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by callahad 8y ago
Longevity shouldn't be too much of a concern: Lockbox is effectively a client for Firefox Sync, and Sync is a core Firefox product offering. As for Chrome, since Lockbox is an explicit move to extend Firefox Sync's utility beyond
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by callahad 8y ago
Lockbox is effectively a client for Sync which is decoupled from Firefox itself. This means, for example, even if you browse with Chrome on Android, you can still access and auto-fill all of the passwords you have saved in your desktop Fire
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by callahad 8y ago
The cynic in me is worried that Google taking its ball and going home: if Chrome can't be the default, then nobody can. I'm excited for increased choice, but Google is starting this race from a position backed by a decade of anti-
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You are reading that correctly.
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Sure, we don't want any single entity--including ourselves--to monopolize the foundations of the Web. To allow that would diminish the Web's power as a democratized public resource. But let's not kid ourselves: Mozilla hasn&#
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by callahad 8y ago
Hi Domenic! First: I'm outside the edit window for the original post, but in hindsight it reads as more of an ad hominem than intended. My apologies. I don't mean to malign the technical aspects of KV Storage, nor WICG / TPAC
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by callahad 8y ago
Hi! Thank you for your work on the polyfill. There is a healthy inter-vendor discussion in the spec's GH issues, and I believe there is absolutely technical merit to this specific proposal. That's all great and above-board. I&#x27
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by callahad 8y ago
Kind of like when Google decided to ship a partial Shadow DOM polyfill to production that just so happened to make YouTube load 5x slower in browsers that weren't Chrome. https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/10
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I'm still in awe of the arrogance of calling this "the Web's first built-in module" and promoting it to developers when it's a non-standard, Chrome-specific feature backed by a spec written entirely by a single Goog
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by callahad 8y ago
We at Mozilla are glad folks love MDN, but domain squatting kinda sucks for everyone. MDN can stand on its own. :)
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> Each tab got its own process and could crash without taking down the entire browser. No one else had this at the time IE8 had a public release with process-per-tab before Chrome debuted.
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https://SomaFM.com was founded 19 years ago and is still going strong. They have a few dozen streams, most of which are electronic, but they also have quite enjoyable indie, jazz, folk, etc. options. Not to mention refreshingly
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by callahad 8y ago
Fastmail discussed the bill on their blog at https://fastmail.blog/2018/09/10/access-and-assistance-bill/
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It's possible. E.g., PWAs installed via Firefox on Android use Gecko, not the system WebView.
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by callahad 8y ago
You might enjoy replacing your extract function with atool ( https://www.nongnu.org/atool/ ) which provides aunpack. It works similarly, but has niceties like creating and unpacking into a subdirectory to avoid accidenta
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by callahad 8y ago
This is tiny, but I've gotten a surprising amount of mileage out of aliasing 'fx' to firefox --new-instance --profile $(mktemp -d) which pops open a new instance of Firefox with a completely clean, temporary profile. S
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by callahad 8y ago
Wekan ( https://github.com/wekan/wekan ) is surprisingly capable as an open source Trello-alike.
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by callahad 8y ago
No, GOG provides full, DRM-free downloads. It's its own marketplace. Maybe you're thinking of the Humble Bundle? Many products there are sold as Steam keys.
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by callahad 8y ago
Mozilla isn't a monolith. Like most medium and large organizations, your experience can vary greatly between teams and management chains. If Mozilla's mission and manifesto resonate with you, give it a shot. With Microsoft throwin
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I think they do, at least in part: They directly discuss how the price of their insurance policy changed following the event: > WENDY: I emailed our agent this morning because I hadn't heard anything. Knowing that we are - ah, AIG
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by callahad 8y ago
> they removed the ability to view individual cookies and their values from the browser Moved, not removed. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Storage_Inspe...
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by callahad 8y ago
SyncThing has been completely reliable for the past two years across my Android phone, Linux laptop, and a Linux NAS. I use it to backup photos / videos that I capture on my phone, as well as to sync my KeePass database and Org Mode fi
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by callahad 8y ago
> In that case does it have a certificate for the IP addresses instead of for a FQDN? It can be both: If you look at https://1.1.1.1/ , the certificate is issued for *.cloudflare-dns.com, but it also contains the altern
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I suspect you'd also enjoy fd - https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
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Everything is Class-B. Class-A and Class-C are relics of ideas we had back in 2013 that we did not pursue. Specifically, once of the consequences of Class-B is that your encryption key is derived from your password. If you forget and reset
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by callahad 8y ago
...I had no idea that political advertising was banned in the UK, but there you go. As an American, some of the quotes from this this BBC News piece five years ago are really interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-p
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Plus-based subaddresses are relatively common (sendmail supports them, Sieve has RFC 5233, etc), but dot-insensitivity is/was unique to gmail as far as I'm aware.
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Not exclusively, but quoting the article, "for most purposes we don’t need to collect individual data, but rather only aggregates. [...] Once we’ve validated that [Prio]’s working as expected and provides the privacy guarantees we requ
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Telemetry is reported centrally to Mozilla, so we could theoretically observe individual responses as they came in, even if we only wanted to analyze the data in aggregate. Prio uses cryptography to ensure that no one, not even the receivin
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I had similar happen with my XBox Live account seven years ago: the attacker bought $125 in Microsoft Points using the associated credit card and then immediately transferred the account to Russia under a new email address. At the time, Mic

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