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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
Martin Fowler is in the certification for box checkers business. 99% of the people that read them work at places where they must "move to X" to justify some department. They will likely implement a simulacrum of X (usually by impo
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
> The reason we abandoned this [war driving] idea: A combination of our inhouse lawyer's opinion Can't stop thinking how every company doing mapping, like google, today includes wifi wardriving like it's nothing serious.
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
> just like in IPv4 is the key concept I am talking about here and everyone keep saying it is not. Just like ipv4 is what matter and why ISP will never kill NAT. They profit from it, somehow. and it is not just saving money on ipv4 add
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
> Google has on purpose made Android different enough so that no Android SoC could run mainline Linux. daily reminder that this is only possible because the very people in this site, "did not care about GPL or tainted kernel" a
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
> The reasons were stated repeatedly. They rewrote the mobile browser engine *this have nothing to do with my comment* I am talking two or three iterations AFTER that. please, stop commenting long posts where you have no idea. yes, mozil
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
Take my word for it. I'm still waiting very basic and popular extensions (uMatrix anyone ?) for SEVERAL MONTHS. And try to offer community help. Ha! mozilla have to die for firefox to live. uMatrix and uBlock share the same base code
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
OMG the lack of understanding of basic ad tracking in this forum baffles me. Nobody is going to pay. But if google serve an ad for a logged out (or firefox) user, they get paid 0.05c if they serve the same ad to someone logged in (via that
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
the visionary aspect was that it didn't need new hardware concepts. Just drop the ephemeral ram (or treat it like L4 cache, so to say) and hope permanent storage gets faster, which it did.
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
decades ago i was following a kid's graduation project of a OS with full permanence design. that was before Android and other always on "computers". it was called something like unununium (yeah, same name as the element, for
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
so they can continue to hide from public that most of their revenue is from secondary use they monetize from their database: research & law enforcement (or anyone that wants to buy their anonymized database, that still seem to contain z
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
technically, every flash memory today is a cube (well, more of a skewed cube, a Parallelepiped) Mostly because they can't figure out how to make things faster, or as fast as the interface which keeps getting faster, so they just pile a
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
That is the promise they sold it on. But, point me to a single ISP that gives a cable subscriber more than one IPv6 address. or a /48 as initially everyone was hopping. ISP profit from NAT. They will never get rid of it. Even if you ge
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
> Chrome can't really be sold. Right. Now try to use that top right "user" icon on your chrome window to log in as a user that is not from a google account.
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
> How would chrome survive as a business? by doing *exactly* what Google sued microsoft for trying to do with IE in the 90s. Isn't it funny?
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
You have 20 extensions that were "approved" by mozilla more than a year ago! All the others are banned forever. You can install uBlock, but not uMatrix. Many many extensions are banned just because they reviewed ONE extension that
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
I can't imagine the kind of Stupids that are steering mozilla, but they definitely want people to move to chrome. They disabled many loved extensions by power users for absolutely no reason at all! after those power users spend years b
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
Not really. ipv6 has nothing to do with any of this.
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
QUERY: is selfserving google feature. But you can probably do it in libreoffice in a way that is less google-selfserving and more portable, by using a macro/script that fetches content. ARRAYFORMULA: https://help.libreoffice
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
> open source project can outperform a 40 year old multi-billion dollar app differente incentives. I guarantee the open source is not outperforming the 40bi company offering on the metric they care about: profit. Likewise, nothing is out
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
there's a "joke" on the dweb groups that "SOLID is freenet with less caching of other people's illegal content "
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
> If Solid catches on and Facebook has a permissions check saying "Let Facebook do 'SELECT * FROM .;' on your Solid data, how many people will click yes? Excellent point. For the answer, just look at how many people give
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
> For YouTube For the CDN/edge this is irrelevant and should not even be part of the discussion. It is obvious it will not change (or will be even better) for them. The comment you are replying talks exclusively about the "midd
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
This is core to the onion routing protocol. And a huge knowledge hole on the p2p/dweb and IETFF people both.
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=nl&tl=en&u=htt...
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
And then showing a half-screen tall banner on every page load! Why even bother to make the page fast if you are going me to make waste 100x the time scrolling down to the content? oh, network costs with a PR spin on user benefits. got it.
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
Macs in the last decade are like windows computers in the late 90s. Every single little obvious feature depend on a shaddy shareware app running on your taskbar. want to close the lid? amphetamine. Want to copy paste history? copyQ. Want pe
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
I tried to google for you planning to hit the very first result and mock you. I will admit my shame. To my surprise, despite this controversy being bigger than the systemd one recently, it mostly happened on mailing lists and other non-publ
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
There's the opposite. If it doesn't disable suspend, it is not a work computer. my work macbook will close all the network connections/compile/rendering when i close the lid to walk from meeting to meeting (or used to. s
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
> Suspend / resume No The firmware does not support ACPI S3 suspend. Lol at the state of hardware.
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by gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
It's all red :( No support anywhere but Firefox. In fact, I will now use this URL as my main argument in support of firefox! even the grand-parent, javascript infused solutions, only two out of 20 support this extremely basic and obvio

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