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by dabockster 10mo ago
Edge still has a ton of stuff specific to Windows in it, mostly for business/enterprise use. It is probably the most no-code configurable browser out there if you go through Group Policy, with an effective guarantee that all of those s
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by dabockster 10mo ago
They also support Group Policy and JSON based configurations, depending on the OS. So you could install a config that disables a lot of that before you even install the Brave Browser. Heck, they could probably sell that as a premium/bu
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by dabockster 10mo ago
> Either he says he changed, or I treat him like he hasn't changed. That kind of attitude is why things like right to be forgotten are being pushed. The world isn't set in stone.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
I think those could sell, but you'd have to make the screens a luxury trim item again. Which could honestly happen if vehicle Right to Repair laws happen. But we're way off topic here. :D
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by dabockster 10mo ago
Still sort of web stuff, but not the kind that HN usually does: I'm trying to get back into computer networking - both physical cables and the computer code sides of things. Over the past 5 years beginning in the covid lockdowns, I&#x2
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by dabockster 10mo ago
Honestly, they shouldn't even need to touch a debugger if they're able to reasonably manage their memory "well enough". Like in general. I'd only touch a debugger myself if I knew I was dealing with a memory problem
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by dabockster 10mo ago
Start by writing a few basic hello world style programs while focusing on the "C way of doing things" - most importantly how you manage memory in C. That's probably the biggest pitfall I see people coming from higher level pr
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by dabockster 10mo ago
"Hacker News commenters are frequently unaware that their use cases and customer preferences do not reflect the average customer demand in the market." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192577 There'
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by dabockster 10mo ago
Yeah, I realized this recently. I want rendering engine competition, but it's clear that Mozilla isn't capable of doing that anymore.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
And nowadays, I'd argue that there's more human eyeballs watching the Chromium source code vs the Firefox code.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
In 2014, which is over a decade ago now. Wikipedia also says he's Catholic. From what I understand, the Church's positions on such things have evolved at least somewhat since then. His views could have totally changed or evolved s
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by dabockster 10mo ago
> I just don’t genuine understand who it’s for anymore. It still gets bundled a TON on Linux. So if you use Linux a lot, Firefox gets into your muscle memory. But honestly, that bundling is likely just momentum from the 2010s. Better tec
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by dabockster 10mo ago
I think Brave has the potential to be the next Firefox if they can run their company right.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
> Firefox's only unique selling point is "We aren't a massive data vampire." The fact that they haven't moved away from apparently needing 90%+ of their money to come from Google, after more than a decade of th
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by dabockster 10mo ago
Safari has like 20% market share right now. The only thing holding it back is that it's Mac only. If Apple got a Windows version going again, it'd eat Chrome for lunch.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
Your points are valid. But what made me finally switch was that it is open source, that it has been out for roughly a decade now, and that Brendan Eich's opinions from 2014 are mostly based on his Catholic faith at the time (which obvi
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by dabockster 10mo ago
I switched to Brave. Even with its cryptocurrency stuff bundled, it's easily disabled and not in your face at all. And their adblock tech is an amazing uBlock successor.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
They were also supposedly working on mobile apps. I'd pay some solid money for Thunderbird mobile if it was a good product.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
Firefox is still heavily used by Linux OSes as the default browser. But I think that's mostly momentum at this point. If more people knew about Mozilla's organizational challenges, then I think Firefox would get ditched.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
Yep. Mozilla is effectively just a tax dodge for Google anymore. Heck, this AI first announcement was probably strongly influenced behind the scenes by Google to create an appearance of competition similar to Microsoft's and Apple&#x
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by dabockster 10mo ago
I've daily driven Thunderbird for over a decade. You have very few options for having a single program manage multiple email accounts outside of Outlook and Thunderbird anymore. Maybe Apple Mail on Mac (and whatever Microsoft is preloa
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by dabockster 10mo ago
> You can't effectively paywall it because not only is it open source, but there are many nearly equivalent competitors all of which are free. You're forgetting that people will buy a product on brand identity alone. If the Fir
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by dabockster 10mo ago
> The idea that software is free is completely wrong > If software is free, there can be no privacy, it's as simple as that. Strongly agreed. Free software, either $0 or through stronger licenses like the GPL, have their economic
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by dabockster 10mo ago
They need to give Thunderbird more resources first.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
> Most people who work for the government show up expecting to be told what to do, then do it - very few can independently think for themselves. I see this a lot in the private sector too here in Seattle. It's hurting us badly.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
Episode 9 is better overall if you can power through retconning Palpatine's death in Episode 6. Which I feel JJ Abrams did only because Episode 8 made the mistake of killing off Snoke. But either way, Episode 9 does have largely better
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by dabockster 10mo ago
And ODF is largely a EU standard that people online love to pretend is universally used.
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by dabockster 10mo ago
HN is such a meme at this point for all the bad reasons. It's why I'd bail on this site again if other social media wasn't worse. "Hacker News commenters are frequently unaware that their use cases and customer preferen
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by dabockster 10mo ago
> Personally, I think MS needs to massively increase their prices here: they're leaving a lot of money on the table. Companies, especially, (and governments) just aren't going to switch, no matter what. So why not increase the
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by dabockster 10mo ago
Active Directory is a very no-code tool and has a ton of documentation and certifications online, no college degree required. And it's built by paid devs with a verifiable software supply chain. I just looked up libpam-mysql and it is

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