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by cjpearson 2y ago
Well of course it would have to go beyond Firefox to be effective. But if PPA can show that advertising can function without surveillance, then the business case for surveillance-based advertising goes away. This would make it easier for go
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by cjpearson 2y ago
I consider Mozilla to be a public interest group. It's understandable that Meta's involvement is seen as a red flag, but if you want it to actually happen, part of this process will involve cooperating with advertisers. In the end
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by cjpearson 2y ago
It's unfortunate that almost none of the PPA criticisms actually go into depth on why its implementation isn't sufficiently private. It seems there's no desire to actually improve privacy, they'd rather just kill the fea
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by cjpearson 2y ago
I think it would be a good idea to remove these examples from the draft as it gives people the impression that this method is SQL-over-HTTP. A more typical body might be a JSON object with various filter criteria.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
> building customer service infrastructure The effort here is not to be underestimated. It took years for them to implement a cancel button.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Tailwind is a CSS build process. If you only want to customize the default link color it probably isn't the right choice. If you want to avoid a build step, it's also not the right choice.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Is this a principled defense of free speech or a case of a man treating ostensibly independent companies as divisions of his personal conglomerate?
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by cjpearson 2y ago
It's not too different in the corporate world. I'm an owner of Apple, Google, Microsoft and others and they refuse to divulge their secrets to me. I can't see their contracts, strategy documents or root passwords.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
I really don't like advertising. I use uBlock Origin in my browser, AdGuard on my phone and pi-hole in my home. I even take a seam ripper to my clothes to make sure no logos remain. But I understand that advertising is the only viable
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Were there any reports beyond the Seymour Hersh substack post? Besides some Russian outlets nobody took that seriously. While Hersh has had some impressive scoops he also has a history of fabrication and unreliable sources. There's a r
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Stylo (CSS Engine) and WebRender (compositor) came from Servo and are still used in Firefox. I believe the Mozilla team still upstreams patches as well.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
The sports for 2028 have already been decided. Flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squash will be added. Breaking will not be included.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
I still haven't seen any arguments why these restrictions aren't good for users. Just a bunch of assumptions that these restrictions are a fig leaf. For a technical forum, I would expect more discussion around the actual details.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
All of these requirements look good for user security and privacy. I don't want apps to bring their own Blink or WebKit fork with all sandboxing and cross-site tracking protection disabled. I'm fine with apps bringing their own en
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Apps are sandboxed, but WebKit runs outside the sandbox with additional privileges such as JIT and multiple processes and communicates with the app through IPC. This change is allowing third-party code to also run with these privileges as l
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by cjpearson 2y ago
As someone who hasn't played a CoD game in probably 10-12 years, what has changed?
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by cjpearson 2y ago
In Germany I think it's a bit of both. Beginning in 5th grade, pupils attend different schools. It differs a bit between the states, but generally those in the university track schools (gymnasium) will attend secondary school until 12t
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by cjpearson 2y ago
But since most engineers probably started before last week, wouldn't they be still up quite a bit? Even with the crash it's up 75% over the past year.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Instead of Chesterton, I think Thomas Aquinas made the same point more simply: "If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Ads as a revenue model is not going anywhere even if you personally block them. I'm also a ublock origin user. But it only works because most people in the world are not ublock origin users. I view no ads and am subsidized by the users
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by cjpearson 2y ago
The old joke is that there's a new JavaScript framework every month. That's not really true — we've had the same big three for a decade — but there has been an explosion of new bundlers: vite, esbuild, turbopack, farm, swc, r
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by cjpearson 2y ago
What do you have against anti-Taliban Afghans or anti-Lukashenko Belarusians?
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Most definitions of Generation Z would include both those who are presently 25 and 14 years old.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Flow is another example I've seen. https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Pay might be motivation for some, but it's not the only source. People also join for reasons such patriotism, sense of duty, or family history of service. Boosting pay could certainly help, but I think its effect would be limited if it
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by cjpearson 2y ago
The article references four books including "The Great Good Place" which originated the term along with the classic "Bowling Alone", which documents the decline of social connections in the United States. Additionally th
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by cjpearson 2y ago
They've definitely thought about it. This is not the first user to rage quit and vandalize their posts and they have standard procedures to deal with it. (IIRC their system will even automatically flag bulk edits for review.) If you wo
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by cjpearson 2y ago
It's a losing battle in that the CC license and StackOverflow's ToS make it clear that StackOverflow is allowed to restore the post regardless of the original author's wishes. It's less clear that the license gives AI co
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by cjpearson 2y ago
I still don't think there's any significant difference. You can create popover elements without JavaScript, but you can also create divs with a high z-index without JavaScript. You can toggle popover visibility via CSS or click wi
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by cjpearson 2y ago
It's a different agency, but Matt Levine has written a fair amount on the SEC making a killing by fining banks when their employees use SMS or WhatsApp. It's a similar story where conversations that might have been held at the wat

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