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by madez 9y ago
Coreboot uses proprietary blobs, so using it doesn't ensure running open source nor free code.
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by madez 9y ago
The demo shows that this technique doesn't work for "Privacy Browser" on Android. It can be obtained from F-Droid.
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by madez 9y ago
Have you ever had the feeling like "Uhm, I better not share this article even though I like it" or "I'm curious about a topic but I better not google it" or "I shouldn't have these files on my machine for
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by madez 9y ago
Googles explicit goal is to collect data about you to make money with advertizing. It works so well, Google even gives you stuff for free so you stay with them. A privacy oriented VPN providers explicit goal is to give you some privacy, and
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by madez 9y ago
It's irrelevant if it's just faster, or has other technical merits, too. What those specifically are is irrelevant, as the political and societal consequences of advancing that way of code deployment are bad independently of that.
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by madez 9y ago
I like the effort, but I think their target is slighty off. The privacy with regards to the network (ads, tracking, fingerprinting, etc.) and the privacy with regards to other users of the same machine (browsing history, downloads, etc.) ar
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by madez 9y ago
It raises awareness about issues. Change takes time. Look at the fight of blacks and women for equality in society. We must not stop pointing out the issues, and always demand change.
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by madez 9y ago
The problem is that what you call guarantees weren't guarantees to begin with, and we can't be sure they are now.
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by madez 9y ago
"The way Aaron always thought is that programming is magic, right? You can accomplish these things that normal humans can't, by being able to program. So, if you had magical powers, would you use them for good, or to make you moun
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by madez 9y ago
I'm interest what is going to happen about that starting from 25 May 2018 when the GDPR from the EU becomes enforceable. A good thing about these data regulations is that they can not only be brought to court by private individuals, bu
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by madez 9y ago
How did I learn to cope? How did I learn to cope with being bullied, having been bullied or how to deal with such situations as a bystander? Maybe I'll just answer all of them. I'm not bullied any more, and can effectively defend
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by madez 9y ago
At first, I found the direct comparison of Google with the Nazi ideology as happened in the picture ( https://static.pinboard.in/ancient/thumbs/law.034.thumb.jpg ) and the text > You don't get a clear warnin
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by madez 9y ago
What an amazing talk. There are some audio problems in the beginning, but the quality of the content makes easily up for that. The talk is about an aspect of the change that technology and digitalization bring to our society, and how we dea
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Social Cooling – big data’s unintended side effect [video](media.ccc.de)
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by madez 9y ago
The same is true for murders. The objectively statistically most dangerous people are those around you that you know relatively well, not some random stranger passing by or sitting on the next bench. This irriational fear of danger of stran
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by madez 9y ago
Oh, I don't want to give all the freedom that JavaScript in the browser gives, and that's the whole point. If we came up with something that allowed the same things, then that would be a pointless exercise. There will be cuts in a
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by madez 9y ago
I can relate to your story, but from your brothers side. Being bullied changes you, forever, and for the negative. Children can, and are, cruel to each other, and adults don't always step in. It can easily become a tolerated form of to
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by madez 9y ago
> Waiting months and years for features that your site or app depends on is unacceptable. If we do a thorough job now on extending the code-less web, I find it hard to think of sites that couldn't be realized then _and_ shouldn&#x27
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by madez 9y ago
> Embedding hundreds of iframes into existing pages isn't a viable solution. I know I'm repeating myself, but then let's standardize a better way to solve the problem without executing supplied code. JavaScript is not a ma
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by madez 9y ago
Thanks for providing a solution. If using JavaScript to achieve this is easier/more efficient/better in some other way that is convincing, then we can think about standardizing better ways to do it. And if it's not better usi
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by madez 9y ago
Then let's standardize generic ways that permit things like upvotes without reloading the page and without executing externally supplied code. :-)
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by madez 9y ago
No, I'm not advocating for any Plugin, but for extending the standard (or creating a new one) with common acceptable functionality that we now use JavaScript for. For example, we can do tables in HTML. We need no scripting nor plugin f
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by madez 9y ago
The advantage of not supporting programming languages in the browser from content that comes from servers is that one doesn't accidentally fall into that trap. The functionality in my browser is important. The more the browser is scrip
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by madez 9y ago
I agree, and I think it is a pity that JavaScript is necessary for a lot of useful functionality which could be standardized to be made available without JavaScript, so people who care can browser the web and their sites in a browser that d
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by madez 9y ago
I don't think it is possible to have a spec thats always contains all the latest functionality. But that is also not necessary. The better the spec, the more problems we can solve completely. I don't think we can always support th
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by madez 9y ago
It is not about making everybody stop doing user-hostile activites. That is my main point here, it is not about that. There are people who have a website and don't want to monetize the visitors. I want a standardized web for them. Not
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by madez 9y ago
Money doesn't win every fight. And not every fight is about money. For example, Mozilla is a non-profit organization. It's not about making everybody stop doing the wrong thing, it's about doing the right thing. Having one mo
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by madez 9y ago
> but standardizing all the legitimate use-cases of JavaScript is almost impossible I see the problem of not always having the newest technologies in browsers, but the pain of that problem vanishes the more we already have. One might say
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by madez 9y ago
HTML can be cached, too. Even if JavaScript permitted some clever way to safe network traffic like for example delivering the site as a torrent that is then downloaded from other visitors [0], then we can standardize that and implement it a
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by madez 9y ago
It's too late for what? Sure, Google and other advertising companies will never stop pushing technologies that are favourable for them, but we don't have to use them. We can always build open and free alternatives.

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