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Show HN: Mozapp – Firefox Webapps for Linux(github.com)
3 points by marten-de-vries 5y ago|0 comments
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by marten-de-vries 6y ago
I think 'rearchitect' should be interpreted as 'redesign the UI', not as 'start from scratch'. Most big changes seem limited to the UI (and done as part of a Qt -> QML migration). And it looks they'll d
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by marten-de-vries 6y ago
The original story is by the Dutch magazine 'Vrij Nederland': https://www.vn.nl/trump-twitter-hacked-again/ . Most Dutch news media run the story currently, including broadcasters NOS and RTL, news sites nu.n
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by marten-de-vries 7y ago
That's the case because you speak English. Think about the last time you had to navigate a website in a language you didn't speak (in my case e.g. Chinese or Russian). I remember being very happy with a few (incomplete) clues in E
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by marten-de-vries 7y ago
Last I heard, KaiOS was working on migrating to Blink ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19012709 ). Looks like Gecko isn't out of the running yet, which is good news from a browser engine diversity point of view. I&
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by marten-de-vries 8y ago
In practise, end-users will probably not setup a TOR(-style) network themselves. That means you'll need to do it for them, so they still have to trust you. At that point, just not storing their IP address is probably easier. There are
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by marten-de-vries 8y ago
> However, there is an unspoken claim that the gradient update doesn't carry enough information about the user data to reconstruct any of it server-side. This was a concern for me as well, but the 'Privacy' section of the
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by marten-de-vries 8y ago
Your customer service should know how to deal with product warranty. Or should be able to handle a request to cancel an online purchase for 14 days after the order ([1]). How is making a request to access your personal data different? [1]:
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
That's not the whole story. There are further responses in that thread, including the opposing viewpoint from the TunSafe author. * https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-March/00246... * http
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
From the GDPR, recital 45: > [...] where processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest [...] the processing should have a basis in Union or Member State law. I don't think that purpose of a
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
And Facebook has the right to 'inform' another company about all data it collected from its users (only in exchange for a nice sum of money!) Except in the EU, freedom of speech and privacy are both considered human rights, which
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
That makes sense for repository users keeping a private copy. But, I was thinking more about companies like Github. If they can hide behind that clause for every single repo they host, the GDPR as a whole becomes useless. Pretty much everyt
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
There's an exception 'for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.', but there's situations where that would not apply. E.g. commits fixing a single spelling mistake are probably not copyrightable. Also, I
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
> Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary: > [...] > (d) for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Art
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
It's interesting to see how the GDPR seems to clash with some popular data models. For example, git. Rewriting history of a shared branch is disastrous, but it's currently the only way to redact, say, an e-mail address someone com
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
I don't think so, or the language would have died out already. I'd argue it's more about whether children learn it as their primary language. Also, because of concerns of linguistic extinction, similar to the ones mentioned f
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
There's a middle road, you know: being bilingual. To run with the Icelandic example, you'll be hard pressed to find someone who speaks it but not English. Where I live, there's also a local language (Frisian) spoken beside th
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
Ah, seems like the situation is better than I remembered. I confused colored syntax highlighting with the default settings, which highlight using font weight/italicness etc. I did try minted once, but never used it in practice. The dep
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
Now add syntax highlighting. In Markdown, it's trivial (```language-name), in LaTeX, you're going to have to define a style. LaTeX is more flexible, but it does come at a cost.
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
The article seems to argue for a GDPR[1]-like equivalent in the US. It'll be interesting to see how it is enforced in the EU. If applied as intended, it could offer a more realistic alternative to the only other privacy-preserving opti
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
I'm curious if developments like this will mean future cars will not require lights at all. After all, the same communication required for an intelligent traffic intersection like this could just as well be used to exchange breaking, l
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
They do not violate the relevant specification. They just implement it in a way that has not been done before with the user's convenience in mind. That aside, your position is unrealistic: browsers regularly break non-spec conforming w
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
I agree it would be great if other browsers implemented this as well, but you lose me at: > The best thing Mozilla could do is convince Apple and Microsoft to give up their independent lackluster browser implementations and ship Firefox
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
From the article: > Scripts are delayed only when added dynamically or as async. Tracking images are always delayed. This is legal according all HTML specifications and it’s assumed that well built sites will not be affected regardin
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
Yes, that's my hope. For the income of website owners it is better if they all collectively block their site until the trackers are fully loaded. But if only a few do so, users might avoid their site, so individuals are still encourage
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
Interesting approach. I hope more browser vendors will adopt it. It comes with an additional advantage: if a website still needs to function when tracking domains are delayed a second or so, they likely will function too with said domain co
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
Full title: "I am Max Schrems, a privacy activist and founder of noyb.eu - European Center for Digital Rights. I successfully campaigned to stop Facebook's violations of EU privacy laws and had the EU Court of Justice invalidate t
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AMA with Max Schrems, who had the CJEU invalidate the Safe Harbor agreement(reddit.com)
3 points by marten-de-vries 9y ago|1 comments
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
Exactly. It's there to (very mildly) confuse you.
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by marten-de-vries 9y ago
No, they're not in it for money. In the end (the foundation owns the corporation), Mozilla is a non-profit. They need money to achieve their mission though: maintaining a browser (in a landscape of evolving security challenges, perform

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