I wouldn't call Britain, France, Norway (and others) as being a police state. But a police state also includes the scenario where citizens are micromanaged, are under the watchful and benevolent eye of the state apparatus AND they do not resist said micromanagement.
I don't know about France or Norway, but doesn't the UK, at least England, have exactly that what with the ever growing surveillance camera coverage?
They're not concerned with it. The guys doing the extension forks have repeatedly said they're going to focus on Adblock Latitude, so they don't need uBlock.
I worked on the eBay side and was told by my eBay supervisor that PayPal fell under banking regulations.
Back when I worked as a helldesk jockey for a medical lab, I was told by my supervisor that the helpdesk PC's screensaver couldn't be changed because of HIPAA...
It's entirely possible that they're being honest on that.
No, it's not. For starters, they already had Sync which did pretty much the same thing, sans monetized data mining, without having to integrate a 3rd party service with an intrusive privacy policy into the core browser.
That privacy policy should qualify as a "serious prohibitive quality" and the fact that you think it doesn't makes me question your honesty on the subject.
And first the claim was "user feedback" -- the mozilla feedback page shows that's clearly not true (the feedback, last time I looked, was unfavorable at a 9:1 ratio), then it was "popularity", which is still BS - As has been pointed out, it has about ~1% of the popularity just of ABP, which would put it, as a percentage of the whole, at around epsilon.
Not to mention the fact that several extensions intended to un-fuck the UI have been twice as popular or more, but we don't see them worrying about the popularity there... that position is still "up yours, install an add-on if you don't like our brilliant UX".
About the only way that hard-coding Pocket into the browser is not mind-numbingly, earth-shattering incompetence is if they got paid to do it. I mean, we're talking the no business near source code, drooling on the keyboard, typing by hitting the keyboard with a squeaky mallet kind of moronic.
Bollocks. It's got barely 10% of the users of the #5 app (Noscript), and about 1% of the #1 (ABP). It doesn't show up until the 4th page when sorted by popularity (#64).
Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing made simple—all your Internet needs in one application.
Not quite sure that passes his criteria "B" - might be smaller than Firefox, size-wise (not that that's a terribly high bar to clear at this point), but that's 5 full applications of "bloat" as a web browser replacement.
Unfortunately, Australis in Firefox has creamed Palemoon's extension support (and the whole user agent debacle on Palemoon's side didn't help things, either).
I'm kind of hoping that Firefox extension authors would react to the whole "signing" BS the way a bunch of big Minecraft modders did to the EULA enforcement change and Microsoft buyout. Otherwise, it looks like neither one will be fit for use for much longer.
Actually, this conversation has prompted me to order an R9 280 upgrade, finally. Crossing my fingers that it doesn't suck (I haven't gone with ATI in almost 2 decades, but thought I'd give it a try now that I run Linux in VM)
I could give up what had become my vocation (in my case, being a writer) and take a job that I didn’t want in order to repay the huge debt I had accumulated in college and graduate school.
Oh, gods, the horror! Taking a job you don't want so you can live? The poor, wretched victim!
I thought this guy was yet another "B.A. in basket weaving" millenial from this whinging. Color me gobsmacked: he was born in the fucking 50s.
Being able to perform on-par with current-gen consoles isn't "putting them to shame" or "blowing them out of the water", though.
The real bitch of the whole PC gaming/GPU scene is that it's a complete PITA to figure out how two cards compare. It's made shopping for an upgrade rather arduous the past few weeks.
How so? I don't have any student loan debt (my employer paid about 25% of my way, I paid the rest) but SO's student loan interest is in the low single-digits. What kind of credit card, especially one that an unemployable liberal arts putz can get, is going to be that low?
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I wouldn't call Britain, France, Norway (and others) as being a police state. But a police state also includes the scenario where citizens are micromanaged, are under the watchful and benevolent eye of the state apparatus AND they do not resist said micromanagement.
I don't know about France or Norway, but doesn't the UK, at least England, have exactly that what with the ever growing surveillance camera coverage?
They're not concerned with it. The guys doing the extension forks have repeatedly said they're going to focus on Adblock Latitude, so they don't need uBlock.
I worked on the eBay side and was told by my eBay supervisor that PayPal fell under banking regulations.
Back when I worked as a helldesk jockey for a medical lab, I was told by my supervisor that the helpdesk PC's screensaver couldn't be changed because of HIPAA...
Just sayin', supervisors can say some dumb shit.
Apparently, the On/Off widget requires Australis.
