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by gilrain 5y ago
> Just think, if this were a larger company doing this Just think, they said wistfully, how angry we could be if things weren’t such as they are. What a glorious, outraged life we could be leading.
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by gilrain 5y ago
I’m sure we’re all very sorry that you didn’t read an email which, in retrospect, was important. It was careless of you, but we’re all careless sometimes. I doubt stavros has the ability to force you to read your emails, though. Given that,
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by gilrain 5y ago
Is uBlock Origin being unable to update any more concerning to you? https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/pv15k2/_/he7qm5u/?cont...
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by gilrain 5y ago
gorhill is unable to test and update uBlock Origin: > This is unfortunate. Development of uBO for Firefox is completely stalled as a result -- the purpose of dev builds is to test code changes before publishing a stable release. It used
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by gilrain 5y ago
A process that is preventing gorhill from testing and updating uBlock Origin is a failed process.
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by gilrain 5y ago
When there are so many excellent languages to choose among, a trivial distinction can almost be a relief.
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Firefox Addons Unable to Update, Undisclosed AMO Issues(discourse.mozilla.org)
184 points by gilrain 5y ago|110 comments
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by gilrain 5y ago
Indeed, as is appropriate; the ability to do both of those things are attractions of the iPhone.
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by gilrain 5y ago
You’re only in the green if you sell.
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by gilrain 5y ago
Are you under the impression that phone calls are open season or something? There are tons of laws regulating what you can and can’t do on the phone.
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by gilrain 5y ago
> So we must shut down all hotels because they all unknowingly hosted some illegal activities in their rooms, e.g. if someone met a prostitute there? No. What they said is that you don’t want to have to convince a jury that you aren’t re
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by gilrain 5y ago
> So instead keep using it and actually put the other content onto it yourself! “Make the place I like better by being there!” Nah. Make the place you like better, then people will want to be there.
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by gilrain 5y ago
Indeed. Additionally, if you want to save a few bucks on something, check it out on Amazon, add it to a wish list, then ignore it for a few days. When you go back to check your wishlist, it will be a little cheaper than before. They play a
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by gilrain 5y ago
When you aren’t willing to pay for quality labor, I wonder what you get?
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by gilrain 5y ago
I asked my (relative to us) wealthy grandparents for a Walkman, one Christmas. Just a normal, cassette playing walkman, you know. They instead asked for the coolest model, which apparently lead them to, I think it was called a Sportman (?),
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by gilrain 5y ago
“Not all of them are bad” isn’t a very strong argument against the general heuristic.
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by gilrain 5y ago
Yes, if you’re willing to break the law and risk the consequences, you can get up to all sorts of stuff. Same as anything? Like, “So, if I want to disrupt a competitor, all I have to do is hire thugs to smash all their stuff?” Yeah, that’d
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by gilrain 5y ago
You are complaining about your house being torn down, not the motorway for which your house was torn down. No need to bring the motorway into this unrelated matter.
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by gilrain 5y ago
Number of Firefox users is dropping, not just Firefox market share.
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by gilrain 5y ago
5b. Keybinds can’t be changed
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by gilrain 5y ago
Yes. Do you trust Mozilla? They share the numbers. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
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by gilrain 5y ago
Do you trust Mozilla? They share the numbers. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity I’ve watched the decline for years, straight from the source. These usage numbers are not affected by privacy settings.
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by gilrain 5y ago
A narcissist is equating himself with a community he fancies and is attempting to force it under his control.
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by gilrain 5y ago
You are badly out of touch. People take the jobs they have to take to survive. The choice you imagine does not exist for most of humanity.
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by gilrain 5y ago
“If and only if” also has a shorthand in “iff”.
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by gilrain 5y ago
They and their progeny might get a livable planet. It’s really time to stop treating climate as something to profit from and start treating it as bare survival.
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by gilrain 5y ago
Ah, I misremembered; thanks! Newton proved that prisms split light into colors it was already comprised of, rather than coloring the light by themselves. Herschel then discovered there were more of those “colors” than could be seen.
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by gilrain 5y ago
Indeed, Isaac Newton noticed that a thermometer placed just beyond the red band of a prism-produced rainbow showed a higher temperature than shadow or indeed the red band itself. From this he deduced and described infrared light.
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by gilrain 5y ago
A lot of people recognize that nationalism is toxic to peaceful civilization and prefer to avoid those who promote it heavily. Nationalism is in some cases legal, but it’s not respectable and we need not dignify it as such.
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by gilrain 5y ago
Network latency will dwarf CPU time in that case; the CPU can idle while waiting for responses.

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