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Right, and I guess this is in particular a problem that Linux/BSD distributions face, where they want to apply small patches for interoperability and the like, but still want to of…

As someone from the EU: Also a blocker for all these Cookie notices (and I guess also Cookies). I've been test-driving Mozilla's experimental Fenix browser. It already supports Tra…

Half-offtopic: I find it very interesting that Rasbian sticks to LXDE. I thought that was going to slowly disappear, with LXQt having developer attention and there being no path fo…

There's also wlroots-rs, which provides safe Rust bindings for wlroots: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots-rs But yeah, you would still need the C toolchain with this.

You'll have to nudge the F-Droid maintainers for that. They grab the source code and compile it themselves. The app developer isn't really involved, they just provide the source co…

As aasasd pointed out, it exists, but isn't part of the core distribution. The openSUSE folks include it (Geeko) in the version that you find in their repositories, so that's why y…

> This is a common error. Macroscopic "everyday" objects don't have a definite position and momentum. Macroscopic objects are quantum objects. But when the mass is big enough, the …

I have actually never shared my location, so no idea what features one might want for that, but this one is open-source, so relatively trustworthy: https://f-droid.org/app/ca.cmetc…

Clearly, it was a revelation to him. Which is Google's fault, not his. Google should communicate clearly and visibly what data they use and for what.

From an accessibility point of view, it's also recommended to avoid links that only span over such half-sentences. Screen reader users will often navigate your page by cycling thro…

Let me put it like this: I consider it only a matter of time before a lawsuit for this completes and Facebook has to pay a multi-million dollar fine. A lawsuit against WhatsApp was…

I appreciate the vigour, but it's probably easier to just use an ad blocker: https://f-droid.org/app/org.blokada.alarm

Just get a written permission from all of your contacts that you're allowed to upload their data to WhatsApp, like the rest of us clearly have. Or make it so that no one has anythi…

It's definitely true that Mozilla needs funding beyond what users are willing to donate. Especially with other 'free' browsers available. But all scandals that I'm aware of were no…

In my opinion, that is not really separate. Pretty much all companies constantly whip their employees to get things done as fast as possible. And if that definition of "done" does …

I think, the major appeal of it is that it does everything. Lots of "productivity"-applications are either TODO-lists or meant for note-taking or good for writing down concepts or …

Servo is nowhere near production-ready and there's no reason to assume that it will be anytime soon. Just consider that Mozilla is pretty much working full-pelt on Gecko and merely…

Yeah, and with FOSS this is all the more important. No one is going to play your game, if it's not fun. Few people are going to play your game, while it's not yet in some tangible …

Actually consented, as in understood the implications and freely decided that Google should have this data, probably none. That would take a lot of generosity, especially to pay th…

The trick with this material is that it pretty much reflects sound waves. On the way back, these reflected sound waves then crash into the upcoming soundwaves and they cancel each …

Firefox has still some clear advantages over Brave, thanks to owning their engine. A trivial example is the battery API. It's nowadays mainly used for tracking, but is an official …

Are you aware of the recent WebSQL remote code execution vulnerability? That's a pretty good reason for Mozilla's decision.

One very obvious point which somehow hasn't been named yet, is security. If Blink has a security vulnerability, like the recent WebSQL remote code execution, then in a monoculture …

I think one part of it is that HTML(5) and CSS have become much more powerful. In the past, if you wanted fancy animations or even just moving parts on your webpage, you needed to …