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by willywanker 3y ago
In India, most government offices keep separate summer and winter timings, and an official date for the start of winter/summer (Usually Nov 1 to April 1), just that it isn't universally mandatory. I don't see why this isn&#x2
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by willywanker 3y ago
Do you also frequently rinse your mouth? Oral hygiene will also determine dental health, not just soda consumed.
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by willywanker 3y ago
Been banned in India since 1990.
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by willywanker 3y ago
The earlier version of their sync protocol, Weave, only had local encryption. If you forgot the encryption password you lost your sync data with no possibility of recovery. Pale Moon remains the only browser sticking to the older version of
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by willywanker 3y ago
This should be obvious - a chatroom is no substitute for a forum. It doesn't help that IM services like Whatsapp/Telegram are also trying to muscle into what should be a forum with their groups and communities features.
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by willywanker 3y ago
Yeah, it's a restoration project. https://github.com/facundopignanelli/enroncorp
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by willywanker 3y ago
What worked was the decline of home PC users in favor of smartphones; Microsoft was never able to do well in this space despite buying Nokia's phone business (let alone dominating it as they still do on the desktop). Modern Microsoft h
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by willywanker 3y ago
>You can go to the store and buy an entire PC with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Edge. Then you can install Firefox on it, or remove Windows entirely and install Linux. The trouble comes when you can't separate them anymore. If yo
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by willywanker 3y ago
Would help a lot if they stopped obsessing over the search engine and focused more on their browser engine and HTML standards as good as monopoly, while pointing out that Firefox exists as controlled opposition, given Mozilla is massively d
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by willywanker 3y ago
Time for another round of 'I told you so' for expecting any different from a browser made by a company that runs on selling user data to advertisers for fun and profit. I've shunned Chrome and its various Blink based bastard
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by willywanker 3y ago
At the time Mozilla claimed that according to their telemetry, not many people used RSS and live bookmarks, so they trashed the feature altogether. They could've at least kept feed detection and then let the user decide what feed reade
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by willywanker 3y ago
Using Pale Moon with 110 extensions (the original powerful XUL kind, not the lame Web Extensions that modern Firefox copied from Chrome), memory usage rarely crosses a gigabyte on a 12 GB Linux laptop from 2015 with 11 tabs open; currently
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by willywanker 3y ago
What do I do? Been blocking ads since I discovered it was possible in 1999, while on a shitty dialup and observing that banner ads loaded before the page itself. Back then I used a network level adblocker/firewall combo called AtGuard,
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by willywanker 3y ago
Pale Moon users have a still maintained fork called eMatrix.
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by willywanker 3y ago
The solution to such problems isn't just technical - if you see a mail from someone that sounds out of character like in your case, best is to contact them directly or via a fresh mail composed to their address to confirm what was sent
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by willywanker 3y ago
It may well be too late, given Google has absolute control over web standards and their policy of introducing draft features in Chrome and then making them part of the standard. Unless an anti-trust case is brought against them which explic
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by willywanker 3y ago
Or just use Pale Moon, which is privacy respecting out of the box and doesn't need any hardening bullshit because it doesn't have any analytics, telemetry, third party crap like Pocket or anything else built in. It is what Firefox
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by willywanker 3y ago
Get with the times, Waterfox is independent of System 1 now. https://www.waterfox.net/blog/2023/07/03/a-new-chapter-for-w...
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by willywanker 3y ago
You're describing the old Firefox before they became Google's controlled opposition. Since 2011 all they have done is continuously stripped out every useful power user feature in a bid to turn into a shitty copy of Chrome; the las
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by willywanker 3y ago
Google+ was dead on arrival; Mozilla removed RSS support from Firefox long after Google+ was shut down. But of course, they have to dance to the tune of their biggest funder.
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by willywanker 3y ago
Correction, Firefox is controlled opposition for Google to deflect from being accused of having a browser and browser engine monopoly. Mozilla post 2011 is a very different beast; they decided that copying Chrome was the way to go, strippin
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by willywanker 4y ago
The DRM fight died the day the EFF, Cory Doctorow, Mozilla and other supposed champions of open data formats kept mum while DRM was being added to the HTML5 spec, this also killed off the idea of NPAPI browser plugins. Plugins were origina
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by willywanker 4y ago
Take a seat. The US was the most primitive mobile market in the world before the iPhone, with people drooling over the frigging Moto RAZR - a feature phone FFS - just because it was thin and flipped open. And imagine paying for incoming cal
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by willywanker 4y ago
Ah yes, communism. This time we will surely get it right because of our arrogance and hubris combined with total cluelessness about human nature and how spectacularly communism and its sibling socialism failed everywhere they were tried (An
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by willywanker 4y ago
Contributed it back how? On CDPR's Github? This isn't an open source project.
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by willywanker 4y ago
Fixed pie fallacy of wealth strikes again. Amazing how common this view of x% people holding 'the wealth' is. Nothing similar existed before Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and the 2 Steves built their offerings; they got
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by willywanker 4y ago
It has nothing to do with 'capitalism', in case you think the alternative is socialism where everything will be perfect (you'll be lucky to get any service at all when salary is not tied to customer satisfaction, as Russians
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by willywanker 4y ago
>customers will complain. Assuming they are paying customers and not users. There's long been the attitude that the developer is doing people a favor by not charging for using the software and therefore 'if you find a problem,
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by willywanker 4y ago
He said this in 1981, there was no Windows let alone MS Office at the time. The average simple text mode DOS application was barely 50-100kb in total, so 640k was quite a comfortable limit for several years more.
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by willywanker 4y ago
Infosys bot spotted. 'Amarican' companies eh?

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