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by simias 6y ago
It took me a while to understand that it was fiction too. I spent a few minutes anxiously pondering if I could somehow have overlooked one of the most important cryptographic event in decades. It's very well made.
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by simias 6y ago
That's a very interesting move. The patch seems fairly small, but now it's a patch that Brave needs to maintain and update every time they merge a new upstream version. That's what makes me wary of the whole Chromium fork con
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by simias 6y ago
Or they'll move on to a more sustainable business model that doesn't involve selling their user's privacy?
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by simias 6y ago
I'm generally worried for the future of Firefox, but this particular decision doesn't really sound all that significant to me. I don't really think it's reasonable for Firefox to officially support every single proprieta
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by simias 6y ago
I don't understand what FR and AMO mean. Are you saying that many extensions are not compatible with Firefox Mobile?
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by simias 6y ago
Maybe it was just too small a market share to warrant supporting? That was my first guess.
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by simias 6y ago
I don't know about the Amazon Devices version, but on Android Firefox works great in my experience. In particular the advantage is that it does support extensions.
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by simias 6y ago
The words individually could indeed be French but we'd use the oblique case here, "et toi (aussi), Procter & Gamble?". Also, I'm not sure what the usage would be in classical Latin, but using the singular to talk abo
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by simias 6y ago
Downvoting for disagreement is toxic to discourse and how echo chambers like Reddit are born. It may be tolerated but it shouldn't be encouraged IMO.
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by simias 6y ago
Last I checked, end-to-end was only available on the phone app (not the desktop client) and only for one-on-one conversations. That's a pretty huge difference, but one that most people won't even understand or care about. But the
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by simias 6y ago
That's great to know, I didn't know they had improved on that front. Last time I tried to do it you had to manually copy a file from a micro-SD card (and it was only supported on Android) and then you had to copy a crypto key. In
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by simias 6y ago
I agree that if it's true it's incredibly damning and probably warrants some hard evidence. That being said it's still a strange move by Signal, given that it's still a rather niche messenger that's now integrating
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by simias 6y ago
I thought the title was a pretty good hint as to the content of the article, assuming that you're familiar with the reference to "et tu Brute": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_tu,_Brute%3F
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by simias 6y ago
I definitely agree with the article that it felt a bit like a betrayal. I've pushed some friends and family to use it over Telegram despite significant usability issue, and now I see that instead of implementing some IMO basic features
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by simias 6y ago
Most definitely. I live as an expat in a foreign country and while I use the internet a lot and even speak the local language, I still feel very disconnected from the celebrity and political drama. I find it very beneficial, and it definite
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by simias 6y ago
Do you think it's really that common? I'd expect most Facebookers to at least be able to find third party websites through Google search.
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by simias 6y ago
Same experience here. I'm absolutely flabbergasted that the Signal devs decided to implement something like stickers (which, btw, are a pale imitation of what Telegram offers in terms of ease of use and discovery) before they implement
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by simias 6y ago
I'm partial to this one myself: https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg
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by simias 6y ago
They're both valuable. In linguistics for instance graffiti can tell you things about the language and its evolution that the formal language won't communicate, like how certain letters stop being pronounced or become pronounced d
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by simias 6y ago
I understand your feedback, and I generally try to be level headed in these matters, but I simply think that it's a losing battle. Playing the victim is a competitive sport online, suffice to see the outrage caused by "literally w
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by simias 6y ago
Again, I don't care to find them excuses. "Somebody called me a loser so I decided to spew bullshit online" is what losers do. I'd much rather empathize with this captain who was targeted solely because she's a woma
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by simias 6y ago
In the age of online mobs it's probably very commendable for the news outlets not to throw anybody to the lions, especially since in this case the responsibility seems difficult to establish. Is it the fault of the captain? The Egyptia
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by simias 6y ago
>Crystals found across the planet and from several time periods have previously been linked to humans' spiritual belief and ritual. This includes in southern Africa. Couldn't they just have been collected because they looked ni
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by simias 6y ago
I don't understand your argument, are you saying that removing capital letters would improve legibility? Note that as far as I know during the antiquity there was no semantic meaning associated with font case, you could use full caps i
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by simias 6y ago
Mouse-driven flows are always a little more intuitive and discoverable, but keyboard shortcuts are more precise and can be lightning fast once you have muscle memory. Listed the way the parent does it seems very complicated, but if you have
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by simias 6y ago
tmux's keyboard copy is rather intuitive... If you know emacs.
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by simias 6y ago
I gave it a try and while I haven't noticed any obvious issue, the fact that it offers multiplexing, serial port and builtin ssh support is a bit of a red flag for me. Oh and apparently it embeds lua scripting? Soon it'll have a b
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by simias 6y ago
I agree, I always thought that the idea that "big pharma" would be actively suppressing miracle cure for long term profit is rather improbable. There's the reason to point out (why pass the opportunity of a huge short term pr
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by simias 6y ago
Oh, so normally NFTs don't actually contain the digital artwork, just a reference to it? I assumed that the art itself would be stored into the blockchain, which would give it some form of permanence.
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by simias 6y ago
I completely get that, but I was thinking from the point of view of the person who decided to put $200 into the joke.

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