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It's not like it's a secret that Mozilla Corp. makes their money from search. It's been that way for a very long time and they spell it out right in the State of Mozilla link:

"The majority of Mozilla Corporation’s revenue is from royalties earned through Firefox web browser search partnerships and distribution deals around the world."

Their revenue is up more than $100 million from last year so they're not exactly dying.

How do you figure they're barely surviving? How does that make them a Google puppet? What exactly is your point through this thread?

If you think it's news that they take Google's money I'm not sure you're qualified to be making these sorts of claims.

I have no idea how well it would run or what the process for this might be. Could you use a web view to get a sort-of-working version built quickly?

Edit: in my old days I would just convert the JS to ActionScript and drop it into Flash to generate an SWF for use as a screensaver. :)

You're picking a piece out of my full response and adding context I didn't provide. I said the overall statement was absurd, not that capturing audio was.

Do you really think that's even in the realm of possibility? There is so much paranoia-driven FUD in these comments.

But let's say that yes, this absurd hypothetical is possible and happens.

Someone is capturing full audio from your device even though it allegedly only transmits when certain phrases are used (e.g., "Alexa..."). They've tunneled through your modem, router and AP and are capturing directly from your device.

That same someone is somehow able to process hours of ambient sounds, conversations and everything else to pick out someone using an inappropriate tone with their children.

They then take these recordings to a local child protection agency (e.g., CPS) and present the audio along with your information to develop an actionable case against you.

That child protection agency then decides your tone was strong enough that they need to pursue legal action.

How does this hold up in court? How does illegally-obtained audio stand as evidence? How are they able to prove it was you and not a relative or visitor?

It won't hold up; this is insane. Your point about the wrong tone being used against you is insane. I get being paranoid and not trusting these devices but get real!

Am I the only one in here who loves their hosted solutions? We use Teams at work and I use Family for my wife and I.

It's important to me that I have access to certain passwords on my desktop, laptop and phone. These items also need to be accessible to others who should be able to view/edit. There's no way to do with without some sort of cloud solution and so the decision becomes which cloud solution. I used to use Dropbox, but now have no need with Team/Family.

With teams, when a staff member leaves, we can easily remove them from the admin panel, update all passwords in all vaults they had access to and have those changes immediately available to everyone.

A lot of responses here sound incredibly paranoid and almost naive. If you're not syncing passwords between devices/users and you're not putting your information into the cloud then I would argue at some point you may be performing insecure actions to accommodate secrets use/management.

For example, how are you logging in on your phone to a service that requires a user name and password when the password lives only in a standalone system on your desktop? If you're not manually entering the password, you're likely doing something security-wise that isn't ideal.

The hardest part of WP plugin/theme development is learning how hooks and filters work. Once you've got those down, you get can get wild.

Some great starter plugin resources (in order of my personal preferences for style and organization):

  * https://github.com/DevinVinson/WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate

  * https://github.com/hlashbrooke/WordPress-Plugin-Template

  * https://github.com/mattyza/starter-plugin

We don't know the full stack powering this and there are 100K users/month.

There have been a lot of great points in reply to this and I would like to add that part of this cost may be to help perception. A service like this that feels/is slow can die pretty quickly if the perception of the service is that it doesn't work as well as it should.

I've used it and loved it. For me it greatly enhanced readability as they had put a lot of care into the aesthetic and typography.

I'm not a fan of the way it takes over the default WikiPedia URLs, however. And the Firefox plugin hasn't been updated since 2016 and isn't compatible with newer versions of Firefox so I don't use it on a regular basis anymore.

Oh okay, thanks for clarify and sorry I missed that point. I suppose if Amazon is delivering it's an Amazon problem, eh? :D

  They're constantly lying about deliveries, saying they handed a package directly to me when they left it at another building or claiming they couldn't get through the gate when they lost the package or missed the deadline.

How is this an Amazon problem and not a delivery service (USPS, UPS, FedEx, et al.) problem?

> ...and we've built it in such a way that it works in more browsers than just Firefox on day one.

Sure wish other browser vendors would consider other browsers when releasing their products.

This could help explain the massive popularity of sandbox titles like Minecraft.

I'm using Nightly (v58a) and you can customize the UI a lot more than in the current release (v56).

You can move back/forward and refresh, auto-hide certain buttons like downloads, add items to the "overflow" menu, toggle full/compact mode, toggle title bar, toggle a "grab" space...there are a lot of options.

They've also added proper support for light and dark icons for plugins. So now buttons like 1Password don't stand out with a dark theme.

