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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm sorry, I am having a really hard time understanding this comment. You're suggesting they just apply a email spam filter and that will fix everything? Can you explain how this would work, considering that Facebook is not an ema
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
GNOME is a volunteer project driven by people working on what they want to work on. If you want to improve the thumbnails, why not have that anyone be you?
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Well I think that seems to answer it then -- if nobody who is capable wants to work there for any amount of money, then nothing will change, and the self-inflicted problems will probably get worse. And I believe the smart thing to do from a
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Sorry but that seems to be understating the issue. Are you saying it's only a matter of changing the entire company's priorities and increasing the budget by large amounts? If it were that easy then it seems any other wealthy comp
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
So are you saying you could develop the solution but Facebook won't offer you enough? I don't think it makes a difference whether the system is automated or not.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I think you may have missed something in the post chain? Those are both the same thing in this context.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm not sure what the point here is other than that bans are annoying? Also, I don't think it was suggested to use a classification system with no bans?
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
If you know how to build a bug-free system with content classification rules that are properly implemented for 2 billion people in every conceivable circumstance, I think Facebook (or any other big social media company) would pay you a lot
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
People keep bringing up decentralized platforms but there is no indication that won't have the exact same problem. Imagine your node is getting spammed by a high traffic node run by a popular set of users, and then it seems you could e
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Can you elaborate on what the money is currently used for and what the risk here is? Is Amazon attempting to move more Rust infrastructure to AWS?
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't know the details of this specific change, but in my experience its removal probably means it couldn't be left alone. If another piece of code that touches it gets refactored, the developer has to choose between trying to s
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>Most people are not aware of telemetry. Most of those that are, disable it. Do you have some numbers to back this up? I would suggest getting that before making any major product decisions. Also if you read the privacy policy, the telem
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>Telemetry is not a vote From the developer point of view, this is incorrect, the developers are using it to decide which features to prioritize. If you are aware that it's happening and you leave it on, then I don't see what
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
The problem with saying they need something Chrome doesn't have is that a lot of others seem to expect them to have feature parity with Chrome, both in the GUI, and in the backend rendering engine. I don't think it's economic
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
If you cared about this change a lot, to the point where if you didn't have it then it was going to lose you a lot of money, then yes, I would expect you to do all that. Am I wrong? It just seems in a lot of ways to be a sad case where
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm very confused by this comment. If you think of telemetry like a vote, disabling it is essentially forfeiting your vote, so it doesn't really make sense to me to complain that you are then not represented. If you've ever b
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
In my personal experience, typical users (i.e. non-developers) don't really spend time tweaking their browser. The defaults are good enough for most, and the job of the developer is usually to just find good defaults to optimize for th
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't mean to be disappointing, but usually out-of-context internet commenters saying that they use something doesn't carry much weight. The reason why they have telemetry data is so they can so say for certain what people are u
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Yes, why wouldn't it be? Editing that is exactly what you would be asking Mozilla to do. If you think it's hard to work on, well, maybe you can sympathize with Mozilla for trying to cut down on the number of settings that complica
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't see what difference it makes for somebody else implementing it as about:config setting versus you doing that yourself in a custom build. Firefox is not really any more difficult to build than any other large open source project
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't understand what that has to do with Firefox specifically, if you do a search you can find various amounts of negative feedback about any product in existence. It's impossible to make a product that will please everyone, so
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
With the pandemic you have it exactly backwards, the goal of mask and vaccine mandates is actually to increase personal freedom and civil liberty, by preventing spread of the virus that has already claimed many lives.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't mean about:config, I mean editing the CSS directly. Yes an update could break your CSS fix, but if you follow the beta releases then this isn't a problem. You usually have at least a few weeks to update your patches before
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Recognized by who? If you meant government officials, that's specifically the point: some may not recognize that it is a right, so the goal is to get them to recognize that it is.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't really have any comments on that, sorry. I was mentioning a fix for that specific issue, or other specific issues you might have with other browsers. Most complaints I see about Firefox tend to be about specific issues rather t
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
But that's exactly what you're asking Mozilla to do when you ask them to keep that as a formalized setting, it's exactly the same work just it's done by a Mozilla employee and not you. So it really sounds like you'r
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm still not sure what that has to do with Firefox specifically? Those "other products" could very easily be modified versions of Firefox or Chrome, of which there are many. Some of them might even take the time to modify th
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
At least in the US, there has been a flurry of anti-trans legislation passed in the last year: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/politics/anti-transgender-leg... And violence against trans people has also i
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm sorry, I still don't understand. This is exactly the way it is with any other browser. If you don't like changes in Chrome for example, you can either modify them, accept their decision, or find another product. And Chrom
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I found that article to be thoroughly unconvincing, and the article itself also seems to fall for the same trap of defending political positions rather than sticking to basic civil liberties principles.

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