alcoholic_byte

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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck......
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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
Here is a nafarious interpretation of events: (I assume we all remember how Alphabet, in order to drive Chrome adoption, sabotaged youtube when a Firefox-browser was detected?) Only breaking for new FF-versions will give the untechnical use
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by alcoholic_byte 4y ago
I don't know. With Chess, you have an antagonistic relationship. You are motivated to overcome the AI player. With this ChatGPT non-sense it is symbiotic and we rely on the results gotten no matter how we got them. Or do you think calc
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German EmailProvider Freenet Looses Emails
3 points by alcoholic_byte 4y ago|2 comments
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by alcoholic_byte 4y ago
Well looks like Proton invested too much in advertisment. They also run VPNs and, although they offer setup via confi-files, frustrate their customers by telling them the problem is on their side and demand they install that piece of softwa
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by alcoholic_byte 5y ago
Well I would like to point several things out. IF Assange would be Chinese, he would have been shot or vanished using "reeducation camps". Please don't forget that the SCMP is a newspaper owned by the CCP and unlike Western M
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by alcoholic_byte 5y ago
Have you tried running Jupyter-notebooks inside of VSCode? The performance and ressource-usage is abysmal.
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YouTube Consent Form Broken (?)
2 points by alcoholic_byte 5y ago|0 comments
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
Thanks for the links. Comes to show how cognitive bias works.
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
When you go to https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/ and you click on "Donate" you are directed to https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ . The sidebar on the donation-page clearly states: &quo
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
Luckily what you and I believe is irrelevant, unless we try to convince the masses by screaming at them long enough. I wasn't referring to the tabs either, just as an example of people doing it wrong. No one stops them, but in the old
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
Well.... move fast and break things it not necessarily a nice motto especially if you burn down the very house people live in. And let's not forget, it was deliberate move. I for one am glad I never used Brave. There are only a very fe
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
Those who seek shall find. https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ Got the link from the Thunderbird-site where https://give.thunderbird.net/en-US/ redirects to https://give.thunderbird.net&#
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
I think you are wrong there. As a product designer one never caters to edge-cases. Besides having 200+ tabs open is very impractical, the way Chrome minifies all the tabs instead of making them slidable is just one prime example where the d
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
Firstly, the question of browser superiority and choice is not just about speed. You wouldn't want to choose an operation procedure A) over B) simply because A is faster as A has a mortality rate 30%higher that B. Secondly, the web is
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
No. Bigger marketing-budget and better positioning in reaching users. If they use google with a non-Chrome browser they will be prompted to install Chrome because it is better. Some people might have just installed it so Alphabet would stop
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
Try the privacy sales pitch. And for mobile there is Firefox-Focus. Yes you have to do a lot of typing, but hell do I not miss targeted advertisement in browser.
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
Cannot verify and I am on Linux for a couple of years and on different hardware during those years. Arch-distribution, so maybe the defaults are what is different here?? Browsing, scrolling(with trackpad and without) startup time, etc. all
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
Google entered the game later. So according to your logic one should always drop dead the moment s.o. else enters the game. Besides, without having read all responses to your post, FF is different, or do you think Alphabet would condone a b
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
I think your worry is a bit out of scope. There is a thing called "Verhaeltnismaessigkeit" in Germany, and in most other countries where "The Rule Of Law" applies, to paraphrase Trudeau. Meaning: You are not allowed to b
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
Well. That is the reason for Certificate Pinning. And these days there is no excuse to not enable it server-side. Helped me detect some MITM-Interceptions. Not that the content was malicious (OpenDNS just rerouted my requests to a "Thi
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
As the other guys said. And it is not just that. Chrome is, considering it's architecture and purpose, a minion in a botnet, working for google to harvest data. They even got a lawsuit pending because they were even tracking users in p
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by alcoholic_byte 6y ago
Well. The principle of Linux was and still is to give tools and have users use them. It gets out of the users way to use them. One can always use firejail or other sandboxing solutions to do that. Chrome itself is a security nightmare, alwa
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by alcoholic_byte 7y ago
Well my point here is, that it worked before and not after I rebooted my computer, so aside from my DNS-cache there shouldn't have been anything different going on. It is a very bad model IMHO. Think Pizzagate, or other events were stu
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OpenDNS redirects torproject, archlinux and stackexchange to blocking-page
17 points by alcoholic_byte 7y ago|3 comments