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by dblohm7 7y ago
Most of the data that is collected by Mozilla is not PII. See our data collection guidelines: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Did you not read the article? This committee session was attended by parliamentarians from over 10 countries. According to [1], this grand committee includes politicians from the United Kingdom, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, France, Ireland,
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by dblohm7 7y ago
OMG I first used Spry via CompuServe too!
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> But as stevekemp said, the average user is losing their profile when simply upgrading from one version to the next. That's a bug and is not supposed to happen.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Apparently somebody put together a Docker image: https://github.com/michielbdejong/fxa-self-hosting
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by dblohm7 7y ago
I heard that this was going to be a GSOC project this summer, but I'm not sure if that was approved or not.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
COM has always supported C. Go and look at any headers generated by MIDL and you’ll see a C variant of the interfaces. I don’t see why you couldn’t write a UWP app in pure C, you’d just need a shitload of boilerplate and glue to make it san
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by dblohm7 7y ago
The post-mortem hasn't even started yet; now that 66.0.5 is out and the initial incident response is finally winding down, now they can move on to that.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
I completely agree. Having worked on both a database execution engine, as well as on the application side, you could not get me to write queries in any language other than the database's native query language.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Those populations are not representative of the release population.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
That only works on Nightly and Developer Edition.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
This brings up fond memories of Waterloo's CS 452: Real-time Programming. "Here, we've got this model train set hooked up to a PC with nothing on it. Here are some specs. Write an RTOS and control program to make the trains d
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by dblohm7 7y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the HN crowd is not Indigo's target audience.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
To the contrary, I would say that Rust and WASM are a couple of the “side projects “ that are most relevant to that goal.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
The press release from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/20...
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Don't care. Kill green apple and bring back lime!
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by dblohm7 8y ago
BC is going to start tracking this. It was just unveiled last week.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
MoCo is for-profit in the legal sense, yes. But it doesn't "aim to turn a profit".
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Hopefully it prevents more users from getting caught up in that. As for the existing ones, that's an ongoing problem that people have been working on.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Good news: Full background update functionality is in the works. (I work on the team that owns install/update at Mozilla, though I don’t work on it myself.)
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Well, that depends on the DLL.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
How do you know whether someone works at Google? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
> Part of the problem is the DLLs, as many have mentioned, and also the fact that each statically links in its own CRT (C run-time) No, that isn't the case on DLLs shipped with Windows.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
There is no plan to EOL Gecko.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
That sounds like a bug to me.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
What happens when you call an API that isn't fiber-aware and uses thread-local storage in its implementation? Basically your entire stack needs to be fiber-aware, or you can't use them.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
> Firefox’s source code is open. So is its telemetry data: https://telemetry.mozilla.org/
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by dblohm7 8y ago
COM+ is an enhancement over regular distributed COM that was released with Windows 2000.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Fibers still have a lot of problems. They're incompatible with any APIs that have thread affinity. Windowing, single-threaded apartment COM, CRITICAL_SECTIONs, etc...
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Actually we only use plugin-container for NPAPI on Windows. I believe that MacOS was specifically the platform where we ran into problems.

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