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red023··on Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
Mozilla is way better then the others but still not great.

The numbers are so low because people do not care about any privacy whatsoever. I hope the pay the price one day and regret it.

To name just one reason FFX sync is prate and secure by default unless all the others who use your bookmarks to sell them. You by default (you can disable it) share all you bookmarks with Google. Hell yeah hi Google I have torrent sites or whatever PRIVATE stuff bookmarked. Here have it all and store it instill I am dead. And when I find out about it and disable it you already have what I need from my initial sync. Thanks yeah you are so nice to me Google.

I know a few year(s)? ago FFX was still the most user in Germany (where people generally do care more about privacy and things like that). But when I look at the stats now it seems Google has managed to even Brainwash the Germans.

Mozilla is not even very good on the claims they have. They may be working closely with the Tor browser team but I think Firefox should essentially become something like the Tor browser. Their Addons have become a walled garden as the recent cause about that paywall prevention Addon that got kicked of the "store" showed. If I got that right people can not even install it in stable versions of FFX.

Also that "Profile" Generator showed here on HN as well shows they have several deeps flaws in the browsers that need addons for fixing like canvar tracking and stuff I did not even know about. The Tor brower does all this things by default. Why does Firefox do not even have UI to some of those settings and others even need extra addons ...

I could go on. Here I am criticizing Mozilla when I actually thing there are the best browser Vendor ever. They are an non-profit. They have done so many great things for the web and there was only as extreme short tiem where I was about to switch to Chromium because the devtools or Firebox where really really slow and clunky. I am a Forefox user from the very start and I am really disgusted how Google pushed their Browser in their searches to the point that even Linux users who have if they really want to install Chromium. They should just use FFX. But what are they doing? They install Chrome. Google has even brianwashed Linux users into thinking they need Chrome. Chrome is 99% chromium with 1% proprietary Google crap on top of it. If really baffles me how stupid people are.

I lost could on how many Linux tutorials and "First things to do after installing ..." I read that had Chrome in there. Just yesterday I read a top answer on AskUbuntu about how to enabled unattended installs for PPAs and Chrome was yet again there in the example. Chromimum is right there in the sources you Idiots. Why would you infest your almost entirely open source OS with this Google crap?

Firefox is a good browser and Quantum made is faster and less resource hungry. Mozilla works on this new Browser engine with Samsung that speeds things up by a lot. Many parts are already in FFX today but I think the main parallel GPU rendering stuff is not yet. Not up to speed with that. Anyway Chrome may be "faster" in benchmarks or "feel faster" but believe me this few milliseconds are really really not worth it.

Mozilla also (until now) allows Adnauseam that clicks every ads it finds, based on uBlock origin. Chrome forbids this Addon lol but you inlike in FFX just can sideload it. I love that concept and its the Adblocker I use. It may help them with tracking me but I just love the fact that I might cause them pay per click losses.

Mozilla is not as good and as anti advertising as I would like them to. I mean Google payed 40% of their income at a time how independent can they be? They redirect search tos the this evil data snake for money to this day. I heared their CEO talk about how she likes some ads but she does not like the tracking lol. So she wants ads that do not relate to her so why not just no ads at all?

Oh the other hand where would they be without Google money? I am wondering if they would be able to make it crowd funded with Wikipedia style "annoy beg to donate ads" across half the screen.

Ok </rant>

red023··on Hacker Leaks Episodes from Netflix Show and Threatens Other Networks
The NTY calls it "theft" when it in fact is just copying ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4

red023··on Germany's Energy Giant Launches Ethereum-Based Electric Car Charging Stations
RWE (well like pretty much every big cooperation) is very corrupt and immoral. They for example fought hard against Germany's plans to end Atom Power plants. So I am not really to happy about this news. They are in for the money thats it.
red023··on The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone
Removed it, happy now? Lets see what happens shall we?
red023··on The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone
You tell me the difference between rules and guidelines.

The guidelines speak about speaking about being downvoted. I interpreted that as after it actually happened. What I did was that I predict it will happen. And that for a fact will happen if I have this sentence in there or not it will happen anyway. Because HN news and the stupid karma system is actually extremely counterproductive. You get rewarded for maintaining the status quo and get punished to questioning it. In any context, not only in scientific. The hive mind is what its right and you have to conform with it to get karma. So I don't give a shit! There you have another reason, I dared to use the word shit, crucify me now!

red023··on An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep
Oh yeah it may help humans, in the future mothers can simply skip the "annoying" part of being pregnant. Thats great the future is here women can stay sexy and thin, being naturally pregnant will be totally out. Welcome to the brave new world.

