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by zobzu 6y ago
I'm not really interested in the goals but on what parts are true/not true. But it seems easier to get upset and downvote rather than explain, which in turns fuels conspiracy theories. Now I understand most of us arent biomedical
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by zobzu 6y ago
I wonder what are informed positions about these vaccines potentially modifying and patenting your DNA or using aerogels ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6539078/ ) since these stories float aroun
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by zobzu 6y ago
Not advocating for either specifically, but some counter points: - Android password api integrates with 3rd parties. Android SMS app does security code copy thought not native autofill (apps implement it themselves) - AirDrop equivalent is
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by zobzu 6y ago
If the code is in GMS it's not necessarily open source. The more apps rely on GMS, the less they can run on ungoogled devices. micro-g attempts to emulate whatever is necessary. If Google ports changes both to that and AOSP it's n
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by zobzu 6y ago
What I find interesting is not so much this case but the globalization of the markets. With globalized markets you have near-monopolies which are so much more powerful than monopolies used to be. So you want to sell an app? Well first you p
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by zobzu 6y ago
That's because you're on HN and you and others are reasonable people :) People in the more general population definitely support Company A or B as if these were sports team, you can in fact find this on the linked article.
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by zobzu 6y ago
Thanks COVID lockdowns for killing the competition eh.
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by zobzu 6y ago
it seem cool but it bothers me that this is a link to a donation page and that its been obviously made to request money, rather than show the service provided
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by zobzu 6y ago
I dont think EME was a mistake. It sucks, but they didnt have a choice, if the choice is death or EME.
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by zobzu 6y ago
Nah Mozilla's PR is mainly due to historical stuff, not to new marketing (post FxOS era more or less) The org inside is.. like many old orgs, half rotten, half fine. There's a lot of good engineering and even good leaders, thought
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by zobzu 6y ago
This, exactly this.
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by zobzu 6y ago
Exactly
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by zobzu 6y ago
They already do this. The default new tab stuff you see is sponsored. Just not overly so..
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by zobzu 6y ago
When I worked there, there were basically 4 people working on Rust. And these people were making sure Rust would not need Mozilla to survive. Very smart people. Rust will be fine.
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by zobzu 6y ago
The contract ends start of 2021 IIRC and Firefox market share has been dropping and will continue dropping (specially now after this news). Which means I'm sure they are planning for a large reduction in revenue, like 50% or whatever.
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by zobzu 6y ago
I think it works, they simply have no market share. Baidu and others will pay millions to be a default search engine of a popular browser. But Firefox just isn't that popular anymore. Which, mind you, sucks, because we need a Firefox (
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by zobzu 6y ago
Mozilla 2010: "join us, don't work for the man, work for mankind!" (this was their actual slogan) Mozilla 2020: "well actually, work for the man" (or woman in this case) Sadly, even with Mozilla Foundation getting 4
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by zobzu 6y ago
After several years at Mozilla I eventually realized that the leader, not to name them, cares about fame, power and money, even more than "evil big corporations". That it makes a browser that is good for the web is a side effect.
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by zobzu 6y ago
what if.. they used the authentication? But yes u2f/webauthn would probably prevent this. That said keep in mind they also do PR/damage control so we only know what they tell us. For all we know maybe they have u2f and an employee
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by zobzu 6y ago
Abolish doctors. Or, ensure you prosecute bad police and bad doctors. In fact I think you bring a good point about doctors unwillingly. Very high cause of death in the US due to malpractice and they're barely ever on the hook for killi
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by zobzu 6y ago
So requiring to pay for a position only for a specific skin color is not actual systemic racism, as long as color is not white, because white people are racists and this fights against that, or am I completely missing the mark? I'm sur
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by zobzu 6y ago
Given it makes sound, it vibrates at high frequency. I've troubles understanding why a vibrating bridge is "better for structural integrity". I remember some of these in the past which broke Bridge engineer cares to enlighten
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by zobzu 6y ago
Honestly i wouldnt give them the excuse. they have more than anyone else to be able to either: - automate this with a message that tells you what thing is dangerous or at least: - automatically push to a human that will spend 30 real minute
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by zobzu 6y ago
Some people have a lot to gain from changes like these and want the changes to be socially accepted through conditioning. In general it's worse for the general population. This can include things like swapping the USD for another money
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by zobzu 7y ago
For the most part my understanding is that zoom is better at quality because it does not use webrtc - but hangout meet does. This means webrtc needs a lot of the fixing, which is hard because it's a standard. zoom sends proprietary stu
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by zobzu 7y ago
I'm not sure why you worry about that. It's guaranteed they have it and use it. You should worry about "is it a problem for me that the Chinese government and Chinese companies have access to my video meeting streams" If
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by zobzu 7y ago
Same model on Android. And yes, while the Linux kernel has a bunch of issues, glibc has a bunch of issues, etc. the app model as you pointed out is the major problem. Even if you use snapd and others, the apps aren't made to be able to
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by zobzu 7y ago
Interestingly a good part of the western press is pro-China. Just look at the COVID-19 coverage. We now know China lied on numbers (not that I think anyone here doubted of that), but western press was happy to push the narrative that China
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by zobzu 7y ago
My personal take is: Huawei belongs to CCP. Korean and US companies do not belong to their governments. This should be an issue by default, in my opinion. That said it's not why I distrust Huawei (not that I trust Google, Cisco, Qualco
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by zobzu 7y ago
Jobs do not have to be physically exhausting to be hard. Coal miner's job is hard and deadly. programming is differently hard and not very deadly (arguably working at a desk, wreaking your brain 70h a week with 10 days off a year is

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