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by egberts1 3y ago
Raffi Krikorian, IT of "failed" 2016 political thrust in US, rabid proponent of deploying, using, collecting geolocations, mass aggregation of private data. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffi_Krikorian
902.
by egberts1 3y ago
Edwin Marcharia, biology degree with specialty in infectious diseases, McKinsey statistical analysis, and organizational efficiency. Not sure what he can bring to the table of Mozilla and its further expansion of a web browser, notably with
903.
by egberts1 3y ago
Alondra Nelson, nothing of her scant research papers to keep Mozilla from being swallowed up by competing web browsers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alondra_Nelson
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by egberts1 3y ago
Yea, during the dark ages of toxic Wikipedia editors, I had ample of citations to split apart "Deaf" (ethnocentric label) from "Deafness" (culture) and "Hearing-Loss" (medical) not to mention the toxic ableism
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by egberts1 3y ago
That is why everyone that is smart and private are going into Brothers Printers but WITHOUT THE REFRESH OPTION. Now we wait for Brothers CFO to make the same cam pmistake as HP CFO.
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by egberts1 3y ago
Looks like nothing about technology and privacy are found amongst the new board members of Mozilla. Looks like someone is funneling money to keep them “paid”.
907.
by egberts1 3y ago
In 2012, UC Davis, California did a study on 23 brands of quality of olive oil imports. my personal picks are also top 3 … to this day: * Corto * De Cecco * Supremo Italiano https://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/media/files&#
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by egberts1 3y ago
This is why I stop lauding and buying Hewlett-Packard printers. Too much dependencies on Microsoft OS and dialing home private stuff to HP headquarter.
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by egberts1 3y ago
That's a Microsoft strategy.
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by egberts1 3y ago
Meanwhile, same Federal bans TikTok from the military. What a topsy-turvy world that we live in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_th... .
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by egberts1 3y ago
Ooops, HTTP/2, not HTTP3.
912.
by egberts1 3y ago
CSS is easier than JavaScript. Here is an example of JavaScript-free CSS motion: https://egbert.net/blog/index.html
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by egberts1 3y ago
You really do not want to enable WebHIB, WebUSB, WebGL, WebRTC, canvas, `blob:` nor any of Google's 8 APIs for privacy and security reasons. This is Google's attempt at our privacy thru Embrace, Engulf, and Extinguish strategy. h
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by egberts1 3y ago
History is written by the victorious.
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by egberts1 3y ago
Precisely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law#:~:text=B... .
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by egberts1 3y ago
That's why we have toll roads
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by egberts1 3y ago
So, Brave is receiving funding from Google, no? I didn't think so. The only lock-in solution is the faulty-designed HTTP3 protocol, security-wise and privacy-wise. https://fourweekmba.com/how-does-brave-make-money/
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by egberts1 3y ago
Best weapon against Google's Chrome encroachment upon your privacy is other web browsers. Notably Firefox, Onion Browser, DuckDuckGo, Brave and even Safari: cannot go wrong with these alternate browsers.
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by egberts1 3y ago
Not to be confused with Onex Hacking Tool. https://github.com/MasterScott/onex
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by egberts1 3y ago
Economist Paul Krugman wrote that by 2005, it would become clear that the Internet's effect on the economy is no greater than the fax machine's.
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by egberts1 3y ago
kKR and Silver Lake (both private equity firms) created Avago. Avago rolled up several companies including Broadcom and are 86% institution owned (Vanguard and Blackrock top 2) Most of the layoff are marketing and sales as well as some engi
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by egberts1 3y ago
used to be that a drum drive covered /bin and a platter drive provided /usr/bin. Makes upgrades easier when leaving SysV init alone (in /bin).
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by egberts1 3y ago
Touch LCD screens are a no-no for navy ships because there are no tactile feedback mechanism for your finger to feel as the ship slaps down after every giant waves.
924.
by egberts1 3y ago
So it is ok for church schools to not hire atheist people who do not follow the religion tenet?
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by egberts1 3y ago
We were almost there in making CEO make the same or less than the company peons. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna43667
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by egberts1 3y ago
Spoke too soon: Brother's new market add-on printer trick called "Refresh": some Brother models now dial home to their centralized server. TL;DR: buy "Refresh"-free Brother printers.
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by egberts1 3y ago
Wells Fargo, First Interstate Bank, NationsBank, Penn Square Bank, Pacific Capital Bancorp, to name a few. Source: my divorced single-mom grandmother and her incessant complaints about them.
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by egberts1 3y ago
Wait, what? Since when did we start tipping movie employees?
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by egberts1 3y ago
Oh good. Was getting tired, after clicking on salacious headlines, of being thrush in-my-face by paywalls.
930.
by egberts1 3y ago
The 3rd part of e-mail will simply fail in the Microsoft strategy of Embrace, Engulf, and Extinguish. Bucking against the many IETF RFCs on SMTP is hard to do.

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