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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> How did they survive without their funding before they got it? They were initially Netscape, a commercial company, so they had money from their customers. After the browser code base was handed over from Netscape/AOL to the Mozill
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> when you compare electric transportation with nuclear plant The article does not have anything about transportation.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
This type of restriction is still applied to contributors to the ReactOS project, in that contributions are not accepted from those who have seen any leaked Windows source code or have worked for Microsoft.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Ah, I was mistaken. I thought they were saying that the reason Apple supports MTP (as opposed to UMS) is not that they want to make iPhones look good, but for some other unspecified reason (which I assumed was patent licensing). But they we
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> mounting an Android device as what appears pretty much as a standard USB drive AFAIK Google got rid of built-in support for this in Android Jelly Bean. Additional tricks are needed to make later versions of Android behave as a USB Mass
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
GP's claim is that rule-breaking is done by state institutions routinely and is part of the organisational culture. And that we turn a blind eye to it until there are deaths.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
Yes, a small number, but it changes each year due to AV vendors (including Microsoft) changing how their AV works. It also depends on whether one looks at the impact from passively running the antivirus vs actively running a scan.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> Too bad they did not go with Linux The initial smartphone version of HarmonyOS 2 from a few years ago was just an Android reskin,[1] despite claims to the contrary from Huwaei, and unlike HarmonyOS 1 for IoT devices. It remains to be s
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> relative to native speakers of English > Even between native speakers, I bet you could come up with some measure of centrality and measure accent strength as a distance from that Is that what BoldVoice is actually doing? At least fr
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
They provide database dumps already, and those dumps have the diff information. Crawlers are ignoring the dumps and scraping the websites anyway.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
For Git, you may be interested in JGit, which runs on the JVM. From some MSFN forum posts, it seems to be possible to run Hotspot JRE 8 on Windows 98.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
No, they are not comparable. There are gate-model quantum computers like the one described in the article, and there are quantum annealers from companies like D-Wave that are geared toward solving a type of problem called QUBO: https:&#x2F
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
They removed the attribution to the original authors and replaced it with their own name. So the copyright notice is not preserved. They could comply with the licence by adding back that attribution.
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
For an argument from the other side, here is the GNU project's defence of CLAs: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
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by joshuaissac 1y ago
> Make sure you pick a license that reflects what you want, then. The MIT licence already requires attribution, and that is what the author picked.
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
> The definition of white entirety depends on the day, and who you ask. Slavs, Irish, Italians, Greeks, were not "white" until very recently. Indeed, in some parts of Russia, white supremacists do not consider Caucasians to be
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
Arguably, it can make it less secure by reducing the user's control over what content the browser loads or what scripts it executes. For example, users may be using extensions to selectively replace harmful content (like intrusive Java
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
> Domino's doesn't have to ask twice. They're choosing to. According to the article, the French agency believes they would have to ask twice: > Third-party publishers "cannot rely on the ATT framework to comply wit
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
> that lets any user swap out your version for their version, which basically means you're only allowed to dynamically link it as a shared library I had thought that the dynamic linking requirement was the only option according to t
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
Tax water for agricultural usage enough to fund desalination plants for their water use. The market participants should then adapt by switching to less water-intensive crops, or paying the tax and getting the desalination plants.
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
> 0 2^0 is a power of two and has all odd digits. Edit: If we include negative powers, there is also 2^-1, which is all odd except for the leading zero before the decimal point.
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
> And a country like Morocco has an average IQ of around 67. Average! I don't think that this claim is credible. It comes from Lynn & Becker, who also have Nepal's average IQ at 43,[1] which is in the range where someone wi
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
> privacy-unfriendly moves Which is a UX issue, not a Web standards issue. None of the major forks were made due to a difference opinion about how the standards should be implemented, so they are all dependent on Mozilla to implement the
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
> What else would you like to see? A legal analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the case? Exactly. What are the facts of the case according to the plaintiff? What are the points of law being relied on? Does the IA dispute the plai
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
This is how Internet Explorer (via Windows), Chrome (via Google Search and YouTube) and Safari (via iOS) gained significant market share. Through another platform or service that they owned, that they could use to promote their browser. But
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
Or "constructor acquires, destructor releases". When I learned about RAII for the first time, its meaning was not clear at all from the phrase "resource acquisition is initialization".
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
The constitution is the legal framework by which a country is governed. It is not necessarily a set of super-laws that are harder to change than regular laws (although it may contain such laws). The UK is also not the only democracy where t
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
I don't know what they are arguing in this case, but there is a chance that the government violated the US-UK Bilateral Data Access Agreement 2019, which governs data access requests from either country's government to technology
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
> At least there are words. > The Brits have nothing. There are words in the British constitution as well. Acts of Parliament that define how the Parliament and the courts function are constitutional laws, such as the Parliament Acts
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by joshuaissac 2y ago
They would image the device and try the password against the image, if possible.

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