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Open source isn't a solution to the problem you bring up, proper maintenance processes are.

A great example of this is the Debian package archive, with 51,000 packages in the archive, you know each package has a maintainer that has vetted that package, and they will maintain it for the rest of the release (usually 2 or 3 years) even if the developers of it wander off or disappear.

Key to this is the Debian Social Contract, which defines what is acceptable, and when maintainers should start ripping out malicious anti-features or reject malicious updates from the upstream project: https://www.debian.org/social_contract

Comparatively, PyPI & npm are unmaintained dumping grounds of sketchy software, like copying code sight unseen off StackOverflow, but with the added risk of every update potentially being malicious.

The lack of separate, objective maintainers for these package archives has caused a plethora of issues, from packages randomly disappearing, anti-features being added, to malicious code being embedded. This is a cultural issue around managing packages that the Free Software world mostly solved decades ago, yet Open Source communities like nodejs can't figure out these basic processes that prevent bad shit from happening to packages in their archive.
Aarch64 (does this chip even bother supporting 32-bit?) is much less idiosyncratic than the older 32-bit arm. Also, arm server platform has UEFI (for all its faults), providing a x86 like plug and play experience. And, like others already said, they are getting an entire ecosystem as part of the deal.

Risc-v might get there one day, but not yet.
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Regrading Pocket, why? I was ready to pull my torch out for Mozilla when I realized that Firefox included first-party Pocket support, until I learned that Mozilla now owns Read It Later (the developers of Pocket). I see no problem with Firefox including support for a product that Mozilla has complete control over, especially as a browser extension is a natural use case for Pocket.
I think there's another factor at play that isn't often mentioned: Google uses the dominant position of its services, as well as the strength of their brands, to promote Chrome as the better browser, in not-so-subtle ways.

One is often repeatedly prompted to install Chrome when visiting Google on other browsers[1][2]. Most normal users would just give up and install just to get rid of the pop up.

Microsoft has been doing the same (e.g. trying to trick you into keeping Edge when trying to select another browser as default on Windows 10), but their product wasn't good enough for it to work, it seems.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/1192441/is-it-possible-to-te...
[2] https://support.mozilla.org/it/questions/922025
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Please keep nationalistic flamewar off HN. It's what this site is not for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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They need that to make money in the dark future when they are not getting enough money anymore from Google because of their low marketshare. They call it "becoming independant".
The thing with movies like interstellar and inception is that they're ultimately action/romance movies set in a sci fi context. 2001 is the only movie that I know of which is exclusively about themes such as human evolution, alien life, etc... and dispensing of all "hollywood fluff". I'm not trying to diss interstellar or inception (I loved both of them), but they're not of the same caliber as 2001.
Honestly do you expect that the US will ever embrace consumer rights?

Anyway I just get cynical when I see people talk about how evil Google is and how Apple protects privacy. Every company you do business with WILL sell of your personal data and that includes mobile operators, banks and ISPs. Until that is illegal the entire discussion about privacy is irrelevant and a sham.
Even at quite large sizes, RDS is a fantastic product. I think I'd opt to use it even with full time Database Administrators on staff.
Given that web usage stats typically come from third party tracking and firefox is better at tracking protection, is there a 'hidden' market share?
I've had a similar reaction when trying Go. While I'm biased, I strongly believe Nim offers a much better alternative which solves all of the problems you mention in a much better way.

In particular, parsing JSON is a breeze, just like in Python. And there is no GOPATH weirdness.

Give Nim a try if you haven't already, it may just become your new favourite language :)
>No; tokyodude is asking what happens if you request that (for example) Google erases your data, and he has your email address in his Gmail contacts.

Oh, well in that case this is explicitly handled in recital 18. https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-18/

> Point (b) seems to suggest that it applies by default if the basis for originally processing the data was the subject's consent... but that the controller can override that if they have another legal ground for processing.

Yes.

>So even if the legitimate interests argument above would hold, if you're a 12-year-old, I think you absolutely can demand that your email address be purged from tokyodude's address book and he can't do anything about it?

Yes.

>How about your actual emails to him? Can you demand that Google deletes them from his inbox?

Covered in recital 18.

I totally agree with all your interpretations, well done. See what I mean about it not being that complex?

Not that you shouldn't run all this past your company lawyer to make sure they agree mind you. After all, companies keep lawyers around for input on exactly these kinds of issues, might as well get your moneys worth.

