I used to be in the top 300 editors before I was hounded out by deletion fascists. They would all use their delete voting sockpuppets on AFD and it didn’t matter how many sources you provided if ‘they’ didn’t like it would go. Wikipedia uses its Google ranking to influence the web and if it wants you to be an unperson it will. I hope this guy gets a job at Britannica or World Book since he is wasting his talent at Wikipedia.
Th scenario that Mozilla goes bankrupt after losing too much confidence in them after too many “experiments” causing Chrome to have a virtual monopoly with surviving mozilla forks having sub 1% market share and chromium forks having to have their adblockers crippled. For the sake of the web get a clue Mozilla and restore XUL before it’s too late.
Anyone who used the internet around 2003 knew it was almost all IE at 95%. We are getting close to that again with Chrome and chrome derivatives. Once we cross the threshold again developers wll stop supporting Firefox based browsers and HTML will be CML (chrome mark up language.
We can stop Chrome but only if we act now.
Like it not, XP is not going away soon. It is too useful for many purposes and still has over 10% market share in China. If software arbitrarily drops support for XP then older versions will stay in use. There is still significant amount of users on Chrome 49 and Firefox 52 since they support XP. Just because Microsoft dosen't support it dosen't have to mean that open source software needs to. XP forever!
Since websites will assume if you are using firefox, you must be blocking ads. This will be a fom of drm and more websites will be going chrome only to ensure thir ads will be seen. Chrome has acheived the browser monopoly after we fought so hard to get rid of Internet Explorer.
Wikipedia brought this on themselves with their notability facsists. Even featured articles are getting the chop. Make something worth defending, and people will come.
So one vendor can't make an "evil" license with vendor lock-in. I expect systemD and chromium will be the next projects to do something like this. And before you say fork, i say spoon.
Give us real Linux without hacks or developer modes. Google can make desktop Linux mainstream, it's just too scared that free (in libre and gratis) software will make their ad tech ruined.
Google often puts Wikipedia at the top spot, sometimes in special infoboxes (Wikipedia's word). But Wikipedia is censoring knowledge by saying sources are "not reliable" or the topic is"not notable".One "notable" victim is ResetEra, who was deleted as not notable despite being one of the most influential gaming forums on the internet and was especially notable as the successor to the website Neogaf which employs similar censorship tactics as Wikipedia does. What's more Wikipedia begs for money that could be used for feeding starving children instead. Despite Wikipedia's flaws there has been no serious effort to replace it. Most sites like Infogalactic and Everipedia have their own even worse pov pushing problems and Citizendium never got off the ground.
I protest Wikipedia to this day by being a long term abuser" on the site.
Like it or not, there will be systems using 32 bit by then. Being embedded systems and legacy apps. It's time to fix the problem now instead of just "dropping support" but making 32 bits work in the future.
Eventually it will use Blink. It's only a matter of time. They said they wouldn't change the interface, they said they wouldn't drop XUL, they said they wouldn't add telemetry, they said they wouldn't do anymore "experiments" and they will sell out to their Google masters. And if you're going to say it, Pale Moon already sold out blocking noscript and other blocking tools.
The Googlization is an open source wide problem, getting Blinked is the same trend as getting Electroned or SystemD'ed
With Windows 10 not being a viable replacement to 7 due to forced updates and telemetry there is going to be an unprecedented amount of people using Windows 7 after the deadline. It will be bigger than the end of XP. There is certainly going to be more wannacry style attacks due to the amount of sitting ducks that are going to be created. Microsoft could easily prevent this but they will instead risk world security for a few billion extra dollars. In a sane world legal action would be taken to force Microsoft to make a fit for purpose successor to Windows 7, but Microsoft enjoys money too much and can bribe their way out of it.
That if you don't license your content fairly to competing streaming services you lose your copyright. But then we have companies like Disney and their "vault" strategy. PIRACY CRACKS OPEN THAT VAULT.
But they’re still thinking the crypto makret is going to buy it. Ethererum dropped to less than $80 from its $1400 peak. It’s dead but Nvidia still has a whole field of tulips to sell.
Also there has been over 2 billion iOS devices made, so that is a massive second hand market. In 50 years people will be using “retro” iphones like old rotary phones.
People are more nostalgic for steam engines than old diesel engines, Windows XP has become allegedly more popular than Windows 8.1, Gamers still use their old CRTs to play games. All these show that newer isn’t always better and people would rather have headphone jacks than memojis and faceid. Expect eBay prices to rise on jackphones in a few years. Also we are still waitng for the legendary 17 inch macbook pro to return.
If you were to believe the stats that netmarketshare posted. Estimating stats is so unreliable these days other than Enterprises using Windows 7 and Home users using Windows 10. In practice all browsers these days are Chrome based or chrome-imitating so just worry about being Chrome compatible.
So they won't let us have the classic Chrome UI, yet they will give us a gimmicky dark mode as a replacement. Enough is enough, we need a "Pale Moon" of Chrome.
We just had the 3D movie and tv fad disappear a few years ago, and now they want to bring it back? I expect new 2019 Pogs and Fidget Spinners to come out too.
With Firefox killing their real add ons and Edge becoming a Chrome clone you are effectively limited to the Choices of the Chrome developers of what is good for browsing the web. You could have stopped this, but you didn't. The last resistance is in the Firefox forks but they will be crushed eventually as Chrome exerts its monopoly powers.
And Digg was the news site. It will be replaced by an even more cringy game. The generation that grew up playing moshi monsters will be adults soon, and will make their own game network.
