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by sciurus 7y ago
Broadcasts are prohibited in ham radio. For the US, see https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=1a361a6eb3d1594e6a... > (b) An amateur station shall not engage in any form of broadcasting, nor may an amateur stati
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by sciurus 7y ago
This isn't true. One, Mozilla has multiple offices across the world; see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/ Two, a large percentage (perhaps even a majority?) work remotely. This combination l
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by sciurus 7y ago
I just fired up VS Code and it looks like it's using around 300MB. No doubt that's a lot, and it will go up as I actually use it, bit I'd still think you could get by with with much less than 8GB.
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by sciurus 7y ago
You'll find this sort of visualization on a lot of ham radio websites, since skywave propagation between two points varies based on the amount of sunlight among other things. For instance, https://www.pskreporter.info/p
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by sciurus 7y ago
I'm glad the author recognizes the danger of trackers and the value of Firefox blocking them. Unfortunately, the rest of the Washington Post hasn't gotten the message. When I try to read the article just get a message that I have
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by sciurus 7y ago
The desktop app doesn't use any resources when you close it either. What's your point?
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by sciurus 7y ago
That might not be an issue at many big companies, which likely have data retention policies that disallow storing chat history longer than N days.
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by sciurus 7y ago
> Aimed at large scale companies. We only have 1000s of users, and we care about each individual exception, but I think it is really aimed at consolidating large numbers of events. What you're saying here confuses my slightly. Se
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by sciurus 7y ago
This is cool stuff! It's nice to see what Sentry can develop in this space with the focus and resources that they have. I handle ops for Mozilla's crash reporting pipeline for Firefox [0] and our symbol server [1], among other thi
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by sciurus 7y ago
I think the point of the announcement is to tell you that they won't be synced to google drive now.
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by sciurus 7y ago
According to the consumer announcement > If you use Backup & Sync to upload photos and videos to Drive and Photos, it will upload a copy to each service, but it will not take up duplicate storage.
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by sciurus 7y ago
Switch to Google Drive and Google Photos, most likely. I'd have local backups, so I don't think I'd trust it any less with my data than I trust Dropbox.
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by sciurus 7y ago
It looks like Dropbox is completely focused on the business market and not improving the consumer experience anymore. I've stuck with them for years because of the linux support, but am probably going to jump ship soon. My main complai
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by sciurus 7y ago
No, I don't get any errors. Are you using any proxies, antivirus, etc that might interfere with your web traffic? https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/blog.mozilla.org#tls
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by sciurus 7y ago
For phone (aka voice audio) you can have some success with 100 watts and a simple dipole antenna. You'll be better off using an antenna with more gain and/or transmitting more power, though. The highest power ham radio operators c
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TV meteorologist objected to management’s ‘code red’ orders(washingtonpost.com)
83 points by sciurus 7y ago|33 comments
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by sciurus 7y ago
From reading bugzilla, it sounds like this is a bug and is being looked in to. (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla but not on the browser)
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by sciurus 7y ago
You make it sound like we could decide to have Firefox collect your PII without your consent. We won't. The standards for the collection of category 4 data are "Default off. May be eligible for opt-in data collection by specific u
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Firefox Personal Data Promise(blog.mozilla.org)
176 points by sciurus 7y ago|60 comments
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by sciurus 7y ago
> Especially start-up is super slow, takes a couple of minutes at times. Something really unusual is happening then. I'd second trying with a new profile. You can get general troubleshooting advice at https://support.mozi
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by sciurus 7y ago
There's some discussion of how this ties into Mozilla's mission at https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/the-web-the-world-n...
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by sciurus 7y ago
Some earlier coverage: https://lwn.net/Articles/754162/
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by sciurus 7y ago
Firefox dev edition is based on the beta channel. (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla)
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by sciurus 7y ago
Ars Technica covers this story much better at https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/the-r...
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by sciurus 7y ago
Bitnami has their announcement at https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.h...
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by sciurus 7y ago
See discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19918766
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by sciurus 7y ago
> I will probably need 7 servers for my setup initially with 4 cores and at least 8 GB of ram and decent storage performance. How did you determine that? Can you think of ways to make it require less?
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by sciurus 7y ago
In case it still helps you or someone else: A fix for Firefox 52 through 56 is available now at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disabled-add-... (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla)
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by sciurus 7y ago
Don't make the mistake of thinking pouring a standard hot sauce on fried chicken == nashville hot chicken, though. This is what a lot of restaurants that don't specialize in hot chicken have done to jump on the craze, and it'
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by sciurus 7y ago
xonsh does the same thing for sh and python. http://xonsh.org/

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