It's ok for you as a software developer to be unsure about some of these things, you're not a trained lawyer. What I'm being condescending about is software developers wailing "oh it's impossibly byzantine, oh it's impenetrable, oh woe, oh drat, oh heavy is the burden of being me in a GDPR-compliant era". Software developers regularly read documentation more complex than the GDPR legislation. Jesus, you'd think it was written in latin the way some people on hacker news cry about it.
I definitely agree that higher education should be accessible to everyone and for free.

I feel like the conversation should be

- "We need ethical and professional standards because our current way of doing things isn't working out too well!"

- "But that will exclude people who don't have access to education!"

- "Then we should give everyone a means to get the education. Because it is an unlimited resource that can be freely given without being taken from someone else and enriches all of humanity!"

- "Yeah! Let's do both those things!"

At least that's how I had hoped the conversation would lead.

But we can't throw our hands in the air and say "Accessible education is impossible and so we can never have standards of ethics or quality". That is definitely a dead end for society.

Anywho - I absolutely agree!
I think 'large animal that people are familiar with' is for science popularizing articles.
Let's say it was less than a 10,000 blue whales, they might have wanted to calculate it in African Elephants.
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> I don't think those questions can be answered

I don't understand why not. More exactly, if we decide that there is nothing "right" or "wrong", just "dimensions and scales and we can't decide without offensing someone", isn't that a bleak state of mind (and of society) ?

>"Good" vs. "evil" doesn't sound like the options we should be discussing in a post-religious society.

So only religion can define "good" and "evil" ?

Not society as a whole ?
or the law - would you agree that the law is just a slowly written process to write down the current state of mind of a society ?

What about "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" ? Also just an opinion ? or it's a "religious"-like text and therefore we can talk about "right" and wrong ?
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Just as long as we're on the same page here when the US debt spirals out of control forcing a default on China-owned T-bonds.
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> rather than implementing core technologies that web developers actually build sites with

Like a Shadowdom API v0 (v1 is standartized by W3C) used by Google in Polyfill so Youtube is way slower?

> even if it means making the browser work with Chrome's non-standard implementations of things

How good the compatibility between Internet Exploder's features and FF/Chrome was?
A) Ah yes, they should take great pride in developing software that will assist the world's most evil and dangerous country rewrite history, spread propaganda and help them imprison and murder citizens who dare to seek change.

B) Don't be ridiculous. They're going to be fined for violating people's privacy and engaging in evil behaviour. European companies won't get a free pass.

C) I was obviously referring to tech companies, whom in this case happen to be among the best paid in the world. I'd love for you to find a single other instance.

D) It's not a small topic among software engineers, especially the brightest ones.. you know, the kind of people Google wish to employ.

E) I obviously don't know how every engineer feel. I just know that a significant percentage of the software engineers I've known would never want to work for them. It's difficult to tell to which degree Facebooks downfall can be attributed to the employees they've lost and the people they've failed to attract.

F) I am doing something. With regard to privacy I use every opportunity to recommend everyone to use Signal, Firefox, Duckduckgo, NetGuard, Cookie Autodelete extensions, etc.
Go is already halfway there ;)
The problem isn't that the probes get too far out; the problem is that they run out of power. The Voyager probes were launched in the 70's and their RTG's won't provide enough power to keep them running for much longer.
I agree with these criticisms on Interstellar and Inception. I wonder, if there's people who enjoyed them, what did they like about them?
1. I like firefox's omnibar/awesomebar more than chrome's. It seems to read my mind better [1]. It also have some features [2] I think most people are unaware of.

2. Firefox have bookmark tags.

3. Firefox scroll the tabs instead of compressing the width until they're unusable. (It's also possible to set the minimum tab-width)

4. It's much simpler to get ctrl-tab MRU behavior [3] in Firefox last time I checked.

5. Firefox have a built-in reader-mode. I don't use it much on desktop, but on on mobile it's very useful for pages that doesn't reflow.

6. There's an ad-block extension for firefox-mobile.

[1] Could of course be because I'm more used to it and have more history in firefox :)

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire...

[3] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1193670
Why not try Seamonkey https://www.seamonkey-project.org/. Since Mozilla split the old application into the "lean & mean" Firefox and Thunderbird, they have both become so bloated that the old navigator combo is looking svelte by comparison!
Did you actually read the blog post?

Also, i'm pretty sure that such "special dvd drive" you're mentioning didn't exist back in 1999 as I remember using my Dreamcast as a reading device connected to my PC.

Seems 100% accurate to me.
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The measure is meaningless, because more doesn't equal better.

Music works well with repetition. Just look at graffiti for comparison, little one word poems repeated over and over.

The measure also doesn't account for ambiguity used to good effect--who makes the most sense?

