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foobar33333··on Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
I would be. The Gemini devs would insist that nothing should be supported that doesn't work on an 80 char terminal with only the ascii charset.
foobar33333··on Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
It wasn't "because he was a conservative". It was because he was funding a campaign to limit peoples rights and and everyone / every website was running a campaign to tell users to get off Firefox if they want to stop funding this. It would have destroyed Mozilla if they did nothing.
foobar33333··on Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
Subscribe to their other things like the VPN thats coming out.
foobar33333··on Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
Gemini throws out way way too much. Inline links and image support for one. It feels like someone wants to have everything exactly as it was in the 80s.

They claim to stop feature creep by not including any kind of optional data support like headers and the spec team will reject any feature additions.

While I would be happy to have HTML/CSS exactly as it is and replace JS with a minimal WASM implementation that lets the website bring whatever tools it wants rather than relying on 1 billion JS apis.

foobar33333··on As Obesity Takes a Greater Toll in Covid Deaths, Health Officials Are Quiet
You don't even have to swap to water. Sugar free drinks are extremely good replacements for full sugar drinks.
foobar33333··on I Invented Baileys (2017)
I mix it with milk and its really nice.
foobar33333··on EU to force Apple to switch to USB-C standard
I think the iphone pro will still have a port and likely usb c. They are pushing it as a film making product now and no one wants to copy 50GB + of video over wifi when you could just plug it in.
foobar33333··on EU to force Apple to switch to USB-C standard
Apple is stuck in this crappy half way situation where the MacBook and iPad are USB-C while the iphone and accessories are lightning. Clearly the iPad and Macbook will not switch to lightning so the only way to standardize is to move the rest to usb-c.
foobar33333··on EU to force Apple to switch to USB-C standard
USB-C ports have a tongue in the device end which can be damaged. Seen some nintento switch repairs and most of the time its the usb c port thats broken. The iphone in comparison seems to have less going on in the port. It does have the port gripper bits inside the port but I have 7 year old devices that still grip the cable just fine.
foobar33333··on Apple's private relay service does not sit still
Is it any better for site tracking to have 1000 users show as the same v4 address or have 1000 users jump around the same v6b block?
foobar33333··on Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords
The prices in Australia are based on forecasted demand. Since there is almost a 100% chance that the population of tomorrow will be greater than today, that means you can buy on higher prices than current demand. Unfortunately that means houses can be considered worth almost infinite dollars since the population will keep going up.
foobar33333··on A new way to detect ‘deepfake’ picture editing
Not really because this is being proposed as a solution to solve people using fake photos on dating apps which means it has to work on every single consumer device to actually work.
foobar33333··on Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time
The salt would leach in to the ground, killing any plant life in the area for a very very long time.
foobar33333··on A new way to detect ‘deepfake’ picture editing
So now we are essentially bricking the devices of real users? Without doing anything meaningful to real attackers who just grab the next key out of their list of 10 million stolen from insecure androids.
foobar33333··on I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine
HN would have you believe the whole frontend scene is totally replaced every month. At our company we started using React about 3 years ago and React is still the industry standard today and likely will be 3 years in the future.
foobar33333··on A new way to detect ‘deepfake’ picture editing
Cryptographic keys embedded in hardware worked really well for the DRM industry. Eventually someone will work out how to extract the key, then create malware to spread around android devices to send back millions of valid keys. What do you do then? Blacklist millions of real peoples cameras and prevent them from using the internet?
foobar33333··on Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language
Its crazy how different languages on the same article can have completely different tones and give a different idea of the subject even when they fundamentally have the same facts listed.
foobar33333··on Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside California home
You can buy products online which claim to jam just about everything. For "testing" purposes of course.
foobar33333··on Using Computer Vision to Win at Duck Hunt
Don't really agree with this. It like saying "why did you use a phone to do that math when a simple calculator or even pen and paper would work"

Sure it would work, but the phone also works and does way more. You might be able to use some trivial processing on duck hunt but it won't work on anything slightly more complex so why would you bother learning a method that only works on the most basic of games when you can develop something that can be applied everywhere.

foobar33333··on Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time
You might be interested in this solar project in Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundrop_Farms

This farm grows a huge amount of tomatoes in the desert. It has its own water desalination plant powered by solar. Unlike most of the stuff you see, this isn't PV solar generating electricity, but just a bunch of mirrors pointed at a single point to collect a huge amount of heat to generate fresh water.

Just look at the land in the photo on wikipedia and imagine how much food could be produced in this space.

foobar33333··on Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time
No the government actually is pro coal. Its their whole marketing image and they have been trying to warp the market to stop the death of coal. AGL wanted out because it wasn't profitable and the government wouldn't allow it. They also tried to ban investment companies from not investing in fossil fuels because coal mine projects where having a hard time getting funding.
foobar33333··on Apple Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Their iPhones
Google literally has remote control over all pixel devices and can push arbitrary code via the play services at any time without user approval.

In this day and age, if you don't trust your phone vendor with your data, you shouldn't be using it. They can do anything at any time and you wouldn't know. Even if there is no tracking code on your phone at this moment, they can put it on at any time.

Can't find the news article anymore but there was an incident where Google accidentally turned on airplane mode for every pixel at once via their remote control tools.

foobar33333··on Don't attach tooltips to document.body
It would be nice if the browser title text feature didn't flat out suck. Why is there no way to show tooltips immediately rather than having to wait a few seconds. Seems like every website reimplements them because the browser ones are useless.
foobar33333··on The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone
The Apple Watch cellular version might be your thing. Directions, music and some IM usage is very easy but web browsing is non existent.
foobar33333··on The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone
I feel like the more practical version of this is the Apple Watch cellular version. You can do those things easily but stuff like wasting time on IMs or checking emails is cumbersome. Its the ideal device when you want to get away from distraction (you can turn off non essential notification) but still lets you make a phone call or receive one if its important. As well as streaming music.

I assume everyone using the OP phone also has a fully featured phone to go with it so the OP product does not seem very compelling.

foobar33333··on Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites
We detect IE to show a banner saying to upgrade. I assume some sites like google search do so they can support literally every browser. I was shocked to find out IE 8 on a fresh windows xp vm was able to use google search without any issues.
foobar33333··on Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites
Half the problem is that the user agent string is insane and almost impossible to parse other than having a big list of every possible string.
foobar33333··on Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders
>what they do to a child after prolonged exposure.

You could say this about most plastics. If you are concerned about PLA purity you should be triple scared of the much worse plastics we use regularly.

foobar33333··on Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
None of the systems current or proposed scan local files. They all work on cloud storage. You could not use icloud and none of this change would affect you. Also I don't believe anything in icloud is encrypted so they could have scanned it at any time.
foobar33333··on Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
A human at Apple likely doesn't get access to anything. I assume it would be part of the police group under strict restrictions checking these.
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