gregknicholson

35 ms·

331.
by gregknicholson 9y ago
I just want to say thank you for engaging here! Mozilla fucking up like this still feels like a friend fucking up. It's frustrating and disappointing precisely because I expect Mozilla to be better than this.
332.
by gregknicholson 9y ago
I think it's about domains of control: I expect that Google controls which image appears on their home page; I expect that I control which add-ons are installed in my Firefox. If this code had been in core-Firefox, we'd never ha
333.
by gregknicholson 9y ago
Without corporate subsidies, corporate subsidies would soon reappear. If it's useful enough, corporations will pay to continue having it.
334.
by gregknicholson 9y ago
It would be easy to create a Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency that is not deflationary. You could make it issue new coins at a fixed rate or at an increasing rate. (With cryptocurrencies, you can't change the rate new coins are issued, fo
335.
by gregknicholson 9y ago
There are no downloads on their website, and judging by the repos on GitHub, this seems to have gone into hibernation about a month ago. https://github.com/CirclesUBI Is a technical implementation still being worked on some
336.
by gregknicholson 9y ago
Yeah, the love story was deliberately aimed at non-technical users, trying to emphasise the culture rather than the tech. http://www.scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.h... has a little bit of more-te
337.
by gregknicholson 9y ago
I don't think you necessarily need a large market share. You just need your alternative to be viable for individuals to choose to use. Then if it's better, you'll gain users. Firefox itself needs large market share, as a bulk
338.
by gregknicholson 9y ago
I don't know whether [LessPass]( https://lesspass.com/ ) is reputable, but it's notable for its approach. It's primarily a password generator, rather than a password manager. It reproducibly generates difficult
339.
by gregknicholson 9y ago
I use [ https://syncthing.net/](Syncthing) because it's serverless, works on various Linuxes and Android, pretty easy to set up, and I trust it. I trust it because I can get it from 3rd-party repos — Debian, Fedora, F-D