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by ripdog 8y ago
It's not appealing at all. No matter which 'g' it is, wireless will never beat wired. It's simple physics. Wired will always be higher bandwidth, lower latency, and more reliable - less dropouts and more consistent speed
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by ripdog 8y ago
The try again button works reliably for me on Firefox Mobile.
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by ripdog 8y ago
Oh, I was intending to preach to the choir :) Just pointing out a little bit of extra hypocrisy that some might have missed. Honestly, I don't know how we could possibly win in this scenario. A corrupt media stoking unfounded fears in
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by ripdog 8y ago
Ask who? Power users? Then the only signal they would get is "every feature is used by everyone". That's worthless 'data'. Telemetry is the only way mozilla could possibly collect real data.
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by ripdog 8y ago
>keep Aussies safe over Christmas Which is even more disingenuous when you consider that the bill won't even take effect until March, and probably won't lead to any backdoors until significant time after that.
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by ripdog 8y ago
Firefox is improving by leaps and bounds every day. But the market is not a meritocracy, as much as some people like to pretend it is. Success in the market is much more to do with things like marketing, momentum, inertia, and general opini
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by ripdog 8y ago
I tried that on Win10, and it didn't work for me. It was the last straw. Honestly, why on earth do they need it anyway? HTML5 has had a Clipboard API for a while now. I've used both extensively and Bitwarden is just a dramatically
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by ripdog 8y ago
Financially, Mozilla is currently entirely dependent on a search contract with Google, their mortal enemy. They obviously see that this relationship is extremely risky, especially as Firefox becomes less popular and thus their userbase less
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by ripdog 8y ago
The URL includes 'doh', which means 'dns over https'. That is the encryption layer which 1.1.1.1 uses.
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by ripdog 8y ago
A Japanese satellite radio company called 'St.GIGA'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview
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by ripdog 8y ago
Yes, it does, but I think that's bad. Any large company which takes freely available code and builds a commercial product with it without either upstreaming improvements or making significant donations is bad. Seriously, contribute or
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by ripdog 8y ago
Well, yes. I did say they followed the license. I think it's a bad license for an OS because it doesn't encourage/require bad community members to open their source. Companies like Sony have no excuse for not upstreaming thei
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by ripdog 8y ago
I have no idea. I'm talking about my personal judgement on the subject, not theirs.
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by ripdog 8y ago
I take issue with BSD/MIT because of situations like the PS4. Sony took FreeBSD, heavily modified and improved it to make it into the OS for their new console, and upstreamed (afaik) absolutely nothing, nor did they donate a cent. The
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by ripdog 8y ago
Unless you have adversaries personally attacking you, your main threat is automated malware. In that case, I think that it's vastly more likely that said malware would target super-popular and totally-insecure software like the Chrome
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by ripdog 8y ago
Why shouldn't I? If I was just going to use this to host a single website, what's wrong with running docker-compose?
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by ripdog 8y ago
Uh, theres no reason for IE to use less battery because it's 'part of the OS'. In the end, IE still has to do all the tasks to render a webpage which Firefox or Chrome have to do. It might be able to leverage some fancy hidde
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by ripdog 8y ago
Only because Microsoft was in a monopoly position in it's market. Apple isn't, and thus is not subject to the same oversight. Not that the current administration is going to be performing any anti-trust litigation anyway.
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by ripdog 8y ago
There are externalities to the switch to glass. For example, what about the extra carbon emissions from the extra diesel burn by the trucks shipping the ingredients for the glass to the glass factory, the raw glass to the bottling plants, a
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by ripdog 8y ago
I have no idea why you think ISPs would do something like that. American ISPs are anti-consumer to the hilt. They've been caught numerous times INJECTING ads into unencrypted http connections. Ads cause ISPs no issue whatsoever. Why wo
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by ripdog 8y ago
Careful. Old versions of internet-facing applications like email clients are dangerous and put you at risk. They often have widely known security issues which can allow malware to access your PC. I'd advise upgrading Thunderbird and ig
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by ripdog 8y ago
Firefox is still great. You can turn this off trivially or provide your own server. This is, however, an excellent step towards securing the web.
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by ripdog 8y ago
He wasn't saying metal can render via the cpu, he was saying that macos apps in general can choose whether to use cpu or gpu rendering.
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by ripdog 8y ago
There's no need for a new fork. uBlock Origin is the good adblocker, and it is not related to this announcement. It's still as fantastic as ever, and has not changed hands.
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by ripdog 8y ago
Doesn't work in apps, and how much time do you spend in your mobile browser these days? I don't think most people use it much if at all.
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by ripdog 8y ago
That's not what happened. uBlock Origin was originally (heh) uBlock. Gorhill, the developer, got sick of endless hordes of people posting github issues about unblocked ads (an issue which should be directed at blocklist maintainers), s
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by ripdog 8y ago
If researchers are working on NetBSD, wouldn't it be receiving more novel improvements? Everything in this changelog looks like stuff other OS's have done before. How is that research?
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by ripdog 8y ago
Couldn't that be subpixel anti-aliasing? Besides that, there's nothing difficult to believe about that experience with google. And besides THAT, there's a far more trivial method of 'forging' an email - using the de
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by ripdog 8y ago
Try wiping Firefox's app data. Sounds like a corrupt profile to me.
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by ripdog 8y ago
Wow, this is great! Not sure why you ask for Chrome, however, as your site works perfectly in Firefox too. Let's not go back to the days of "Made for Internet Explorer 6", eh?

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