I find it increasingly difficult to only use Firefox. Most of my coworkers are Chrome-only at this point. Anything that doesn’t at minimum do Firefox is a toy operating system. That said, I’m too unskilled to get something as complicated as Firefox to even build, let alone on a novel system, so maybe I have no right to gripe.
This one’s an interactive, so you can’t do the trick of loading it while inspecting, then using the Network tab’s Response view to read it.
I’m not sure that newspapers should be allowed to call anything an “alarm” while only allowing some to read it. Is it untrue that when they do such things, what they are really saying is “we don’t think it’s very alarming, but we want to work certain voters up into an outrage because they’re predictable and usable that way”?
Desktop usage is only kept afloat by their use in business. When you sit down in front of a desk at work, there’s a computer on it.
That also doesn’t bode well for linux, even if people could become familiar with it and comfortable with it, it’s doubtful that anyone in charge of computers in the office would be comfortable having those be linux desktops.
The age of the desktop really is over. Linux didn’t become mainstream, and now it’s completely moot. Even if you want to disagree with me emotionally, surely you see the writing on the wall? Everything I’ve said only becomes more true 5 years from now, 20 years from now. Not less.
Linux needs a time machine to go mainstream. It would have had to have happened by about 2006 or so… after that point, personal computing pretty much died. Sure, you have a desktop or laptop system in front of you, and so do I, but I contend that we are the exceptions, that we’re no longer typical.
There are people who do not use the internet with a personal computer as their primary means of using it. These people are many. These people are young, and will retain that habit their entire lives.
If it’s any consolation, personal computing is dead for all the operating systems, and no one really won.
I’m not sure how it is a “good compromise” in any sense of that phrase. What is “safe” about this? What is “private” about it?
All it does is confirm that one person who signs up for reddit once signed up for an online email account somewhere. We are not stuck in 1998, where your one and only email account was created when you signed up for Comcast or Verizon DSL.
This makes the signup process for reddit slightly more convoluted, and maybe makes them spend an extra 6 minutes doing so. This is an insufficient amount of delay to expect them to have any life-changing epiphanies.
It does not prevent the harassment you are concerned about. It adds no safety.
It isn’t private… as unimaginative as most people are, chances are that you can guess email addresses from usernames even if reddit does not reveal them. It actively reduces privacy, and much more so than you imply.
This is so far into the realm of security theater that if just stand there and wait 30 seconds, the costume department will come by and change you into your clown outfit.
My understanding is that the man is not a US citizen, and that he has never stepped foot on US soil. Considering those two facts, how can he be charged with espionage (at least within the US) at all? It was pretty clear from the beginning that the Swedish charges were horseshit and just fabricated to attempt to extradite him through a friendly government, and sure enough now that those have been thrown to the wayside they’re just trying a more direct approach.
If you’ll let me do plus-or-minus on the year 2006 and the “now”, then that’s almost certainly (going to be) true.
I think rather, that you think this is a winnable race when the Earth just opened up and swallowed all of the race cars and yours is about to fall into the abyss.
It’s just over. I’ve seen too much from random yahoos about how their primary computing experience is a phone. And it’s not as if those people are going to work and sitting down at an office computer, they work at Arby’s or whatever. The other explanation is that there’s an orchestrated conspiracy to mislead me into believing the desktop is dead by a team of millions of propagandists writing subtly about how to do common computing actions on Android, or that the desktop has just came and gone, like dumb terminals before them. Like teletypes.
Probably, but that didn’t stop Microsoft and dotnet from conquering some large fraction of that market. God knows why.