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Re:Firefox Replay on Thursday November 28, 2019 @09:03AM (#21657406)
Just for perspective: 1% of 1 billion is 10 millions. That's a lot of people and then some.
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:50AM (#21584359)
Taking care of a server that receives browsing data from lots of users in lots of countries must be a nightmare.
Re:Bulgaria is the world’s fastest-shrinking country on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:03AM (#21137207)
This would infuriate me to no end. It's not enough that I'm forced to leave my home because of corruption and other problems? You dare come after me and ask for money? I would give up my citizenship the fastest I could.
It's not clear to me. Were those people paid or volunteers?
In my country, working as an Uber driver gets you a good salary. I think it's around 1000€ (minimum wage being less than 500€). Is it different in USA? Do they get less than minimum wage for 8 hours?
Re:About the “Security Issue” on VLC on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:47AM (#20514186)
LTS depends on CVEs. And we see here that the CVE database is not entirely trust worthy. The chain is a bit broken.
As a 10 years user of Linux (at home and at work) let me tell you that page is full of FUD.

It's picking up every issue on Linux and paints it as a disaster.

Then it goes to "I have no idea what I'm talking about" mode with

> There's no concept of drivers in Linux aside from proprietary drivers for NVIDIA/AMD GPUs

Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:44AM (#19849217)
I'd argue that the same is true today. No big org is using pure OSS. They have big contracts with Redhat and the likes and they like to pretend that they're covered.
Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @02:36AM (#19151175)
Maybe you don't listen.

"Apps" like Slack are on my hate list even above desktop Java apps. Seriously, I can't understand how come it's acceptable to use >1GB of RAM to display 10 lines of text.