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So much for the web as the "OS agnostic" interface for the 21st century.
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Against the anti-virus that granny downloaded from pop-up on the browser telling her that Microsoft support found a virus.
What a bunch of corpo-authoritarian BS... Keep the sheeple dumb and dumber, and two generations later they'll be even more subservient and docile, pleading to be milked incessantly for $$$ all of their life instead of actually learning and exercising critical thinking, and thus possibly turning on your efforts to milk them. You can only learn if you make mistakes. They want to "protect" you so they try to stop you fr…
Given that the other Linux kernel powered mainstream OSes are also using virtualization and sandboxing.
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I personally think they should think about maintaining a chromium fork. It will relieve a lot of resources to be spent on other things like user experience, and they will benefit from all the development resources devoted to chromium, while being able to remove anything they don't like, like MV3 limitations on adblockers. I really like what brave is doing, I switched because I lost hope Mozilla is going to do anythin…
> while being able to remove anything they don't like, like MV3 limitations on adblockers. … which might actually not be as easy as it sounds. Sure, as long as Chrome/Blink internally retains MV2 compatibility behind a configuration setting for enterprise customers you job is easy – just hard-code that setting back to enabled for everybody instead of just enterprise users and you're done. However once Google starts r…
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> Ru -> Run (what is "run"? It's that little dialog box from Windows 3.1 where you can type in an executable to run) This is the best. It opens immediately, no animations, ads, etc. I have a .bin folder in my home dir with full off shortcuts, this folder added to the $PATH so I just need to type my shortcuts to open any app.
Solid protip. Been doing the same since Windows 98.
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> Do you know typing "torrent" in the start menu doesn't find "qbittorrent"? In 2022. It sums it all. It's even worse. I want to open Notepad++ and begin to type N -> notepad.exe No -> notepad.exe Not -> Notepad++ Note -> notepad.exe Notep -> Notepad++ Notepa -> Notepad++ Notepad -> notepad.exe The times I actually wanted to open notepad.exe is exactly 0 but the stupid algorithm sees me mistakenly opening notepad.exe…
It's also slow[0], or not properly cached. Half the time I bang out 'c-m-d- ' to open a command prompt and I either get nothing or a program that doesn't contain any of 'c' 'm' or 'd' in its name. Which is aggravating because the 'Win then type the first 3ish letters of the program you want then hit enter to open it' workflow is so good[0] but MS makes it hard to be smooth and repeatable with it. [0]Honestly how? I h…
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The win11 / Edge bullshit finally pushed me to migrate my last win machine to linux. I used to love Windows, nowadays it just makes me bitter. Do you know typing "torrent" in the start menu doesn't find "qbittorrent"? In 2022. It sums it all. And the acquisitions... I've had countless minecraft sessions ruined because of microsoft account / store issues. Don't even get me started on realms and the chat policing bulls…
I used to solve this by just installing another launcher. there were some good ones around, they should still work I hope.
[0]: https://executor.dk/
If you want to read the specifics of my transition to Linux: https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-transi...
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Well, I guess the NSA makes the most sense. They've been integrated into the corporate structure of FAANG for over a decade now, and they're the primary government entity making demands over this stuff. The who is a lot harder to track down - maybe there is a Wizard of Oz hiding behind one of our administrative curtains, but I think it's more of a bureaucratic process. Judging by what we know about America's surveill…
I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this and not believed by hardly anyone on this crowd so I'll keep it short and without evidence, only testimony: I was a US intelligence officer for some time. Not woth NSA, but did a lot of work with NSA, CIA, and the Bureau. The involvement between the US intelligence agencies and FAANG (in terms of the rough narrative involved) is a lot less impressive and threatening than people he…
It even comes with a handy Q&A technical FAQ like ensuring you can also get the chat of the person the target is speaking to, or why you might receive multiple copies of one message (a target that is synching on another device has all of that data forwarded onto the NSA as well, so you get repeat messages). Quite user friendly! I'd love to see the UI.
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Incidentally, I'm not saying you're lying. The reality is that most of government is just bureaucracy. The NSA has tens of thousands of employees, a budget in the tens of billions of dollars, and their fingers in everything all the way down to World of Warcraft. [2] The guy tasked with spying on elves and death knights (which, shockingly, never turned up anything) is going to have a different view of the agency than the guy who is doing things like spying on people's Skype conversations, or the person who is producing the metadata upon which people end up being killed.
[1] - https://grid.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/74
[2] - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-nsa-was-spying...
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Brave has so few users that Wikimedia doesn’t even list them on the summary table. They get more hits from Apple Mail. https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit... Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1102/
Brave has 55 million MAU. That is huge for a browser that's just 3 years old.
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Brave has so few users that Wikimedia doesn’t even list them on the summary table. They get more hits from Apple Mail. https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit... Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1102/
My understanding is that Brave uses Chrome user agents for privacy.
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A couple of days ago, I give a very brief workshop of Arduino. All the students with Linux boxes have some kind of problems, like the user was not a member of the dialout group or the group does not exist at all. I still prefer Linux, but no everything works "out of the box".
> All the students with Linux boxes have some kind of problems, like the user was not a member of the dialout group or the group does not exist at all. I still prefer Linux, but no everything works "out of the box". This (requiring elevated privileges) is a very niche thing, though (raw access to the serial port).