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by dao- 3y ago
> I don’t know why all the attention is on climate change Because it's the largest existential threat human civilization has ever faced. But perhaps two things can be bad at the same time, and we should stop flooding earth with micr
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by dao- 3y ago
> There's some saying about history repeating itself, but I'm dumb and don't remember. "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." Karl Marx
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by dao- 3y ago
https://smart-life24.de/ perhaps? They do sell light bulbs. They're not particularly expensive. I think you might need an account with the Smart Life app, and my girlfriend appears to have a proper account using her e-
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by dao- 3y ago
I don't think it matters how often you want to meet. When you do, you should want it to work. We're not talking about a side feature either, this is software for having meetings. Microsoft is one of the wealthiest companies on thi
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by dao- 3y ago
just so we're on the same page, you think having to kill and restart while you're in or trying to join a chat or meeting doesn't count as notable trouble, because after all you were able to join eventually?
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by dao- 3y ago
> can't think of many meetings where I was unable to attend does this mean you can think of /some/ meetings you were unable to attend? I would assume that "doesn't work half the time" was slightly hyperbolic
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by dao- 3y ago
> Salty and fatty, Almost never protein though. You want good protein for a healthy diet. Of course you can get it through other ingredients, but most of the time, today anyway, you do lose something when just replacing cheese with vegan
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by dao- 3y ago
This is partly rewriting history. Yes, Chrome literally outperformed Firefox, but there are other parts to this story. First, Google pulled engineers it had paid to work on Firefox, including the project lead, to kick-start Chrome instead.
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by dao- 3y ago
The proper end user settings for this are currently in about:preferences#privacy (also linked to from about:preferences#search where most users would probably expect them). We have a myriad of about:config prefs affecting the address bar th
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by dao- 3y ago
There should be no difference between the two ways if you enter a space after the special character.
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by dao- 3y ago
I guess my point is, I don't think it's helpful to frame antidemocratic practices as errors when they are kept in place very deliberately by the powers that be.
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by dao- 3y ago
It's a fallacy to think (or deflection to claim) that errors could corrupt the system when even without errors, the system is inherently corrupt and riddled with antidemocratic rules. Think gerrymandering, the fact that election day in
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by dao- 4y ago
> Predicting the future correctly isn't a matter of competence... And yes, even Google can't scale infinitely in the face of an actual physical resource constraint. In order to not geo-block, Google would need to be able to sca
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by dao- 4y ago
So you're saying they might be incompetent enough for their estimation to be off by 50x? You're also saying Google, _a cloud computing provider selling access to A100s_, can't scale this dynamically? > Clearly MSFT is stru
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by dao- 4y ago
> Might be localization If that's the problem then they're not supplying the right fix. Surely restricting this to users located in the US doesn't prevent people from writing in a language that isn't English. Google s
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by dao- 4y ago
> Could it be that since Twitter hasn't collapsed yet As in it isn't done collapsing yet?
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by dao- 4y ago
The Mozilla Foundation owns the Mozilla Corporation, so no matter how you slice it, yes, Mozilla acquired Pocket.
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by dao- 4y ago
You can remove the button from the toolbar and disable pocket stuff on the new tab page. What other touchpoints are there that average users should care about and that can only be disabled in about:config?
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by dao- 4y ago
In what way is Mozilla selling their users to Pocket? Do you realize that Mozilla acquired Pocket years ago?
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by dao- 4y ago
Anyone else irritated by the "Executive Summary" heading for what I think most would call an abstract? As a non-native speaker I had to look up the term to confirm it meant what I guessed it would mean: summary meant for executive
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by dao- 4y ago
David Guetta makes tons of money just performing live, so "not going to be release commercially" feels like a cop-out... But then again, that's sort of how DJing works anyway. Would he have had to pay some sort of royalties h
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by dao- 4y ago
> I'm referring to this: https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561650689474011136 That doesn't seem to say anything about what gets transmitted to or from Google? Certainly it's not your visit
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by dao- 4y ago
> It used to do that, but doesn't anymore. I work for Mozilla (on Firefox) and I was around when phishing protection was introduced. Pretty sure it never did that. Not leaking the user's visit has always been a top priority for
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by dao- 4y ago
> Firefox also has Safe Browsing Safe Browsing checks against a local database. It doesn't leak the URLs of pages you visit. > and Pocket. Pocket doesn't do that either.
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by dao- 4y ago
> Pretty sure Firefox does that by default. Ahem, no. > It gets highly annoying, sometimes. The thing you made up gets highly annoying, sometimes?
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by dao- 4y ago
> These are basically training chopsticks. If you find yourself using them a lot, you'll find it easier and more satisfying to use actual chopsticks. Chopsticks are cheap, easy to clean, versatile, able to be made from materials lik
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by dao- 4y ago
> The CPU result is doubly incorrect, since a) it's not an Intel chip, and b) i'm running 12.5.1 instead of 10.15. It looks like you've enabled resistfingerprinting? https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central&#
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by dao- 4y ago
Your comment is legitimate as well, yet you've completely missed the point.
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by dao- 4y ago
Especially for a _collaborative_ editor, a11y seems like a must. Everyone can pick their own personal editor, but you don't want to shut out your (potential) peers from (potential) collaboration. Without accessibility, such an editor l

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