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by antisol 5y ago
Mozilla have been working hard on that for years now. Haven't you been watching their market share? One day they'll get to their holy grail of 0 users and no security problems.
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by antisol 5y ago
>I’m a pretty technical user and use the web and the internet a lot. Oh Wow! cool! I'm so impressed! So what you're saying is that because you "use the internet a lot" that you know everything about the requirements,
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by antisol 5y ago
> Mozilla's explanation/justification here for removing ftp is quite flimsy That's just how you do big changes these days. Especially if you're Mozilla. Here's a step-by-step guide to how it works: 1. Decide that
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by antisol 5y ago
>What is the use-case for FTP in 2021? Transferring files. There's a hint right there in the protocol name.
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by antisol 5y ago
> for a variety of technical reasons Please elaborate. In excruciating detail.
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by antisol 5y ago
I use it for....drumroll... transferring files usually waterfox if I'm only transferring one, something else if I need to do a bunch.
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by antisol 5y ago
>I can understand the browser vendors wanting to make the code base smaller. That's an excellent point... ...So they'll be removing their builtin pdf viewer first then, right? That's a much much bigger chunk of code than a
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by antisol 5y ago
Which FTP client will most people see? i.e the one that's installed by default on most people's computers?
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by antisol 5y ago
> (and let's be real: you don't) OMG! Look, everyone: a telepath! ESP IS REAL!
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by antisol 5y ago
So your argument is that because you haven't used it lately, nobody does? Seems legit.
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by antisol 5y ago
I'd just like to add to this that ftp is a relatively simple protocol, not particularly complicated to implement. It's not a constantly fluctuating standard that requires a team of 50 developers to keep pace with. Supporting FTP i
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by antisol 5y ago
Thanks Your Text: 97 bytes, ~2 seconds to read Youtube video: ~45000000 bytes, 5 minutes to watch. I'll never understand it.
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by antisol 5y ago
OMG what an excellent suggestion! Banning encryption won't stop all child abuse but this totally sensible measure is guaranteed to do just that! You, sir (or madam), are a genius ! The only question in my mind now is whether we shou
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by antisol 5y ago
<--- this is what I was going to say. ...Except that I would have added that it's already easy enough to catch the stupid criminals without breaking everybody's encryption...because they're stupid. Good old regular police
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by antisol 5y ago
This is not an invalid criticism. But, on the other hand, I really really like the analogy. It illustrates some of the issues very clearly. Maybe a slight improvement on the analogy would be to say "install video cameras in every roo
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by antisol 5y ago
"they needed crops" They did? The Ancient Egyptions were obligate herbivores? Huh. I guess you really do learn something new every day.
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by antisol 5y ago
As a counter, and to re-use your own metaphor, this position of "let's forget about mars and only deal with climate change" is equivalent to saying to the man without a parachute "you'll be totally fine if you just
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by antisol 5y ago
It's a negative response. As in "your statement is incorrect".
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by antisol 5y ago
"a slope on which we are already sliding down that will cause massive real catastrophes all around the Earth" You're referring to the sun expanding into a red giant here, right? I thought climate change was closer than a bill
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by antisol 5y ago
No, people in ancient Egypt needed food to feed people.
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by antisol 5y ago
someone needs to do a web search for "Gigafactory".
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by antisol 5y ago
you're kidding, right? You're not actually going to try to argue that tesla hasn't advanced the cause of electric cars, are you? How many electric cars were on the market before tesla came along? How many are there now? I&#x2
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by antisol 5y ago
"The timescale where we need to leave earth is probably many zeroes from now" ...he said on the day before the huge and previously undetected asteroid struck, ending all life on the planet. People had tried to set up detection net
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by antisol 5y ago
It tickles me when people say things like "completely impractical". Reminds me of a man named Columbus something who once went on a trip that was totally, completely, utterly impractical. And as we all know, he died en-route and w
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by antisol 5y ago
Nobody who had done even a small amount of research on the subject would make such an absurd statement.
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by antisol 5y ago
"not anywhere close to reasonable care about it" I know right. And this whole climate change thing that everybody is freaking out about. It's probably like 50-100 years away! I won't live that long. It's definitely
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by antisol 5y ago
No. When the sun expands and earth gets too hot, Mars will become just the right temperature for a period on the order of the millions of years. Assuming we haven't already terraformed it by then. And even when the sun is in full Red G
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by antisol 5y ago
"one is terribly more urgent than the other" I completely agree. We need to get off this rock ASAP.
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by antisol 5y ago
That's true, but the argument "why bother going there" is exactly the same argument as "why bother making a (telescope|space probe|satellite|rover|deep space network|apollo program|radio telescope|neutrino telescope|part
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by antisol 5y ago
And what role does finance play in a society where money isn't a thing? Finance is only a drain on actual resources. Think of all the accountants that could have been out there creating things and doing useful stuff rather than playi

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