Sylos

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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, I just pointed out that Google actively encourages and enables 3rd party apps to ship ads and track users, and your only rebuttal is that theoretically you can pull off the same on other platforms. So, if you really need more examples
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by Sylos 9y ago
No point in leaving the goal posts where they are when they don't reflect the goal: Not having ads in your face all the time. Hosts-file-based blocking requires Root, which Google has also practically cut off from end-users. Yes, the m
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, the apps do. And Google has unfortunately forgotten to give you the tools to block those from doing that by not giving you ways to block internet access.
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by Sylos 9y ago
An example from Windows Server 2016: When I search for "SQL" or for "Studio", it'll find SQL Server Management Studio. But when I search for "SQL Studio", it won't.
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by Sylos 9y ago
If Microsoft had't made it the default in IE, then DNT would have been an explicit action to show that you do not consent to tracking, which would have had legal bearing.
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by Sylos 9y ago
To maybe clarify what dasil003 means, state-of-the-art encryption for this requires that everyone has a pair of keys, one of which they keep a secret - their Private Key, and one of which they tell all of their friends, acquaintances, every
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by Sylos 9y ago
Opinions about giving this trust matter to dedicated certificate authorities instead, like we do with HTTPS? Edit: Found the problem with that. Certificate authorities are supposed to actually go out and confirm that the person who requeste
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by Sylos 9y ago
My vote is on quantum levitation. Wings, jetpacks and mini-helicopters are all already hitting the limitations of their physics and still far away from anything you would casually carry around.
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by Sylos 9y ago
I think, that's more of a US thing that people don't have a right to an offer. In Europe, it usually rather goes that it's a public offer, therefore anyone in principle has a right to take this offer, you can especially not e
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by Sylos 9y ago
I'm hoping the EU's General Data Protection Regulation is going to bite Google's arse for this (among many other things). Its Article 22 pretty much says that you cannot impede the rights of a person based on an automated dec
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by Sylos 9y ago
In my opinion, laziness is not a character flaw, it's rather a fundamental characteristic of any living being. Therefore saying that you're lazy is tautological, obviously true therefore not worth pointing out, and not a reasoning
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by Sylos 9y ago
I think, ClearClick and ABE are still missing. (According to this post [1] from a few weeks ago, they're supposed to be coming in the next few weeks...) Or well, active content blocking and XSS protection are definitely in there. [1]:
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by Sylos 9y ago
If you enable the additional privacy lists in uBlock Origin and clear your Cookies frequently, then not really. In fact, Firefox Focus is functionally equivalent to Firefox's Private Browsing. They both don't keep Cookies, browsin
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by Sylos 9y ago
That's because Firefox Focus doesn't actually have an ad blocker. What it has is a tracking blocker. It just so happens that almost all ads have trackers in them, that's why it still blocks most ads. The ad results on web sea
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by Sylos 9y ago
Generally, Thinkpads are recommended. I think, Red Hat employees all have Thinkpads or something along those lines, which is why they get lots of patches to make things go smoothly. No official support from Lenovo, though.
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by Sylos 9y ago
It used to not be compatible until a few weeks after the release of Firefox Quantum. It's also been completely rewritten, so it's not the same NoScript that you know. The new UI definitely takes some getting used to and the dev is
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by Sylos 9y ago
Firefox 58 should bring some bigger performance improvements still to Android. It's mostly going to bring those improvements to Android that Firefox 57 brought to the desktop, minus the UI and the deprecation of old extension APIs.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Have you actually tried Firefox? They've had a pretty big update recently, which also broke many extensions and ways of making advanced extensions, so some people do take that as reason to say that it's now "long way from its
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by Sylos 9y ago
Probably uses the native Android Webview...
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by Sylos 9y ago
Also, "Don't note the irony, you idiot." directly above that.
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by Sylos 9y ago
It integrates with KeePass, which is a proper, OS-level password manager. So, this is a feature, not a limitation. Should be more secure than just making Firefox save them and well, you can make it remember not just passwords from your brow
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by Sylos 9y ago
To avoid confusion: It's not the Minecraft voxel engine, it's an independent voxel engine which can be used to create Minecraft-like games. The engine itself is written in C++ and its game API is mostly in Lua. This API is also
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by Sylos 9y ago
> 5. Integrated graphics display. So that I can just 'cat' a picture to display it in the terminal window, instead of using an external application. Enlightenment's Terminology has this. It's a separate command "
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by Sylos 9y ago
The tooling improved, so that the given tasks could be done even by non-programmers, but then actual programmers were able to use the improved tooling to do more complicated tasks, of which there never seems to be a shortage of, so that&#x2
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by Sylos 9y ago
It interferes with the tab overflow scrolling, which Chrome doesn't have. So, in Firefox, if you open enough tabs, it will eventually overflow them and then you can scroll the tab list either with those little scroll buttons to the lef
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by Sylos 9y ago
I would definitely not say that sqrt(2) is more controversial than sqrt(-1). With sqrt(2), we define it into existence, because with all the surrounding bits, it makes sense for it to exist. With sqrt(-1), we define it into existence, becau
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by Sylos 9y ago
He means free as in freedom, so it has to respect the freedom of the end-user to inspect the code, modify the code to their needs and to redistribute their modified version as well as the unmodified version. Basically open-source, but with
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by Sylos 9y ago
> Also, can I develop and use C# applications on Linux without feeling like a second-class citizen? I don't have much experience with C# development and basically none with .NET, but so far my experience has been a clear No. The ele
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by Sylos 9y ago
It's the most commonly used programming language, according to the TIOBE index, and its main markets, Android and servers, are still very much growing with no real programming language competitor threatening the dominant position of Ja
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by Sylos 9y ago
Just because names can be faked, doesn't mean that everyone who should be doing it (which is everyone), will be doing it. Some might misinterpret the sign-up process, thinking the name will only be used in special situations, others mi

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