Sylos

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by Sylos 10y ago
I don't think, I have to explain that your stance on privacy is not the norm, at all, and that other people can very realistically have a different stance, i.e. a major problem with Microsoft (and the NSA and whoever else is involved)
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by Sylos 10y ago
He mixed up copyright and trademark, as far as I can tell. And trademarking is then no problem with copylefted software. For example, Linux is trademarked by Linus Torvalds and Firefox is trademarked by Mozilla. And at least in the case of
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by Sylos 10y ago
Nah, why should they? Developers are pretty much the only demographic that might realistically switch operating systems, so they only really need to cater to them. The rest, they can pretty much treat however they want, and they won't
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by Sylos 10y ago
Well, it's not an improvement, it's just a different design-choice. I for example much prefer Bash's way of doing it. Also, Bash does have a way of doing it the Powershell-way, if you want that, as others have commented. Whic
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by Sylos 10y ago
I just tried it, and it seems to me like it shows the timer only on google.com, not on the Google-domain for my country, so maybe that was a factor. The other comment pointed out more inconsistencies, though, so might really just be Google&
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by Sylos 10y ago
Considering that Microsoft's Privacy Statement now asks for complete access to all data on your computer, I cannot see how any privacy concerns should be too exaggerated.
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by Sylos 10y ago
The question is not whether Google knows how to do proper end-to-end-encryption, the question is whether they want to do it. They have a clear incentive to not do it properly, which is being able to sift through your data to sell it to adve
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by Sylos 10y ago
Cortana has replaced the local search on Windows 10. Users will be searching for their local files, which will be sent to Microsoft, which is neither necessary nor appropriate. You now have to expect being put on a list, if you search for &
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by Sylos 10y ago
Not really. If they encrypt it and hold off on sending it until they need to send something else, like for example the next update-check, then it becomes pretty much impossible to tell that they are sending your data and what they sending.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Sure does. What's your point?
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by Sylos 10y ago
What you quoted was sarcasm... Microsoft is claiming that Windows 10 would be so much more secure than Windows 7/8, and he's saying that if Windows 10 would be much more secure, then it shouldn't be suffering from largely the
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by Sylos 10y ago
Probably people looking at the price of a MATLAB license and then trying to pay back at least some of it...
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by Sylos 10y ago
I personally thought of Minetest, which is also a game engine and game, but quite a bit closer to Minecraft, i.e. you might not even be able to tell the difference. http://www.minetest.net/
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by Sylos 10y ago
You could try Korora, which is a Fedora-fork with goal of making it more user-friendly, so that includes easier access to proprietary drivers. https://kororaproject.org/
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by Sylos 10y ago
Possible in principle? Sure. Possible with the current state of the implementation? Definitely no. It's currently not even possible to create your own containers, and instead there's 4 pre-defined ones. But the Tor Browser has som
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by Sylos 10y ago
I occasionally use Firefox's equivalent feature for creating a stock browser to troubleshoot things, but I'm not a webdev, so that's usually rather to troubleshoot whether my array of tracking protection, cookie blocker etc.
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by Sylos 10y ago
It's four groups, the fourth one is Shopping. The feature isn't done yet, though, so a way to add your own groups could still come.
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by Sylos 10y ago
I generally like real-world analogies, but in this case I do find it too elaborate and unnecessary, too. As a straight answer to the question, it would have sufficed to explain that accessing a larger cache takes more time and resources tha
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by Sylos 10y ago
Of course, they are surveilling the dark net. The idea is that you're anonymized in such a way that you don't have to care about the surveillance.
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by Sylos 10y ago
AFAIK Chrome starts up a background process after your computer has booted up, which then helps it start faster. So, if you just told your OS to start up Firefox on boot and then didn't close it afterwards, that should have pretty much
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by Sylos 10y ago
Good news is that this should be fixed with Electrolysis, which is currently being rolled out and will make it to your local Firefox installation somewhen in the next few months.
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by Sylos 10y ago
This is arguable in my opinion. Someone who wants to block third-party Cookies or JavaScript shouldn't have any trouble with installing extensions.
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by Sylos 10y ago
"Huehuehue" is the Brazillian equivalent of "hahaha". But since "huehuehue" sounds like a really crazy laughter to English speakers, when English internet culture clashes with Brazillian internet culture, this
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by Sylos 10y ago
Huehuehue has kind of become a meme around the internet...
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by Sylos 10y ago
How to change the wallpaper on KDE: Right-click on desktop->Click "Desktop Settings"->Select a wallpaper->Click "Apply".
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by Sylos 10y ago
Not necessarily that important, but Ubuntu's versioning scheme doesn't work the way you think it does. It's <year>.<month> and they release a new version almost always in April and in October, meaning that the pas
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by Sylos 10y ago
Not every possible feature has to be part of Firefox. And this is for now also just a suggestion that Mozilla is making, so that users can decide over it in the Test Pilot program.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Just so this is clear: This is not a new feature in Firefox. They are just giving people a way to test it and to give feedback. Depending on the response, it might then become a feature, but for now it's only a proposition.
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by Sylos 10y ago
That's a lot of stuff to release all at once...
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by Sylos 10y ago
Mozilla offers unbranded builds where this about:config override is still available: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...

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