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Comment · 7 years ago
Yes, DO have stated that how they viewed credits was a mistake and that they will be addressing it.
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks for sharing this. That article is very interesting. I only thought about the fact that squirrels were a native species and didn't consider the fact that cities are not "natural".
Comment · 7 years ago
> I saw like 10+ people deciding to switch from "superphones" down to mid-range models
Mid-range phones now cost as much as previous "superphones". The iPhone launched at $499($615 after inflation) and the latest iPhone XS launched at $999.
Comment · 7 years ago
In what sense did humans import squirrels to the bay area?
Comment · 7 years ago
The primary benefit of Diceware over a "random" string of characters is that it is easy to remember and truly random. With a password manager you don't need to remember the password and it will be generated truly randomly. A string of 11 random alphanumeric charatcers has more entropy than a 5 word diceware passphrase with the added benefit that it is less to type if you need to do so manually. But diceware can be a good idea for creating the master password for your password manager and if you do that you should probably use a 10 word passphrase rather than 5.
Comment · 7 years ago
In that it is GPL+Link Exception licensed. The copyright still belongs to Oracle. See this[0] example:
> Copyright (c) 1997, 2007, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only
[0] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/file/tip/src/share/...
Comment · 7 years ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/31/258687278/a-be...
> Simon didn't see the growing population as a catastrophic problem. He explained that we are not like any other species. We have an economy and markets. So, according to Simon, if the world demands more oil, the price of oil will go up, and there will be an incentive to find more, or find an alternative.
> Simon proposed that they bet on what would happen to the price of five metals — copper, chromium, nickel, tin and tungsten — over a decade.
> And the logic was that these metals were essential for all kinds of stuff — electronics, cars, buildings. So, if Ehrlich was right, more people on the planet would mean we would start running out of stuff, and the price of these things should go up.
> Those next 10 years, from 1980 to 1990, crept by. The world population grew by 800 million people. Then it was 1990. And they tallied it up. Simon, the economist, decisively won. Prices for the five metals went down by an average of 50 percent.
> One of the reasons the prices dropped was just what Simon said. The catastrophe Ehrlich was predicting just did not happen. People invented substitutes, like companies switching from aluminum to plastic for packaging.
Comment · 7 years ago
> ciadotgov4sjw...
cia.gov for Social Justice Warriors. Pretty sure he was just making a joke and only the first 9 characters were actually being tried for.
Comment · 7 years ago
Probably because his residence is listed as "Bel Air, Los Angeles, California" on his Wikipedia page.
Comment · 7 years ago
There are forks such as ungoogled-chromium but why would you use them when you could just use Firefox?
Comment · 7 years ago
uBO definitely seems like it would have bad search engine discoverability.
Comment · 7 years ago
> can be compelled to release it
Yes, but the point that they are contending is whether they _voluntarily_ provide this data.
Comment · 7 years ago
Which statement in their transparency report corroborates it?
Comment · 7 years ago
They have done several things including:
- enabled IP logging against a specific user account
- disabled an account and rendered assistance
- comply with the data request, to the extent that it is possible, given our cryptography.
The unknowns are what assistance they render and what extent is possible for them to comply with data requests. They have complied with requests without court orders in cases when they believed a court order was inevitable. They have also delayed reporting incidents at the request of authorities in order to not endanger victims.
Comment · 7 years ago
If you add www[0] to the beginning of the org website it redirects you to the net website[1].
The downloads on both sites are hosted on the same site but they do point to different versions[2][3].
Both pages link to the same BuyMeACoffee page[4].
The GitHub repository has a link to the net[5].
But the GitHub profile of the developer links the the org[6].
Very old versions[7] and the current version[8] of the wikipedia page list the org as the official website.
The org seems to have been the site for the project since as early as 2012 according to the wayback[9].
However the net doesn't seem to have been associated with the project (or anything) before 2019[10].
The most recent crawls of the org got 301 redirected to the net[11].
[0] https://www.waterfoxproject.org
[2] https://storage-waterfox.netdna-ssl.com/releases/linux64/ins...
[3] https://storage-waterfox.netdna-ssl.com/releases/linux64/ins...
[4] https://www.buymeacoffee.com/waterfox
[5] https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox
[6] https://github.com/MrAlex94
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waterfox&oldid=59...
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waterfox&oldid=89...
[9] http://web.archive.org/web/20120117003924/http://waterfoxpro...
[10] http://web.archive.org/web/20190418195027/https://www.waterf...
[11] http://web.archive.org/web/20190527072632/https://waterfoxpr...