youseecomrade

It's time to bring fanny packs back, but please don't turn them into power banks.

> So what company that once it gets into a position to bully won’t?

All of them will. All of them need to be regulated better instead of just getting a slap on the wrist.

Just don't go throwing "Microsoft is my open source hero" (and that last paragraph) bullshit on my face.

Not being in a position to bully everyone else really improved their attitude. Microsoft is my friend now! They wouldn't abuse us if they were on the top again, right?

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Sent from my Windows 10 Enterprise computer https://i.imgur.com/cwZGj0g.png

I can't find the article but I remember reading how Google is closing the platform more and more. That's the reason why many people are forced to use MicroG since things are routed through Google Play Services. So in many ways you already "need" Google in your phone for certain apps to work correctly. There's also a rant from CopperheadOS' twitter about how Google make things worse and worse for ROM developers.

I would love to see an updated article about this whole subject.

You're better off just going the power user way and making your own user.js file

https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

You can use version control, options persist between restarts if you accidentally change something, you can use comments, easily make new profiles that share the same settings

Or you can keep complaining until every piece of software have like 3 options inside a hamburger menu

> It's not that different from running any software from the internet.

I don't run "any" software as root or with even more privileges, so I would classify random kexts from the web as a highly critical threat. Of course you could be victim of an exploit even without willingly granting privileges but that's not really relevant.

That's why I only use Android with ROMs like LineageOS where I can block apps from opening on startup and running in the background (you also get more granular permissions for free).

"[..] They (kexts) run at the OS's highest privilege level; ring-0."

Isn't a "little" insecure having to rely on random kext and random internet files to run your base system? Or are they always open source or something? I know very little about MacOS

I would be even more worried about DNS/domain hijacking if the HN stories I hear are true. Not only technical issues but social engineering of the domain ownership.

Whatever you do (custom domain or not), you're always exposed.

It's just EEE, they'll slowly introduce better features (with a colossal marketing budget) and after they gain the userbase back they'll close it down. Until I see a solution for this problem I'm not going to advocate/adopt any of these services.

Some login servers that you go through, like Skype's, share the same IP address that many "anti-telemetry tools for Windows (10)" are blocking.

I see. For some reason it was updating the database but not the software itself. I had to dowload the installer again.

And MalwareBytes is still using 7zip 18.01

I think the network effect is too great to ignore. I would guess the number of potential contributors you get just by using GitHub, where many people have an account and know the workflow/UI, is bigger than any other place.

5 years from now when GitLab is acquired by Google we'll have to migrate again.

And it has to keep up with Gnome/GTK too. I heard it's not easy.

I don't know much about licenses: is Matrix and/or the protocol safe from Facebook, Google and co to pull the same thing again? Feels like EEE is inevitable when these companies allocate resources to provide a better UI/UX and benefits in their own services.

Couldn't they do a "freeze" with backports just for the LTS? My experience with non LTS versions were always awful so I don't see why a rolling release model would be that much worse.

Sounds like Postgres could use some initiative to make the experience easier/faster for beginners and new deployments (if popularity is something valuable for them). That's what many people value in MySQL apart from the familiarity.

I rarely come across tutorials for beginners where MySQL isn't treated like the only option, even if only by omission. I wouldn't be surprised if students only found out about the viability of different databases after a few years.

Let me guess, it will follow the Google tradition of making it painfully slow or resource intensive to use on Firefox.

For me it's the fear of DNS/domain hijacking, theft and other things I don't know much about (the whole infrastructure).

E-mail is central to my online identity and a dedicated attacker could make my life a living hell if he got hold of my domain, even if only by a few hours. That's the real scary stuff, getting your ip blacklisted is nothing compared to that.

I know about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855081, ironically I'm not afraid of losing my Gmail the same way since it's impossible to talk to a Google-human.

And you start fearing what they might remove next instead of eagerly waiting for new features. It's like using Google products.

The times I had problems with GA was because of some uBlock rule or weird A/B tests (I assume) or caching, clearing cookies and site data fixed the problem.

Not sure it's related but a lot of Google's sites are terrible on Firefox and Edge. IIRC they are using polyfills for some heavy stuff (if you assume no malice, that's probably the cause of many problems).

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox https://support.mozilla.org/

Try using safe-mode https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-is... or maybe creating a new profile. The beta versions, just like Chromium or Chrome, occasionally have some weird bugs. At least for me most of them are always hardware acceleration related.

If you don't need fancy features, I would ditch GlassWire for something like https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

You know what I mean. It's like checking for poison after you eat the entire pie.

Not even Firefox manually review extensions anymore. Sad, happened twice for me (one was a cryptominer) so now I have like 2 extensions installed.