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maverick74··on Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
There are also those who have lost many loved ones...

For those, Christmas is a mix of happiness and sadness. Happiness if there is someone left with who to share our life with, sadness for missing those who left...

You're not alone either!

maverick74··on Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk
Looks very nice. have to try it. thanks for sharing
maverick74··on Ask HN: Best way to read PDFs on desktop?
Probably you will just need to use your browser (e.g.: Firefox)
maverick74··on Gigablast Search Engine
Matt is a great guy and it does not have the credit he should have! Same thing for Gigablast! It is amazing what one person alone can accomplish. Congratulations for that, Matt! You've done impossible things with few resources!

It's a shame to have so many money given to so many projects and no one ever remembers Gigablast.

(About private.sh: I think it would be nice to have image search on private.sh)

maverick74··on Ask HN: Why won't Firefox switch to Blink at this point?
A very very VERY BAD THING.

those of us who programmed to IE5 AND 6 do remember how hard it was to take the power from MS to deliver it to it's right owner: W3C.

Sure, now it's in Googles hands... People just didn't wake up yet. they keep on wanting to live the dream...

maverick74··on Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years
Sooo true!!!
maverick74··on GIF is (finally) dead. Long live Webp
Webp?!

What about Apng?!

It's smaller,it's better and it's not-google (Yes! That's also a feature)!!!

Edit: there is actually this independent website that says the opposite:

http://littlesvr.ca/apng/gif_apng_webp.html

maverick74··on Audacity Forked
Yeah, they can be a "drop in the ocean". ahahah I wasn't even aware of the problems the project is having, but this seems sort of a reliable fork (so i decided to share). :)
maverick74··on Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why?
Why, Firefox of course!!! It's the only real option if you do value privacy
maverick74··on Brave Search beta
Yeah yeah.

Let me put it this way: if it's an opensource search engine you'll have me for sure.

If it's not 100% opensource then I can't be sure you don't track me and we end up in the google cage again.

maverick74··on Brave Search beta
Very sad about what happened. Had very high hopes for you guys (more than from brave).

I know TailCat is open source... But what about Brave Search? Any clue?

maverick74··on Brave Search beta
You surely are too young to remember the IE6 shithole monopoly we were all in when - MOZILLA - ALONE saved us.

It's not that having a common rendering engine for everyone would be bad. What's bad is having 1 company (or a few) for-profit companies controlling that rendering engine.

They don't give a shit about you!

maverick74··on Are You Worried by Fuchsia?
The problem is not Fuchsia itself. Fuchsia is actually well developed. It's the company behind it and what it pretends to do with it that worries me!

I would prefer a combination of Genode+seL4. (but the lack the workers to move as fast as Google)

Or even [some distro]+on top of Linux + on top of seL4.

Google scares me ATM...

maverick74··on FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
Meh... The way I see it:

The thing is that only IT guys actually know what's going on on the IT world (most web-developers are excluded because their job requires Chrome!).

As such only ITs use Firefox (and a few privacy concern and well informed people!)

maverick74··on Firefox writes megabytes of data per minute to disk, why?
Great advice! Now...

What's the quick fix for endless Brave issues?

LOL

maverick74··on Site Isolation in Firefox
Take a look at:

https://techdows.com/2020/04/enable-dynamic-first-party-isol...

maverick74··on Ask HN: Do you still optimize/test websites for Firefox
Hey, money talks!

Firefox is choosing user privacy side.

But there is 2 problems:

1.Most people are *** and go behind "every thing google" without asking any questions about it...

2.companies optimize sites to what brings them moreeconomical advantages, what's more "known" and what makes them expend less (if you build it for chromium, look at how many browsers it will work on.)

People do not study history and they should, because it would make them remember they already lived this with IE6... AND THE FIGHT IT WAS TO GET OUT OF THAT SHITHOLE...

And make no mistake - it was thanks to Mozilla - alone - we got out!!! Firefox does have a lot of problems, but everyone owes them being in a more "advanced" web!

