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by mook 8y ago
Isn't that why openat() exists? Of course, that isn't used nearly as much because it's annoying to have to do things that way, but it seems like the sort of thing if you need it. The "open things by paths" thing, II
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by mook 9y ago
It's impressive, but it doesn't necessarily actually download the file from webtorrent peers. It will happily do HTTP streaming, instead. It works fine for me even though my browser is configured to block third party traffic by d
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by mook 9y ago
Given that they have access to private keys they shouldn't, should Comodo (their new CA partner) then think about stopping them from reselling? Obviously, they've already terminated their relationship with Symantec...
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by mook 9y ago
If you want to check that you're building with the sources you think you're building, you probably don't want to be using `go get` anyway; the internet is kinda lossy, and that repo you wanted to pull probably doesn't ex
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by mook 9y ago
Because only the minimum version can be specified, you will always get a solvable set of deps. Those deps might not build but they will be solvable.
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by mook 9y ago
3. Coffeepot fails to connect to the cloud service because it's in some remote place with no internet. Why does the coffeepot / TV / thermostat need internet access? That's often undesirable for the user (because that me
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by mook 9y ago
The Ubuntu page that was on HN earlier [ ] claims that they were notified in early November. I have no idea if kernel people (as opposed to distro people) got notified earlier. [ ]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam&#x2F
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by mook 9y ago
I've seen something similar — because I turned off auto playing videos. Manually scrubbing the video forward and back seems to fix it for me. It's also not that surprising that Google has less of an incentive to test interoperabil
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by mook 9y ago
I agree that they had to force turn off old-style extensions at some point to force adoption, but I feel like the same release where most of the APIs needed to port the old extensions over (and still missing a bunch of things) was way too s
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by mook 9y ago
Playing the devil's advocate: the top two most popular extensions (as listed on [1]) are Adblock Plus at ~14 million, and uBlock Origin at ~4.2 million users. That means Firegestures has about 2% of the top extension, and about 1.5% i
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by mook 9y ago
Sure; I'm just complaining about the _existence_ of `browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry`. I'm not comfortable having tracking so near user data. Now that I'm not on a mobile and can actually look at the code,
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by mook 9y ago
Yep, keeping things updated. Right now I have it set to scrape the torproject web site to extract the location of the latest release, so that `make build` can get me an updated browser.
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by mook 9y ago
Huh, going through the prefs there it looks like they probably have telemetry going on in the new tab page. Where all your history goes. I miss the Mozilla that actually acted like they cared about privacy.
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by mook 9y ago
It looks like some distros are going to take a bit of time to get Firefox >52 because of rust dependencies. They're definitely working on it, at least.
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by mook 9y ago
I believe IE also had extensions (the channel bar in Windows 98, and later toolbars and ActiveX that partly lead to Firefox becoming so popular). It certainly didn't have as much flexibility as XUL though!
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by mook 9y ago
Interesting; do you know which distros do that? I know Nokia started the Qt stuff (for Maemo), but wasn't aware that anybody was continuing to maintain it. But I haven't looked at things at a level that would have let me know in q
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by mook 9y ago
I've been doing similar things, just in docker instead of a VM (and doing X11 forwarding via xpra). Not entirely happy with the setup yet; I still need to figure out how to do that with two containers so that the browser doesn't g
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by mook 9y ago
Ah. I'd have marked the former as spam too (it's an advertisement reminding the recipient you exist, not something in response to a transaction just committed / something they did), but the latter seems plenty safe. But then,
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by mook 9y ago
Apologies, I'm a little confused. How would a transactional email put somebody into a mailing list so that they could be removed? Shouldn't they not be in the list in the first place?
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by mook 9y ago
It would also make it even more useless. IE originally had it default on; they turned it off after people complained that it meant advertisers wouldn't honour it anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#
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by mook 9y ago
Spellcheck and corrections can be faked, I think, if you decide to compile your own hunspell (or whatever). IME (i.e. entering text for languages that do not have a one-to-one mapping of key press to character), though, is a lot harder; yo
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by mook 9y ago
They did have the choice to not ship the increased sandboxing, multi-process architecture and performance constraints until three months after the new extension APIs were ready. They didn't because they thought the trade-off wasn'
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by mook 9y ago
I thought it was in the PR destination repository (since they are under that repository's /pull namespace). You'd need to add the alternate remote if it's a PR into a fork (as opposed to from it), no?
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by mook 9y ago
Remember OpenOffice.org? That is still getting ~100,000 downloads a day in April this year [1]. That's after all the Linux distros moved to LibreOffice for years. Forks work for moving development, but not necessarily for moving user
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by mook 9y ago
The first Firefox release with multiprocessing work was one of the 3.6 ones where they shipped out of process plugins in a patch release. Judging by Wikipedia, that was 3.6.4 in 2010 (look for OOPP). I thought it was later… Having to break
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by mook 9y ago
Yeah, I appreciate that nightlies are an option. It's just frustrating how often that option is trotted out without the caveat that it isn't a real solution. (This is again basically reacting to a particular Reddit comment linked
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by mook 9y ago
> Yup, that's absolutely it. I'm not sure of a good, succinct way to imply the former rather than the later... Personally, a sentence saying something to that effect (i.e. showing that it's understood that it doesn't
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by mook 9y ago
Might very well be; I have the luxury of not looking a nightlies at all :) it's just been frustrating how often problem reports get a response that the solutions are in the nightlies. I suppose it's possible that it's more me
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by mook 9y ago
My understanding is that: - Tavis' original code ran on Linux, where there's no correct version of Windows - it actually worked with the old code; it's only broken when msmpeng sees the new Windows version - the old code is n
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by mook 9y ago
Seems like (from that Reddit thread) a lot of the things are in progress in the nightlies. I wonder if that means the nightlies are holding Rust back (because it relieves the pressure to actually ship features for use by normal developers).

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