Founding member of company that stands to make fortunes through a product endorses said product.

They’re also prioritising a few great and much needed QoL improvements like vertical tabs, tab grouping and a new Profile Management system!

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/heres-what-were-working-on-in-firefox/

Note that this is not “just banning someone’s account because they don’t like it”. These are people involved in criminal investigations. Shutting them down is meant to plug their criminal activities so society doesn’t get further damaged by them while the police and judiciary work on actually convicting them.

As an aside: I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I disagree with your view but your question was asked respectfully and in good faith.

I, on the other hand, prefer to do it online and wouldn’t mind this. Horses for courses.

Why even have a phone number if it is useless?

Really? Are reservations the only use for a phone?

This is not defeat. It’s a strategic retreat on their part.

It’s embrace, extend, extinguish. Get workers used to going to the office one or two times a week whilst making it seem like they conceded, then slowly return to the legacy status quo.

Edit: lol why the downvotes? Do people really believe “the CEOs” have been “defeated”?

They should have stopped at Boaty McBoatface, really.

opt-in by default

That’s not really what “opt-in” means.

3rd party cookies make tracking users easier when the same cookie can be used on many websites.

Firefox does 2 things to protect you from that: it blocks known trackers cookies by default; and for the others it isolates them per domain so that kind of tracking doesn’t happen. That ensures you’re not tracked and at the same time it doesn’t break any functionality.

If you want to completely block them you can. There’s more info here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/third-party-cookies-firefox-tracking-protection

We’ve reached the point where reality is just too bloody close to The Onion.

curtail developer choice

Yeah no shit. When developers choose to be anti-consumer, that must be curtailed. That’s precisely what regulations are for.

You don’t punish them per se, but you do sanction them.

For example, Bolsonaro can’t leave the country even though he hasn’t been found guilty of anything yet.

Also, someone who’s been accused of murder will probably be arrested preventatively if the judge in charge has reason to believe they will reincide before the proceedings are through.

These things happen all the time and they’re designed to protect society from further damage from criminals who haven’t yet been fully judged and processed.

As others mentioned, it’s a programming paradigm. It and discussions around it have zero implications outside of programming.

People can write great applications using it or using any other paradigm. Same is true for terrible applications.

Some people love it, some people hate it, most are somewhere in between and think it has their merits and tradeoffs, and that it can be used where it makes sense, but shouldn’t where it doesn’t.

Heated discussions are very common in tech circles over things that have zero practical implications outside our own little world, and this is one of them. 😄

Also in the article (and in fact, core to the point being made):

There are a couple of catches, though. For one, it only works on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000-series GPUs, such as the GeForce RTX 4070. Secondly, using it requires a game to support it, or for a modder to unofficially add support to a game.

What’s more, while Nvidia’s DLSS tech is a closed eco system that only runs on Nvidia RTX GPUs, AMD has made FSR 3 open source, a strategy that AMD thinks Nvidia will have to emulate at some point.

HDR shines the most on OLED. Pun not intended. 😅

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“To watch this crappy movie’s crappy trailer, give up on your privacy.” LOL no thanks.

Sorry but I don’t believe you. I just searched your exact terms on my search engine of preference and I still haven’t found said beta website.

Furthermore, and most importantly, if you know exactly what to look for, eventually you will. In the same vein, if I had typed the URL to said website on my browser’s address bar, guess what… I would have found it without even have to search for it! 🤯 Even easier, by your logic.

That’s what I said. They’re under a criminal investigation.

2 years since I’ve built my gaming rig. I’ve booted Windows on it once, and at this point I don’t even have a Windows partition anymore.

I don’t mind the order of path, arguments and options, but what the hell is the deal with long arguments with a single dash? i.e. -name instead of —-name

Wine is not a Windows emulator. The name literally means “Wine Is Not an Emulator”.

It’s also not based on Windows 2000. In fact, it started out translating syscalls from Windows 3.1.

The syscalls themselves are pretty stable between Windows versions, which is why you can run a Windows XP application on Windows 11 without recompiling it, as long as it’s for the same architecture.