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Comment · 9 years ago
As far as Nightly goes, I'd always imagine a debug/testing build would use more RAM by a fair margin.

elsewise, I'd say, try creating a new FF profile, unfortunately afaik older profiles can still jank up the browser a bit

Comment · 9 years ago
Please note this comment isn't specifically to you, but, I guess more to any mozzarellian that comes across this comment

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for other reasons I wanna comment on the "seems pretty reasonable" bit

"In this day and age" what with fear and stuff being a main chunk of news , perhaps using a webext (which can really only modify a page to do any tricky cool stuff) is a bad thing?

(especially when it plays off of the pre-existing FUD by referencing hacking n' stuff!, but not my point)

same for any unexpected icons appearing in the toolbars! People are being told to be weary when using their browsers: look out for signs the pages might be fake or messed with, look out for unexplained installation of programs and addons, being hammered in from every secure site!

Its worrying that, I know it would fuck with my parents pretty bad WHEN it would be enabled, because there isn't much point in developing something for it to not be enabled! Especially when money is probably on the table, when higher ups probably rammed this through normal steps designed to prevent this sort of stuff (again)

I need something to give my parents, something that is ethical, something that cares about them, and something that works: chrome still works better for them, and mozilla seems really really keen on blurring the lines for the other ones (I know I know, it requires users to opt into shield studies etc, but man, I had a talk with my ma, "do you wanna contribute back to mozilla in this way?", please don't punish us for asking other less-techy people that.)

If you guys need easter eggs, probably keep them off to the side, in the settings or about sections

Comment · 9 years ago
can't you install umatrix/ublockO in mobile FF?
Comment · 9 years ago
That's all fine and dandy for the desktop case.

But its a dhcp server, network admins would be expected to touch config files, and the interface for a DHCP server really can't be much worse than the GUI version that microsoft supplies!

but digressions, to say "this is why I won't use a linux desktop" in response to a server-specific use-case, is at best antagonistic!

Comment · 9 years ago
"You should be able to run a command that doesn’t use the network, knowing that it won’t open a network port." Is the reader supposed to stop reading there? Because they must be using a different dotnet than everyone else, considering microsoft's dotnet does package management and download iirc?

"I don’t want your tools spying on you either." how virtuous. Some people don't care though, some people actually prefer it

Comment · 9 years ago
> Let me put this bluntly: If [weakening of encryption] is what the government winds up suggesting, then by all means hand me a bullhorn [...]

well how else would you interpret the statement that Australian law supersedes math?

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That aside, "We do not share customer data with 3rd parties, as it is not possible due to end-to-end encryption, except when we send things in plaintext, because of our moral obligation to the Australian government" is going to be a greaaaat addition to privacy policies for Australian companies. Going to go real well for international business.

Comment · 9 years ago
that is referring to the daemons if I'm not mistaken
Comment · 9 years ago
If you don't mind me asking, how are you getting the data? just site scraping each source?
Comment · 9 years ago
and then suddenly, your signature goes from `f()` to `f(args,*kwargs)`, you lose all of make_money's documentation too
Comment · 9 years ago
Can we vote on the governance of facebook and google like we do with the government? (where every person's vote is equal)

if so, where can I register to freely vote

edit: since it doesn't seem clear, my comment is sarcastic

Comment · 9 years ago
with several browsers happy to automatically download whatever is provided to them, making a user download a libblahblah.so is relatively easy, and unless the user was aware of the ramifications of just even having such a file in a folder, might ls, cat, grep, etc in that folder like they do any other day

However, most of the latest versions of the mainstream browsers now intentionally avoid writing out such files to the downloads folder unless the end user specifically OKs it (due to situations like this!)

Comment · 9 years ago
Well its "We have made new TPUs for Google Cloud and we probs won't sell them!"

Google decides if you are part of the everyone included in their AI for everyone

Comment · 9 years ago
you can postpone general updates while still having critical/security updates go through at the normal pace

And, shouldn't a workplace be setup for re-imaging if updates go wrong? I know its easy to just store files in C:\user\name\documents, but then it makes it just as easy to be forced to pay $300 for each computer in the network

Comment · 9 years ago

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