Sylos

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by Sylos 10y ago
Because they are not the same company. They were specifically kept as separate companies and the deal at the time would have probably been stopped by law enforcement, if it wouldn't have been this way.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Right, but there isn't going to be an official announcement, unless a hundred thousand people jump to premature conclusions and bring out their pitchforks. I agree that it's not terribly smart to draw a conclusion at this point in
783.
by Sylos 10y ago
Well, it is somewhere around 1.5% to 2% and seems to currently be growing. That's not a whole lot, but still worth targeting.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Because increasing its importance could be seen as tampering with the results for their own benefit, i.e. pushing a web-technology that they control. Adding a flag to it is sort of the same, but I'm guessing they are testing the waters
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by Sylos 10y ago
It's not different, but now it's 23.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Why should it search for it rather than try to connect to it? It's a valid address. And ".web" is an assigned Top-Level Domain as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.web
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by Sylos 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft actually does not have a QA department. I can't seem to find a source which confirms specifically that, but after Nadella took over in 2014, he cut a bunch of jobs, which were mostly jobs from the No
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by Sylos 10y ago
F6 focuses the address bar, so that's slightly different, although obviously a lot of people also just use the address bar to search. And Ctrl+L is then again the alternative to F6.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Then what's different about this to only developing in Firefox and afterwards testing in the other browser?
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by Sylos 10y ago
At least, it sort of makes sense to do inside a browser, as you don't need to load in an entire web browser as a library. Also just in general, the long-term plan for Firefox is to phase out XUL and to replace it with HTML/CSS&#x2
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by Sylos 10y ago
Also just in general, people understand what a camera does. It's much harder to understand the implications of abstract "data" going off onto the internet.
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by Sylos 10y ago
That's what typically happens for people who have no grasp of data. They understand what a camera is, that it takes pictures and that they don't want something to be able to take pictures of them at any given time. They do not und
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, Evernote being bloated was also the reason for me to stop using it. I wanted to take a few notes here and there, not document my entire life in all available forms of media. I can't believe that they are still adding even more th
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, I've seen multiple great YouTube-apps die because of that. The best-functioning YouTube-app that I currently know, actually scrapes the webpage to get its information. It can't do subscriptions because of that, but I can eas
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by Sylos 10y ago
I also just find that a lot of the implementation of the comments is horrible. For one, that it's somehow and for whatever reason linked together with Google+. Far too often, I have to read through a sea of +-syntax, which makes no sen
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by Sylos 10y ago
Works in KDE. They love their drag-and-drops, so I'm not surprised at all. Apple has probably solved this in a more elegant way (in one sense of the word anyways), but the way it works under KDE is that you drag the file into the Name-
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by Sylos 10y ago
The biggest UI flaw for me is the picture view on the mobile Twitter-page. They decided to replace the normal .jpg-link with a custom page, but this custom page is auto-fitted to the screen-width, meaning that you cannot actually zoom in on
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by Sylos 10y ago
That depends where you want to go with your system, but Unity seems to be one of the most obnoxious Desktop Environments when trying to get it to look different from its default-look. Apart from that, if you're going to replace most of
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by Sylos 10y ago
So, do you have examples of that or anything? Because otherwise I can just proclaim that GNOME, Unity and KDE are polished and then we're at opinion vs. opinion. I mean, I don't even really think that Unity is terribly polished, b
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by Sylos 10y ago
No, I actually wouldn't buy a DVD which I cannot play on my DVD player. Whether that's because of retarded use of DRM or because I apparently chose the wrong DVD player for $MEGACORP to even know that I exist, is completely irrele
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by Sylos 10y ago
I can agree that it's in theory possible that a videogame becomes as expressive as a musical instrument, but in reality I don't see that happening in at least the next 30 to 50 years. A musical instrument is much more direct. Want
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by Sylos 10y ago
I'm not sure that they do actually have someone handling trademark complaints. At least on YouTube, they handle copyright claims by simply taking the video down as soon as a copyright claim comes in and then you can try to appeal aft
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by Sylos 10y ago
...which he didn't say. And while his/any steps aren't enough to mitigate all tracking, they do mitigate a lot of tracking, which is far better than doing nothing.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Also consider that data isn't timeless. Data about your habits now, are outdated and close to worthless in a few months. So, reducing your data footprint always has an effect.
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by Sylos 10y ago
> 1. Google account - I have one because it's required for Android, but I have never used Gmail, do not search from my Google account or ever log into it from my browser. I haven't run stock Android in a while (and instead just
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by Sylos 10y ago
When you have a YouTube-account and upload videos on there, you can "monetize" your video, which means that ads are run when someone plays your video and you then get some of the money that these ads make. De-monetizing a video me
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by Sylos 10y ago
I mean, it's already happening. People walk around with smartphones, tablets and laptops which constantly record audio for their virtual assistants, and I have not once consented to having my voice recorded by any of those devices.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Apple approved "Cleaner - for Facebook" when the author had gotten a complaint there. No reason to believe that Google wouldn't approve of it. The two companies are after all still under the same laws. Also, are you seriously
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by Sylos 10y ago
The blog-post specifically says that it is not about the author's disagreement with the takedown, but rather about Google not providing any form of support in this matter. They didn't inform him what the actual problem was, nor ho
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, but they can't close the Google Web Store account of someone who develops an ad-blocker.

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