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How do you break apart an open source project in an anti-monopoly case?

> The author posted elsewhere in this thread that they were signed out of Google entirely. So sync was disabled.

I once had an issue similar to this, and it turned out to be an issue with my profile. Once I manually deleted the site data the problem didn't come back. They admit that this may be a bug and I wouldn't be surprised to find out it is, but regardless there are plenty of other options including ephemeral profiles that you can use by setting a policy. If they aren't signed into sync, then I also suggest they disable syncing from the settings and the policy as well.

> Since Mozilla doesn't do anything similar when not signed into their sync service, this is plainly false.

They _just_ install Pocket and a bunch of other unrelated services and send your DNS queries to third-parties, as well as opting you into recommendations and telemetry.

> If you're not highly technical, you're not entitled to privacy?

You don't have to be highly technical. There are a lot of options for Google accounts to disable ad personalization, history, third-party access, etc. In fact, I find it much easier than almost every other company I come across. The documentation is easy to follow and is so easy my kids could do it. I'm all for privacy, but at the same time the rules need to be applied equally to all companies. Just attacking Google isn't going to fix the issue, in fact it will make it worse by giving a politicized government the ability to go after anyone that they feel doesn't represent their political goals.

> It's simple. Some of us believe that a base level of privacy is a human right. And the only entities capable of facilitating those human rights are governments.

We don't live in a socialist society that believes that humans have fundamental rights to basic necessities. I'm all for privacy being a human right, but shouldn't housing, healthcare, etc also be human rights? Google gives a lot away for free. Until we start addressing other issues, privacy as a human right will never be on the table and when it happens you can't just apply the rules to one or two companies. It has to be equal.

That is exactly how it works:

http://about.lunchbox.pbs.org/blogs/news/pbs-statement-trump...

You have to realize that there are politicians that would remove funding if something doesn't benefit them. Most politicians aren't going to want to fund open source efforts when it benefits them more to support companies opposed to those efforts.

There are no cap on rules currently.

God, people are so quick to jump on the Google-hate train and then advocate for a politicized justice department to hop in and somehow make everything better. Mozilla is just as guilty as Google. Mozilla has Firefox sync and Chrome has its own sync. This is basically to stop clearing browser data from automatically disabling sync, which most people would want. There are a plethora of third-party tools that allow you to clear your browser data completely if you want. There is nothing stopping you from using them, and you'd also be surprised how much you can do (including disabling Google Sync) from a simple policy file.

Stop waiting on your government to fix things because they aren't going to. If you want to fix things, then build your own tools to abstract syncing, bookmarks, and other features from the browser. They exist, whether you've ever taken the time to look or not. Somehow it is easier though for people to simply say... The government will fix it for me, rather than fixing things yourself.

I think it is great that you've found a cool use for rclone, but at the same time don't see how this hits front page when it is basically a cron for running `rclone copy` every 30 minutes which is highly prone to issues. You'd be much better off just mounting your remote storage and running another tool to keep things synced, or utilize Restic or something else for backups.

I think what he really misses is other employees coming into the office and commuting to campus.

It would have to be open sourced first and foremost. Second, there is nothing stopping government funded development efforts towards web technologies. Finally, there would need to be some incentive to developers. If developers can already contribute to an open source browser of their choice with companies that align with their political vision, why should they contribute to a publicly funded browser that will likely have its own political motivations geared towards whatever administration is in power?

You mean like the latest version of Firefox for Android?

So now you want Google to rescue Mozilla, when Servo was nothing but a toy that never reached fruition because it is in fact inferior to Chromium? Why not just ask Google to save half the projects out there because they are inferior solutions that people aren't using?

Because at that point the fake conspiracy would be uncovered entirely. First, Google devs made it clear their API changes intention isn't removing ad blocking. UBlock Origin still works fine on Chrome and Chromium. Safari has in fact done more to limit ad blocking than the supposed attempt by Google, which hasn't even happened because it is fake news.

There are ways to sort to limit the vendor-based solutions in the Landscape and just focus on open-source projects by the Linux Foundation and others that are considered official projects. It is an excellent invaluable resource IMO and they've done a great job so far.

Please don't give Cisco any ideas as they'll surely be doing this soon enough

I was referring to the actual Docker service startup time for Windows. Once it is started, of course it is going to be much faster. I'm getting half that on Linux on an computer from 2012.

They should have been finished years ago

Startup time for Docker is about 15 seconds, compared to Linux which is immediate. You're also going to get additional slowness because Docker is running inside another VM.

Unfortunately like WSL2 and Windows Terminal, these "features" take an excessively long time.

While I'm only interested in an open source solution, the YAML formatting they are using is almost exactly the style I was looking for. That would be a huge improvement to the current tooling available. I didn't see anything though, without signing up, that indicates that this would work well for mindmapping as well and implementing features like summaries:

https://xmind-help.github.io/en/summary.html

It is like a redesigned reddit with most of the features missing and doesn't recognize dark mode by default.

While I enjoy tools like draw.io---I much prefer something like XMind because I don't want to have to manually connect nodes, and it becomes overly tedious. Tools like draw.io are designed primarily for point and click, and people that love moving their mouse around constantly. This doesn't make me feel very productive, when I can use keyboard shorcuts to create an entire diagram in half the time and then go back and customize the nodes, adding boxes, etc.

Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a good markup generator for this type of diagramming or mind mapping. All the ones I've searched for fall short of the basic features compared to something like XMind, which is unfortunate. PlantUML is descent, and so is Graphviz, but they both fall short. Markmap as well fails tremendously in only offering linear designs. I hope some coder will see this and explore using YAML and a markup formating for creating diagrams, mindmaps, etc. Or just using markdown, but adding features for boxes, summary nodes, etc.