vel0city

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by vel0city 6mo ago
You have stated a monopoly is: > It's size and market power. We both agree on the size. Its the most popular browser for sure. And I agree, a monopoly generally has to be quite large and it doesn't need to be 100%. When I ask y
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> There's nothing forcing you to use Chrome instead of Edge This is what I mean. How is it a "monopoly" when one can easily just use something else? The only thing people are saying its "its a monopoly because it has
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> If you're a publisher (i.e. anyone who hosts a website) you're forced to fall in line or go out of business. What features of Chrome are website publishers forced to fall in line with or go out of business that practically ot
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> It's size and market power Finally one states something other than its a monopoly because it has market share or because its advertised heavily. Its a monopoly because it allegedly has market power . But does it, really? > If
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by vel0city 6mo ago
I'm asking what features force me to use Chrome instead of Firefox or Edge or Safari. I've yet to hear an answer other than it's advertised heavily and that it's popular.
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> having a huge market share. Marketshare alone isn't a defining part of if a product is a monopoly. > majority of browers are directly branded chrome They're not Chrome, in many extremely important aspects. > The choic
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Edge isn't Chrome though, is it? Like, its not shipped by Google, it doesn't bug you to log in with a Google account, doesn't ship metrics back to Google, right? Not quite the same thing now is it?
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> Whatever your definition of monopoly is, it's wrong Ok, so enlighten me which standard of monopoly they're so obviously breaking? > The threshold is not 100% market share. I never once said so I'm not arguing it req
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Ah, you're right, still WebKit based.
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by vel0city 6mo ago
So now Chrome is a "monopoly" because they're "advertising their products everywhere possible". I guess I can only ever drink Redbull, they're a monopoly, because they're advertising their products everywh
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by vel0city 6mo ago
If a user is openly going out of their way to go and install a competitor's product despite a perfectly serviceable version coming by default, how can the the one being sought out be seen as a monopoly? The competition came pre-install
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> by extending the internet in ways that force users into using their browser engine And yet after multiple times of me asking you've yet to give me a single real feature lost. > This is a different question Its literally the
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Do most people call Microsoft Edge or Safari "Chrome"? Are the security and privacy implications the same for Edge, Safari, and Chrome? Seems to me like they're still quite different products despite having some similar codeb
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> You know full well what people mean when they say "Chrome" Yeah, Chrome, the web browser made by Google that bugs you to sign in with your Google Account. Most people don't mean Microsoft Edge when you say "Chrome&q
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Outside of WebUSB I personally haven't meaningfully been impacted in any ways. Can you share which ways this is? Note, this is separate from a "so many things are just Chromium", which I agree is an issue, but isn't the
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> by google apps on my iPhone Ever thought about just not using those apps if you want to avoid the Google ecosystem? Too bad there's just absolutely no mapping application available on iPhone but Google Maps. Too bad there's
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by vel0city 6mo ago
Chrome and v8 was just stupidly faster than any other browser and JS stack at the time when I first adoped it. It was a lot buggier in many other ways and many sites just didn't work quite right at the time, but the tradeoff on perfo
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by vel0city 6mo ago
It cracks me up when people say Chrome is a monopoly, because a massive amount of computing devices do not even ship with Chrome. Windows computers, Macbooks, and iPhones require users go search out and install Chrome on their own out o
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by vel0city 6mo ago
He just mentions and walks through idea of having some amount of compute up there and what the heat rejection calculations roughly look like. He doesn't actually explore the economics of doing such a thing or discuss if it's actua
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by vel0city 6mo ago
The best manager role I ever worked with wasn't incredibly technical, although he was loosely working on getting some IT certifications at the time. He wasn't even the person I really reported to, he was just a project manager tha
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by vel0city 6mo ago
I definitely don't mean to call into question Pixel device robustness overall into question. I'm just trying to point out even well glued phones eventually develop weaknesses to their seams. And this was a device I routinely washe
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by vel0city 6mo ago
The other side is if you already know the tree you can automate dialing the right tones to get you to where you need if you call it often enough.
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by vel0city 6mo ago
I'd return it if a brand new device that advertised IP67 died almost immediately under a normal sink water flow. Clearly it wasn't built to spec and one can't trust the rest of their manufacturing. But I mean that's just
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by vel0city 6mo ago
I had a Pixel 6a last year bought not too long after it came out. I left it on a patio table. I was hosing things off and there was a significant amount of over spray on to the table. The screen died over the course of a couple of hours due
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by vel0city 6mo ago
I'd like to see a revival of trains in the US, but I agree their impacts will be limited. I think they make sense for regional travel (Texas triangle, New England area, West coast, Midwest, maybe NM/Colorado/South Wyoming, et
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by vel0city 6mo ago
It doesn't seem surprising me they started playing at 7, and they were playing the game in 2008. I definitely recall the game taking off a good bit with little kids around that time. By like 2010 or so I knew of a ton of little kids wh
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by vel0city 6mo ago
We should just put non-dairy on all beverages that are non-dairy. Non-dairy Mountain Dew. Non-dairy sweetened lemon beverage. Non-dairy gin. Non-dairy water.
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by vel0city 6mo ago
I wouldn't advertise my title as "network engineer" but having a strong understanding networking and network design has been a big part of my jobs for the last 20 years or so.
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by vel0city 6mo ago
A network engineer would know how to NAT in IPv6, and wouldn't say an untrue statement like "there is no ability to NAT with IPv6".
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by vel0city 6mo ago
> Firstly, there is no ongoing war with Iran Talk about mischaracterization. The head of the Department of ~~Defense~~War has called it a war many times. The President has called it a war many times. Members of Congress of both parties h

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