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I used to be in the top 300 editors before I was hounded out by deletion fascists. They would all use their delete voting sockpuppets on AFD and it didn’t matter how many sources you provided if ‘they’ didn’t like it would go. Wikipedia uses its Google ranking to influence the web and if it wants you to be an unperson it will. I hope this guy gets a job at Britannica or World Book since he is wasting his talent at Wikipedia.
Th scenario that Mozilla goes bankrupt after losing too much confidence in them after too many “experiments” causing Chrome to have a virtual monopoly with surviving mozilla forks having sub 1% market share and chromium forks having to have their adblockers crippled. For the sake of the web get a clue Mozilla and restore XUL before it’s too late.
Anyone who used the internet around 2003 knew it was almost all IE at 95%. We are getting close to that again with Chrome and chrome derivatives. Once we cross the threshold again developers wll stop supporting Firefox based browsers and HTML will be CML (chrome mark up language. We can stop Chrome but only if we act now.
Like it not, XP is not going away soon. It is too useful for many purposes and still has over 10% market share in China. If software arbitrarily drops support for XP then older versions will stay in use. There is still significant amount of users on Chrome 49 and Firefox 52 since they support XP. Just because Microsoft dosen't support it dosen't have to mean that open source software needs to. XP forever!
Since websites will assume if you are using firefox, you must be blocking ads. This will be a fom of drm and more websites will be going chrome only to ensure thir ads will be seen. Chrome has acheived the browser monopoly after we fought so hard to get rid of Internet Explorer.
Wikipedia brought this on themselves with their notability facsists. Even featured articles are getting the chop. Make something worth defending, and people will come.
So one vendor can't make an "evil" license with vendor lock-in. I expect systemD and chromium will be the next projects to do something like this. And before you say fork, i say spoon.
Laughs in XUL.
No beating around the bush, it is psychological abuse and theft getting childen into trouble.
Give us real Linux without hacks or developer modes. Google can make desktop Linux mainstream, it's just too scared that free (in libre and gratis) software will make their ad tech ruined.
Google often puts Wikipedia at the top spot, sometimes in special infoboxes (Wikipedia's word). But Wikipedia is censoring knowledge by saying sources are "not reliable" or the topic is"not notable".One "notable" victim is ResetEra, who was deleted as not notable despite being one of the most influential gaming forums on the internet and was especially notable as the successor to the website Neogaf which employs similar censorship tactics as Wikipedia does. What's more Wikipedia begs for money that could be used for feeding starving children instead. Despite Wikipedia's flaws there has been no serious effort to replace it. Most sites like Infogalactic and Everipedia have their own even worse pov pushing problems and Citizendium never got off the ground.
I protest Wikipedia to this day by being a long term abuser" on the site.
Like it or not, there will be systems using 32 bit by then. Being embedded systems and legacy apps. It's time to fix the problem now instead of just "dropping support" but making 32 bits work in the future.
Eventually it will use Blink. It's only a matter of time. They said they wouldn't change the interface, they said they wouldn't drop XUL, they said they wouldn't add telemetry, they said they wouldn't do anymore "experiments" and they will sell out to their Google masters. And if you're going to say it, Pale Moon already sold out blocking noscript and other blocking tools. The Googlization is an open source wide problem, getting Blinked is the same trend as getting Electroned or SystemD'ed
With Windows 10 not being a viable replacement to 7 due to forced updates and telemetry there is going to be an unprecedented amount of people using Windows 7 after the deadline. It will be bigger than the end of XP. There is certainly going to be more wannacry style attacks due to the amount of sitting ducks that are going to be created. Microsoft could easily prevent this but they will instead risk world security for a few billion extra dollars. In a sane world legal action would be taken to force Microsoft to make a fit for purpose successor to Windows 7, but Microsoft enjoys money too much and can bribe their way out of it.
That if you don't license your content fairly to competing streaming services you lose your copyright. But then we have companies like Disney and their "vault" strategy. PIRACY CRACKS OPEN THAT VAULT.
The SE form factors, but with X features. It will sell billions.
But they’re still thinking the crypto makret is going to buy it. Ethererum dropped to less than $80 from its $1400 peak. It’s dead but Nvidia still has a whole field of tulips to sell.
Also there has been over 2 billion iOS devices made, so that is a massive second hand market. In 50 years people will be using “retro” iphones like old rotary phones.
People are more nostalgic for steam engines than old diesel engines, Windows XP has become allegedly more popular than Windows 8.1, Gamers still use their old CRTs to play games. All these show that newer isn’t always better and people would rather have headphone jacks than memojis and faceid. Expect eBay prices to rise on jackphones in a few years. Also we are still waitng for the legendary 17 inch macbook pro to return.
If you were to believe the stats that netmarketshare posted. Estimating stats is so unreliable these days other than Enterprises using Windows 7 and Home users using Windows 10. In practice all browsers these days are Chrome based or chrome-imitating so just worry about being Chrome compatible.
So they won't let us have the classic Chrome UI, yet they will give us a gimmicky dark mode as a replacement. Enough is enough, we need a "Pale Moon" of Chrome.
We just had the 3D movie and tv fad disappear a few years ago, and now they want to bring it back? I expect new 2019 Pogs and Fidget Spinners to come out too.
With Firefox killing their real add ons and Edge becoming a Chrome clone you are effectively limited to the Choices of the Chrome developers of what is good for browsing the web. You could have stopped this, but you didn't. The last resistance is in the Firefox forks but they will be crushed eventually as Chrome exerts its monopoly powers.
Expect fake emails "warning" about phishing, that is a phishing email.
And Digg was the news site. It will be replaced by an even more cringy game. The generation that grew up playing moshi monsters will be adults soon, and will make their own game network.