nickthegreek

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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
But its all under 1 roof and can be taken from you in a fire or be stolen?
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
> There shouldn't be any telemetry in free software, end of. Don't install it if you dont want it, that is where you choice lies. Telemetry inclusion is up to the author. Good ones will make it opt-in if it is truly necessary t
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
Understood. I do appreciate the willingness to engage.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
Well I would say that the firefox userbase is 3%+ across all platforms (over 7% on desktop) and that is larger than a rounding error.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
Here at HN, we regularly expect evidence of lesser known claims. It’s actually a pretty cool way to form understanding based on reality. My original post was openminded, and stated that I tried to learn more about what your post on my own t
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
The userbase of Firefox existing is obvious signs of caring. You really got to go out of your way to not use chromium. The userbase grows when people help others understand these issues, or ideally just install firefox for their non techie
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
That turned off a fraction of a fraction of users. And I believe i was largely misunderstood. There are also Firefox forks of somehow that was a bridge too far. I don’t understand how the answer would be to jump to chrome as if they have a
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
It’s true up until those other browsers are released and stable.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
Firefox have forks like Zen which allow you to have the best of both worlds.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
the difference is you are being tracked but not seeing the ads. that’s what you lost when they sunset mv2 for mv3.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
that’s a bold statement, and my googling has not returned results that verify this claim. can you provide any context?
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
The fact that Anthropic shares so many of those values or pays lip service to their ‘morales’. The shades of gray of these 2 companies are so close, I can hardly tell them apart. Anthropic kept changing their terms of service (openclaw agen
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
This is head in the sand behavior and I question your comment being put here in good faith. These actions are not commonplace. This is not how you run a country. The long held names of bodies of water with international neighbors are now su
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
None of them live up to my ideals. But I would use them in the order of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Chinese Models, NVIDIA/Mistral, I will not use grok. Once I can run the Chinese models locally at 60t/sec, they will move to my #1.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
Or we could not bend the knee to a single old man throwing a tantrum.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
How does one 'install' into chrome so that double clicking the MD files open in browser?
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
So no answer. Got it. You are the one who is pontificating here.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
it’s a firefox fork. ‘most hackers’ would research it no matter what was typed on a msg board prior to installing. the first step is knowingg about it. personally, im a big fan and daily drive it on my personal systems. but I do find their
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
Which provider currently lives up to your moral code?
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
https://github.com/Flaresolverr/Flaresolverr
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
If you understand that, then why are you saying we don’t need MV2. MV2 does more. It’s better.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
what crypto was rammed into firefox?
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
name any of them?
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
mv2 can stop tracking in ways mv3 cannot.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
by supporting google?
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
google money could dry up right quick. extension route gives them some deniability.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
Who knows. But he did.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
How else could they have arrested that wisconsin guy for driving to michigan to purchase cannabis? You know, apparently a totally valid use for such technology..
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
my tiktok fyp is just that.
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by nickthegreek 2mo ago
Legislation is how that happens. There is no other way. And these stories are what help get that ball rolling in the direction we want.

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