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ethana··on Phuc Dat Bich Is Beyond Tired of Getting Kicked Off Facebook
This is not even close to the actual Vietnamese pronunciation.

[Phúc] is pronounced close to Fook in American English. Without the heavy k-ending.

[Đạt] is close to Dac without the heavy c-undertone ending.

[Bích] is kind of close to Bic, but you have to say Bic really fast with very light c ending.

pattern: Vietnamese pronunciation is generally neutral throughout a word. There's no need for emphasis unless emotion is included.

ethana··on Wladimir Palant, Adblock Plus, and the profitable war against unacceptable ads
It's at their forum. https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=12&sid=89fbc67...
ethana··on San Francisco's Chinatown, before the earthquake (1896-1906)
Man, they look cool as hell.
ethana··on Mysterious billion-dollar car company is taking on Tesla
It could just be the Chinese group that bough Fisker.
ethana··on Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10
You can't believe how many of the legacy stuff Windows still has. The folder sharing dialog is still clunky like it's 1998.
ethana··on Imogen Heap releases single on Ethereum-based Mycelia
Went to alpha.ujomusic.com, greated with:

>The UJO MUSIC Prototype is optimized for Chrome on the Desktop.

People says that Safari is the new IE, but I have come across too many Chrome-only sites to think otherwise.

ethana··on Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element
The screenshot api has been in Firefox since v4 I think. I've been using this addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firecaptor/) to capture element of a page. It works like the inspector tool when selecting an element.
ethana··on Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
What people doesn't know is that uBlock makes use of EasyList as one of its default block lists. EasyList is maintained by ABP's parent company. That list itself has built-in whitelist that could not be turn off without revamping the list itself. That list contains upward of 60k of rules and no one has time to evaluate that for free.

uBlock can make all kind of independence claims it wants, but at the end of the day, uBlock is still relying on ABP for its blocking rules--which is no guarantee at all.

edit: lol why are people downvoting me for pointing out that uBlock is relying on ABP? uBlock never acctually claimed to not having acceptable ads. By using ABP's EasyList, they could already be running an "acceptable ads" whitelist.

edit 2: Here's the link to easylist for anyone that care to check out the included whitelist: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt

Warning, the list is over 1mb.

ethana··on The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (1987)
It's ironic how there's a strain of progressives that want nothing to do with human progress.
ethana··on Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions
Did they say why beta wouldn't have this setting? If anything beta is closer to release and developer would target that. Developer edition is still nightly if I'm not correct?
ethana··on Clearing your browser history can be deemed 'obstruction of justice' in the U.S
It's still kind of a no-no in my opinion. Just because you're a suspect or witness doesn't mean your computer should be automatically subjected to the government. Anyone can be declared a suspect.
ethana··on Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance
To be honest, IE11 has been dealing with the web as well as the other major browsers since there haven't been any major new browser standards in the last two years. Maybe WebRTC, but no one is making a commercial service out of that yet.

With Windows 10 deploying en masse, IE11 is already in sunsetting mode. Windows 10 and Edge is on rolling updates so they are getting new features more frequently. Service Release 1 is out next month and Threshold 2 features update is out by year end.

ethana··on Help a friend skip Windows 10 and try GNU/Linux
Is there a guide to help a friend skip iOS and Android too? Because phones are incredibly more personal than an old boring productive device like a PC. People are walking around with a microphone and camera on them all day.
ethana··on Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere
Just so you know, trucks (F150, Silverado, RAM) have been consistently selling in the top 5 spots. The only 'car' sell at the top 5 is the Toyota Camry ;)
ethana··on Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance
IE11 on Windows 8/8.1 got updated with EME and MSE for Netflix HTML5 video. Also new F12 devtools.

IE11 on Windows 7 is sadly not getting any new features, only updated with bug fixes and security updates.

ethana··on Echochamber.js
So this is like Reddit's shadowbanning.
ethana··on Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around
IE11 has a reading mode since Windows 8 I think. The replacement Microsoft Edge browser will also include it.

Firefox for Android actually had its own 'reading list' for a while too. Won't be long until Pocket will be on Firefox for Android by default if this is their direction.

ethana··on Show HN: Reddit alternative – decentralized social news site, no censorship
Apparently you can clear your cookie and up vote again. I can see the spambot coming already.
ethana··on Why Learn Basic Electronics? [video]
I took electronics classes during high school and loved it. I remember tinkering around and making blinkers and noise generators. But after I got into making websites for fun, I completely abandoned electronics as an academic route. There's part of me that wish I didn't, maybe I should get back to it as a hobby.
ethana··on Why cars went from boxy in the 80s to curvy in the 90s
Reason 1 and 3 are totally baloney. European cars were as much boxy as the Americans and Japaneses in the same era and technology have nothing to do with enabling new curvy design either. If you look back to the 50s/60s, cars from Lincoln, Cadillac, Ford, Bentley, Mercedes, etc were not only curvy but there were all kinda of crazy complex shapes.

I think people's preference just got tired of the overly designed styles up until the late 60s. I would point to Cadillac as the one that started the boxy cars trend. They are still boxy/edgy today, although much more stylized. I love the newer Cadis design actually, they are so different than anything on the roads.

ethana··on Firefox Bugzilla: Remove Pocket Integration
What I don't understand is that Firefox also include its own read later service that sync to Firefox users account. Are they planning to drop its own implementation and partner with Pocket?
ethana··on Head of T.S.A. Out After Tests Reveal Flaws
And they will still confiscate your toothpaste and Listerine because...terrorism.
ethana··on Advice for those seeking salary increases
The people that get pay more usually know they are needed and they use it as leverage. Everyone else, be more needed ;)
ethana··on Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid
Or block of their bank transactions.
ethana··on Ad Blocks’ Doomsday Scenarios
I have always been afraid that as ad blockers get popular, someone out there will create a wrapper for contents+ads to combat the issue. If the ads didn't get a return ping to the host server, then contents would be limited for not get pushed. This is fairly easy to do and I've seen it implemented on some sites. But they are still very rare for some reason.

As for Google, they've already paid Eyeo to be whitelisted , so they're not interested in this kind of solutions as it would harm their user base. This however hurt Google's smaller competitors which couldn't get Eyeo to whitelist them.

ethana··on Computer-Generated Image Captions
Because you have never experienced what it is happening in the picture?

The singularity is not going to be an AI revolution, it's when we decode the human brain's signals.

ethana··on Microsoft reportedly plans to acquire BlackBerry
Patents.
ethana··on Multiprocess Firefox
Or IE7 circa 2006. IE7 separated its UI and browser content in different processes. IE8+ group several tabs into one process when passing a threshold. This is much better for battery life compare to Chrome process-per-tab.
ethana··on Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser
There are people that swear by VB script. But new extension engine would be nice.
ethana··on Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser
I was hoping they would open source Edge at Build, but that was a bit optimistic of a time frame. There are still core components yet to be finished. Hope it will get done soon and have a solid code base to be released as open source.
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