abdias
Joined 13 years ago
Karma
289
Submissions
82
Member since
Nov 9
Recent submissions
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Unfortunately, performance doesn't come free on a computer. Have you tried limiting the number of CPUs Firefox uses?
You can see a setting "Performance" in the first tab, uncheck the "Use recommended.." and reduce the number of CPUs it suggest. Maybe that'll help?
Comment · 8 years ago
Well, one reason could be that Saudi-Arabia is planning so-called "smart" cities and Google wants to be in the center of it all (a UN driven program - IMO a potential tyranny sprayed in rose perfume).
https://www.saudismartcities.net/
https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/ac79/docs/success/Sa...
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingo...
Comment · 8 years ago
Is there a chance we could get MAFF: (and MHT:) protocols as well and let our web-extension handle those (single-file archived web pages if anyone wondered)?
This would allow us to (again) associate the Firefox browser with for example .maf files and have them displayed in the browser via the extension. (I'm sure there must be thousands of archived pages out there that currently are a hassle to view - it would be great to get support for those).
Comment · 8 years ago
PRISM is/was a small program. "Upstream" programs is the what most should be worried about and goes sort of around companies (and anyone/anything else).
Though, some companies are handed a court order to "share" their data (quarterly, about 80 companies so far). And NSA has standard rates for this.
Comment · 8 years ago
> As far as I understood the reason Microsoft broke Skype so badly was because they used centralised servers with backdoors
In fairness, it was eBay that first bought Skype [1] in 2005 centralizing the data. eBay then sold it to a private investor group which Microsoft then bought Skype from [2] in 2011.
Following the Snowden leaks as well as the information from Bill Binney, NSA scoops up the data regardless..
Comment · 9 years ago
Why do people assume posts on the front-page are driven fully automatic + some secret juicy for points and what have you?
Why wouldn't YC just use a human (or two) to bump/nudge posts they would like to climb or expose according to their agenda/internal policy?
It you monitor the hot page, there is a clear political bias, topical bias, as well as temporal peaks of movements/ranking indicating that would be the case - too complex for any ML currently to predict. Just my 2 cents.. keep it simple.
Comment · 9 years ago
How will you deal with fair-use?
About the same time Lightwave 3D [2] came out which first was bound to Newtek's famous VideoToaster but of course someone found a way to emulate the hardware so "everybody" could use it :) even for us who needed PAL (disk swapping was a thing back in those days).
I recon that Blender is a very capable 3D software as well (and as a NLE video editor (!)). I never got around to properly use as I was a customer with Newtek but I kind of giving up on Newtek so I might dig into the massive information and tutorials out there for Blender.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realsoft_3D
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightWave_3D