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by apostacy 7y ago
> Healthy food doesn't nearly as much rely no network effect to not be pushed out of the market. "Only works on Chrome" is real problem and won't get better if they don't also pander to those longing for sugar. U
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by apostacy 7y ago
This is horrifying on a number of levels. I don't think that even Google has tried exerting this much control over users. This does not make sense if it is just to fight malware. I no longer believe that Mozilla is acting in good faith
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by apostacy 7y ago
> Unsigned extensions are also not for end-users. Says who??? Part of the problem is the very delineation between developer and end user. How about Firefox just be a powerful open platform that anyone can develop for easily with as few r
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by apostacy 7y ago
Do you really consider being able to provision your own profile a backdoor? I do it all the time. Do you think that Apple is a good example of what to do? Having a single entity control what extensions you get to install is not what is best
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by apostacy 7y ago
Yeah, exactly. Malware could also just delete vanilla firefox and replace it with the developer edition. Just overlay ads over the browser window itself. Or anything else really. Trying to protect against hostile code already running on the
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by apostacy 7y ago
I don't think there is any way to enable unsigned extensions on vanilla Firefox, and I don't think they will ever allow it. Their justification is that if there were some command line option to allow it, then users could be tricke
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by apostacy 7y ago
> If you're making extensions and distributing them by hand to your friends you're so far outside the mainstream of Firefox users that you might as well not exist and they shouldn't be making decisions based on your usage
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by apostacy 7y ago
No, you don't claim a refund. She showed me that her Amazon tracking number showed that the package she didn't sign for was listed as returned with no signature, and she was given a refund. It seems like something that can easily
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by apostacy 7y ago
It seems boots are reserved for poor people. I've only ever seen boots on run down cars in working class neighborhoods like Crown Heights or Bed Stuy.
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by apostacy 7y ago
I like this idea and want to know more, but I wish the README.md actually told us how and what, instead of just why. I didn't want to watch an asciicast.
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by apostacy 7y ago
UPS already tried doing this a few years ago in Brooklyn,[1] but not Manhattan apparently. I was subjected to this a few years ago. Instead of being greeted at the end of the day with my shiny new $300 phone, they left it in a pile on the f
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by apostacy 7y ago
Some related threads from a few weeks ago about rising computer illiteracy among kids: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21241535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21237540 I really have noticed that
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by apostacy 7y ago
Reading back through their mailing lists from 12 years ago is so telling. So many responses to users who were complaining that they wanted features from Internet Explorer were met with "then use Internet Explorer, we but we refuse to e
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by apostacy 7y ago
That is not at all the same as when they first did it. When they did it, popups (that is, ads that would open a new browser window) were a staple of online advertizing, and they disrupted it. Google is also doing the same thing, including p
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by apostacy 7y ago
I have said this over and over again. Look back at the initial success when they were up against Internet Explorer 6. They offered users what Microsoft wouldn't. They didn't hamstring themselves with IE6 compatibility, and instead
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by apostacy 7y ago
That is good, but, supply chains are still a major attack vector. I think we should try to minimize that. I am quite certain that there are no Chinese back doors in hardware that was put in the ground in the early 1980s. Security wise, we c
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by apostacy 7y ago
So when we upgrade the hardware, how much of it will be sourced from China? Is it even possible to fully secure the supply chain? Introducing any outside code or hardware is a liability. Unless there is a really urgent problem, I think they
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by apostacy 7y ago
> You're also free to start your own paper, or blog, or whatever. NO, you really aren't free to do that. If every means of communication is in private hands, and access is denied to you, then you effectively have no free speech
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by apostacy 7y ago
Um, from the point of view of the telegraph/coal company, they probably would have said that they were protecting people from dangerous agitators and keeping the peace. But really, by your logic, they have no right to report on union o
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by apostacy 7y ago
The common problem here is that people are not doing any emotional work, and are blaming YouTube for their personal failings. The first and only solution that these people come to is to try to restrict people's access. Stop blaming tec
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by apostacy 7y ago
That is a horrible mischaracterization of free speech. The first telegraph network banned journalists who reported bad things against the telegraph company. They manipulated stock prices and influenced elections. That is why common carriage
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by apostacy 7y ago
> Would it be correct to boycott CloudFlare for deplatforming the Daily Stormer? No, because there's nothing wrong with deplatforming Nazis, there was nothing morally reprehensible in Cloudflare's actions. Yes, it was wrong of
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by apostacy 7y ago
The removal of RSS is just an example of poor management and decision making by Mozilla. I think that even if telemetry had had different results, they would have then just ignored it for making that decision. Or they would have changed the
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by apostacy 7y ago
I actually think that what Teslas do is good. It is the most accurate representation of driving capacity. And a lot of non electric cars are doing that now too. The first few years of bluetooth headphones would just give you an alarm when t
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by apostacy 7y ago
Just to go into a bit more detail: 1) An auntie thought that dragging 100GB of music into her Dropbox meant that she could just leave on a trip and access her music, without having to wait for it to sync. 2) An uncle didn't know how to
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by apostacy 7y ago
20 years ago, I thought that learning the basics of a filesystem would be a staple of education. I painstakingly taught this to my non-technical relatives. It wasn't that hard. I just assumed that this stuff would start getting taught
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by apostacy 7y ago
I'd like to let people know about Sublime Zettelkasten[1], which is this really useful module for Sublime that automates searching, linking, and lots of other stuff. There's also a standalone version that is attempting to have the
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by apostacy 7y ago
I am really only concerned about these issues as they affect my country, The United States. Different nations have different ways of doing things. The policies that they have in China might indeed be the best thing for them. But the only ti
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by apostacy 7y ago
> Western companies simply gave up and didn't learn how to scale content moderation until the last few years when social media had to deal with the same violent extremism that China did during the Tibetan and XinJiang riots that lea
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by apostacy 7y ago
I strongly suspect that you are recalling and processing images, but that it is just never reaching your conscious mind as images. Even people who have had the "split brain" surgery due to epilepsy are able to do complex visual ta

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