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I use Firefox - Chrome is too slow/buggy. Also, who knows what code Chrome is executing when you start it up on your computer?
>It's not any better at fostering that things over any other shared interest

What is another shared interest that builds positive community bonds at or above the scale of religion.
I doubt the engineers make the privacy decisions?
>In the US, which I might remind you, does not have a national law on the books regarding data breach notification.

Our federal government is beholden to corporations, so I don't see any legislation ever happening to punish nor place a regulatory significance on breaches.

If the Equifax debacle didn't move the needle, nothing will. How they didn't get a death penalty for not protecting one of the supports of our financial system I will never know.

As the parent said, I've just assumed all my data will be breached eventually. When it occurs I dutifully sign up for the monitoring offered and make sure to review things on a monthly basis.

Your comment on breach notification is spot on. WISH.COM has suffered down line breaches in their process and it is easy to prove by the use of virtual credit card numbers ... numbers that are generated and used at only one site. They have been silent when it is reported to them.
> Transforming itself to be visually nearly indistinguishable from chrome hasn't really worked in its favor.

Chrome changed its style more recently and ended up being more similar to Firefox.
I wonder that too. I used to have it always on and set to Chrome when Netflix was blocking DRM enabled FF. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people just always have it on, especially considering how popular of an add on it is.
I don't think verizon had any interest in tumblr to begin with. Tumblr was just property that came with their purchase of Yahoo. Also verizon is a $250 billion company. Tumblr and it's potential ad revenue is a rounding error to them.

Usually when a large company buys another company with lots of properties, they invest in the ones they like and shut down the ones they don't like and write off the losses. I haven't read of any news about verizon investing in Tubmlr so this seems like verizon slowly shutting down tumblr.

Should be interesting what their plans for other yahoo properties. They shut down yahoo messenger. What are their plans for yahoo portal, news, sports, finance, etc?
If the salts were stored with the passwords, it might be possible to brute-force any single (simpler) password by testing lots of salt+guess combinations. Salting only really protects against rainbow tables (pre-computed guesses for lots of passwords).
Can I get my beloved Firefox addons to work again?

(No.)
A corollary: if something is true, but not relevant, then why should anybody care if it is true? Know when you're putting your efforts into things that can't pay off.
We could detect if the simulation diverged. Then we had to replay deterministicly up to the frame of divergence and then break on various things that cause divergence. Floating point underflow/overflow, NaN, uninitialized memory access, divide by zero, etc. If my memory serves correct, the physx code referenced uninitialized memory. We had to patch their binary to initialize it.
I worked at Tumblr up until the Verizon merger so this story drew my interest. Most of the people who work there are too young to remember Betamax but that sounds like the direction things are going. Good news is that the government of Turkey can finally stop complaining to Tumblr about all the gay porn -- they are REALLY good at finding it (Short KMB!) Seriously though Tumblr never made any money on the adult content - they refused to run advertising on it - it was questionable that the adult content brought eyeballs that stayed around for the non-adult content. It was just a matter of time before the accounting people started wondering how much less their monthly S3 bill might be without the petabytes of un-monetizable porn. Now the question is, can Nyan Cat memes and a Minecraft blog support the business and justify the merger. Maybe Justin Timberlake is still in the market?
It's completely idiotic. Lord, Liar, or Lunatic? Um, lunatic, obviously. He dismisses atheism with a single sentence, and exhibits an astonishing level of ignorance. If you read it as a Christian, you might not notice the idiocy, but if you aren't a Christian, it's really really bad, so many assumptions, so many times something is glossed over as if "obviously so", when it's so not. Fucking terrible, and obviously so. So overrated. If it's in your top 5, then... wow. That's not good. I mean, it's not quite as bad as the likes of "The Case For Christ" by Lee Strobel, but that's not saying much at all.
Since they write the software, I'm sure they have more than a little sway.
Opiates can also be a cause of pain. Physical pain and psychological pain are indistinguishable in the brain. Introducing a highly addictive drug may help with short term pain, but may also introduce a chronic pain condition.

I think the response of younger doctors in regards to cutting down prescriptions to opiates has more to do with avoiding the moral and legal entanglements with prescribing something that will long term cause chronic pain than it does an unwillingness to prescribe.

