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I must say that Mozilla have made the right call with extensions in Firefox 57. Web extensions are probably a small part of it but I have switched back to FF after ~5 years of Chro…

I do the Berlin-Stuttgart train journey regularly to visit my parents and quite like taking the train as it gives me a block of uninterupted time to read, work and just plain relax…

I live in Germany and it is by no means a "giant brothel". Yes, there are large ones scattered around motorway exits and industrial parks. To me, them being tacky capitalist sex sh…

I'm assuming this is primarily meant for apps that get deployed to in-house servers rather than being submitted to the public Debian repositories, whose packing guidelines are inde…

I really don't like it but I can't shake off my smug European sense of being weirded out when I read about how atheists are seemingly treated in America. Is it really as bad as it'…

I've been using this for a few weeks: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors Works great!

FWIW, I've written to my member of parliament [0], expressed my dissatisfaction and asked him to oppose the law. He wrote back saying hat his parliamentary party is already opposin…

I always thought of WSGI as a bridge between the web server and whatever web framework you happen to use, but this and the referenced article talk a lot about interaction between d…

Maybe I just don't get it, but why do they want to be included in web search but not in Google News? Their actions seem bizarre. Both are noindex-able separately, correct?

I guess SIP has weak support for Instant Messaging, which was the primary use case for Google Talk before video chat came along. On the other hand the Jingle spec [1] contains many…

Can iChat speak Jingle? I just tried the combination of web-based Gmail iChat and the web client can see that the iChat client has a camera and I can initiate a call but iChat neve…

Is there any indication what this API could be useful for? The article really only talks about NaCl in depth. What does an P2P-API do? Surely, all you need for a P2P application/pr…

Impressive, but they aren't really thwarting kettling, are they? They inform twitter users of where the police is gathering so protesters can leave/avoid that particular spot.

Why does this side load assets from twitter for every page scroll I do?