I'm not sure why you put Lootpack in there, anyhow. Madlib for example talks a ton about weed, known to inhibit speech production. And the sound is blunted, too, literally. I just wonder how they can be as productive as they are, at all. I still like it, sure.

Nice Nick by the way.
So a regular browser will receive a js bundle, but a crawler will recieve a html page?

How does Rendora determine which version to give the requester? Is it the "User Agent String"?
People always say "we can't do anything about it" when some bad situation happen.

Except it happens because it emerges from the collective behavior.

Now, one can't fight a all the fights, and I don't think somebody that decides to avoid this one is a bad person. But one should definitly pick up some fights. Choose some things to pay for, decide some things to consume or be part of, not just by the nature of it, but by the consequences of doing so. Although I do think like in the article that it's better to fight _for_ something than _against_ something.

Anyway, if one doesn't makes, on daily basis, regular, endless, conscious choices, one is not taking part of the world but is just passively living in it.

And that's how we fail to build a society.
Not even close. I wrote a comment [0] with my examples recently. I like FF (though besides Containers, most reasons boil down to "it's not Chrome"), but fast is a word I'd only use in comparison to IE/Edge.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18620671
It works really well in Paris and where I live as well.
I hope so, I've preordered already in the hope that SIGIL runs on the original release - then I'll be playing it on my actual 486 when it arrives!

Obviously I'll have to transfer the WAD over but it's set up so that Win 3.1 can see my NAS so the fact that it ships on USB media hopefully shouldn't present a problem.
Why does the pay out have to increase? Have they tested what happens if it starts at $7 and never changes? I get the theory is to discover and incentivize less desirable scoot scoots, but I'm skeptical you actually need that.
Especially if your headquarters is across the ocean you just dumped theses things all over a foreign city with permission.
> A job for life also meant that your job was your life. You went into teaching or sports reporting or proctology because it was a calling—it was who you were meant to be. But it’s been a long time since anyone has been able to count on a job for life. The tech industry led the way: our shift to precarious employment was hastened by more efficient algorithms, apps and Amazon.

What is the real history of employment stability? I mean I can imagine that a Blacksmith was probably safely a Blacksmith for life back in the day, but is even that really true? And that's for identifiable trades, which it seems were not even easy to get trained into. So maybe the reality is that employment for most people has always been precarious?

Hasn't tech merely brought this instability to a social class that was exempted from it for the latter half of the 20th Century?

Would love to know more from someone who has some grounding in this.
Also Firefox for Android gets a shit version of Google search. But if you spoof your user agent it works perfectly.

That definitely is using their dominance in search to make people.use their web browser.
Who's hiring who doesn't fit this mold?
Also tab containers are fantastic.
> I think this kind of conversation is naturally fatiguing, and creates a particularly negative means of ushering new users into the platform - almost as hostages, rather than excited participants.

Definitely true. Asking users to respect certain principles is tantamount to guilting them which doesn't work.

> It’s time we analyse what Firefox does better than Chrome, and sing those praises.

From the perspective of a non-technical user, the differences are not noticeable. Firefox and Chrome have continued to converge (...er...maybe one following the other) to the point that the differences listed are not real differentiators.

Oddly enough, you could argue that telemetry and the constant push for user happiness and adoption is what is hurting FF. FF looks like Chrome. I'm not saying stop listening to your users, but in general it's ok to differentiate yourself in ways that don't appear to be immediately beneficial to adoption. The primary way this can be done is in the UI. We can all recognize that there are still lots of efficiencies to be gained around the current state of internet navigation. Other approaches may not be better, and I understand the maintainability fear of multiple UI paradigms in the same software, but at least it's a way of differentiating yourself.
I did include it in the end tho.

What do you think? Should I repost this?
I'm certainly planning on playing on my DOOM machine - 486 DX4/100 with 16MB RAM, SoundBlaster 16 etc.
Maybe Chrome can compete with itself by swapping out the rendering and Javascript vms.
Ah. That reminds me, I used to use TheDraw on DOS back in the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
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> seems to me that employers are working to make sure that doesn't happen. Pay is very, very good. Most of us make multiples of median household income in our respective areas. Plus have better working conditions.

Most software developers are not on HN, or making anywhere near Valley salaries.
Exactly, and it doesn't need to be docked only. Rewards riders if they drop the scooter off at a dock but don't make it a requirement.
Hands down there is one objective thing that Firefox does well and nobody else comes remotely close. DOM access. For some reason Firefox is thousands of times faster than other browsers when it comes to executing the standard DOM API methods.

I know that is a bold statement but it is easily verified with numbers using a perf tool. Chrome is faster at executing JavaScript than Firefox, but even still Firefox leaves everybody completely in the dust when executing the DOM API.