Western medicine has long been accused of being too focused on acute conditions. The pendulum is swinging in the other direction. There will continue to be doctors that find and understand balancing these risks to optimize a life, not just a body. There will also continue to be clinics that find and understand balancing malpractice insurance, not just patient throughput.
Bird's latest round was led by Sequoia and Lime's latest round was led by GV, so I am not sure why the Softbank is relevant.

Perhaps Softbank funds the next rounds, but GV and Sequoia are still going to be looking for a much bigger exit than 1x.
I'd like to see DragonflyBSD and the like are supported on cloud. Maybe it'll help more adoption.
how can I read this article?
I feel bad for people in wheelchairs that have to come to a dead stop for these scooters. I live in Santa Monica and regularly see scooters left flat in the middle of the sidewalk. I mean, what the actual fuck? The fact that so many people that use these services lack any respect makes me hesitate to ride the scooters(and thereby join them).
The most common complaints I've seen have been that it doesn't support their extensions or they need their web sessions to sync to their Android/Windows/Linux device.
In addition to the higher prevalence of privacy (/ad blocking) conscious users on Firefox, Mozilla has also been aggressively making it easier to enable tracker blocking natively, and turning it on by default in certain cases. This has been happening with progressive versions as they're more confident it won't break large numbers of sites. Rollout of those features does actually mean this type of data needs to be interpreted differently depending on methodology.
Based on GlobalStats statscounter [0], the data source for caniuse.com, FF is at 5%.

[0] http://gs.statcounter.com/
That being said, I wonder if it's a good idea to extend KeePass to generate full credentials for given website.
I'd also like to point out how many times "this might void your warranty" appears on the following page.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...

which is a perfectly reasonable and legitimate user request that, the browser not talk to the internet before the user agrees it may.
This article will queue up a slew of startups that pair program.. perhaps a good thing!
Sorry but the devtools can't even inspect my websocket API frames.

The websocket inspector was a feature request filed 6 years ago. [1]

Maybe Firefox devs didn't have time for it. But somehow they got all the time in the world to add clickbait Pocket articles on my new tab page.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508
Since I refuse to install apps on my phone for services I use that have websites, I'm a fairly heavy phone browser user.. so being able to adblock, block arbitrary JS (noscript), and kill tracking cookies is wonderful.

> And Firefox for Android is pretty bad otherwise, unfortunately

I disagree. Why do you think it is "pretty bad"?
Quantum I think was too incremental and conservative, trying to integrate Servo into Gecko. They’ve ended up making a desktop browser which is as good as Chrome, but not good enough to demand attention. Mobile, where parallelism should be most beneficial, has lagged behind, and parallel layout, which is where the real prize is, has disappeared over the horizon. Servo has been relegated to WebVR experiments which are speculative at best, at a point when VR is only available to a truly tiny percentage of the population, and should it be successful will probably be dictated by market share anyway. Do Quantum by all means, but follow five other paths to make Servo a success. Servo was designed to be embeddable, why for instance not attempt competition for Electron. Even if it only implemented a subset of the spec it could be a big success. This is Mozilla’s lifeblood, and it just seems attention is elsewhere.
Just providing my piece of anecdata that me, and everyone in my family, have switched to Firefox Quantum on all our desktop machines, and aren't looking back.

(My wife has never used anything but FF, but she begrudgingly updated, and is now a happy user. I switched from Chrome; I can get way more tabs open on my cheap Asus 2-in-1 with FF.)
It is pretty fast for me.

Although there is some vested interest, although indirectly. Decisions are still tied to money, which is why Google has traditionally been the default search engine in Firefox.
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AFAIK, Linux is a second-class target for Firefox. On Windows its quite snappy.
> Cities should simply impound any scooter not properly parked and charge $200 to get it back. Since solving the parking problem is so easy, this will push Bird/Lime into finally solving it.

That's true, but then said cities would lose the prestige of being a part of Silicon Valley innovation.
I built a browser for this: https://cretz.github.io/doogie/. Granted I haven't uploaded the binaries for the current Chromium version (easy to do, just lazy) and I also don't support extensions and there's no macOS support yet. But the sheer productivity increase for me is substantial.
"Before getting too excited, this is strictly about the display hardware and not about the 3D engine, etc." - from the link you gave. So still a show but not a real help.
Modern Fortran is probably not recognizeable to someone who knew it in 1960, though.
Firefox is only browser where multi-row tabs works -- all other browsers are impossible to navigate with more than 8 tabs open. I frequently have 30+ tabs open in Firefox (sometimes as much 100).

