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To me, this feels like a move to distract the target(s). If it is so it makes sense for both the US to be responsible (knowing such an obvious reference will be interpreted as originating from someone else. e.g. Russia) and also for its enemies (well, they want to draw attention).

"But sir, everyone will notice", said the operator, hesitating. "Use one of your tricks, I don't care", replied the commander. "Just get it done!".

"Mike, do you still have that script, the one with the American flag?" the first man whispered.

It's breaks really bad on mobile though. Seems to be a very well thought out product from the little I could see.

The UX/UI is very poor in my experience, since I'm a heavy user of Firefox Containers, know about the feature, need it, and never use it, but if you click the Containers icon and have some container tabs active, it will display a right arrow indicating there are more actions available where you can hide the tabs of a specific Container group so that you can unclutter the browser and access them later.

Sorry to say it but its been a few years since I started to consider FB "useds" lame (just to use your word, but I would describe them with harsher terms). It seems my side of the fence is growing in numbers pretty fast lately.

Reading the comments it seems nobody is concerned about this broad access leading to sexual harassment of women who are constantly exposed to glances and stronger forms of abuse and may vent in a private channel, or may have discussed intimate concerns with friends (now past conversations are also available). Nobody paints the picture of the boss reading girls logs? This is pathetic. US, land of the well paid slaves.

...and privacy (no idea what my device is sending).

This is where Libre/Open Source software comes in and why it plays a vital role in creating an ethical connection between people and softwares. There is literally no other way around this. Open code, secure transmission, harsh accountability on violations.

I'm really proud of what the Servo team has achieved and since I'm always looking at it from a big distance, I believe you are all able to judge this much better than me.

That said, this news do not sound good to me. Again, this is from a great distance, but from here, taking a future-focused team with great respect from the community, a team with an important and invaluable mission and that has successfully delivered over years, and shifting it (or forking it) towards complete uncertainty feels like a dangerous move that reminds me of the phone OS efforts.

Good riddance and may your vision be right. We need someone with Mozilla's goals looking deeper into VR so that we don't end up in the hands of the Big Corps in the near future, that is for sure, no matter if VR ends up being niche. How important that technology will be for the masses is yet to be proven and that's why I fear for the web, the battle proven real thing that faces the greatest threats from closed silos today. I don't feel it should be taken on equal terms with what is still fictional speculation. It needs full energy to make it to the future in good health. We already failed to deliver a beautiful, open and user centered internet to the future, we can't loose the open web.

From your link:

A new Linux kernel technology called BPF is at the foundation of Cilium. It supports dynamic insertion of BPF bytecode into the Linux kernel at various integration points such as: network IO, application sockets, and tracepoints to implement security, networking and visibility logic. BPF is highly efficient and flexible.

Can you provide more background on your blanket statement?

There are good and bad VPNs but ISPs are much larger corporations with direct ties to governments. I fail to see how a good VPN is worse than ISP + Governments.

Absolutely! And more, it may be that the users are getting more distracted and less productive, although it seems they don't recognize this possibility.

I have tried to use the new tab with everything integrated (another search bar? most visited/pin without reordering, pocket articles) and Mozilla snarks and tips (which I like and find elegant) the feeling each time I open a new tab is the same as when I open my phone with the intent of doing something and, after being bombarded with icons and notifications, completely forget what I wanted to solve in the first place.

It is horrible UX to me. At least I can disable it as I did and I love my empty new tab without any suggestions whatsoever.

Just to dig a bit deeper, I believe browsers chrome should be removed (or greatly reduced) and we should try something new. I don't want to see an endless list of open tabs or your shiny buttons, I want to absorb content. Using Vimperator/Pentadactyl/qutebrowser,etc in the past without system borders opened my eyes to how websites can be beautiful when they are not in a cage and I can't unsee the bloat.

The best Mozilla product of the past couple years, to me, wasn't FF Quantum, but Firefox Focus. I want Focus for the desktop. Amnesic, secure, fast, unbloatable.

My client is broken, it was meant to you. Hope this one goes to the right place.

Sorry, j_4, reply was to parent.

I belive the tab generation constraints are a feature! They are meant to avoid the clutter most browsers become. Seriously, tabs are extremely overrated. Focus on something, delete it or archive it (Pocket, Instapaper, org, etc) and tag it, move on with a clean slate. This way you are always 100% focused on the task at hand. You leave archiving to archiving tools and not to tabs.

I agree on your last point though. Mozilla's heavy dependence on user data (and aggressive decisions like opt-out telemetry) goes against their speech. I choose to share with Mozilla if I trust them. But they understand "collected with permission" to be "poweruser data" and they want to suck information from the "other users". And that drug is a dangerous one when you point fingers all the time at others addicted to the same thing. In Focus it is plain wrong. "Here, we help you block tracking by everyone, since it is evil, except from us, cause sugar".

I like it so much that I can't help but dream with Focus for desktop. I realized most of the times the browser can be amnesic (maybe should?) and completely involve websites in private bubbles with mitigations.

The robust version of the browser ends up being the home of long therm, trustworthy pages.

On mobile it's completely unusable since they hijack the horizontal scrolling that would allow an unresponsive page like this to work it the first place. Bizarre.

Not parent but probably yes. That's how I roll as well.

To help mitigate this situation, users can and should start to use blockers just like we do on browsers. The best and less invasive I've found so far is Blokada[1].

