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Completely understandable to move the upstream repo away from Apple, I don't think there's much else to it. He's been very active in the fork AFAICT.
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That is absolutely not in evidence.
Most of them _everyone_ knew about for thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, why didn't this "sunlight" disinfect them?
This is objectively untrue by pretty much any measure.
For instance on plenty of health related metrics the US is significantly worse than most first world countries (such as infant mortality), and some regions are worse than even many third world countries (such as Texas).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...
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The idea that poor people are significantly better off in the USA is a flat out lie.
We already know that the North Korean government is using cryptocoin tech to evade international sanctions to fund their missile and nuclear programs.
How many North Korean non government officials do you suppose were permitted to attend this conference?
Actions like this absolutely enable this terrible regime to perpetuate itself and its horrific actions, they do little or nothing to aid any ordinary North Koreans.
This comes into play when you copy or access huge files that are going to be read exactly once, they will start pushing out untouched program pages to disk, in exchange for disk cache that is completely 100% useless, even to the tune of hundreds of gigabytes of it.
Programs can reduce the problem with madvise(MADV_DONT_NEED), but that only applies to files you are mmap()ing, and every single program under the sun needs to be patched to issue these calls.
You can adjust vm.swapiness systctl to make X larger, but no matter what, programs will start to get pushed out to disk eventually, and cause unresponsiveness when activated. You can reduce vm.swapiness to 1, but if you do, the system only starts swapping in an absolute critical low ram situation and you encounter anywhere from 5 minutes, to 1+ hour of total, complete unresponsiveness in a low ram situation.
There _NEEDS_ to be a setting where program pages don't get pushed out for disk cache, peroid, unless approaching a low ram situation, but BEFORE it causes long periods of total crushing unresponsiveness.
Withdraw limiting regulations and replace them with market based compeititve mechanisms.
Except somehow the second part inevitably seems to get forgotten about...
Such as the fact there is no way to enumerate what sites have html5 local storage stuff stored, thus no way to control or clear it on a per site basis, and they are not interested in changing this, rendering an addon like what self destructing cookies does imposisble...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329745
Or the ability for extensions to construct permission sandboxing
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353468
There is objectively a LOT of functionality that is just plain never going to be implemented, thats far from the fault of the extension authors.
Many have been trying to work with mozilla to push in the functionality they need, but if they just get disregaurded and ignored what are they supposed to do exactly?
Don't try to place the blame for this on the extension authors.
Unfortunately 75%+ of the most used extensions either arnt ported, wont be ported, or cant be ported.
The situation is pretty grim, mozilla really needs to delay this move, web extensions arnt capable of supporting the functionality lots of these addons require, and its not like XUL is even going away in the near/midterm, this is purely an administrative decision.
If they plow forward anyways its going to really, really hurt firefox.
These strawpeople exist only in your mind.
This site has absolutely nothing to do with genuinely disseminating white power ideas, and everything to do with doing exactly what its doing right now, getting thrown off of every popular hosting service it can so it can generate more articles, and more drama. You can be positive its going to make its rounds on pretty much every hosting service there is.
That is the express goal of his actions and I can not beleive nobody is calling that out.
hmm
The point is you cant have it both ways, both decrying tracking of users and then actively enaging in it, and agressively defending it when it comes to light.
https://man.openbsd.org/chflags.1