That being said, Firefox has a bunch of small performance / hang issues that have nothing to do with the number of tabs but add up over time.
Lol, I usually organize tabs by location so pinning them (and minimizing their horizontal footprint) is good enough for me. Further, I personally found that when I had a million tabs open, at least 50% of them were duplicates so I just started using tab deduping extensions to cull them.
If the argument for parking is that it's democratically decided, then being able to leave scooters around wherever is also democratically decided. Santa Monica could pass a scooter law whenever it wants to. They don't have a policy on nose-picking or walking without looking where you're going either.

The actual basis of your complaint is that you like parking, but you don't like scooters being put wherever.
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I would guess most companies are not in the business of selling their user email lists, but rather, shared the user's email with a third-party company that provided some service, and that third-party company then sold it.
1995 was special, though, since that was the start of the Dotcom boom. Every year after 1995 and before 2000, the Dotcom bubble got bigger and bigger. To bounce like 1995, we'd need an economy like 1995.
Bitbucket outage?
A lot of great points. I definitely acknowledge that I wouldn't be where I am without a lot of others' tutorials.

I particularly like your third point - I obviously can't share the proprietary work I've done, but this is something I could share and would demonstrate (hopefully) some of my competencies.
Anyone who ignores prior treatment of folks is foolish.

Why would a web developer support one browser over others? They keep everyone honest by sticking to the middle road and not having a badge like "Works Best In FireFox".
Thanks for suggesting Brave. Just downloaded it, and it seems very well put together. Interesting how that plan to pay you to view ads.
What websites are you getting these on?
In my experience, academia is set up to be an obstacle in every way to someone trying to legitimately improve collective human knowledge and understanding. The desires/thoughts of individual researchers are simply irrelevant.

People are ejected from the system if they don't/won't waste almost all their time and resources on dealing with bureaucracy and explaining basic stuff about logic and science to their superiors (who have been trained in NHST, or other bad practices that are obviously bad to everyone without a stake in ignoring it).

Not many people who really want to do science are going to waste their time dealing with that...
It's not "global warming" any more. It's "climate change."

I hope I live long enough -- and I suspect I will -- to see the 'issue' become the damaging effects of 'climate stagnation'.

I bet within a few decades you'll read things like this: "The insects on this planet require a changing climate! The average temperatures haven't moved for decades! We're in a deadly stagnant cycle caused by [insert nuclear, fossil fuels, positronic brain emissions, or whatever is 'taboo' 50 years hence]. We're all going to die!"
I suggested one benefit of a union: pay for on-call hours. You've extrapolated from this at least 3 or 4 other rules that I never mentioned, and which I've never heard of, and which make no sense to me. Where is all this coming from?

Why would the union rules require separate people for two positions? Why would this be relevant to open source and free software? Why would it be relevant to hobbyists? And so on. I just don't see these problems in other fields. There's unions for actors, and stagehands, and janitors, but I still have a local amateur theatre in my neighborhood, and the lighting director sweeps the floors when that needs doing.

Whenever I say the word "union", all the complaints I hear against them from programmers sound like straw men. That makes me believe that it's the right track.
Damn I've been working wrong all this time! I didn't know because I write some of the code I get to make the product decisions!
Is there a way to see the raw numbers? Eyeballing last few months it seems that Chrome grew significantly mostly at the expense of internet explorer, but also other browsers.

This trend could be explained by a large number of new chromium users. Or maybe Google figured out how to push Chrome better.
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That strategy is proven ineffective with abstinence only sexual education, and I'm sure the exact same problems would arise applying to online access.
Take a look at CUDAnative.jl (https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CUDAnative.jl) which uses the NVPTX LLVM backend to compile Julia code to the GPU. What you described sounds very similar to that and could definitely made to work.
This happened to me. I started on a journey of transitioning to a woman and gathered a group of friends at work composed of women. They supported me for a few years helping me through the process.

Then recently (as of this year), a woman came forward claiming I was harassing, intimidating, and sexually abusing her. This woman was one of the people who had supported me previously. She had been gunning for my position (she was just below me) and we had joked about her taking my position after I moved up. I'm still guessing to this day that was why she made those claims.

We go to HR, her sister presides over the case. I filed a complaint due to conflict of interest. The woman filing the claim threatened to open up to the media about this if the company went forward with replacing the woman in charge of the case.

It's probably no surprise, but they ruled against me and terminated my employment. I had no violations beforehand, no concerns, no performance issues, nothing. I was told to confess, just say it, was hinted at many times to just confess, just confess, we have evidence, anything else you say is a lie, don't drag it out, but I didn't.

