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Comment · 2 years ago
Won't your device holding the passkey still take passcodes to unlock itself?
Comment · 2 years ago
> trying their best to do a job they care about

I would not take that as a given for Mozilla's upper management. Many of their decisions seem to ignore what users want in deference to Google or other motivations.

Comment · 2 years ago
How does Opera have 3-4x the market share of Firefox? Is it installed by default anywhere?
Comment · 2 years ago
As an alternative, you can get a stable release with about:config by installing Firefox (or Mull) from F-Droid.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not being indexed by search engines is a fatal flaw in my opinion. There might be some interesting discussions taking place on Mastodon, but I would have no way of knowing.
Comment · 2 years ago
Have you tried deleting your profile and starting fresh? Something is clearly messed up. Launching takes a fraction of a second for me on NixOS with a years-old profile.
Comment · 2 years ago
Have you ever visited Vietnam? The people I've met there are highly motivated to build successful businesses, even more so than in many western countries.
Comment · 2 years ago
Racism definitely is based on race, hence the name. Maybe you're referring to some other kind of out-group bias based on tribal or familial status?
Comment · 2 years ago
Because perceived race is a big factor in how most people treat strangers, so having that information would likely be useful in identifying unfair bias in enforcement.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think it'd be impossible to anonymize data in such a way that it's still useful but not easily identifiable with public or partial private information.
Comment · 2 years ago
Quoting from the article's update:

> I got a Nitrokey3 to use as a hardware token, and ended up not being able to access my country's e-gov facilities, because L1 certification required.

What will likely happen is that many services will only accept passkey managers that have been blessed by big tech and locked down to the user. You're not going to be able to authenticate with your bank using an open source implementation.

Comment · 2 years ago
I could not disagree more strongly. Giving large corporations (and governments effectively) the power to control my access to 3rd party resources is totally unacceptable.
Comment · 3 years ago
What was particularly bad about India's situation?
Comment · 3 years ago
That's a depressing viewpoint.

The text chat version of Omegle could have easily been hosted on a single server with some kind of automated spam protection. Donations could have more than covered the costs to run it. The positive value it added to millions of lives far outweighs the negative.

Comment · 3 years ago
It is possible (and likely quite common) for a layman to only have partial knowledge of how SARs work.

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