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coribuci
7y ago
> I've talked with perfectly otherwise intelligent friends who didn't know that on Facebook Messenger, clicking the Phone icon on the top-right of the screen that's present in every single chat view allows you to have a vo
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7y ago
> The Ribbon’s terrible because there’s no regularity in its structure. The eye can’t scan quickly: sometimes controls go horizontally, then they go vertically, then they run horizontally again. Also some things are hidden in a dialog bo
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7y ago
> Surprising, no. He's founder and ex-CEO of Microsoft. > Popular public figure, plus famously finances medical research and charity work. YMMV. A lot of rich people finance medical research ( some because they are sick) and char
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7y ago
> > Do a little threat modeling here please > Yes, lets do some threat modeling. In the first model we have the ISP that host a DNS resolver. The traffic goes from the client to the server hosted by the ISP. > In the second mode
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7y ago
> They're not doing it in secret. Use a different browser if you don't like it, or fork it. They are not doing it in plain sight either. > Mozilla have made a value judgement that DoH is more useful to end users than the sup
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7y ago
It's worse than that. Some words did not exist in the target language (the computers are relatively new compared to the age of the language) so they had to be created. Nothing is more annoying than to search for words which make no se
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7y ago
> > I am always using the US-EN Firefox version > Wait, so you want the US version of Firefox to be tuned to EU legal policy? It is not the US version. It's the US language version - or at least that's how they market it.
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7y ago
> Clients could do their own secure resolving without relying on a central service. So in other words: privilege escalation.
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7y ago
This will be a praise for him. Unfortunately censorship has become common practice around the world and it did not started with Stalin.
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7y ago
German tv WDR also removed sensitive content from a video. At least a dictator has an excuse.
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7y ago
> What are they embracing so they can extinguish in this instance? Firefox, linux, open source. It's really funny how a lot of open source projects are hosted in github.
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7y ago
Monsanto would like to disagree.
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7y ago
We only need a way to move Glyphosat from Western Europe to Africa.
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7y ago
I'm waiting for a SystemD replacement written in ed (the standard text editor).
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7y ago
> > People of Iraq were suffering exactly how under Saddam? > The answer to that question has its own Wikipedia page: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein... . You think that now it
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7y ago
America, fuck yeah
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7y ago
> It's not okay just because America does it to a limited extent in a miniature percentage of land. It's actually a false equivalence. America does not do it to a limited extent. America spies all the western world. Everything
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7y ago
>Note: systemd is now replacing init on Linux. It solves a few problems with init, and overall more stable. He said "Let’s start at the core - the philosophy behind Unix. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write pro
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7y ago
Bezos is thinking like a manager. People are resources. If one resource quits ( beccause he/she/it does not like working for the military^W^W democracy) than he/she/it is replaced by another resource. It is that simple.
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7y ago
> The removal of barriers favors those who can take advantage of the newly acquired access and information. No. The removal of barriers favors only those that take advantage of the lawless system. For all the others it is just a relative
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7y ago
> They're giving an opportunity for wealthier patrons to subsidize the pesticide-free production of food. No, they are just defending themselves with crappy arguments. The real truth is people are lazy and do not (those who have the
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7y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is a rootkit ? What's next? A graphics driver in browser ? Seriously the browser looks more and more like malware.
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> LOL. I created a similar page lock up back in 1996 using the first Netscape with JavaScript. Back then no one took that seriously. > "JavaScript exploits continue to plague all browsers" was something I wrote in 2002. Will
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7y ago
And windows 10 which has the same look and feel like windows 1.0 ?
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7y ago
It's called "evolution". You have a tiger. You kill it. Now you have no tiger but you can have a cat from your neighbour.
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> Then your browser should have an option to mute-embedded-video-by-default. Problem solved. I think you don't understand the modern web. If something is crappy the user shall have it. JS was always considered crappy but now is the
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7y ago
Right. Every day a new format.
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> How does the ribbon hide functionality compared to menus? Did you tried to use it ? For every god damn thing i try to find in the ribbon i lose 5 minutes. That's what i call "hiding functionality" .
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7y ago
> The vast majority of the world use mobile devices as their only computing device, and the office workers and power users such as us are minority users and thus get minority attention. I think something like iPad OS getting laptop featu
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7y ago
> My desktop isn't a tablet - stop trying to make it one! Game over. Do you want to play another game? (...you know - material ui is the new shit. I wonder what are they smoking, i would _love_ to try it too)
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