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> After 7 months, you start testing the new version. Translation: after 7 months you stop mucking about and start trying to produce something useful.

He also endorsed antisemitism: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160912-the-dark-side-of-r... > “Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

It's also a really good example of how captions (this is a caption really, not exactly alt text) are context-dependent. The caption you mention continues: > The maser observed is a…

If anyone in or near Iraq can read this, you can spread messages using person-to-person tools that don't need the internet at all. For example, using the Scuttlebutt network (SSB),…

(I only want to wade in here on one narrow logical point, and avoid discussing the specifics of this case.) > If Stallman's past behavior was unacceptable, then he should have been…

> a protocol, a specification for completely decentralised, carry-with-us social networks. Scuttlebutt is exactly this: https://scuttlebutt.nz

Sadly yes, because big businesses with insufficient concern for maintaining openness on the internet keep choosing siloed proprietary communication services, just because they're "…

There's no distinction between the "desktop" and "mobile" versions of GNOME Web. It's literally the same code (compiled for the appropriate processor architecture), just at a diffe…

I seem to recall (correct me if I'm wrong) that European courts ruled that “agreeing” to a very-long EULA for desktop software didn't constitute informed consent, because it's triv…

Surely Google has an obvious competitor, right? Because otherwise it would clearly be a monopoly.

More generally, if enough people (including the author) think the content has merit, they will choose to support it (by which I mean “collectively supply all the resources it needs…

Thank you for doing this!

1. Is it possible to use the open source Pocket client built into Firefox with any other server, e.g. by specifying another domain name in about:config? 2. Is there an open source …

> Pocket IS Mozilla* and it seems like people would be more ok with the integration if they knew this. I'm less forgiving. The Pocket service is proprietary - this technology could…

Nice! This would be slightly more legible if there was a clearer distinction between the tags introducing each item and the text of the item itself. Also, it would be more usable i…

The data comes from [Wikipedia's Current Events portal][1], so the site's author isn't directly choosing those sources. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

The sponsors are a business out to make money, not to make sound ethical decisions. The way capitalism is supposed to work is that consumers (the capitalist synonym for “people”) a…

I've never used Facebook, so I don't know how well Diaspora can compete, but it seems like a possibility. For Twitter, there's Mastodon (and way-back-when there was identi.ca, its …

Happily, this is no longer true! https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/

They'll have a passably-functioning tool, which is a pretty low bar that I think we still set so low because we remember IE6. But the sort of people who use whatever's put in front…

This sort of thing always seems to happen. A shiny new thing comes along that's a little bit faster or cleverer, and all the geeks say “Yeah, well it may be controlled by a single …

There's a rule of thumb that says any film advertised on the side of a bus is probably not a very good film. This is probably just me, but whenever I see an advert for a web servic…

By providing a coherent set of easy-to-use, privacy-respecting alternatives. It makes it easier for those who _want_ to switch, but don't have the confidence/skill/energy to figure…

I use Brief, a Firefox extension. It downloads items in the background while Firefox is open, which seems to be often enough that I don't miss anything.

Pocket directly competes against the open web (in the form of RSS/Atom). If Mozilla was a values-based organisation they would be promoting the open web at least as much as they pr…