takluyver

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by takluyver 6y ago
I agree, though it's worth noting that while volunteers can maintain the software and administer the indexes, they also rely on infrastructure provided by big corporations. E.g. the Python Package Index runs on a CDN provided by fastly
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I think most people are perfectly capable of understanding the idea of low upfront costs and high maintenance costs. But if you're not expecting to print a lot, the payback time for a more expensive printer with cheaper ink/toner
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by takluyver 6y ago
New printers often come with a trial of the manufacturer's subscription plan, which will automatically order ink when it's running low. I guess if you activate the subscription when it runs low, it will send a new cartridge straig
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by takluyver 6y ago
If you're printing a lot, this kind of calculation makes sense. If you only print a couple of times a month, it gets swamped by uncertainty: will the ink dry up before I use it? will they still sell those cartridges in 5 years time? wi
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by takluyver 6y ago
As a logged in user, that redirects to a settings page where you can choose your plan. A tooltip has some more detail for the free option: > Free Plan is trial plan. The credits will not be replenished. It's not clear if that's
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by takluyver 6y ago
I believe CI on pull requests runs without the secrets, to avoid precisely that issue.
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by takluyver 6y ago
One of my colleagues got that email. It seems to be saying something quite different to the blog post and the billing documentation, and I don't understand how they fit together. Even if the email is accurate, which is the better scena
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by takluyver 6y ago
It looks like conda-forge currently uses Travis only for ppc64le builds. I'm not sure if any other free CI services offer PowerPC support - if not, it's likely to impact PowerPC support (also in many other open source projects). H
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by takluyver 6y ago
The consumer value of locked down platforms where you can only install approved software is that you mostly don't need to worry about viruses. It's really hard to protect systems against malware if they make it easy to run arbitra
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by takluyver 6y ago
~In fact, your link is out of date~ (edit - see below). Here's the RSPCA specification from August 2017: https://science.rspca.org.uk/documents/1494935/9042554/RSPCA... Point E 5.3 specifies no more than
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by takluyver 6y ago
This is interesting. The EU regulations include a table with what each grade can be called in different languages (p 24 of https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSL... ). The grade called 'barn&#
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by takluyver 6y ago
I'm thinking more of the user experience if you take over shortcuts people already use for their browser.
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by takluyver 6y ago
It can, but getting the credentials to the browser & storing them there isn't entirely simple. If you launch a browser process to a URL containing a token, an unprivileged local attacker can see it in the command line arguments (at
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by takluyver 6y ago
I've worked on some applications like this, and it works pretty well. But be aware that a port on localhost is accessible to any local user - depending on the application you may need to prevent other users accessing it. Running inside
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by takluyver 6y ago
I've never seen Mozilla promoting the number of available extensions, and I've never heard that it's a significant metric they track internally. The addons site highlights a relatively small number of popular extensions, with
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by takluyver 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean about tab tree. There are tab tree WebExtensions.
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by takluyver 6y ago
I see in-app purchases and subscription models as quite different from micropayments. Micropayments would mean something like Spotify - you pay some amount up front, and the company pays artists a tiny amount for each time someone listens t
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by takluyver 6y ago
From where I sit, it looks like there has been a lot of technical effort going into Firefox in the last few years - like 'Electrolyis' and 'Quantum'. 'Quantum' in particular has been translating the more experi
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by takluyver 6y ago
> Micropayments are proven to work Do you mean that it's technically feasible to implement them, or that they actually work economically to fund viable, competitive businesses.
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Small relative to their main competitors.
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by takluyver 6y ago
That's a mug's game. The best you can do is exactly what Webkit does, because that's what you're trying to imitate. You won't do it 100% perfectly (all software has bugs), so in any direct comparison you come out lo
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by takluyver 6y ago
So the monetary part of your plan is to get subsidies from the EU, to the tune of maybe $100 million per year, if we optimistically assume that you can keep going with several times less revenue. Google, irritated by your ad-blocking-by-def
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by takluyver 6y ago
Perhaps the disconnect is that Mozilla's goals are not just the bits you care about. If all you're saying is that they should double down on Firefox and ignore everything else because that's what you want, that's not a v
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by takluyver 6y ago
At the moment, it looks a lot like they're losing a competitive browser despite putting a lot of effort into the technology - either because Google competes unfairly, or because it just has more resources to compete with fairly. So it
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by takluyver 6y ago
Can I play? You get pushback from most of those projects because Chrome is the 'just works' option for the mobile web - no-one tests their websites with Firefox mobile. Some of them are persuaded on principle (like Replicant), som
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by takluyver 6y ago
To take one example, Mozilla's 'privacy not included' guides. They rate hardware and software products for privacy protections. This is a topic that people care about in the abstract but couldn't easily make concrete dec
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by takluyver 6y ago
> they gained market-share by competing and beating another direct competitor Microsoft wasn't really interested in the web, and let IE stagnate for years. Google makes an enormous amount of money through the web, and consequently p
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by takluyver 6y ago
Ubuntu is still trying it - the Ubuntu desktop download page still prompts you to donate. You no longer have to pass it to get the download, though.
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They do take donations: https://donate.mozilla.org/
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I don't think they've given up on it - they're still making pretty big technical changes. But they would be daft to bet that they will somehow manage to win back significant market share from Chrome, given the resources Googl

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