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by vatueil 7y ago
> "When I started at Mozilla in 2007 there was no Google Chrome, and most folks we spoke with inside [Google] were Firefox fans," Nightingale recollected in a Twitter thread on Saturday. > "When Chrome launched... .
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by vatueil 7y ago
> 3,200 will die vs 500 for the flu Assuming the fatality rates are as given (3.2% versus 0.05%), that would be 3200 vs 50.
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by vatueil 7y ago
The parent comment said: > it allows them to crawl websites more easily – before web fonts, many websites used pre-rendered PNGs to show web-unsafe fonts, which made crawling impossible
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by vatueil 7y ago
The headline refers to the global outlook. Even if cases in China peak in the near future, there may well be new outbreaks in other countries soon. Quoting the relevant section: > GAZETTE: Is it significant that there are so few cases i
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by vatueil 7y ago
Perhaps the statement was referring to the telephone hotline, used as a backup means of reporting results, which was apparently overloaded with calls.
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by vatueil 7y ago
Larger laptop form factor provides better sustained performance due to better cooling, as well as larger batteries. Also, even though you can run Android apps and Linux containers these days, Chrome OS is still built around using the browse
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by vatueil 7y ago
For context, the sentence starts with: > Some past, present, and potential clients include... Keyword "potential".
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by vatueil 7y ago
I don't think it's the most likely explanation, far from it, but it wouldn't have to be a bioweapon to have been released from a lab. The reemergence of H1N1 in 1977 is believed to have been the result of a lab accident or va
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by vatueil 7y ago
Last I checked, I only had to select "skip" during setup to use the device without signing in to an account.
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by vatueil 7y ago
There was a certain line of Seagate 3TB drives that seemed particularly prone to failure, as reflected in consumer reports as well as Backblaze's statistics at the time: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001
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by vatueil 7y ago
Even if we insist on preserving traditional hand-counting of counting paper ballots, for good or ill, couldn't we use electronic voting machines to fill out paper ballots?
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by vatueil 7y ago
The exact same trick works with custom search engines in Chrome as well. They're equally powerful. Automatically adding search engines means users don't have to do so by hand, but you can still manually create a "search engin
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by vatueil 7y ago
The parent comment was referring to how Chrome automatically adds search engines. You only have to "dig into" the settings menu if you want to change the keyword or add a custom search. Even if you're adding it manually, I th
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by vatueil 7y ago
That's jumping to conclusions, isn't it? It doesn't require a conspiracy for Mozilla to remove a feature. It wouldn't even make sense for this to be part of a conspiracy, since this doesn't affect the list of search
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by vatueil 7y ago
That's not "anti-competitive". What sort of competition is being blocked? No court is going to side with third-party apps that depend on YouTube's servers while violating the terms on which they're allowed to use it
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by vatueil 7y ago
It's a distinction without a difference. Whether you use legal or technical means, blocking an offending app that violates the terms of streaming service is not "anti-competitive", as the parent comment accused. Neither Spoti
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by vatueil 7y ago
What does blocking "on Spotify" mean? It's not as if Spotify is blocking songs within its own catalog or something: these pirate apps exist outside of Spotify, except they hijack Spotify's streaming service. They're
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by vatueil 7y ago
The first part of that is already the case, according to the article: > Use of the app in China is not exactly voluntary. The Communist Party has issued directives to its members to download the app, as have many workplaces. Of course,
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by vatueil 7y ago
The article links to this report from Cure53: https://cure53.de/analysis_report_sgn.pdf A different Chinese surveillance app that was previously examined by Cure53 is discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by vatueil 7y ago
Eh, that's sort of like saying Spotify is being "anti-competitive" when they block apps that give you Spotify Premium features for free. Third-party apps for streaming services aren't meant to be a competitive market. At
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by vatueil 7y ago
Parent comment might be referring to Kiwi Browser, a closed source fork of Chromium for Android that allows desktop extensions. Though it's currently available on the Android app store, and the reason it was briefly removed was because
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by vatueil 7y ago
Image Search Options is an add-on for Firefox that lets you right-click an image to search for it on Google as well as other image search sites. Also available as a Chrome extension. - Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/fir
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by vatueil 7y ago
Apparently it was removed because it included in-app purchases and there's a rule against profiting off of tragedies: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-google/... > A Google spokesman s
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by vatueil 7y ago
Too late to edit, but the correct URL for the second link is: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/25/china-blocks-y...
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by vatueil 7y ago
Baidu would certainly like to think so, and has said as much on occasion, but do the facts really support the claim that Google left China primarily due to competition rather than ethical or security concerns? Despite continuous friction wi
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by vatueil 7y ago
> The US is not a democracy The United States is a democracy. Democracy does not mean only direct democracy. Representative democracy, democratic republics, and federalism are forms of government compatible with democracy. https:&#x2F
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by vatueil 7y ago
The problems with calling AdGuard untrustworthy because it's a "rando VPN in the Middle East" are threefold: - The app is a local VPN so your data doesn't leave your device, except for their DNS feature. - Cyprus is in t
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by vatueil 7y ago
Neo-reactionary, presumably: - https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/516243/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
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by vatueil 7y ago
The posted article is all about how the changes Apple made to Safari mirror the proposed changes to Chrome. Safari content blockers such as 1Blocker are pretty much exactly how Chrome adblockers will work in the future. Chrome has not chang
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by vatueil 7y ago
Fair point regarding mobile Safari, though there aren't many better options on iOS. Extensions have never been supported there. I was mainly addressing the situation on desktop, such as Safari on macOS, since the previous comments were

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