Awesome who cares about animals if we can help humans.

And yeah downvote me because I do not embrace this unhuman future.

red023··on An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep
I think this is absolutely sick, I know there are way more horrible experiments scientists do with animals but this gives me the creeps. Its just sick, let nature but nature and stop messing around with it. Seriously if this continues we have AI that breeds Humans as their power or brain source and the matrix becomes reality.
red023··on Wikipedia founder launches Wikitribune, an attempt to combat fake news
How about you go down the list step by step and actually debunk the claims instead of claiming the source is not reliable. What is actually wrong in that article?

Clap Clap you read a Wikipedia Article. Yes I trust Michael Adams with a lot of stuff, not everything. Yes I am a horrible anti-waxxer anti GMO who dares to believe that natural healthy lifestyle is better that taking a lot of chemicals sold by big Pharma. And yes I am also a "conspiracy theorist" (CIA invented term to shut down opposition after the JFK assassination) Nobody in their right minds can believe their magic bullet lone wolf assassin fairytale, and in fact about around 50% of Americans do not. I am actually well educated on many topics that Natural News covers and mainly not from Natural News, still coming to the same conclusions.

On the German Wikipedia they have a lot of defamatory Articles about people who dare to question the status quo. They refuse to let up edit the Articles objectively and it has been proven that the admins, the top 200 of Wikipedias Editors and Admins are in fact organized in various radical leftists organizations. And that they abuse their power and are anything but unbiased.

red023··on Wikipedia founder launches Wikitribune, an attempt to combat fake news
Probably gonna get down-voted but if your interested into some facts about Jimmy Wales take a look here: http://www.naturalnews.com/051060_wikipedia_Jimmy_Wales_exto...

I just quickly fond this, I was actually looking for a fact that Wales also created some sort of thing that helped the corrupt government do corrupt things. That is actually even missing from that list.

He is married to Kate Garvey is an English public relations executive and a former aide to prime minister Tony Blair. He is a establishment shill and not a independent person. Even if he would be I do not want anyone decide for me what is fake news or not.

The entire fake news hype is getting really annoying. It's the governments way to introduce censorship via backdoor.

red023··on We Can Do Better
Horrible argument. Because others so something shameful does not mean you have to support someone who does the same thing. I would love to see Googles, M$, Apple, ... Reputation "assassinated" as well. And a lot of stuff is legal that is horrible and a hell of a lot of stuff is illegal that is totally fine. Like smoking a joint. So using legal/illegal as a argument is really bad.

If course laws that make this illegal would be great, still "uncalled for" is your opinion. I in fact call to public-ally shame every company who sells user data for profit. I am disgusted by "free" stuff. I would rather pay for something then to get something "for free". That why I have a payed protonmail instead of letting google read my mails to name one example.

red023··on Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
Holy shit this is crazy!
red023··on VK9: Direct3D 9 compatibility layer using Vulkan
Why should this excite me? Wine already can do DX9 pretty good. And according to one comment this does not even compare. Who cares about DX9 nowadays? DX10/11/12 would be very different story. Something like this bringing modern windows games to linux would be great.

Even greater would be M$ open sourcing DX but that will not happen in the next few years.

red023··on Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet
No I mean small shuttles like buses that start vertically and transport people short distances across a city for example.
red023··on Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet
This looks like cars all over again. Massive energy waste for transporting single persons. Looking at this reminds me of people driving alone on heavy massive gas consuming 4 seat vehicles to drive the same way everybody else is driving. Except that now its in the air and for rich people only. I don't see flying cars happening, well at least not like this. There probably will be flying shuttles that take people to different places like buses or metros that would make way more sense then this.
red023··on Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet
The future is here - but for rich people only.
red023··on Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foundations
Well yes I know that servo is about to make use of multi core but looking at its issues its far from ready for displaying websites correctly. So I am confused about this still as you have not really addressed what parts of servo are in fact in Firefox right now and what parts are not. I am not sure how "Rendering" is defined the way I understand it, its the part where servo has a looong was to go until its ready.
red023··on Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foundations
Can someone explain to me in a few words what exactly from servo is already in Firefox and how quantum is related to servo exactly? Some CSS processing is already in Firefox I think. But the main thing of servo is the rendering right? That seems to be pretty far away from ready.
red023··on Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
People: You need to quit your usage of M$ products and services, this is insane.
red023··on Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework
My objection is. I already learned how to write less and then later switched to SCSS. I like the syntax because its basically CSS and I do even avoid heavy nesting taking bootstrap as a good example. I use atom and scss-lint (now deprecated but still works great) to live lint my SCSS in Atom and spot errors and that includes order! Can I do this in CSS that is embedded into stupid react files that mix JS logic with the visuals? My guess is there is probably something out there where I can do something very basic but not even close to real feature complete linting. And yes, I don't think style and logic should be mixed together. What about autoprefixer ... how do I do all my SCSS/CSS processing if my CSS sits in JS files?
red023··on Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework
How does it compare with vue.js? I never worked with any modern JS framework like this but on paper I did not like writing CSS in javascript and vue.js had a normal way to write CSS and to me it looked superior in other ways as well.
red023··on Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow
I think your nature analogy is flawed.

