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  1. Re:Feature from Opera 10 years ago on Mozilla Tests Firefox 'Tab Warming' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If they are doing it, they are doing it badly.

    I do not think this is their primary goal. Just compare the memory footprint of a firefox with a browser like midori.
    Firefox is powerful, that's their advantage.

  2. Re:Feature from Opera 10 years ago on Mozilla Tests Firefox 'Tab Warming' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The main problem of this is that browsers today try to manage a lot of javascript state. So this feature will start javascript threads, which opera did not in the history. prerendering html is easy, but prerendering some react site is harder.

  3. Feature from Opera 10 years ago on Mozilla Tests Firefox 'Tab Warming' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Opera just cached the rendered version of all open tabs. This is part why it were the fastes browser of its time.
    And they even cached the rendered version of pages in the history. A faster back button is not possible.

  4. Is betteridges law of headlines wrong? on Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand I suspect it works the other way round for headlines where the author implies the opposite of the question.

  5. AMP is actually worse on Google Will Stop Letting Sites Use AMP Format To Bait and Switch Readers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    On mobile they just feel useless, but on the desktop it totally scales up to the full browser window (hey, your device is 6 inch, isn't it? 22 inch? I do not believe you!) and no site ever implements redirects from mobile to desktop versions, only the other way round. Then the mobile users share urls with you and you have to figure out where to remove "/amp/", "m." or similar parts of the url.

  6. Re:Webalizer on What Happens to Open Source Code After Its Developer Dies? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.webalizer.org/webal...
    > Last modified July 23, 2017 by B. Barrett

  7. Easy solution on Facebook Downranks Video Clickbait and Fake Play Buttons (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Use scan lines and alternate 50 times per seconds between the two images. Full motion in each frame and still a static image.

  8. Not only a lot of swear words, but using silly censoring on them as well. The irony ...

  9. First testing new features without a proper backup, then no source control or at least no remote repository and then using a lot of swear words against the program, which probably just wasn't used the right way. Okay, maybe the program isn't doing its job very good, but a software developer should have backup and should have backup of his vcs. Seriously, use git and push to a repository on your own server, NAS or just another computer. Here even another repository on the same computer would have saved the work.

  10. 8+ - Good
    Alphanumeric required - Bad, you allow the attacker to skip testing all alpha-only / numeric-only passwords.
    Password strenght meter - We all know they don't work
    Logins cannot be brute forces - OK
    2-FA auth - doesn't have much to do with passwords

  11. The link for some highlights just redirects to this article again.

  12. Re:Why bother with Atom available? on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    kde had kedit for this purpose, which was even faster. But they stopped supporting it in favour of kwrite.

  13. Re:We all saw it coming... on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should think outside of your personal usage. You hit ctrl-z. I use (g)vim and hit u. The average user wants a toolbar button.

  14. Re:Patience is a virtue on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Why does it neet to be static? I can boot with init=/bin/bash and the bash binary is not statically linked.

  15. Re:What about the privacy-undermining browser itse on Browser Extensions Are Undermining Privacy (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Ask systemd.

  16. Radioactive Plutonium?! on Tests Show Workers At Hanford Nuclear Facility Inhaled Radioactive Plutonium (king5.com) · · Score: 1

    Radioactive Plutonium?!
    You don't say!

    Ever seen non-radioactive plutonium?

  17. A big company is giving away free money? on Amazon Jacked Up Prime Day Prices, Misleading Consumers, Says Vendor (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you really believed, that they have too much money so they make up a day to give away products for less than they are worth?
    That's marketing and everybody with a rest of a brain cell knew it before.

  18. First: Ignore apple, when apple ignores you.
    Second: Who wants a loading screen for a webapp? When i use a webapp, i do so because i just want the interface without the crap, which needs loading screens until the program started. Push notifications from a website? No thank you I am not missing it.

  19. Re:Correlation is not causation on Having a Woman On Your Team Ruins Your Chances For VC Funding (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, get more factors into your data. Maybe women prefer projects, which have less VC chance because what they are doing, while women like the teams because of what they are doing.

  20. Already debunked by snopes.

  21. Use KDE as default desktop on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 1

    KDE already looks like unity, if you want it to look like unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  22. Re:As the maker of AI toilet paper on Many Firms Are 'AI Washing' Claims of Intelligent Products (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen such a thing as well. But there are still two possible directions. But possibly then one really makes much less sense. But you know people will always try to do the wrong thing.

  23. Re:As the maker of AI toilet paper on Many Firms Are 'AI Washing' Claims of Intelligent Products (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    does it roll on the wall or far from the wall?

  24. Do you really think something like Siri needs an AI to work?
    It needs some clever prerecorded questions and answers and some fuzzy matching for the questions. And then it works better than an AI, as its clear what features siri can provide and what it cannot. So Some program optimized works out of the box, while some AI optimizing itself needs a long time to reach 90% of this. Of course, the AI can work and its hyped now, but most products do not need an AI.

  25. Re:Not very sytemd like on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    nope.
    $ ls -l /bin/ping
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44104 Nov 8 2014 /bin/ping
    Debian jessie.