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I really hope this type of payment system become a standard and adopted by other browsers. It's really close to what Ted Nelson tried to do.

It's sad that Mozilla's excuse when responding to the Pocket integration was that Pocket wouldn't affect Firefox if you you use it. Now why don't they say the same for RSS? The "new tab" page is a glorified Pocket ads right now.

Internet Archive is getting it. Yay!

Google is no angel themselves. What they did to Windows Phone is no different than Amazon's behavior. I'd imagine Windows Phone might as well died even if there were Google apps on it. But by actively preventing third-parties from porting their services to WP, Google intentionally tried to kill it. Now they now practically own the global market of smartphones. Not saying any of this is right, but I've less empathy for them.

I hope Firefox goal isn't archiving speed at the cost of cpu usage. I've been experiencing high cpu usage from Firefox ever since they turned on their multiprocess. Thus I'm still on Chrome as it is the best compromise for my mobile setup.

Also, Firefox start page is basically a glorified ads sponsored articles from their Pocket recommendation. Are people letting Mozilla getting away with this because it's owned by Mozilla? I honestly hate this practice. I don't want more ads.

I've been using a replacement of network>Proxomitron proxy filter tool called Proxydomo available on github. God bless the guy that reverse engineered the original.

[1] https://github.com/amate/Proxydomo

One of my favorite things on Bing: https://www.bing.com/search?q=speed+test

How long until the ABP guys stop their generosity and either 1) incorporate its acceptable ads into EasyList (which they maintain) or 2) block every other ad-blocker from leeching off their lists. I predict former. There are already tons of white-listed rules in EasyList.

Until other ad blockers actually start to maintain their separate list, I don't see a reason to stop using ABP. Ghostery is the only extension that doesn't use EasyList as far as I know. But they too have their own telemetry tracking.

Stucked in time: http://www.excite.com/

This kills the Firefox.

Article is from Jan 25th. Trump walked back on this issue: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/us/politics/black-site-pr...

It's a solution nobody asked for.

This reminds me of when Mozilla bough a beach design studio and hired designers to redesign the Firefox UI. Then nothing of worth of production value came out of it. Instead we got the dreaded Australis tabs years later.

Flagging abuse aside, I think the text transcript is actually a really good idea to refine their STT system. The automatic transcript that YouTube uses has improved to about 80% whenever I try to use it. This will no doubt help their effort in improving their accuracy. Too bad the PR team bundled it into this "Heroes" nonsense.

I'm interested in the stuffs behind Bing rather than the search part. Deep learning, AI, translations, cognitive, etc. I hope Microsoft open up more of their Bing apis.

I remember this demo when Chrome first came out. I thought that was the coolest thing.

edit: I found the original site that I linked to this. Courtesy of archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20120214090814/http://blog.insicd...

It's been fine up to USB 3.0, there were no major problem with electrical surges because they use fairly low voltage. It's USB3.1 power limit that's the problem. And it speaks more about the USB-IF's carelessness when drafting its specification for USB3.1 more than anything. They should've taken misuse of over voltage into consideration before releasing it to the manufacturers.

The U.S government is his biggest customer since the Iraq war in 2003.

Adblock is preventing bing from loading some data.

How to mod any toaster to control pc games in 3 easy steps. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7tWd7B3iI

Bluetooth keyboards/mice need drivers and they don't work at the bios level. Whereas logitech's usb receivers, for example, can be use in the bios and doesn't need additional drivers in the OS for basic functions.

Helicopter chasing it now.

The S Class has been Mercedes platform for autonomous driving cars. The current generation actually has a very capable installed sensors for autonomous mode. Per https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fhDqgh6DClo

Other tool I use frequently is the speed test. https://www.bing.com/search?q=speed+test

Do you really have to load jquery for a couple of lines that could be done in pure js? I run a local proxy to redirect hosted libraries like jquery. Google could and probably tracks where everyone's been on the web when loading their hosted libraries. Pretty much bypass adblockers altogether.

Someone still has to come up with new art styles for the machine to mix.

That whole channel is amazing. Thanks for this.

It's aesthetically unpleasing because most of the default fonts on OSes weren't designed for vietnamese writing. Add on to that, a bigger line height is also important to not make paragraphs look all cramped up because of the accent marks taking up vertical space.

I'm a huge MGS fan since since the PS1, but I'm impartial to what happened. MGS is a huge icon in the video game space, but it never was a commercial success for Konami. The tension between H.K and Konami only got worse when Hideo keep taking longer time to make each successive MGS games. Maybe it's his perfectionist nature, but Konami wasn't able to make any of their investments back. The rest is history. Let's hope Sony will be able to shoulder H.K's future venture with more success.

Swallowing your toothpaste. Yuck. Sometime I think human will never get anywhere near deep space if we don't solve our gravity-bound biology. The only way I see is when we digitize our brain. Eliminate biology altogether.