Adults grow on intellect but not on body size, and if only in a bad way because they get fat. So no you don't die if you stop growing.

Its our money and banking system with money created out of dept and dept must be payed that does not exist. While the banks print money out of thin air. This system is very unnatural and this is exactly what causes our economy to constantly need to grow, produce more next year, get more users ... to essentially pay off the ever growing dept.

red023··on Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow
I don't really like censored social networks in general but:

Anybody who thinks its our economy and mindset is sick? Why is something deemed as "failing" when its not growing. Twitter has millions of people on it. If its userbase stays exactly like it is I don't consider this "failing".

red023··on Vivaldi makes History
CEO Quote from the above link. "In addition, all of our UI code (included in normal packages) is written in plain, readable text. This means that all parts of Vivaldi are full audit-able and open from that perspective." So in other words. No that code is NOT open source. And he can stuck his "open from that perspective." BS up his ass. I am not gonna use stuff from people who do crap like this.

AFAIK the Wikipedia page for Vivaldi says its proprietary for a reason. And I don't think that reason is because of a windows installer. They release their code they build on top of chromium as open source BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO. But they build looks like they build other stuff that is "open" but not open source. At least this is what I have got from my quick look at it. This seems to follow a Opera and Chrome tradition. Even Chrome is not open source. Its 99% Chromium +1% Google crap on top of it. I am very opposed to this kind of stuff and for Opera and Vivaldi thats not just 1%.

Happy to get corrected of better educated on this.

red023··on Vivaldi makes History
Where is your claim that vivaldi is close source coming from?

https://vivaldi.com/source/

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Excuse me but I am just reading on this and it seems its real open source it that sense. I did not even know this, so thank you for this. This makes Vivaldi a total no go for me.

https://vivaldi.net/userblogs/entry/a-few-words-about-open-s...

It has in fact a proprietary license:

"18 November 2016. "Subject to the terms and conditions herein, Vivaldi hereby grants You a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to install and use the Software and Services for its intended purpose. [...] Without limiting the foregoing, you are neither allowed to (a) adapt, alter, translate, embed into any other product or otherwise create derivative works of, or otherwise modify the Software ; (b) separate the component programs of the Software for use on different computers; (c) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Software, except as permitted by applicable law; or (d) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notices on the Software or the applicable documentation therein."

red023··on Mini.css: Minimal, responsive, style-agnostic CSS framework
By reading the docs on the grid it seems like its the same as bootstraps 4.0 grid. The classes are exactly the same.

I will stick with bootstrap just because I am working with it a long time it has WAY more exposure, people building on top of it, contributing...

The difference between 7 KB and 20 KB gzipped is not really that big of a deal for me. Also you can obviously custom build bootstrap and just cut the modules out you don't need.

Also in that context of this small size difference I think its perfectly fine to compare it to the big frameworks out there.

red023··on Show HN: 'Hack' the user cursor
Thats a awesome idea.
red023··on Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History
Lol? What exactly is you issue with zsh?
red023··on Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History
If you touch ZSH (oh my zsh, if that makes a difference) once you will never ever want to use bash again.
red023··on Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community
To me saying "maybe, maybe not". "substance abuse" "gender dysphoria" "sorry sorry sorry" tel me that is was all BS. To me it was admitted between the lines.
red023··on Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community
Exactly what I was thinking. Admitting it was all BS, yet still sticking with it. Probably already making stuff up like that they where indeed biased against "her" because - micro aggression's showed it in their faces or whatever they come up with these days.
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