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by mozball 3y ago
Mozilla should really double down on Mozilla VPN. Judging by all the NordVPN ads on every major youtuber's video, the profit margins must be astronomical (or their business model must be suspicious). It should provide a good income str
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by mozball 3y ago
As an example, Can you recommend a good tech/hacker video channel that is available somewhere else other than Youtube?
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by mozball 3y ago
iirc remote attestation is reliant on hardware attestation, which means these websites will only run on authorized DRM-enforcing hardware and architectures. Only Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and the like. No open-source firmwares, architectures or
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by mozball 3y ago
Okay. My system might have been bugged or misconfigured. It was several years ago.
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by mozball 3y ago
Doesn't everything need to rebuild its database on every reboot? Was a minor annoyance the last time i remember using it.
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by mozball 3y ago
the 'locate' command is faster than everything but arguably not as convenient (being a commandline tool). It seems to support non-ntfs (meaning it doesn't support ntfs) linux filesystems. edit: catfish is a gui front-end avai
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by mozball 3y ago
Is there no app/api that abstracts all this away?
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by mozball 3y ago
Also why i use software only from debian repos and firefox addons that mozilla have reviewed and vetted. Neither off which charge a tax.
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by mozball 3y ago
That's why i use firefox only with addons tagged "recommended" or "reviewed by mozilla team"
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by mozball 4y ago
Asking out of ignorance: Why build a data center in prime/contested real estate instead of some desolate, crumbling town in eastern europe (within the EU)? Could benefit from cold climate, cheap labour and real-estate; might even be gr
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by mozball 4y ago
> meaning that Muslims in the country can open their fast an hour earlier, Sounds wrong. Fast is opened up at sunset under the horizon from your location. The time on the clock has little bearing.
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by mozball 4y ago
Story time : A couple of years ago, i got a message from Mozilla about a survey/competition for Indian users to find websites which had the most number of trackers. The top winners would get a coupon worth a couple of bucks. I immedia
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by mozball 4y ago
Indeed. Its surprising how quickly people are getting used to GPT's capabilities and dismissing it even. It wasn't that long ago that people were saying that making casual conversation, making an original joke or novel painting wo
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by mozball 4y ago
So Much White Space Its also off-center which is annoying on an 15"laptop
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by mozball 4y ago
Would moving to RISC-V have any effect on Android's fragmentation and update problem (due to Qualcomm's stranglehold on the android ARM market)?
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by mozball 4y ago
Compressed instructions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_instruction_set ) negate one of the "good reason"s
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by mozball 4y ago
What is your opinion on K&R?
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by mozball 4y ago
You dont have to trust the unknown dev. Tree Style Tabs is a Mozilla-recommended addon. The "recommended" badge means that Mozilla reviews the addons code and vouches for its security and performance. Similar to ( or even better t
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by mozball 4y ago
Skeumorphism in automotive design
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by mozball 4y ago
The article and comments focus on writing and forgetfulness. But IMO Socrates also makes a second deeper point - about writing (and reading) and the illusion of knowledge. > SOCRATES: You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature
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by mozball 4y ago
You should. The extensions mentioned by parent comment are mozilla 'recommended'. i.e. manually reviewed and vetted by Mozilla.