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by krono 4y ago
Offering up some of our strength, ability, and comfort to help others who might be less fortunate or whose qualities lie elsewhere is what makes us human, and probably played a large part in getting us where were are today. You might be par
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by krono 4y ago
Oh yeah I wouldn't recommend anyone try this themselves, just find it hilarious that the bank fell for it and that it even held up in court. One of those things that could have only ever happened in that country, I suppose.
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by krono 4y ago
Here are some examples anyone can download to verify I'm not talking out of my arse: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/giphy-for-fir... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/
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by krono 4y ago
Works both ways, or at least it did this one time: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/updated-russian-man-turns-ta...
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by krono 4y ago
Doesn't seem very high up their list of priorities, seeing as how their desktop extensions - including the "Recommended" ones - are allowed to break all the rules. A surprising amount of them comes with unlisted and uncontrol
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by krono 4y ago
If you'd rather spend some of your time than your money on this, you can use the built-in fs_usage terminal command and filter its output (e.g. with grep). Works even with SIP enabled, but will then obviously only return information th
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by krono 4y ago
They aren't not offering something for free, they are actively obstructing the localised and personal exploitation of an inherent device capability by its owner.
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by krono 4y ago
If it was you, @donohoe, who downvoted my previous comment, then perhaps I misinterpreted your question and would kindly invite you to rephrase it
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by krono 4y ago
Not implying anything beyond what I wrote
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by krono 4y ago
Rather ambiguous, I agree. Sadly it has resulted in billion-dollar multinational commercial entities getting away with stealing and fencing near endless amounts of otherwise protected data by claiming "fair-use". Basilisks are not
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by krono 4y ago
> to any person obtaining a copy A relevant distinction, perhaps
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by krono 4y ago
It is these journalists' own choice to publish those words within that context or manner, and they of all people should understand the implications this has on the perception of their validity.
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by krono 4y ago
It must be Thursday... I never could get the hang of Thursdays
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by krono 4y ago
So first Microsoft will embrace this new technology and facilitate its employment, then they will start extending any established standards and provide new ways to use them, and it's anyone's guess what they will be doing next aft
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by krono 4y ago
They share the same root, and have simply been adapted to allow for more effective exploitation in specific events or regions. Difficult merchant guilds want a special god of their own? Invent the concept of saints and name a celebrated dea
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by krono 4y ago
Worse yet: Google passed stolen false information, and even did so in a worldwide advertising campaign
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by krono 4y ago
Purely for SEO and social media surfacing purposes, I can almost guarantee it.
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by krono 4y ago
That's not what happened here at all though. She has been a major controlling and accountable factor throughout both Mozilla entities' existence, except whenever those controversial or risky decisions were going to be executed she
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by krono 4y ago
Nicely worded. I suppose it's not as much that I believe she's doing a particularly bad job, but more that she's been moving Mozilla too far into the direction opposite from where I would have liked it to go, and where I beli
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by krono 4y ago
Revenue is about the only thing that might have improved. The meat and potatoes certainly haven't. Edit: was not my intention to make this sound so unfair to the moz employees and contributors - it's all on management
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by krono 4y ago
You must agree this is completely unjustifiable: > In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008. On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. > In 2020,
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by krono 4y ago
I've been overhearing lots of complaints coming out of the Ubuntu corner about how everything is moving to snap exclusive distribution. Not too familiar with the whole snap ordeal myself, but I understand it is quite the shitshow and t
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by krono 4y ago
Rclone is a FOSS alternative interface (CLI) to many cloud storage providers and provides some neat extra functionality. It has been working very well for me with OneDrive and S3, but of course use at your own risk. https://rclon
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by krono 4y ago
FreeCodeCamp's DevDocs is quite a popular and well established resource that has been around for almost a decade. Just making sure you're aware of their significance in this space :) https://devdocs.io/ https:&#x
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by krono 4y ago
That's rich coming from a subsidiary of the company behind copypilot (which would of course be Microsoft)! Hopefully you manage to get out of this with your project still relatively intact and yourself otherwise unscathed.
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by krono 4y ago
> Futurists in 1950: Automation will free mankind from meaningless tedium to focus on creative pursuits only humans can master. > Techbros in 2023: We coded AI to write all your books, music, and TV so you can focus on the mean
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by krono 4y ago
Since both are EU businesses, these were "Intra-Community Acquisitions"[1] so the VAT was reverse-charged. Either way, they knew the business' VAT ID, Chamber of Commerce ID, etc. and had been billing us successfully using th
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by krono 4y ago
Yeah the verification process initiation including document upload all went through the account control panel. The account audit log also contains records related to the incomplete verification process, and there's a permanent banner t
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by krono 4y ago
Scaleway asked me for a copy of my Dutch passport too which I refused, and then they limited the services available to the long-time active business account this was for. Neither their docs or two separate support agents I spoke had any inf
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by krono 4y ago
My comment was posted mostly in jest - my stance on it is mostly neutral, but considering the level of engagement it still generated even though this meme is admittedly getting old, there is or was clearly more to be said on the subject.

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