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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
Fitting with the coffee-mug theme of the article, Kierkegaard was known to have a large collection of mugs and would annoy the assistant who made him his coffee by asking him to him explain his choice of mug.
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
Another German here. I also agree. However, it’s “lo and behold”. It’s basically a contraction of “look”.
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
What? Can the browser not just… not tell the website?
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
The advice is not about not asking dumb questions. > When I ask a vague, dumb plea, I am intentionally trying to weed out the pedantic people who would rather write a blog post about how dumb I am than stop to help me. What you're r
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
> Without emails as the keys to the kingdom, what would you use? PKI. Service providers shouldn't give you access to an account just because you can prove you control an email address (during a narrow and predictable time window, n
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
Whatever hypothetical you're posing now is too far removed from this situation and too obscure to spend energy working it out here. It's best to take a page from the Supreme Court and consider what's relevant to the facts as
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
The payouts are neither "subsidizing" nor "for no apparent reason". Do you think the Mozilla–Yahoo deal was also an act of charity? It's baffling that people think that the arrangement between Mozilla and Google i
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
I loved pocket when it was still ReadItLater. The WebExtension sidebar plugin for Firefox is strictly worse than the old one and they haven’t improved it EVER. Instead we get bullshit pills that tell us that a link we saved is very popular.
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
Because the elephant thing is unique and the racism thing is common?
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
It looks like the misreading part was the right one, then. The intent of your original comment is clearer now, in light of this response. You're saying that Wikimedia's spending is somewhat rational, whereas Mozilla's revenu
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
Someone did that 10–15 years ago, and they did it with a staff 1/10 the size and on a budget 10–20% the one that the current generation of executives are working with. The job was also different. Compare someone trying to get into sha
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
There's either a misconception in this comment or a misreading of it on this side. Compare the Wikimedia numbers given (nearly $100m per year to keep running) to Mozilla's, who last reported spending much more than that (over $173
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
Overwhelming sentiment seems to be the opinion that Mozilla should be focusing on Firefox but at the same time raising vague concerns about Servo being cut. Servo was an R&D project that fulfilled its purpose with respect to Firefox.
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by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
webplatform.org was a vendor-neutral response to the increasing commercialisation of Mozilla, but it wasn't successful, even with the backing of those organizations and with Mozilla having pledged support, too.