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by wsha 11y ago
How hard is it to import a European router to the US? Is that illegal? I would think as long as one operated it within the FCC's limits it would be legal to use it.
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by wsha 11y ago
How dependent is Rust on Mozilla for support now? Has it developed its own community of contributors? I like Mozilla and their mission, but with the way things have been going the past few years I wouldn't want to put a lot of time int
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by wsha 11y ago
"This person who used to be your peer is now your manager." Welcome to reality, GitHubbers. Not sure how else you expect a 500+ person company to run itself.
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by wsha 11y ago
Maybe raw productivity is not increased, but all of these reasons have the effect of increasing morale and thus productivity.
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by wsha 11y ago
It's good for user privacy, but not good for the ad networks wanting to keep an accurate account of how many times their ads are being loaded.
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by wsha 11y ago
There are legitimate concerns about police overreach, etc., but I can't get past the part where we start off talking about someone checking $11,000 in cash. Was this guy just not familiar with air travel? Or is it less likely that mone
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by wsha 11y ago
Not sure if this is true for all vidoes, but I have watched several shows on Amazon using Chromium, and I don't have Flash installed.
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by wsha 11y ago
I was hoping for a nice outrage inducing story, but this one left too much ambiguity about who was really at fault for me.
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by wsha 11y ago
The thing that stands out to me in the discussions on the Mozilla mailing list is how Mozilla is changing the goals of extension signing after the fact. It was initially presented as a method of combatting malware but with the back and fort
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by wsha 11y ago
Free speech is important but for some reason this story does not make me feel much sympathy for the author. I'm not sure why. Maybe because it seemed like the newsletter was posting borderline defamatory comments anonymously.
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by wsha 11y ago
There is a Chrome extension called FooTab that does #2. Maybe Chrome will add this functionality at some point. I have heard that they are working on unloading tabs when many are opened at once.
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by wsha 11y ago
I believe Google is also still the default for some locales including most of Europe.
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by wsha 11y ago
It's probably better to compare Firefox to Chromium which is as free as Firefox. I think the RAM and address bar comparisons could be addressed by extensions in Chromium. So really you are left with the last point about funding, but Mo
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by wsha 11y ago
One of the maintainers already committed to flipping the switch on the mailing list. The reasoning given was that extension signing was a security feature and it is better to trust Mozilla than to trust an old add-on whose developer did not
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by wsha 11y ago
Electrolysis is mostly already implemented with the XUL version of Firefox and many add-ons have been ported over to be compatible with it. The main new change being announced recently (electrolysis and extension signing have been known abo
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by wsha 11y ago
According to Aaronson and others, the D-Wave architecture has not demonstrated any behavior that can't be explained using classical physics, so just making the device bigger shouldn't change it into a quantum device with a quantum
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by wsha 11y ago
That route is getting harder with application signing becoming more prevalent on Windows and OS X.
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by wsha 11y ago
But ths change will prevent bad extensions pulled in by malware installed by other means.... On systems that require application signing, that should do some good (otherwise I'd expect malware to just switch from sideloading extensions
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by wsha 11y ago
Mozilla has said that this requirement is set by one flag at build time, so building a version without this requirement should not be any more difficult than just compiling Firefox I have never done that, but I think it's slightly non-
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by wsha 11y ago
I think they want to encourage wider adoption of the Beta version, so they treat it similarly to the Release. The logic seems pretty questionable to me though. If you can install a Beta version of Firefox, you should be able to avoid consen
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by wsha 11y ago
The -signed label was a one time effect to update existing extensions to signed versions (since AMO didn't want to arbitrarily bump the version numbers of all its hosted extensions). Future updates do not have this label.
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by wsha 11y ago
If your extension has been fully reviewed by AMO, you can upload beta versions that only have to pass the automated signing review to be posted to AMO.
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by wsha 11y ago
I have been looking into both of these technologies recently. Attic has the most attractive feature set of the backup management tools I have looked at (deduplication and compression, support for remote repos, built in encryption, ability t
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by wsha 11y ago
Whether or not the allegations are true (as most people are questioning here), this article is really poorly researched. There's no indication that any attempt was made to get Roberts' side of the story or to check with any other
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by wsha 11y ago
AdBlock Plus is published under a GPLv3 license, so it is open source even if it doesn't have your preferred default settings. AdBlock Edge is a fork of AdBlock Plus that just disables the acceptable ads preference. Personally, I don&#
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by wsha 11y ago
Reading the source code, I find this: function recordInstall() { if (utils.prefs('install_recorded')) { return; } sendReq('install'); } So the if statement that the OP highlights does not actually phone every time it is
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by wsha 12y ago
The OP seems to move around a lot. You'd think having a Comcast alternative would be on the must-have list for a new home by now. I guess he is moving into 20+ mile radii with no ISP other than Comcast?
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by wsha 12y ago
I'd put in Rigetti Computing in the same category as D-Wave (I'll let you decide how dubious it is).
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by wsha 12y ago
He has contributed to and helped maintain some really cool projects. However, the title of this post is misleading. He is not the creator of dialog or lynx.
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by wsha 12y ago
I also discovered the Superfish app fairly quickly (I use NoScript in Firefox and noticed best-deals-products.com being blocked everywhere). I decided to reinstall Windows from Microsoft because I no longer trusted the Lenovo OEM version. I

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