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Comment #15819653
This already exists, https://fwupd.org/ It is strange they don't mention this and use it. fwupd updated my Logitech "Unifying" receiver firmware :-) And Dell uses it to provide upd…
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Comment #14468489
https://www.brave.com/
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Comment #14117794
So, next step is DRM for webpages/content in addition to video, either you see all or nothing. The W3C is probably already running with the idea to destroy the "free" web :-)
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Comment #13926641
https://developer.schiphol.nl/apis/flight-api/conditions Has some serious restrictions in its use. You are not allowed to "cache" the data for more than 1 day? Strange. And of cour…
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Comment #12436462
It seems to make more sense to just have ONE that can accommodate all those scenarios in a secure way. One doesn't solve bloat by introducing more bloat. I'd say more can be won by…
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Comment #12048884
Actually. I realized that any party that would want to put their content behind this kind of obstruction does not really have anything interesting to show anyway. So better of with…
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Comment #11996211
> Not necessarily more smarts, but better tech means more affordable connectivity and education, and better education too. This is not true. Neil Postman has something to say about…
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Comment #11537291
The Google proprietary stuff, and some of the free parts in Android are also already spyware. But adding an additional layer of proprietary software is just no good for the user :-…
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Comment #11534372
You make some good points, and it would certainly help somewhat, but it won't solve the underlying problem. Instead of real choice and ability to buy something that will be under y…
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Comment #11533931
What I'm missing is a list of things that Google has to fix, that is in the benefit of the "consumer". It seems that most things that would be in the benefit of the consumer have n…
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Comment #11359775
They could just create 'share.wikipedia.org' and make that available so everyone can go there to share/distribute whatever files they want using a secret token they put in their FB…
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Comment #11058412
About this iReport Not verified by CNN Doesn't meant it is not true, but I am not sure you can claim that this article is endorsed by CNN.
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Comment #10886512
I guess it is time for this one again: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm if the CSS isn't needed immediately, simply don't load it :)
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Comment #10886418
I love how they, in that example, use JS to load the rest of the CSS. Seriously?
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Comment #10879841
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_tolerance No need to do browser detection. Just make your site work without JS as well :)
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Comment #10437339
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-1.8 ``` OAuth 2.0 provides a rich authorization framework with well-defined security properties. However, as a rich and highly extensibl…
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Comment #10214584
Ah, my point was, actually, to base the remoteStorage spec on WebDAV instead of a new JSON-based protocol as it currently exists. remoteStorage could define a WebDAV 'profile' for …
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Comment #10214543
Full disclosure: I contributed to the remoteStorage specification [0]. Instead of (or in addition to) considering remoteStorage, one could also go back to "normal" WebDAV, if such …
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Comment #9914825
Proving (part of) the point of the article ;)
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Comment #8603008
what is wrong with OsmAnd? Have been using it for many years already. http://osmand.net/
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Comment #6759790
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