joaobeno

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by joaobeno 7y ago
Not "API", and Mozilla intends to vote against, I hope...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Thanks man, I didn't know this...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
There are huge selections of manufactures, speeds, powers, capacities, and so on... Thus, it is hard to simply let you pick and choose... They pick some parts, limit external factors that could influence the benchmarks, and show you the met
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by joaobeno 7y ago
This is just another attack on the open & free internet. Why so? Since Google defines per their own metrics fast vs slow, they will imprint that impression upon the user, making an otherwise good willed user a starting bad impression on
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Yeah, I know it is, and said pretty much what you said...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Yea, what is this BS Linux kernel build process that is a known metric that everyone can test against? I compile projects dozens of times a day at my work and never once I compiled the linux kernel...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Here is why they track and collect: “Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world.” (Atul Butte, Stanford) "Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is th
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Did you try the Firefox Account? I use Firefox on desktop, android and iOS, and sync my passwords with no problem.
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by joaobeno 7y ago
You mean the ones google is fighting to keep, while trying to convince everyone that allowing more tracking would incentive bad actors to drop fingerprinting ?
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by joaobeno 7y ago
For example, closing subtle interpreter patterns or behavior differences that may be used to fingerprinting...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Yea, because Google surely will implement and fast track new privacy measures on V8, instead of fill any initiative on this regard in a lot of red tape...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
I love those elemental animal names of their projects...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Tweeted them about this, their response: "Request/vote for this feature on our community site", with the following link: https://skype.uservoice.com/forums/914527-welcome-to-skype-i...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Privacy is not a Industrial Age stuff... I could be private in Rome, just as I'm now, just a random dude working... A small cog, no one gets to know me, no on cares to gossip about me... Be it now, be it on Renascence in Venice, be it
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by joaobeno 7y ago
I tried it on the weekend, and it indeed work...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Sure, my gov (Brazil) uses reCaptcha on the page where you can check your electoral status (For example: if you can vote, where, and if not, what is missing). Where can I find a competitor for that?
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Kind of like the Good Old Days™? Jokes aside, Search engines are for stuff we don't know... I get my news from some sites, this one for example, and I don't depend o Google for that... But when I want to know about the viability o
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Happy to see some things I learned the hard way with 15 years... Man, I wish I had this level of knowledge when I was 20...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Blaming the language for the market is a mistake... If you stop promoting PHP, more devs will start on other language, and the market will pay lower, since there is more people to pick from with that particular skill...
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by joaobeno 7y ago
These companies then lobby the government, asking to be relieved of the fines, because if they go down, so many workers will be out of jobs, and that they will comply (pinky promise), so the fines should be lifted to help these innocent peo
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Did you mean "Chrome"?
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by joaobeno 7y ago
Another example to show why we need to get Firefox at least on the 20% market-share... Google is doing with Chrome exactly what Microsoft did with IE...