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by vatueil 7y ago
> And yes, this topic is something of an exception. Is it, though? The top comments include ad hominem attacks on Google engineers, such as the replies to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19886610 I appreciate how
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by vatueil 7y ago
The point regarding Play Services is valid, and if the parent comment had focused on that I would not have objected. But that doesn't mean AOSP is a "very small part" of Android or that it isn't open source. The flip-sid
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by vatueil 7y ago
Just curious, this Kiwi Browser is a Chromium fork, but is it or is it not open source? I see that there's a repo on GitHub: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android But the status of the code is unclear (the readme
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by vatueil 7y ago
Depending on how "what actually makes Android on the eyes of consumers" is defined, it's certainly possible to minimize the role of AOSP. At the same time, we're getting articles talking about how Microsoft is now an &qu
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by vatueil 7y ago
A few more reference links might not hurt, true. As for who the audience is, perhaps people who were alarmed by the WSJ's scaremongering: https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-new-privacy-tools-to-ma... Someone lea
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by vatueil 7y ago
Vivaldi doesn't save passwords using Google. Did you perhaps click on a help link that sent you to a Google support page for Chrome? I see that if you click the password icon the address bar and click the "Manage passwords" b
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by vatueil 7y ago
Link for reference: https://youtu.be/otHviixLykI
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by vatueil 7y ago
Perhaps that's what Mozilla Add-ons was referring to when they tweeted: https://twitter.com/mozamo/status/1124569680662777856 > We deployed a fix to users who hadn't had their add-ons disabled to mak
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by vatueil 7y ago
They don't have an official add-on, but they do list a few unofficial browser extensions on their download page: https://keepass.info/download.html Example: https://subdavis.com/Tusk/
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by vatueil 7y ago
Looks like you're right. I saw the other discussion first and it still has more comments for now, but this one is ranked higher. Perhaps the threads could be merged or something.
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by vatueil 7y ago
I think MrEldritch is referring not to Firefox's built-in password manager, but third-party password managers such as Bitwarden, KeePass, and LastPass. Those rely on add-ons for browser integration.
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by vatueil 7y ago
Active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823465
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by vatueil 7y ago
Active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823465
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by vatueil 8y ago
Why is Google singled out for reprobation when, as the article points out, they've spoken out more than other companies? Sure, no one is spotless, but as it stands it's Microsoft that runs a censored search engine (Bing in China)
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by vatueil 8y ago
That's really no excuse for USB-IF's terrible versioning scheme. "SuperSpeed" is useless in terms of branding because even technical users, much less your average consumer, have no idea what that means. Is "SuperSpe
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by vatueil 8y ago
I would have preferred "aerial view" or even "bird mode" as well, but I think the negative impact of calling it "satellite view" is somewhat overstated here. It's not as if without Google Maps the general
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by vatueil 8y ago
Despite what the name may suggest, OpenDNS has always been a for-profit company, and they used to serve ads in the same way ISPs have been criticized for. Offering an alternative to OpenDNS was a good choice.
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Google releases Chrome extension that alerts users of breached passwords(arstechnica.com)
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by vatueil 8y ago
Prompts to use Amazon Smile do still appear. It's just that the reminders don't pop up every time you visit a non-smile domain. Haven't seen any 90-day time limit as the parent comment mentions.
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by vatueil 8y ago
It appears to be a routine tactic for Facebook. I guess it must work, so why stop? https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/14/facebook-hired-pr-firm-that-... > Facebook expanded its work with Definers Public Affairs
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by vatueil 8y ago
Some other less obvious title options pulled from article quotes: > flagging sketchy URLs > changing the way site identity is presented
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by vatueil 8y ago
The headline appears to be based on the first and last sentences of the intro paragraph. The latter concludes with the description: > Google's first steps toward more robust website identity (Headlines, in case anyone hasn't
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by vatueil 8y ago
> It bothers me that PWAs are a thing too. I think you accidentally replied to the wrong comment. It sounds like you're responding to lettergram's comment, which also complains that PWAs bother him: https://news.yc
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by vatueil 8y ago
> the United States is one of only a few countries that give automatic citizenship based on geography of birth It would be more accurate to say that most countries in the New World practice jus soli , while most countries in the Old W
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by vatueil 8y ago
BuzzFeed later published a more detailed and sympathetic account of this tragedy: https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/golianopoulos/fuck-that-gat...
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by vatueil 8y ago
Good point about the ambiguous language. Reminds me of: https://www.reddit.com/r/dontdeadopeninside/ Though in this case people had tried to convince the victim not to swim, so it wasn't like he misread the s
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by vatueil 8y ago
Close: $260 million. Though it appears Fossil is only selling part of its portfolio (mostly IP plus some R&D) and they very much plan to continue producing smartwatches. Curiously, it sounds like Misfit's involved in whatever it wa
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by vatueil 8y ago
Searching by filetype seems to still work fine, e.g.: https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+filetype:pdf
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by vatueil 8y ago
Custom keyword searches are also natively supported by Firefox and Chromium-based browsers: - https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-search-from-address-bar - https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-u
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by vatueil 8y ago
And yet after years of speculation about its imminent shutdown, Hangouts still works to this day. In response to the most recent reports of its demise Google explicitly denied the rumored shutdown date and committed to supporting classic Ha

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