I felt as if my career was over. I was a trans freak who assaulted women as far as I knew it. Who would want to hire one of me?

Thankfully, I got some good advice to fight it in court, and I did, and I won, thankfully. And that's when I learned, it's not about the truth, it's about image.

The company didn't care what the actual ruling was, in fact the company came from having a very bad image in the past just now forming a new one. And even though I won the court case, that didn't matter. I still had to explain it to future employers and that was all it took to shut the door on me.

I'm a die-hard liberal too. But that really shook my faith in the goodness of people. I had several suicidal episodes after that, only to be barely pulled out of it by my wonderful husband. It's so easy for someone to point a finger and that's essentially the only word to say in the matter.

And I guess what I'm saying is, I hope this never happens to anyone. I'm sure women aren't anything special when it comes to being evil or twisted. That's a silly thought to me. I fully believe most of the women coming out on the #MeToo movement are being honest and truthful. But when you can mold the situation in a way that you know no-one will question you, it only takes one to flip the world upside down. That's a lot of power to just give someone.
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* install ublock origin[0], it is far superior to ad block.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
The classic problem of being first to market in software, is that your competition can learn from your design and move forward with a fresh code. Firefox is still trying to shed off code from a decade ago.

The history of browsers is littered with legacy code being defeated by new code.
Is that the timeline here? In that case it was Chrome using its market position cleverly and Firefox not responding adequately. I can only speak for linux interfaces btw.

Small "bullshit" interface changes can have dramatic user and marketshare impact. We can all sit around and wish the world didn't work this way but it's not going to change.
Yep, plus battery packs, wheels, and electronics would probably have some resale value once parted out, especially if you can provide larger lots.
That sounds like a different issue. SF limited the number of scooters each company, Skip/Scoot, could deploy. When Bird and Lime launched in the city they had no limits, so they flooded it with scooters.
It’s a whole lot of things, but first and foremost and probably the simplest explanation, security is hard. Incredibly hard.

Once you understand how difficult attack mitigation is, then you can pick and choose from a variety of factors:

- executives may not have a realistic understanding of how difficult attack mitigation is so they don’t allocate the resources for hiring

- incompetent admins overestimating their abilities

- competent admins who are underfunded

- incompetent admins who underestimate the value of the data they’re protecting

- competetent admins who may not have an accurate picture of what data they’re trying to protect so their threat model is flawed due to inaccurate information

- executives who are aware of how difficult mitigation is but don’t place customer data privacy as a priority.

- the current iteration of our growth obsessed corporate models unintentionally results in a race to the bottom in many ways.

- little incentive for companies to factor in social impacts as we don’t yet seem inclined to figure out a way to include impacts on society as one of the many metrics to measure a company’s success or failures.

It’s worth remembering though, even the most responsible, most well funded, most security conscious, and best staffed organizations have been compromised at one point or another—security is hard.
Just BTW, Lime are in Sydney and Brisbane https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(transportation_company)
It's reasonable your password might be exposed since the attacker can now perform an offline brute force attack on the password hashes.

How likely it is your password gets brute forced really depends on the hash function used. If it's md5... all but the strongest password could be broken. (though at least the passwords were salted). If they're using something like bcrypt with a work factor of 10+, it's a different story and only the weakest passwords are at serious risk.

The fact that details on the hashing scheme aren't shared makes me assume it's not great...
I've been assuming, for many years, that it will eventually go down this way. China, the Saudis, etc will not be happy. But hey.
I'm experiencing a sense of schadenfruede because I'm embittered by Quora's arrogant "real names" policy. They won't "let me" contribute.

Nothing insightful. I'm just here to kick them while they're down.
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Sync, bookmark handling, performance.

Sync is the worst by a mile. You can NEVER expect a tab you opened (or history) on computer to show up reliably
on mobile device in timely fashion.
I'm a developer. I don't like IRC.
You wouldn't know where the data goes to anyway even without any unintentional leaks. No need to provide more than necessary.
>This means that we all have to pay for your care now

I'm not convinced. By that logic, we should also ban unhealthy foods, limit how many calories each person can eat, and mandate them to exercise for n hours per week. I'm sure that some of those will have a higher ROI than putting on helmets.

>In death (lack of taxes)

so we should ban emigration then? it has the exact same effects from a tax perspective.