berkes

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by berkes 1y ago
It is not wrong. For one, it's semantic: It's only a contribution if it adds value to a project. What you probably mean is that "not everything handed to us is a contribution". And that's valid: There will be a lot
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by berkes 1y ago
This can be categorized as "spam". Fighting spam isn't done by using unfamiliar tech, but by actually fighting the spam. With good contributor guidelines, workflows, filters, etc. Contributions that don't adhere to the g
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by berkes 1y ago
And that is good. Diversity, here too, is of crucial importance. It's why some Open Source software has sublime documentation and impeccible translations, while the other is technically perfect but undecipherable. It's why some Op
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by berkes 1y ago
I've used Codeberg for some projects and while their work and services are impressive and their progress steady and good, it's really not a proper alternative to Github for many use-cases. "It depends", as always, but co
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by berkes 1y ago
In the very least, it will open up FTEs that can now work on what makes Mozilla projects unique, rather than on building and maintaining generic fundamentals. It's a pet-peeve and personal frustration of mine. "Do one thing and do
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by berkes 1y ago
You just showed the poster-child of gatekeeping that is harming Open Source. Every contributor is valuable, it's in the name, the definition of "contribute". Any bar to entry is bad, it certainly never is the solution to
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by berkes 1y ago
I agree that much clearer constraints and less wiggle room would be better. But imposing technical solutions in laws has hardly ever worked. Because these are almost always much easier to circumvent. E.g. your suggestion to "honor brow
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by berkes 1y ago
My website has no tracker nor any third party cookies so it doesn't need cookie dialog. And even if I had some analytics that stays on prem, doesn't store or gather PII, I wouldn't need one. The first dark pattern, is that we
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by berkes 1y ago
There's proper and good tracking possible just fine. Tracking to discover latency, errors, weird behaviour, malicious actors and so on. Tracking to see what content does well and what not. Tracking to see what rough demographics (mobil
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by berkes 1y ago
Yes. But "these websites" will then be prosecuted, their owners cannot enter the EU ever again without the risk of severe penalties, they cannot do business in the EU and can and often will, lose access to many services that do wa
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by berkes 1y ago
No, the real problem was that it worked too good from the perspective of ad-tech and data-gatherers.¹ It relied on the goodwill of those who run these services to i) invest some effort and money to detect the DNT headers and then ii) not co
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by berkes 1y ago
> You think these websites give a shit about your privacy because you clicked on a div with a "No" in it Yes. For a subset of "these websites". Because this is enforced and EU has fined billions already. The fines for
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by berkes 1y ago
In one project, we had an ENV var (a few actually) for timeouts of network requests. Most places would raise an exception if they hit this timeout. In test and CI we had this set to a very low number. In acceptance (manual testing, smoke te
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by berkes 2y ago
The main thing that keeps me from using Jupyter notebooks for anything that's not entirely Python, is Python. For me, pipenv/pyenv/conda/poetry/uv/dependencies.txt and the invitable "I need to upgrade Pyth
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by berkes 2y ago
Chrome is installed on (almost?) every Android phone. So they'd be buying much more than this. Not a new "AI phone", which has to gain traction, find users, convince people to switch, compete in highly competitive (hardware(
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by berkes 2y ago
What would be "treason territory"? The leaking or the siphoning of case data?
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by berkes 2y ago
How is this different from opening any website through a QR code, that will then run "arbitrary code"?
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by berkes 2y ago
I too would love to learn more about that. I am not sure about the current state. But "back then" all the components in Firefox were tightly coupled and almost impossible to extract on their own. "Back then" being, IIRC,
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by berkes 2y ago
Their loss lies in the fact that this would enable people to build competitors to firefox, as they would basically make a box of components to do exactly that. Yet Firefox, the product, is what brings in money. Not the underlying tech.
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by berkes 2y ago
We certainly need more really good browsers which use gecko. But for that to happen, Mozilla needs to up their effort to pull apart the components, decouple them from their own integration (firefox, thunderbird) and treat them as first-clas
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by berkes 2y ago
They should. But if they can is not that certain. IANAL, but when I asked a person somewhat involved in EU anti-trust processes, osx and macos aren't even close to be classified as monopolies in most of the EU, so the idea that Apple
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by berkes 2y ago
Indeed. We had "Altavista" and for a very short time it was OK, but then quickly decended into a ad-ridden "portal" This was 1997 or so. The web was full of popups, and then popunders. It was not uncommon to close your b
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by berkes 2y ago
I understand it as that too. But even then, I dislike it. Yes, "shipped, but terrible software" is far more valuable than "perfect software that's not available". But that's a goal. The "move fast and brea
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by berkes 2y ago
I've never liked it, but > Move fast and break things is really a bad concept in this space, where you get limited shots at releasing something that generates interest. > Employees are encouraged to ship half-baked features And t
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by berkes 2y ago
> Also, xhtml is just markup. And so it's not a programming language runtime (i.e. javascript or wasm), nor a css renderer, nor a bunch of web-apis. It's these things, not the (X)HTML parsing and rendering that makes a browser
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by berkes 2y ago
That's a strong accusation. The only way I can think of, is by pushing an update that grabs all your keys and pushes them to their servers. Otherwise, it's pretty decent set up (if I am to believe Moxie, which I do)
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by berkes 2y ago
At least on Android it's possible to dissect an app. You won't get the original java code, but static analysis is possible. And indeed, it's possible to capture it's network traffic and even often decrypt that traffic (w
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by berkes 2y ago
Signal. But not because they cannot read this metadata (they can) but because they promise they don't.
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by berkes 2y ago
It's really a demographic issue. I've found that in the US relatively few people use WA. Same for SEA. But in western Europe almost everything is done on WA. From "neighborhoodwatch" via "the school information&quot
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by berkes 2y ago
They don't plan it, because so far, they don't have the keys to do so. We do need to trust Meta that they really don't, to some extent, but people way smarter than me have researched the WA implementation of the Signal protoc

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