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  1. The standard unix password manager is in many aspects more secure than the bloated ones: https://www.passwordstore.org/

    - It is minimal. It is a short bash script, that you can read completely before using it.
    - It uses standard tools like gpg for storage and pwgen for password generation
    -It has a simple command line with some uncomplicated graphical frontends
    - It does not leave anything in memory, as it terminates when it finished copying the password to your clipboard or writing it to the console (or in the pipe of some other program).

  2. An early death ... on There Is No Link Between Insomnia and Early Death, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    An early death can spare you many sleepless nights.

  3. Never trust statistics on Canonical Releases Statistics Showing Adoption of Snap Packages (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Users do not choose snap packages, ubuntu mixes them into the normal programs offered in its graphical package installer. Users do not know, that they are installing snap packages.

  4. It is amoral and unpolitical.
    It is not unmoral.

    There is a difference in being neutral and in being negative.

  5. It is already there. Including skin support.

    https://webamp.org/

  6. Totally clear on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Use the colourful chrome icon (second row, first icon)

  7. Re:Accustomed but never used? on Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader From Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The RSS-Button in the URL-Bar vanished quite a few versions ago.

  8. Re:Mozilla Can't Win on Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader From Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So maybe they should keep the features they have and do not add stuff nobody missed before. Win-Win.

  9. Re:All free email does this. on Google Allows Outside App Developers To Read People's Gmails, Says Report (thisisinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The headers of a mail are like 2kb. The plain text part of the mail is lik 1-2 kb. The HTML part is like 10 kb. The icons attached for the html part are 200 kb. The images in the html part to look pretty are 2 MB.

  10. Re:Read the article you linked to! on Google Allows Outside App Developers To Read People's Gmails, Says Report (thisisinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    legal != consent

  11. Re: 4 out of 5? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    and the ui engine.

    Browsers like opera, vivaldi and many more are just chromium, but the default ui disabled and another one implemented using the same building blocks chromium is using. Then they add features on top of the construct.

  12. Re:4 out of 5? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Opera is yet another chromium build.

  13. Re:Strong Maybe? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Install uMatrix. Now you have "NoScript" and much more (uMatrix = NoScript + RequestPolicy)

  14. It gets a try again on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    When the support for old extensions is back.

  15. I think it is unreasonable to expect, that the user wants to hear from the site, when he did not visit it for some time. It is of course reasonable for the site to remember the user of it, but that's the dark pattern, let the user opt-out to be spammed to return to the site.

  16. But you may think of the default - sending "digests" - as a dark pattern. The default should be "do not bother me" and everything else opt-in.

  17. Mobile only on Facebook Competitor Orkut Relaunches as 'Hello' (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Bye

  18. Is betteridges law of headlines wrong? on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    no.

  19. Did you report a bug for your distribution?

    $ reportbug wnpp # work needed and propopsed packages
    And then file if you either request a package if someone volunteers or if you want to stark packaging it. Debian does not have a crystal ball to know which packages are needed for you, but ways to provide feedback about that.

  20. Waterfox is currently kind of 56esr. The next release will be based on Firefox 60esr with removed XUL features backported. So you will get the quantum engine, your new web assembly, and other new standards.

  21. Or waterfox. Has a more recent code base with security patches and performance improvements.

  22. Re:Won't affect FB much... on German Court Rules Facebook Use of Personal Data Illegal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And other companies and creative people start noticing. More and more creatives try to encourage users to follow their newsletter or RSS (more often newsletters, as they are easier to use for novice users). Because they noticed that facebook & co are not their friends. But bury their content in some huge spammy feed, possibly even hiding it because the algorithms decided you won't need your daily webcomic today.
    And when you think about monetization such monopolies hurt the publishers a lot. They are just caught in a dilemma about more reach and more money per user.

  23. Re:Won't affect FB much... on German Court Rules Facebook Use of Personal Data Illegal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If it would be that easy for facebook, they would not be US based but offshore and not following any law. But they depend on the countries and the users and especially the advertisers.
    When facebook cuts off germany, many users would circumvent it, but others would not and this would lead to other networks growing and new networks forming. And they not only get the users, but also the advertisers. And may get users from other countries as well ... a net loss for facebook.

    And don't be fooled, monopolies like google and facebook are instable equilibriums. A small change and a lot changes. They only seem so stable, because the companies do A LOT of balancing things to keep them stable. Start ignoring things and just keep it running for a few months and suddenly everything will start moving. Users try new things, market will change, etc.
    Its no surprise, that such networks use A LOT of psychology to prevent users from leaving their platform i.e. for links and try to push more "native content" so users spend more time inside their app instead of seeing there is more web than just their current social network.

  24. Re:What did you expect? on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    And now you need to tell us how to identify these terms. Is the cult of scientology a church? What about the flying spaghetti monster? Once you start you need to censor everything or there will be always a perceived minority feeling abused.

  25. That's just not unlimited on Project Fi Creates Its Own Version of An Unlimited Plan (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If it limits your bandwidth.

    Let's face it: Every plan is limited. time-of-month x bandwith = limit of your data. If it is the full bandwidth you may call it unlimited (in bandwidth).
    When you start to throttle at some point the bandwidth you reduce the data with respect to the data of an "unlimited" plan.