It works as a fake VPN giving you the power use blocklists to filter all your connections.

Downside is that I believe in doesn't work if you already use a VPN.

So far it has helped me block 80.921 ads and trackers. As a bonus it saved me 242.79MB.

By default it whitelists Google Analytics, so if you don't want that you should disable the whitelist or configure it.

[1] http://blokada.org/index.html

Fully agree with you. The old dark theme feels more comfortable (less contrast between colors). Each and every time I open the devtools now this thought crosses my mind.

There is also another reason to use this over an extension: privacy. Last I saw the browser extensions worked automatically for all pages, thus sending all your browsing habits to some random place. Quite serious if you ask me.

That said, they may have changed or I may have missed extensions that aren't pervasive.

Awesome work! Thanks!

Edit: Opera includes a "gratis" VPN, but definitely not for free. Just read the Privacy Terms. And they keep logs.

Or Inox https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset

This. I'm a loyal Emacs user (used Vim a couple years before migrating to Emacs and always kept it around) but I must confess: I'm in love with kak.

It's not Emacs (although it is powerful) and will probably never be (even more so to a lisper) since it doesn't try to. But it is easy and minimal, which gives me some pause after long Emacs hours.

I was very impressed to find that it has some degree of integration with tmux and with ranger, both tools that I love, to do window splitting and file management respectively. So clever and such a strong setup for a newcomer!

I don't really feel it as a competitor and I still do work in Emacs, but it became my default terminal editor and my fallback $EDITOR. Knowing vim made things a lot easier and everything that I discover about it feels like an improvement. Highly recommended.

I agree with you. My intention was to perhaps highlight one of the ways that using Emacs can help someone be productive using markup (but as you pointed this is probably true of other editors with strong support for the language) and maybe help someone discover an important feature of the editor that they have missed.

Well, "most people" in the context of my comment was exactly that small fraction. You really thought that I was talking about the entire world?

As an Emacs user I know most of humanity is far from ignumitation. (And also have bad sense of humor)

In org you don't need to remember. You just `C-c C-l` and it interactively asks for a link. You can type it or paste the link from your clipboard. _Then_ it asks you for an optional description.

The same command works if you want to edit a link under the cursor.

Also, most people have `C-c l` bound to a function that “captures” the link from wherever you are in Emacs (e.g. a newsfeed, a document, an email, a folder) so you can easily reference those places from within Org.

Well, lucky you!

DuckDuckGo has that by using a backslash, a space and a search term (\ bed intruder youtube) or an exclamation a space and the search term (although I believe the former is the official way now). I use it all the time, it's like a superpower.

So you hate to be that guy but you still feel like coming here to state your absolutely empty point of view without even a hint of an argument? This isn't the place for hate speech or for pouring your negativism. This is a beautiful project by beautiful people dedicated to an open mobile solution which the world dramatically needs. Let's give them strength and share only our best constructive criticism.

Ranger includes the fantastic `:bulkrename` which allows you to safely edit the marked files with _your editor of choice_.

This isn't about being invisible. 99.9% of the people can't, including most of the HN crowd. It has become literally almost impossible. This is about making a statement for what you believe and fighting for digital world we want.

You can always use techniques such as blending in if you really must, tools such as Tails or QubesOS.

If they want to put a red pin on me with the words activist and "conscious of us", let them while and if they can.

Edit: changed the word "secure" to "invisible" because they are different things entangled in this scenario.

Well, if we can't have privacy, at least lets make it clear that we DO want it and do what we can to have it.

Not being able to defend ourselves doesn't mean that we should give up.

A crowd can gather in front of a building and demand changes, unarmed and shouting. They may be heard or not, but still they fight. Sometimes the crowd is really huge and the other side has no option but to hear.

Use Firefox. Use uBlock Origin. Use uMatrix or NoScript if you can. Use HTTPS Everywhere. Use DecentralEyes and Privacy Settings (an addon to streamline setting the cryptic browser settings in favor of your security and privacy).

If you can, edit text fields through an external editor using things like Vimperator/Pentadactyl C-i command or extensions such as Its All Text or Wasavi.

Use a firewall. Use a firewall in your phone as well.

Search through DuckDuckGo or Startpage. Use F-Droid apps on your Android device, it even has a privacy conscious browser called Privacy Browser, a great and encryption friendly email client called K-9 and key wallet called OpenKeychain. Use Free Software.

Drop the use of Google Drive and Dropbox in favor of solutions such as Syncthing.

Use a password manager and strong passwords.

Fight the good fight. Using this tools you can still enable resources for websites where you need them, literally unblocking the web with each use case. It works if you need to work and learn through browsers. For anything else, use Tor Browser. Maintain an installed version. Open it and update it often.

Privacy is a right that we must fight for everyday and, sincerely, its an honor to be part of the resistance in this dark age.

User rights actvists know how hard it can be to teach people the importance of this things. Its hard and not always effective and often backfires.

If you are a developer, don't put your tail between your legs and accept that you must for monetary reasons circumvent user rights, talk with your team, be the guy with weird thoughts and be proud. You know the importance and they don't. Isn't it like this when a math teacher struggles with his younglings? They just don't know. Be patient.

We can BE the change we want.

Edit: Use Signal. Support Riot. SUPPORT THE EFF! There are so many beautiful people fighting the fight with us. Thanks to everyone involved in the development of this products and services, often left in the shadows and unpaid. You are love.