kossTKR

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by kossTKR 8y ago
Off course. I would really like to ditch Chrome once and for all. What i don't get is that it's an unknown problem, many people have already filed bug reports on the tracker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18
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by kossTKR 8y ago
I wrote that i talked to the devs directly? I also wrote that i have followed the issues for years. What makes you think this is the last resort? Check my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=18626325 This issue
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by kossTKR 8y ago
I just dont get it. This is a highly technical forum. Most people here are superusers, and i personally am a dev. Off course i have tried everything possible, clean install, new profile, HW acc off, boot to safe mode etc. To insinuate that
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by kossTKR 8y ago
Thanks but check out the other comments, or their subreddit, or any other HN FF thread. Many people have this problem. Also i am a dev - i have tried all possible options to remedy this issue. I even wrote that i talked to FF devs directly.
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by kossTKR 8y ago
Good question. As i wrote in my other comments these comments are large amounts in every FF thread on HN. Also loads of devs (including myself) are at companies where no one uses FF because of performance issues which of course is anecdata
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by kossTKR 8y ago
I think there should be some kind of survey. Every thread on HN has these posts complaining about this problem, and every thread has people like you insinuating we are doing something "whacky" or "crazy" with our laptops
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by kossTKR 8y ago
So all the people in this thread are doing something "whacky" including all of the people from all of the other Firefox threads on Hackernews, and the constant stream of people in the subreddit? We are not discussing if your compu
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by kossTKR 8y ago
I have sympathy, debugging is hard! But it's weird that across hundreds of threads no one from the dev group has anything to say, or that there is not disclaimer or "ask for help" or whatever. "Yes we are aware that a ce
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by kossTKR 8y ago
What? I just wrote that their support subreddit is filled with posts about performance on OSX, this thread in itself already has loads of posts with people complaining about it, and my post just is getting lots of upvotes - how is that an e
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by kossTKR 8y ago
Which doesn't change anything since the Macbook Pro has been sold with Retina displays for what, the last 6 years? The fact that Firefox works exclusively on ancient laptops or edge cases doesn't make anything better. All Apple de
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by kossTKR 8y ago
Too bad it completely kills your CPU on a Mac. I tried switching completely a month ago for the third time. Sadly absolutely nothing has happened in a 5 year time-span. The performance on my high-spec i7 Macbook Pro is abysmal. ( same acros
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by kossTKR 8y ago
Interesting. Speed is still about 40% in Safari and 60% FF compared to Chrome with this version. Much better than the 2d-canvas version though and looks pretty fluid. Would be pretty weird if the osx native browser didn't hardware acce
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by kossTKR 8y ago
This is super cool, and it reminds of the utopian public imagination of the future of the internet in the 90's. When cyberspace was often showcased in the form of actual spaces instead of the flat list like presentations we have ended
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by kossTKR 8y ago
Looks good! On osx mpb performance is stellar in Chrome sadly, while both Safari and Firefox only delivers 2-3 fps. Weirdly on an iPhone with Safari the performance is smooth as silk. I would really like to ditch Chrome, but it seems i get
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by kossTKR 8y ago
That project makes me happy. Also just looked at their computers that are beginning to resemble an actual alternative. I remember another "libre" project some years ago which was very expensive and extremely clunky, probably becau
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by kossTKR 8y ago
A few thoughts and observations: 1) I was logged out randomly of messenger on my iPhone for the first time ever, i think a week ago. Like messenger completely reset for no reason, and i had to put in my cellphone number again. I don't
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by kossTKR 8y ago
I totally agree! It seems to me that the current scientific paradigm is still way to reductionistically or mechanically oriented. While cybernetics or the theories of emergence in systems-theory is a step in the right direction, i think the
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by kossTKR 8y ago
Yeah i don't know why people are downvoting you. A new Carrington event, which is actually long overdue, or an unexpected cyber attack from China which i also don't find impossible to imagine in the next decades and society is at
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by kossTKR 8y ago
Nail on head! It's complete irony. I am seriously clicking through these ginormous modals like there is no tomorrow when i have to do research on many websites. "Free surfing" or should we say old school internet surfing has
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by kossTKR 8y ago
My only gripe is with the sea of meaningless "i consent" buttons that gets increasingly diluted. Profile delete buttons, user data overview pages and the rest of GDPR i think is very welcome.
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by kossTKR 8y ago
Thought it was pretty common knowledge that people don't read anything contractual. Anecdotally i have never personally witnessed any other than the most academically inclined legal nerds be interested in any terms of service or legal
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by kossTKR 8y ago
While GDPR in itself has accomplished the goal of raising awareness on data security and transparency, probably only temporarily, the mind numbingly idiotic push-button based consent model is an utter failure. 99% of people don't read
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by kossTKR 8y ago
Seems to me like we are in a race to to the bottom in all parts of the software and entertainment industry. When behavioural economics and data mining became all encompassing we lost all that was positive and good in this field. This modeli
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by kossTKR 9y ago
Interested in how much they potentially got out of this!
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by kossTKR 9y ago
This theory has always seemed pretty outlandish to me. Do you have any sources or interesting leads?
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by kossTKR 9y ago
Yes i also find this high school level white paper pretty weird. Also no roadmap, no github, only 3 person team. But Moxie Marlinspike though...
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by kossTKR 9y ago
"MobileCoin does not rely solely on SGX for maintaining transaction privacy. Transactions are designed to employ CryptoNote1 one-time addresses and onetime ring signatures, so MobileCoin will still maintain transaction privacy through
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by kossTKR 9y ago
This is on a tangent but lately i have begun to consider the possibility that short term climate change will cause a rapid and complete global collapse. This is from talking to actual climate scientists and seeing them making very real shor
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by kossTKR 11y ago
Yes most people believing in all sorts of weird conspiracies are not very smart. And most conspiracies are completely idiotic. What i try to point out is that the "wholesale dismissal" of conspiracies are naive. Especially after t
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by kossTKR 11y ago
A personal theory i have is that the "Sceptics"community is somewhat comprised of slightly socially naive stem educated people (sorry). They simply do not fathom the ruthlessness of the political or business world. Hackers are a n

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