Ridj48dhsnsh (u/Ridj48dhsnsh)

Ridj48dhsnsh commented on Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/thunderbong

croes · 2 years ago

Nowadays it doesn't really matter when people replace passcode by biometrics and passkeys.

These aren't protected.

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

Won't your device holding the passkey still take passcodes to unlock itself?

Ridj48dhsnsh commented on Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/rebelwebmaster

coldpie · 2 years ago

> dishonest and incompetent managers

Even if it is, that kind of language doesn't help. These are all people you're talking about, trying their best to do a job they care about. Nothing gets better by your being a jerk.

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

> trying their best to do a job they care about

I would not take that as a given for Mozilla's upper management. Many of their decisions seem to ignore what users want in deference to Google or other motivations.

Ridj48dhsnsh commented on Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/rebelwebmaster

troyvit · 2 years ago

I was about to be like, "Yah well is Kiwi a 'major' browser?" Then I looked at android browser share[1] and realized that Firefox certainly isn't either.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world...

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

How does Opera have 3-4x the market share of Firefox? Is it installed by default anywhere?

Ridj48dhsnsh commented on Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/rebelwebmaster

autoexec · 2 years ago

Nice! Now add about:config to stable releases

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

As an alternative, you can get a stable release with about:config by installing Firefox (or Mull) from F-Droid.

Ridj48dhsnsh commented on Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet blakewatson.com/journal/o... · Posted by u/blakewatson

inamberclad · 2 years ago

What is the long-term potential supposed to be? Is Mastodon supposed to replace Twitter, or is it supposed to enhance the lives of people? I'm a member of several small forums that just don't grow. It's the same people each day, and that's fine. It's much closer to how human interactions work in real life. You don't join an ever-expanding pool of people where you strive to maximize your connections (or at least, I don't). Instead, you probably have a relatively small group of people that you hang out with more often.

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

Not being indexed by search engines is a fatal flaw in my opinion. There might be some interesting discussions taking place on Mastodon, but I would have no way of knowing.

Ridj48dhsnsh commented on Firefox Keeps Getting Faster blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/goplayoutside

grizzles · 2 years ago

I'm a firefox user on Ubuntu. They need to improve the cold start time badly. It currently takes me 4-5 minutes from launch to page load. Once loaded I have no issues with the performance but Chrome is vastly superior in this area.

EDIT: I rely highly on the Restore Previous Session feature. That might be why.

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

Have you tried deleting your profile and starting fresh? Something is clearly messed up. Launching takes a fraction of a second for me on NixOS with a years-old profile.

Ridj48dhsnsh commented on Apple to move key iPad engineering resources to Vietnam asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight... · Posted by u/firstSpeaker

ngcc_hk · 2 years ago

I wonder given Vietnam is also a communist country why there. How about Thailand or India …

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

Have you ever visited Vietnam? The people I've met there are highly motivated to build successful businesses, even more so than in many western countries.

Ridj48dhsnsh commented on We investigated France's mass profiling machine lighthousereports.com/met... · Posted by u/sebg

snowpid · 2 years ago

Racism doesn't start with race. You can trace racist behaviour way before people invented "humen races".

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

Racism definitely is based on race, hence the name. Maybe you're referring to some other kind of out-group bias based on tribal or familial status?

Ridj48dhsnsh commented on We investigated France's mass profiling machine lighthousereports.com/met... · Posted by u/sebg

snowpid · 2 years ago

why should the government empowers pseudo biological bullshit? For me it is very weird to write human race into driver licence, census or university application.

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

Because perceived race is a big factor in how most people treat strangers, so having that information would likely be useful in identifying unfair bias in enforcement.

Ridj48dhsnsh commented on We investigated France's mass profiling machine lighthousereports.com/met... · Posted by u/sebg

wslh · 2 years ago

> It's also, generally, a complexity problem.

I don't think so in 2023. I worked several years in a tax agency and it was mainly a problem of "motivation". I have a friend who pursued "data warehouse" for 30 years there... nowadays you can crunch all the information and find patterns . I would even suggest that tax agencies should anonymize data and create data bounties to help them. In the same way DARPA creates cyberchallenges [1].

[1] https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/cyber-grand-challeng...

Ridj48dhsnsh · 2 years ago

I think it'd be impossible to anonymize data in such a way that it's still useful but not easily identifiable with public or partial private information.

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