Vinnl

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   by Vinnl 2y ago

   Incidentally this was published just now! https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/08/22/ppa-update/ He also linked to this technical explainer, though I don't think that's necessarily writ
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   Privacy-Preserving Attribution: Testing for a New Era of Privacy in Advertising(blog.mozilla.org)

   4 points by Vinnl 2y ago|4 comments
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   by Vinnl 2y ago

   Of course they want to get published in the big famous journals; the ones that don't lost their funding, and thus aren't scientists any more. (Which is not to say that some aren't to blame; in particular, the ones on funding
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   by Vinnl 2y ago

   Here's the Firefox CTO explaining the motivation behind the experiment controlled by this setting, and the measures taken to ensure that it actually is private: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments&#x2F
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   by Vinnl 2y ago

   Note that Firefox for Android no longer explicitly allowlists extensions: anyone can write one that anyone can install.
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   by Vinnl 2y ago

   Wikipedia itself is only a little over two decades old. I don't think anyone would parse "many decades" as "two decades". There's also OpenStreetMap, exactly two decades old and thus four years younger than Wik
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   by Vinnl 2y ago

   Almost the entirety of Europe, together with big funders like the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, took a good stab at battling the cartels to get them to make articles Open Access, with Plan S: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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   by Vinnl 2y ago

   Well, except for perhaps to a staff engineer. Or a senior staff engineer. Or a principal engineer. Or maybe a senior staff principal engineer? The VP of Engineering? The CTO?
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   by Vinnl 2y ago

   If you're unfamiliar with Sidebery, it's similar to TST but has a neat tab groups feature as well. Speaking of, there are other cool new features coming to Firefox - such as vertical tabs: https://connect.mozilla.org&#x
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    I think you're referring to Panorama View [1], introduced in Firefox 4 (2010). I think there are still extensions that replicate the experience [2]. There are many things different now that might make it work better this time. If not j
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    The question is: does this bring any of the purported benefits of the Semantic Web? Does it suddenly allow "agents" to understand the meaning of your web pages, or are we just complying with a set of pre-defined schemas that pre
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    > A deeper question: Why don't other highly advanced democracies decay in the same way? For example: Why hasn't the same happened in Japan or Denmark or Portugal? My pet theory is that multi-party, coalition-based systems help
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    I use Warp from Flathub, which I believe uses Magic Wormhole.
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    Ah right, forgot that I can just check that in the open reports :)
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    I wonder how true that is in absolute numbers, given how many more people are online (/exist) now.
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    You can open tabs from other devices in Firefox. They don't open automatically though, presumably because some people (i.e. myself) would find that horrible.
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    Right click on the empty area next to the address bar, click "Customise Toolbar...", then in the bottom left-hand corner you can toggle the Title Bar.
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    The bottom button in the sidebar ("Customize sidebar") allows you to turn off the tab bar at the top.
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    And also about:profiles, with the same caveat.
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    I said this in a subthread: > I think Playwright depends on forking the browsers to support the features they need, so that may be less stable than using a standard explicitly supported by the browsers, and/or more representative of
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    I think Playwright depends on forking the browsers to support the features they need, so that may be less stable than using a standard explicitly supported by the browsers, and/or more representative of realistic browser use.
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    Context: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-w...
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    Reviews: uBlock Origin(chromewebstore.google.com)

    5 points by Vinnl 2y ago|1 comments
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    Not something I need, but after following the "Try it now" button - that is really smooth. Nice work!
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    I'm definitely progressing. I won't get fluent, but my level is definitely higher than that of languages I learned in high school, and I can read signs and stuff. (In fact, I think the method is fairly similar.) The reason I use D
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    You can toggle the setting to do it even if you close your browser the normal way: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tab...
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    Presumably they had to read it without knowing how to read a book, and yet they were still able to appreciate it.
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    > (available without sign-in) FLUX.1 [schnell] (Apache 2.0, open weights, step distilled): https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux/schnell Well, I was wondering about bias in the model, so I entered "a pres
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    > how to only focus on the hard development challenges and hopefully reduce the development time. You know, every developers dream. And then the rest of the post describes the most tedious hand-holding of software that I can imagine. I&#
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    by Vinnl 2y ago

    Beats me, and the article also doesn't back that up at all, other than that Apple skipped a feature in the EU.