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  • Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web

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  • what Ubuntu and Firefox are up to together is kinda what Microsoft went to court over Internet Explorer for in the 90s.

    Can you elaborate on the statement? I'm not connecting the dots.

  • Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox - The Verge

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  • It’s disingenuous to act like this is some huge burden.

    Having to double your software engineers, UI/UX designers, QA engineers, DevOps, and localization/accessibility specialists to handle a second browser is a HUGE burden for a non-profit.

    If you don't care about quality, security, or user experience, sure you can just pass a "does it compile" test and push to prod. You'll quickly find that nobody wants to use this under resourced browser.

    Or if it’s such a pain, you don’t bother and just ship the WebKit version everywhere.

    This is exactly what Apple wants. They don't want to give people a real choice because they're scared of real competition.

  • Memos - Easily capture and share your great thoughts. Open Source and Free forever

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  • Organic maps which claims to be ad-free was marked by F-Droid as “Containing ads”

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  • Significantly overblown. Most of the opened github issues were by the same person. Seems someone doesn't like it and is trying to spam the issue and frame it as a bigger deal than it really is.

  • 13 Feet Ladder

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  • If you're on Firefox on desktop/laptop, check out Bypass Paywall [0]. It was removed from the firefox add-on store due to a DMCA claim [1], but can be manually installed (and auto updates) from gitlab. The dev even provides instructions on how to add custom filters to uBlock Origin [2], so you don't have to add another extension but still get some benefit.

    [0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

    [1] https://winaero.com/mozilla-has-silently-removed-the-bypass-paywalls-clean-add-on-from-amo/

    [2] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

  • Darling runs macOS software directly without using a hardware emulator

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  • CLI's are likely not specifically the target. I suspect the CLI is just the "low hanging fruit" and core set of software that needs to be supported before you build up to a fully functional GUI apps.

  • Darling runs macOS software directly without using a hardware emulator

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  • for those not familiar, this basically lets you run command line tools. anything with a GUI will not work.

  • Signal leaked random contacts to me!

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  • link to report so we can track? thanks!

  • Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon

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  • link for the lazy?

  • LocalSend cross-platform application for transferring files on local network

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  • Just tried sending an 8GB file and it froze. Worked great to send a small image tho!

  • Why is firefox losing market share? Why don't more people use Firefox?

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  • Because not only do you (the end user) have to go out of your way to get it, but you get spammed by Microsoft/Edge and Google/Chrome to install a "faster" and "more secure" browser. Additionally, on the mobile side, Apple is preventing all iPhone/iPad users from picking a real alternative browser that isn't just webkit re-skinned, putting half the population at a disadvantage and to their own corporate interests.

  • The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse

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  • You're right, Signal is not P2P. The way Signals messaging pipeline works is like this - note I'm oversimplifying it for accessibility.

    Sending a message to Bob

    1. You press Send.
    2. The message is encrypted on your device with a key that can only be unlocked by Bob.
    3. The message is then "sealed" so that there's only a "deliver to" field visible (not a "from").
    4. The "deliver to" field is addressed with a hashed/salted label for Bob - this means Signal's server can see its a unique user, but not what their name is.
    5. The message is finally sent to Signal's servers.
    6. Your message sits on Signals servers until it can be delivered to the intended recipient.

    you can’t really do user lookups without some sort of middleware in the cloud.

    See their blog post about Private Contact Discovery, they've spent a long time figuring out how to engineer a method to know as little as possible about you.

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  • I think the difference is that ultimately China (the government, not it's people) is an enemy of the "wester alliance" - "the west", if you will. You can work, and even cooperate, with an enemy to a degree, but you don't let them into your house. It's pretty basic at it's core. TikTok is from a simplistic POV, is at the whims of the Chinese government - much like Facebook/Insta/Snap are to the US government although to a much lesser extent. We don't worry about FB/Insta/Snap because they operate within the "western" jurisdiction and are "trusted" within their domain.

    Being rational also requires you take real-life risks into consideration. This would be like saying "why don't you treat your friends the same way you treat the local crackhead when he walks through your store? He's just there to buy essentials" - yes, he may be there to actually buy things, but he's much more likely to do something nefarious than your known friends.