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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
So if someone else makes a browser off Gecko, then that one can satisfy Google's requirements, minus the special agreements Mozilla makes for search data, and suddenly there is mo reason for Google to pay Mozilla any more..
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
Isn't that the point? Making the engine decoupled and embeddable just wasn't on Mozilla's radar, and it suffered as a consequence. Chrome team was advcied very early in their development by none other than Android team to go
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
Historically, Firefox has been the only moneymaker for Mozilla. It is possible they didn't want to make it easy to embed so anyone can create second FF on top of their work and compete without paying dues. Electron and single applicati
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
I once read on HN that Apple gets ARM ISA and designs for free by virtue of being a founder. So the closed proprietary nature isn't enough for them to move to RISC V. I'm not sure that's true though..
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
AppImage is very good, I agree, but it has its fallings too. It also has external runtime dependencies that make it a pain to package and use on NixOS.
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
Apologies if this comes off rude, but GTK has increasingly becoming Gnome Toolkit, and notion of it on other platforms/DEs gets hand waived away. It may suit some people's taste, it is more open than Qt in some aspects and it has
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
That means losing out exclusivity on endless remakes, reboots and sequels. Since that's the majority of Hollywood money, I sincerely doubt it will change.
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
I doubt bots can sleep.. That is, if Google have a bit for this at all. But I like your sense of humor if you say there is actual human in charge of this.
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
Oh the amount of extensions that do one thing that can be much easier and cleaner to be integrated via userscripts is staggering! Its all the little things that add up, and I hate that mobile Firefox update disabled Tampermonkey. Talk about
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
By core products, you mean Search, Gmail and YouTube? Let's see.. Search these days seems to have given up on SEO blocking, Gmail has given up on any kind of UX improvements, and YouTube has given up on being a decent platform for eith
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
Your comment made me chuckle. Back in 2008 Chrome was the breath of fresh air, with absolutely spartan look, total lack of extensions and amazing speed, while IE was the opposite. There was good reason for its initial popularity. And now, l
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
Nit: Fish Shell is a bit redundant, as Fish stands for "Friendly Interactive Shell". Now that's out of my system, fish is fantastic and made me realise importance of sensible defaults. I tried zsh but configuration took longe
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
Agreed, but the scale makes all the difference. What few million farmers were doing manually is now being done by same number of of people (approximating, but could be wrong) using massive industrial scale machinery. Quick google-fu is fail
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
The modern agriculture just means automating depleting natural aquifers and using up topsoil and abusing chemicals at massive scale. Its the agricultural equivalent of optimizing for next quarter, but losing out on next decade.
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
I just backup Syncthing config file. I have also read it is possible to configure directories with Nix, but haven't tried that yet.
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
IME this very much depends on router and devices. When I was syncing over mobile hotspot (LAN) on 2.4GHz, speeds weren't impressive. But then I got a 5GHz router with 3 devices and there is sufficient bandwidth. I share ~120GB of total
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
I have observed that Syncthing-fork improvements eventually end up in official repo. Sometimes it takes few months, but it happens.
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
I like plasma, but compiling even a subset of it might be overkill for my needs. Any particular reason why plasma is not upstreamed if not for lack of interest/contribution?
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
When ad blocking on web becomes impossible/nonviable, I will retreat from using it, as I have retreated from using most popular sites, unless absolutely. I already don't have a TV, don't have any news apps on my phone, don&#x
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
I'm a NixOS user and seriously considering at least trying out GuixSD. Does GuixSD come with Plasma desktop and other KDE assortments? My lazy google-fu is failing me, and the installer video does not list is as option. I also have an
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
Discoverability. I am very comfortable on CLI, and will always prefer it over GUI for most tasks, but for OS installations, GUI is vastly superior. From the get go, if installer loads with GUI, you know that you likely won't see black
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
Oh the majority elected Gmail alright. They just weren't aware they were electing a dictator, and that the term was for life.
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That one particular instance was memorable because it was very unlike any other ads on Ads before. I remember there was some official post later about 'new type of ads' but I fail to find it currently. That particular incident was
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
That has not been new for a while now. Arch was always some of the top reporting brass imo, what with having subscriptions since very early on. But sometime 5-7 years ago when I ultimately stopped reading it, I distinctly remember a truly g
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
If FreeBSD were as popular as Linux, it would have same problem. We don't even need hypotheticals, how many proprietor Unices were there before Linux? Forget history, how many libre Unices are there now? Off the top of my head I can co
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
> intended users of Salesforce are most certainly the sales team. Alas, intended users are seldom the ones writing checks. As the old saying goes, decision to go with Oracle happens on golf course, not meeting room.
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Which makes an excellent case for mandatory docs. I don't want my speakers to stop working because I stopped paying subscription.
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
> a lot of people lose their private signing key. And if that happens, no more updates to your app That is a feature. If someone cannot do basic diligence of protecting the signing key, should I really trust them for executing code on my
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
The question is more of where the money is coming from. Google gets paid by advertisements so that's where their loyalties are. F-droid is funded by contributions and donations, and they need both. They also have everything out in the
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by e3bc54b2 5y ago
Its also from the facts that almost every "redesign" or presentation for one, is often full regression in use ability terms. It does help when software users that happen to have good UI chops suggest redesign because then it often

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