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I really hope this type of payment system become a standard and adopted by other browsers. It's really close to what Ted Nelson tried to do.

It's sad that Mozilla's excuse when responding to the Pocket integration was that Pocket wouldn't affect Firefox if you you use it. Now why don't they say the same for RSS? The "new tab" page is a glorified Pocket ads right now.

Internet Archive is getting it. Yay!

Google is no angel themselves. What they did to Windows Phone is no different than Amazon's behavior. I'd imagine Windows Phone might as well died even if there were Google apps on it. But by actively preventing third-parties from porting their services to WP, Google intentionally tried to kill it. Now they now practically own the global market of smartphones. Not saying any of this is right, but I've less empathy for them.

I hope Firefox goal isn't archiving speed at the cost of cpu usage. I've been experiencing high cpu usage from Firefox ever since they turned on their multiprocess. Thus I'm still on Chrome as it is the best compromise for my mobile setup.

Also, Firefox start page is basically a glorified ads sponsored articles from their Pocket recommendation. Are people letting Mozilla getting away with this because it's owned by Mozilla? I honestly hate this practice. I don't want more ads.

I've been using a replacement of network>Proxomitron proxy filter tool called Proxydomo available on github. God bless the guy that reverse engineered the original.

[1] https://github.com/amate/Proxydomo

One of my favorite things on Bing: https://www.bing.com/search?q=speed+test

How long until the ABP guys stop their generosity and either 1) incorporate its acceptable ads into EasyList (which they maintain) or 2) block every other ad-blocker from leeching off their lists. I predict former. There are already tons of white-listed rules in EasyList.

Until other ad blockers actually start to maintain their separate list, I don't see a reason to stop using ABP. Ghostery is the only extension that doesn't use EasyList as far as I know. But they too have their own telemetry tracking.

Stucked in time: http://www.excite.com/

This kills the Firefox.

Article is from Jan 25th. Trump walked back on this issue: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/us/politics/black-site-pr...

It's a solution nobody asked for.

This reminds me of when Mozilla bough a beach design studio and hired designers to redesign the Firefox UI. Then nothing of worth of production value came out of it. Instead we got the dreaded Australis tabs years later.

Flagging abuse aside, I think the text transcript is actually a really good idea to refine their STT system. The automatic transcript that YouTube uses has improved to about 80% whenever I try to use it. This will no doubt help their effort in improving their accuracy. Too bad the PR team bundled it into this "Heroes" nonsense.

I'm interested in the stuffs behind Bing rather than the search part. Deep learning, AI, translations, cognitive, etc. I hope Microsoft open up more of their Bing apis.

I remember this demo when Chrome first came out. I thought that was the coolest thing.

edit: I found the original site that I linked to this. Courtesy of archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20120214090814/http://blog.insicd...

It's been fine up to USB 3.0, there were no major problem with electrical surges because they use fairly low voltage. It's USB3.1 power limit that's the problem. And it speaks more about the USB-IF's carelessness when drafting its specification for USB3.1 more than anything. They should've taken misuse of over voltage into consideration before releasing it to the manufacturers.

The U.S government is his biggest customer since the Iraq war in 2003.