Vinnl

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by Vinnl 9mo ago
I think it was mostly a joke about IE being horrible.
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Firefox and Linux in 2025(mastransky.wordpress.com)
4 points by Vinnl 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
The link I posted shows that Jpeg-XL will come to Firefox, and that that same Google is the one making that possible by writing a secure implementation.
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
Direct link for those interested in chipping in: https://servo.org/sponsorship/
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
Security concerns are exactly the reason the format doesn't have native support yet. However: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
It's not a particularly old company (a little over ten years I think?), so presumably they've had to learn a lot of those kinds of lessons at the start of their lifetime. But at this stage, I'd assume they've learned the
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
I'm fairly sure they don't; at least historically, the goal has been to improve the situation on the ground, not to move production elsewhere. (I think this was the post in which they explained that thinking, but I didn't rer
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
If e.g. someone's mainboard breaks, they can just give them a new phone and take in the old one, and then use the remaining parts to repair other employees' phones with working mainboards.
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
remoteStorage is still occasionally getting updates. https://solidproject.org is a somewhat newer, similar project backed by Tim Berners-Lee. (With its own baggage.) I think of those projects as working relatively well for priva
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
Ah, I think you're referring to the account menu, which has been there for a while (indeed with links to Relay, VPN, and Monitor), and to which the profile switcher got added. If you're signed in to your Firefox account, it also i
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
Vivaldi, Librewolf, Palemoon and Zen Browser (the latter I'm not 100% sure about) have all committed to add no AI features, for some definition of AI.
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
AFAIK the model for tab group suggestions is about the same size? (And I think that model is/can be used for other features as well?)
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
As far as I can see all these Firefox options can be set through the UI as well.
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
That doesn't sound too preposterous; I wouldn't assume you'd be able to run a React Router project on Turbopack or Webpack either, and Next.js I think has a way more intricate dependence on the bundler to power a significant
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
Whenever you think that everything old is new again and we're just retracing our steps from the past, you risk missing the lessons learned in the meantime.
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
Are you talking about the new one, or the old one? The old one was indeed horrible, but the new one is pretty nice IMO. I have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to ads though, I don't think either has that.
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
And Igalia is notable for contributing to every major browser engine: https://www.igalia.com/2026/01/05/Doing-Our-Share-for-the-We...
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
At the same time, Firefox last year gained tab groups, vertical tabs, a user-friendly profile switcher. Split view and tab notes are under development. It sometimes feels like it's moving faster than ever, and that's disregarding
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
Michiel is indeed one of the driving forces behind NLNet's NGI0 program. That said, just because they're distributing money they received from the EU, that doesn't mean that they're intimately aware of the full EU budget
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
Haha I love arewedubstepyet for Web Audio tracking. Also a good one: https://arewedecentralizedyet.online
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
There is no "there" for Linux to be, because > every case is different Every article like this is another person for whom Linux is there.
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Signal downloads growing amid rising tensions, number one in Denmark(aboutsignal.com)
2 points by Vinnl 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Vinnl 10mo ago
It sounds like when you, say, compare a bunch of different products, you have an uncanny ability to know exactly where in your tab history those products are? I really have to open them in a bunch of tabs as I go, and then I can quickly swi
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by Vinnl 10mo ago
Does it matter whether it's been obvious that it would be a major issue? It's not unlikely that he did realise this a long time ago, and if he did, it's also not unlikely that he still hasn't found a solution, because th
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How the internet tracks you beyond cookies(europeancorrespondent.com)
3 points by Vinnl 10mo ago|0 comments
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How GitHub Could Secure NPM(humanwhocodes.com)
3 points by Vinnl 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Vinnl 10mo ago
I had a similar experience after switching to Fedora Silverblue (but any of the immutable Linuxes will probably do - and over time, I'm sure most will be like that). Had set aside a bunch of time to do a major version update, everythin
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Linux is good now(pcgamer.com)
1194 points by Vinnl 10mo ago|1000 comments
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by Vinnl 10mo ago
We have that (first DoNotTrack, now Global Privacy Control). Turns out bad karma doesn't really affect website behaviour. (GPC has some legal teeth though, and might get more, so perhaps that will help.)
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Making end-to-end encrypted AI chat feel like logging in(confer.to)
1 points by Vinnl 10mo ago|0 comments

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