the proximity aspect is there. They also fill out the space, well, radially, so you can really just fling your cursor into a direction and will have the total width of
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by Sylos 9y ago
You can however also argue against having such a global menubar with Fitts's Law, as it means that other UI elements can't be placed at the screen edge, such as the min/max/close-buttons (though there are also concepts w
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by Sylos 9y ago
The GDPR does have provisions against this in place. Something along the lines of you first of all being allowed to take more time to respond, if the requests are complex and numerous, to ask for a small fee then as well and in extreme case
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by Sylos 9y ago
Nor do small startups have to fear request traffic that's in any way comparable to what a big company can expect.
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by Sylos 9y ago
> Are you sure it is Android problem and not manufacturers decision, because they are afraid to be flooded with warranty issues from broken rooted phones? I'm dead certain that some manufacturers would still not ship root, but I&#x2
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by Sylos 9y ago
Hangouts didn't work for a long time on Firefox. They fixed it around a month ago or so, but that's pretty much three years after they knew that this problem would arise (deprecation of NPAPI plugins in Firefox). For other parts,
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by Sylos 9y ago
For example: - A way for users to prohibit internet access per application - no forced installation of the whole Google Play Services, just to get access to the Play Store - better root management, so that manufacturers can ship access to r
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Instead, they force you to use their browser. It's not terribly different.
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They have a good reputation, because they sponsor a whole bunch of open-source projects, which people like to see. I'm not aware of a good reputation for things that actually indicate how they run their service. Things that have irked
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It's completely separate. As in, it doesn't even use Gecko, it uses the native web engine of iOS/Android, so that's WebKit / Android Webview. With how many trackers and ads they block in Focus by default, they would
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, politics. As a browser vendor, you need to provide webpage owners ways to make (more) money, especially when other browsers that users are happily voting for, do provide these ways.
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by Sylos 9y ago
He's being downvoted because of his choice of wording. It's perfectly legitimate to prefer Firefox prior to Firefox 57. It's not legitimate to: - act like Mozilla just killed their extensions lightly. They gave lots of warnin
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by Sylos 9y ago
It will cause all your tabs to run in one process, so only one CPU core can do work there. This will especially be noticeable when multiple tabs are actively doing something, for example if you open up multiple tabs at once or background tr
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by Sylos 9y ago
I think, the number of processes (by default) is set to how many cores you have on your CPU. That way you can achieve almost the maximum of parallelism with a minimum of RAM use.
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There are exceptions, but in almost all cases, an application hacking the OS' RAM management is slowing down other applications disproportionally in order to make itself seem faster. Shaming such RAM hogging applications is not just le
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This is built into any operating system. If an application frees up memory, the OS doesn't throw that data out, it just marks it as "can be overwritten" and ensures that it actually can be overwritten without data loss (so, i
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by Sylos 9y ago
Trust me, if Mozilla actually had a choice in the matter, they would opt for just having it all in Rust, too. But there is no choice. Rewriting Firefox from scratch is going to take decades. Firefox has to continue to function in the meanti
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by Sylos 9y ago
I'm not terribly familiar with Geany, so don't take this as a confirmation that it's not possible, but Kate, which is sort of KDE's Geany, does have vim keybindings. With Geany being a lightweight IDE, I'd say Kate
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by Sylos 9y ago
They already have completed VR projects: https://vr.mozilla.org/ Pocket required essentially no work. They bought an existing service and stuck a fancy bookmark for it into Firefox. And well, I'm mainly just repeating
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I think, that does actually work out. The problem for humanity is not that browsers are written in C++, it's that browsers have lots of security vulnerabilities. Being written in C++ is not helpful with that, but it's not integral
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by Sylos 9y ago
Servo is actually not typically viewed as realistically completable. Even Firefox, which is being developed full-pelt, is behind on web standards (like any other browser is). So, for Servo to catch up to the current state of Firefox and to

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