Fuck you, dicebags
Please don't slander the noble dicebag by associating it with the scum who ruined Slashdot and Sourceforge.
When the official docs has a page called Inconsistent Behaviours [php.net] you know there is a bigger problem
My favorite part is where whoever wrote that page actually uses MySQL's behavior to defend PHP's typing stupidity.
Only ones that aren't tied to Australis. uBlock and Firebug, e.g., aren't supported.
It's entirely possible that they're being honest on that.
No, it's not. For starters, they already had Sync which did pretty much the same thing, sans monetized data mining, without having to integrate a 3rd party service with an intrusive privacy policy into the core browser.
That privacy policy should qualify as a "serious prohibitive quality" and the fact that you think it doesn't makes me question your honesty on the subject.
And first the claim was "user feedback" -- the mozilla feedback page shows that's clearly not true (the feedback, last time I looked, was unfavorable at a 9:1 ratio), then it was "popularity", which is still BS - As has been pointed out, it has about ~1% of the popularity just of ABP, which would put it, as a percentage of the whole, at around epsilon.
Not to mention the fact that several extensions intended to un-fuck the UI have been twice as popular or more, but we don't see them worrying about the popularity there... that position is still "up yours, install an add-on if you don't like our brilliant UX".
About the only way that hard-coding Pocket into the browser is not mind-numbingly, earth-shattering incompetence is if they got paid to do it. I mean, we're talking the no business near source code, drooling on the keyboard, typing by hitting the keyboard with a squeaky mallet kind of moronic.
Wow, you guys have a strong reality distortion field, don't you?
I can see how one might think that, if one was sufficiently lacking in reading comprehension skills.
they did it based on popularity
Bollocks. It's got barely 10% of the users of the #5 app (Noscript), and about 1% of the #1 (ABP). It doesn't show up until the 4th page when sorted by popularity (#64).
Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing made simple—all your Internet needs in one application.
Not quite sure that passes his criteria "B" - might be smaller than Firefox, size-wise (not that that's a terribly high bar to clear at this point), but that's 5 full applications of "bloat" as a web browser replacement.
As much evidence as there is of this mass of "user feedback" asking them to integrate a shitty data-mining add-on into the browser core.
The one good thing that came out of this whole debacle was that someone on r/linux posted about Wallabag.
I love self-hosted knockoffs. :)
How's its extension support? That's what killed Palemoon for me.
Unfortunately, Australis in Firefox has creamed Palemoon's extension support (and the whole user agent debacle on Palemoon's side didn't help things, either).
I'm kind of hoping that Firefox extension authors would react to the whole "signing" BS the way a bunch of big Minecraft modders did to the EULA enforcement change and Microsoft buyout. Otherwise, it looks like neither one will be fit for use for much longer.
Don't forget GIMP.
They do it because it's feedback they received from a large number of users.
Yeah, and that check that Read It Later, Inc handed over had nothing to do with it.
Wow, I expected the Xbone to be better kitted than that. I guess they spent too much time trying to make it into a Telescreen engine.
That, and you see way too many ideas boiling down to "$EXISTING_SOCIAL_MEDIA for $OTHER_DOMAIN"
"Tinder for Jobs" is particularly horrifying...
I'm trying to think in what twisted world you think this is right and OK.
The one where reality takes place. If it was something we wanted to spend our time doing, they wouldn't have to give us money in return.
Hey, you're preaching to the choir here.
Actually, this conversation has prompted me to order an R9 280 upgrade, finally. Crossing my fingers that it doesn't suck (I haven't gone with ATI in almost 2 decades, but thought I'd give it a try now that I run Linux in VM)
Gotcha. So it's "brilliant" as long as he keeps on the deadbeat path. Makes sense now.
I could give up what had become my vocation (in my case, being a writer) and take a job that I didn’t want in order to repay the huge debt I had accumulated in college and graduate school.
Oh, gods, the horror! Taking a job you don't want so you can live? The poor, wretched victim!
I thought this guy was yet another "B.A. in basket weaving" millenial from this whinging. Color me gobsmacked: he was born in the fucking 50s.
Being able to perform on-par with current-gen consoles isn't "putting them to shame" or "blowing them out of the water", though.
The real bitch of the whole PC gaming/GPU scene is that it's a complete PITA to figure out how two cards compare. It's made shopping for an upgrade rather arduous the past few weeks.
How so? I don't have any student loan debt (my employer paid about 25% of my way, I paid the rest) but SO's student loan interest is in the low single-digits. What kind of credit card, especially one that an unemployable liberal arts putz can get, is going to be that low?