DOM access is so incredibly important to how the web works and nobody really talks about. For some unknown reason most developers are deathly afraid of the DOM and will do everything possible to hide from it. It is common in every job I have worked to see mountains of querySelectors and 10mb of supporting framework code so that developers don't have to fear the DOM buggy man. I could sympathize if the DOM were complicated, but it isn't.

I really believe if Firefox goes away and that competition is gone the web will get fundamentally slower. Everybody will see this slowness and yet very few people be able to diagnose why, and that is tragic.
Related and _very_ inspiring; how the Sega Saturn CD was cracked after 20 years. Even my very non-technical girlfriend sat through this thing, being intrigued by the dedication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyfZex7B3E
They're both well made, well paced, engaging movies. I especially liked inception due to its unique premise.
Wait.. taking the context of your post into consideration makes him a dishonest actor?
What evidence do you have that they're routinely intercepting laptops during shipping and compromising them?
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I agree with the specific examples and symptoms you cite, and yet I can't really see the dividing line being Open Source vs Free Software.

Say, OpenBSD is thoroughly vetted and ("soft, permissive") Open Source. They also have a social contract. (Perhaps not in writing as much as in culture, I am not very familiar with the BSDs either technically or socially but I know the software is very well vetted and accounted for.) Or maybe I misunderstood the distinction you make.
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Firefoxs omnibar history search is significantly better than chromes; although i imagine that is down to them having no stake in sending google searches which google obviously does
One thing Chrome does better than Firefox is third-party coookie blocking: It's MUCH simpler to whitelist certain cookies in chrome - simply go to the site's cookies dialog, open the blocked tab and whitelist the cookie..

Somewhat ironically since many people say Firefox is better at blocking tracking.

When it's hard to whitelist the cookies I need, I might cave and simply allow all third-party cookies.
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Certain security policies block localStorage, though. There doesn't seem to be a perfect place to store it.
Well until it's tried I guess we'll never know... worth noting the DVD market is still pretty big. No reason it wouldn't be several times bigger with a simple online version.

Pirates going to pirate so it will literally make no difference providing people with a legal alternative that is easy and simple to use.
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Americans consistently underestimated China out of a sense of arrogance I think. Becoming factory of the world was never the end game. Just the mid stage. Xiaoping was planning 50 years ahead. He wasn't thinking that China would always rely on low payed factory jobs.

Take mobile phones as an example: Chinese brands were knockoffs a couple of years ago. Now they are innovating and setting standards.
And yet, when I first approached C, it was considered a "high level" language.
Actually in Europe, MS got forced to create a ballot screen for the windows for 5 years: https://www.clubic.com/pro/entreprises/microsoft/actualite-7...

It stopped because IE and Windows were not dominent anymore.

Surprised Google didn't get at least a warning for force feeding his browser.
What's Blind? Is it a community? Tried googling but could only find a consultancy of some sort.
These differences do not affect the general audience's choice (except maybe #6, but it's a non-standard setup which means it requires multi-step user opt-in which is non-obvious to the market). They're hardly differences at all. Imagine if we were asked to pick between another two pieces of same-purpose software, we'd see such a list as saying they are essentially the same thing.
In Germany it kind of did. "Everyone" was using Firefox. It's still bigger here than elsewhere, but Chrome has overtaken it here, as well.
An incredibly interesting alternate reality would have been one where Microsoft used Quantum/Servo to power Edge instead of Chromium.
I use to browse the sites that have been blocked, mostly to download tutorials, and books.
OP could just as likely mean..."when 24-7 was introduced, they demanded compensation."

24-7 isn't required if your org only depends on system between working hours.
down-voted for not reading the article and still thinking you are entitled to snark
I don't see how coordination with the city would have prevented Obike from going bankrupt. As long as the company is still there it can be sued for the costs of removing bicycles. I also don't think that a thousand bikes for a small city is a lot. Surely there are close to a 100k inhabitants in that 90km^2 city?
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Zoom won't really help you with the above situation which is mainly users having their microphones disabled etc.

We're building a virtual classroom solution and we now always force every user to go through a wizard which checks their audio and video, clearly marks when there is no sound being received and connects them to a support person to help them resolve their AV issues before they can join the meeting.

It's a little annoying for the person who wants to join, but the experience for the people already in the meeting/classroom is much better.
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Yes, I use Firefox for browsing, but Chrome for developing.

I should probably give Firefox's tools another chance, but last time I checked Chrome's dev tools was alot better.
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And how did that work out ? Apple is still doing whatever they want, shut down competition and steal ideas, but never pays any consequences for their mistakes.

So how is that any good for us ?
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