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Maybe OP felt addressed xD

In regards to Mozilla creating an Electron alternative, they already tried that. It was called Proton and it never caught on but was solely bleeding money so they had to shut it down again.

Seems like there's a now an account for it on Mastodon

https://mastodon.social/@elonjet

Well the article is a about German health insurance so without mentioning it explicitly it's not clear that you were talking about the US system :P

Just go to about:compat in Firefox and you can see them. Most of them are simple UA locks but some require more advanced logic.

Currently the 3rd most requested feature on Mozilla Connect is native vertical tabs: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/native-vertical-tabs-li...

Any chance we could see something like this in Pulse Browser or is that something that just requires touching too much of the underlying code base to be viable? ^^

On the topic of Twiter, Mastodon, and the Fediverse, why do federated FOSS alternatives to popular platforms not offer a read-only version of said platform as one of its instances to augment its lack of content?

In the example of Twitter, Nitter already exists as an alternative front-end. Now what if there's a Mastodon instance that uses Nitter to wrap official Twitter content and serve it as if it where the twitter.com mastodon instance? Again it would need to be a read-only version as Twitter is not Mastodon but it would help fill the content gap for sure.

Now Mastodon might not have a content issue but PeerTube for example very well has and in that case masquerading YouTube as a PeerTube instance would become very interesting.

Yeah no, modifying logic of a binary application as large and complex as modern web browsers is slightly more involved than the Discord frontend mods that essentially just tweak some CSS and or HTML and JavaScript.

Repairability and device thinness are by no means mutually exclusive IMO.

When LTT did a review of the Framework laptop for example they also did a size comparison with a similarly specced Dell laptop and found that the framework both thinner and sturdier than the Dell laptop, next to being obviously more repairable ¯\_( ツ )_/¯

Planned obsolescence? Batteries are consumables, so once it's dead the consumer is essentially forced to buy a new model.

While the limitation to newer models sucks. The fact that thanks to (planned) legislation Apple feels pressured to make parts available to consumers is an absolute win for right to repair.

Is Apple doing as much as they can to make this as unviable as possible? Yes, but it's a first step in the right direction :D

As much as I hate the whole cryptocurrency hype myself, I think I agree that a proof-of-work requirement on spam detection that pays in the hosts favour could help solve spam to some degree.

I wonder if a general solution could be to make the visit more computationally demanding to the visitor than to the host, e.g. some form of proof-of-work. I guess captchas already do that in some sense but they require the humans to do the work.

Now the author above has stated they dislike the crypto route and I agree that the whole web3 idea is bs but what if in the case that spam of some form is detected by the server, it requires the visitor to show some proof-of-work and combine that with the "mining crypto in JS instead of ads" craze. That way the bot would need to put work in which would slow it down and at the same time it would pay for its own visit.

No ofc no spam detection system is perfect and it would also hit human users but in their case it would be just a wait a few more seconds longer for page to load kinda case.

Austria and Switzerland definitely have better train service than Germany. In fact the Austrian federal railways (ÖBB) even bought up the majority of DB's night train routes after DB considered decommissioning them ^^

Bringing us back to the discussion about threat models :P

Yet some of the tactics of spammers/scammers are so obvious that it's surprising YouTube doesn't provide simple solutions for some of the case.

For example a common example as MKBHD mentioned is scammers impersonating channel owners within their comments.

Why can't content creators set an option to auto-flag other users that use their name and profile picture (to some degree of similarity) in comments under their video?

Yeah I switched away from Wire again due to constant notification issues (yes battery saving options are disabled on Android). My session has since timed out and trying to log back in on either mobile or desktop just causes the app to crash.

Also there's no Matrix bridge for Wire compared to Signal.

The multi-account support was nice and is something I'd really love to see in Matrix.

While this was not stated in the linked post, other sources said it will be limited to x86 chromebooks that run 11th+ gen Intel CPUs or equivalent.

That basically limits it to models that cost >800$ making it a very niche product.

As others have already mentioned, the process is interestingly enough reversible (to some degree) by simply subjecting it to a colder environment like a freezer for a bit.

Maybe a bit off-topic but will upcoming Matrix Live also be hosted via Matrix VoIP now? ^^

(At least the smaller ones like interviews where the number of participants is <=8 until compatibility with SFU is done)

https://matrix.org/faq/#what-is-the-difference-between-matri...

Why not just use FluffyChat?

https://fluffychat.im/

Yes but the current UX for that is terrible. With the proposed MSC linked in the blog post, Matrix will additionally gain Teamspeak/Discord like voice channels [1].

With this we could finally have a proper Teamspeak/Mumble bridge for voice that gets properly represented on the Matrix side which is amazing :D

Also kinda funny that Teamspeak only recently started using Matrix for their global chat feature [2].

Maybe now after the gitter acquisition, Element should consider acquiring a certain voice-focused company ;)

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[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mat...

[2] https://community.teamspeak.com/t/teamspeak-5-beta-bug-repor...

While you could use it for hosting a business, I wouldn't recommend doing so without some business plan that offers SLA.

I might be incredibly unlucky but I had two major multi day downtimes with Init7 (neither their fault).

If you depend on your internet as part of your business, make sure you have a plan for when it might fall out.

On that note, I'm hosting my own personal fileserver over that connection and the public IPv4 address has not changed once in the two years I've been using them so far ^^

I had similar issues where I had to basically restart both the pipewire and the Bluetooth daemon after each reboot before being able to connect my headset.

My "solution" was basically to drop using pipewire for now.

The issue though is that this will give the sender of a message the impression that what they are sharing will stay private, even though there are from a technical standpoint no such guarantees.

Windows Store?

Same. I may have bought a PinePhone but it's running mobian with phosh, so all the heavy lifting to get a working phone UI was done by Purism including GTK libraries like libhandy (now libadwaita).

I'm ever grateful for their work.

Let me pay for Firefox development directly

Same. I already donate to the Mozilla Foundation but I'd love to fund Firefox more directly.

I mean a reason SMS gets its hate is because the moment you send a message across international borders you start paying ridiculously large sums of money (compared to the amount of data transferred) for every single message. If you now take Europe for example where it's easy to have friends in another country that you talk to regularly and you can see why WhatsApp quickly gained in popularity there simply because it was the cheaper option.