Sylos

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by Sylos 10y ago
What he's referring to, is that without the extension, other Chrome-extension-compatible browsers are not anymore usable for Chromecast. You now have to use Chrome.
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by Sylos 10y ago
The fear is that this would enable companies to directly lobby against any law that they don't like. For example, Google or Facebook might go against a privacy law being enacted in a country, because that obviously directly lowers thei
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by Sylos 10y ago
Well, yeah, because Software Engineers are trained for building large projects and those "best practices" are aimed at exactly that, too. Long functions, bad names, accesses all over the place and using complex libraries, those ar
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by Sylos 10y ago
Interesting read, though I would have liked more highlight to the fact that all of these algorithms are biased against you. You aren't just giving control away in exchange for an all-knowing algorithm helping you with how to live your
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by Sylos 10y ago
I did expect it, but I'd still rather pay with money.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Right, but at this point, German privacy laws are pretty horrible, too, and getting worse as we speak. The BND (German intelligence agency) also works closely with the NSA, and considering what's publicly known, it wouldn't surpri
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by Sylos 10y ago
Signal has a Google Play Services dependency and through that makes meta-data visible to Google.
848.
by Sylos 10y ago
Posting this here, too, for visibility: The page works for me when I tell my browser to request the desktop site.
849.
by Sylos 10y ago
For me, not only the page is completely empty, but also the page-source, so I don't think that it's a rendering problem and rather the server sending a 0-long HTML-file or something like that. It also finishes loading rather quick
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by Sylos 10y ago
Display less at once on the screen, and make it scrollable instead, worked perfectly fine for me as an analogy. I actually find "more" less logical, because I can't find a similar analogy for it...
851.
by Sylos 10y ago
I don't think it's that bad. This is one of the cases where your usual ignorance towards new/different things is pretty effective. At least for me personally, 'less' was what I always saw everywhere being used, and
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by Sylos 10y ago
Reader View being too narrow should get a fix in either the next release or the one after that, i.e. the fix is in Developer Edition, maybe already in Beta (I didn't check there), and a small change like that usually goes through Devel
853.
by Sylos 10y ago
Can't really expect much else with the market share that Google has. They can implement anything they want, and it's halfway there to being a web standard. If Mozilla doesn't follow suit, they risk losing even more users, bec
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by Sylos 10y ago
As in it's available without root? Because this has been available with root since KitKat, and there were also some apps which allowed you to use it...
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by Sylos 10y ago
1) I didn't say that they are there for no reason, rather that there is no reason why there can't be a simple switch which turns everything off in an easily accessible way, or heck even having everything off by default. And no, Mi
856.
by Sylos 10y ago
Because in this case, Nadella became CEO and with that, you could feel a clear change in strategy at Microsoft, more towards cloud services and such, which fits right in with the direction that Windows 10 is headed. From what I can find onl
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by Sylos 10y ago
I'm not entirely sure, but doesn't APK signing prevent these third parties from tampering with the APKs? Also, Raccoon is similar to APK Downloader: http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon
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by Sylos 10y ago
Signal has a Google Play Services dependency for notifications, so it won't work properly without installing the whole Google package. Open Whisper Systems (the developers of Signal) apparently don't want to replace it or even jus
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by Sylos 10y ago
1) That's a logical fallacy. Just because every OS needs configuration, doesn't mean that it's ok for one OS to suddenly need a lot more configuration for no reason, let alone for the reason of making it as hard as possible t
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by Sylos 10y ago
It's sarcasm...
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by Sylos 10y ago
I think, you underestimate for how many people this works. Non-technical people very much orient themselves based on what they know they can trust. If they don't understand the consequences of something, they will try to err on the saf
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by Sylos 10y ago
After reading the explanation for the eye-logo, it's sort of my favorite, as it has the most character and fits Mozilla's message best, in my opinion. However. When I first saw the logo, I thought of Eye of Sauron, the all-overloo
863.
by Sylos 10y ago
By advertising not for being technologically superior, but by getting people to realize that hey, maybe you don't want to stick all of your data into that proprietary hole where the biggest advertising company in the world sits on the
864.
by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, lowercase "mozilla" is pretty much their current logo, often in combination with the rounded shape that tabs in Firefox have. The dinosaur sort of exists still, but it's essentially never used in publicity work and I do
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by Sylos 10y ago
That's the thing, though, a huge portion of the success of Chrome is not caused by it being a particularly good browser, but rather by it being bundled with other software or advertised for on the world's most popular webpage. For
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by Sylos 10y ago
You now have the exciting ability to not anymore turn off Cortana! Well, unless you fancy digging around in the Registry, but yeah, they removed the GUI-toggle for it. More seriously, though, the biggest thing is that they added Ubuntu-supp
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by Sylos 10y ago
Windows 10 is supposed to be the last version of Windows. All new features from now on are going to be released in sub-versions of Windows 10, similar to how it is done on OSX. The first such sub-version release was 1511 (i.e. a build from
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by Sylos 10y ago
So, in regards to the Kindle, this just cropped up on the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12326201 Apparently, you're not the only one with that problem...
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by Sylos 10y ago
Well, at least not for operating systems targeting the majority of the population. You'll always find some masochist, who will gladly take something that moves even faster and breaks even more things. - Sent from my openSUSE Tumbleweed
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by Sylos 10y ago
There's nothing which says that Microsoft does the same thing to all installations of Windows. They could be doing A/B-testing, treating installations in certain regions where they fear legal repercussions nicer, or just trying to

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