To me it feels like a return to the level of customization I'd gotten used to in older versions of Firefox. And FWIW, this is what mine looks like: https://i.imgur.com/seJZeg6.png

And if you do -- say you forgot to kill some mega-cluster you were experimenting with and it ran for a few days before you terminated it -- they'll usually just drop the charge.

Perhaps their top dev staff was busy doing website work or other tasks and marketing was in charge of the promotion?

Wouldn't be the first time I've seen marketing charge ahead with decisions leading to problems that could've been easily averted had they stopped and pinged a developer.

Local or user-specific results; which is sort of the point of DDG. Google has gotten users used to their own search contexts.

I use .dev as well for everything.

And as WordPress work makes up a big portion of my paycheck I understand the serialization but haven't worried about it since moving to WP CLI everywhere and adding it to project scripts/automation.

  wp search-replace 'someproject.dev' 'someproject.dev'

It'll handle serialization and you can even use it for quick import/export:

  wp export --add-drop-table db.sql

  wp import db.sql

OT but I'd be more curious to know how you handle things when you've done it "right". Said yes to this, no to that. You're booked with an abundance of time.

Then you hit a snag in a project and what you thought was going to take a few days ends up taking weeks. Then more weeks because of more unforseen issues.

Sure you could've researched things to death from the start but there were hidden gremlins you couldn't have seen until you were knee-deep in either research or development.

What then? You're going to blow your deadline and that'll cascade to other work scheduled after your current workload.

We've moved to Docker Compose for local Python (Django) development.

Oftentimes when you need package management (pip) and multiple environments (virtualenv) you likely also have several services necessary for your projects (Python, Postgres, Nginx, Celery, et al.) and it can be easier for your team to run `docker-compose up` and have the whole stack running in lieu of setting up services manually and then initializing a virtual environment.

I much prefer taking the time to setup Docker Compose even for a simple project. I don't have to initialize a virtual environment, install packages, make sure the DB is running, sync with the DB, run the web server, etc. All of that work becomes automatic and I can focus on development instead sysadmin stuff.

WordPress is one of the easiest-to-use CMSs out there and has changed over the years to be much more than a blogging engine. It's not abuse, it's intended by Automatic because they've modified core to support these features.

In a similar vein I'd recommend ColourLovers[1]. Been using them for I think close to a decade for color, palette, pattern and general design inspiration.

Comparable to Kuler you can browse[2] or search[3] their palettes.

[1]: http://www.colourlovers.com/

[2]: http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes

[3]: http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/search

Well the DRM software has to come from somewhere and Adobe has long proven themselves to be adept at such things for the most part. Are there alternatives? Is this because of Adobe muscling out others?

I found this [1] interesting:

> Firefox does not load this module directly. Instead, we wrap it into an open-source sandbox. In our implementation, the CDM will have no access to the user’s hard drive or the network. Instead, the sandbox will provide the CDM only with communication mechanism with Firefox for receiving encrypted data and for displaying the results.

So the open-source fix for a closed-source, proprietary CDM is to sandbox it? How is this any different than Flash or Silverlight, really?

[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...

If it's going to get snagged and distributed through blog and news networks they might as well try to be the first to do it.

Agreed, though the tip-off to me that it wasn't USD was the comma. For anyone else like me 2.99€ is $3.36 USD.

> You must implement a prototype. This prototype doesn't need to be "ready to merge", but it does need to be a basically complete solution to the problem at hand. You can't have a meeting to propose a big piece of work that you'll only do if the team agrees. You are basically producing a demo. Demos can cut corners on certain things (tests for one), but the main goal is to prove that the idea is a viable one and will work within your codebase. It's not useful to suggest a solution that is done outside of the context of your technology stack.

> Where can you find time to create this demo? You'll want buy-in from your supervisor (if they're a good one hopefully they'll encourage you!) Otherwise (to steal a line from Hunter S. Thompson), I hate to advocate nights and weekends, but they've always worked for me. (I do understand this isn't how it works for everyone...)

Having to work nights and weekends to build a working prototype to get in-house buy-in on new functionality makes little sense to me. If your team cannot work together well enough to agree on new features without them being built first then perhaps the issue isn't feature adoption.

Congress to EFF: screw you, pay me.

Which still doesn't cover older browsers just prefixes things appropriately for those that support it.

Agreed. When we need to move things around we dump, find/replace and then re-serialize via https://github.com/rysi3k/Fix-Serialization. It's crazy there isn't a better way and the way WordPress handles URLs could be better.

Does this have anything to do with the certificate issues from a week ago? http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.de/2015/03/maintaining-...

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