But maybe that's just me...

maverick74··on Tell HN: There is no reason not to use Brave
Being based on Chromium IS reason enough for me to stay away from Brave!

It's not like Firefox is perfect but, at the moment, seems the only way...

maverick74··on Ask HN: Why Google cookies are exempted when blocking third-party cookies?
For those who REALLY want Chromium-based browsers (Really?!?!?!?)...

Why not use Falkon (falkon.org)?

maverick74··on Ask HN: Why Google cookies are exempted when blocking third-party cookies?
Interesting reading...
maverick74··on Ask HN: Why Google cookies are exempted when blocking third-party cookies?
Why not use a Google Container?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

Oh... you are using Chrome!!! There's no point then. You won't be able to hide from Google no matter what you do!

Firefox + DuckDuckGo is just as good as all that "Googlish" things ;)

maverick74··on Mozilla Firefox update is making me abandon Chrome – Here's why
Firefox is the ONLY Browser that is fighting for the user rights!

Yes, they do A LOT of mistakes IYAM and sometimes I really fell that I should abandon it and move on...

But specially what it represents and the fact they are the only decent non-chromium browser continues to make me stay by their side, despite they keep shooting themselves in the foot over and over (and over) in so many things...

maverick74··on Ancient Ruins on the Moon
LOL It's not "just" that...

However, this kind of fake videos are taken from other "Hollywood" movie productions.

I was curios to know if anyone knows any extra details about this.

Just out of curiosity!!!

maverick74··on Firefox changing its tab design
Yeah, mate! You bet it's for real!!! :(
maverick74··on Microsoft Edge reaches new heights as Firefox numbers plummet
If only Servo would be picked up by the community and Firefox could base itself on it, i think it would be of major help.

Everyone is turning Chromium these days... and when we look at it we can only be amazed about the workforce behind it.

How can Mozilla fight back such thing?

Users should support Firefox more by using it as it is the ONLY browser that is chromium independent and that really cares about privacy...

maverick74··on Scientists create simple synthetic cell
Do I look like God?

Go ahead pray a bit and maybe He'll answer you those questions!!!

I surely don't know the answer, the same way scientists don't know how life was created in the first place. What everyone have is wild guesses and faith in those guesses. ;)

As to the material: First we should try to find out where to look for...

maverick74··on Scientists create simple synthetic cell
Ok... Let's put a end to this!

GOD CREATED LIFE!

There it is! I said it!

And I'm going to say even more: there is absolutely no scientific proof that shows otherwise.

In fact the complexity points keeps pointing this way. It's just a question of keeping the mind open. :)

Ok... You can now ban me for my comment!

maverick74··on Scientists create simple synthetic cell
Exactly what i was writing!!! :)

Now, i guess that - like last time - we're going to have news everywhere claiming that scientists "created life" (again).

LOL

maverick74··on Scientists create simple synthetic cell
No, because like in JCVI-syn1.0

"They didn’t build that cell completely from scratch. Instead, they started with cells from a very simple type of bacteria called a mycoplasma. They destroyed the DNA in those cells and replaced it with DNA that was designed on a computer and synthesized in a lab. This was the first organism in the history of life on Earth to have an entirely synthetic genome."

In another words, like in the previous attempt (in which i was equally amazed - at first - only to then became disappointed latter) THEY DID NOT CREATE LIFE!!!

They picked up an already living organism and "reprogrammed it".

Its like having a computer. They are learning to program, and remove all the unnecessary parts but they still don't have a clue on to build the hardware.

The problem, it seems, is in transforming bare lifeless quimicals into something "alive".

Creating life, it seems, is still something reserved only to God Himself! (and i suspect it's going to be like that for a loooong time, if we ever manage to accomplish it anyway)

maverick74··on The Sound of 1-bit: Musical Creativity on the 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum (2017)
That's exactly what i was also looking for :)
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