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Martin Fowler is in the certification for box checkers business. 99% of the people that read them work at places where they must "move to X" to justify some department. They will l…

> The reason we abandoned this [war driving] idea: A combination of our inhouse lawyer's opinion Can't stop thinking how every company doing mapping, like google, today includes wi…

> just like in IPv4 is the key concept I am talking about here and everyone keep saying it is not. Just like ipv4 is what matter and why ISP will never kill NAT. They profit from i…

> Google has on purpose made Android different enough so that no Android SoC could run mainline Linux. daily reminder that this is only possible because the very people in this sit…

> The reasons were stated repeatedly. They rewrote the mobile browser engine *this have nothing to do with my comment* I am talking two or three iterations AFTER that. please, stop…

Take my word for it. I'm still waiting very basic and popular extensions (uMatrix anyone ?) for SEVERAL MONTHS. And try to offer community help. Ha! mozilla have to die for firefox…

OMG the lack of understanding of basic ad tracking in this forum baffles me. Nobody is going to pay. But if google serve an ad for a logged out (or firefox) user, they get paid 0.0…

the visionary aspect was that it didn't need new hardware concepts. Just drop the ephemeral ram (or treat it like L4 cache, so to say) and hope permanent storage gets faster, which…

decades ago i was following a kid's graduation project of a OS with full permanence design. that was before Android and other always on "computers". it was called something like un…

so they can continue to hide from public that most of their revenue is from secondary use they monetize from their database: research & law enforcement (or anyone that wants to buy…

technically, every flash memory today is a cube (well, more of a skewed cube, a Parallelepiped) Mostly because they can't figure out how to make things faster, or as fast as the in…

That is the promise they sold it on. But, point me to a single ISP that gives a cable subscriber more than one IPv6 address. or a /48 as initially everyone was hopping. ISP profit …

> Chrome can't really be sold. Right. Now try to use that top right "user" icon on your chrome window to log in as a user that is not from a google account.

> How would chrome survive as a business? by doing *exactly* what Google sued microsoft for trying to do with IE in the 90s. Isn't it funny?

You have 20 extensions that were "approved" by mozilla more than a year ago! All the others are banned forever. You can install uBlock, but not uMatrix. Many many extensions are ba…

I can't imagine the kind of Stupids that are steering mozilla, but they definitely want people to move to chrome. They disabled many loved extensions by power users for absolutely …

Not really. ipv6 has nothing to do with any of this.

QUERY: is selfserving google feature. But you can probably do it in libreoffice in a way that is less google-selfserving and more portable, by using a macro/script that fetches con…

> open source project can outperform a 40 year old multi-billion dollar app differente incentives. I guarantee the open source is not outperforming the 40bi company offering on the…

there's a "joke" on the dweb groups that "SOLID is freenet with less caching of other people's illegal content "

> If Solid catches on and Facebook has a permissions check saying "Let Facebook do 'SELECT * FROM .;' on your Solid data, how many people will click yes? Excellent point. For the a…

> For YouTube For the CDN/edge this is irrelevant and should not even be part of the discussion. It is obvious it will not change (or will be even better) for them. The comment you…

This is core to the onion routing protocol. And a huge knowledge hole on the p2p/dweb and IETFF people both.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=nl&tl=en&u=htt...

And then showing a half-screen tall banner on every page load! Why even bother to make the page fast if you are going me to make waste 100x the time scrolling down to the content? …