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20 votes
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Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020 looking for exhibitors, speakers, and volunteers
7 votes -
Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy
10 votes -
How much better can smartphones really get?
13 votes -
Our neophobic, conservative AI overlords want everything to stay the same
11 votes -
How do you explain tech topics when your audience doesn't understand the details?
Hive mind: What advice would you give to someone who has to give a presentation to a non-technical person, and it's important that the listener actually understand the details? How do you go about...
Hive mind: What advice would you give to someone who has to give a presentation to a non-technical person, and it's important that the listener actually understand the details?
How do you go about it? Specific tips appreciated. Pretend it's for a friend you care about.
(This is for an article. Ideally we could refer to you by reference for context and credibility, eg "an IT security pro at a midwest insurance company" or "aerospace engineer" so please give some kind of identification to use).
12 votes -
On privacy versus freedom
9 votes -
Opera introduces web browser designed for gamers
21 votes -
Why it's already 2020
19 votes -
The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
5 votes -
Old mobile websites?
Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for some web 1.0-esque websites, but with the twist of being designed for some ancient smartphones. An example of what I mean would be i.reddit.com , reddit's...
Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for some web 1.0-esque websites, but with the twist of being designed for some ancient smartphones. An example of what I mean would be i.reddit.com , reddit's original (and still fully functional) mobile implementation, or Twitter's site when you access it without a modern version of Javascript (which reverts to a clone of itself from around ~2012). I understand this is a super niche category and there's hardly any of them left, but if you happen to know of any or stumble upon one, please let me know! Thank you! :)
24 votes -
8tracks, a site for sharing music playlists, is shutting down on Dec. 31 - The story of their 11-year journey from launch to shutdown
12 votes -
The lesson that market leaders are failing to learn form Xerox PARC
7 votes -
Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
@atomicthumbs: Sonos states on their website that "sustainability is non-negotiable," and that they design products to minimize impact, but I work at an e-waste recycler and have demonstrable proof this is false. Sonos's "recycle mode" intentionally bricks good devices so they can't be reused.
33 votes -
Sweet Anita on Tourette's racial slur controversy
11 votes -
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
35 votes -
How NIST tested facial recognition algorithms for racial bias
5 votes -
People in Canada’s remote Arctic capital are obsessed with Amazon Prime
6 votes -
Don Norman: Technology first, needs last
5 votes -
Sort by controversial
16 votes -
The Original IBM PC 5150 - The story of the world's most influential computer
4 votes -
Messaging app ToTok has been removed from the Apple and Google app stores following claims the United Arab Emirates government was using it to spy on people
12 votes -
Film: The reason some of the past was in HD
13 votes -
Web Developers! What personal projects have you made, and are proud of?
Time for some inspiration. I've been working on a few SaaS applications for the past 2-3 months, and have only really got into it full time recently, and I'm totally in code-mode now, so I thought...
Time for some inspiration. I've been working on a few SaaS applications for the past 2-3 months, and have only really got into it full time recently, and I'm totally in code-mode now, so I thought I'd ask to see what other people have created in either their spare time, or to earn some money.
Link your app/tool/product/service! What tools, frameworks, or services did you build it with? What does it accomplish? How did you express your creativity while working on it? What's next for what you're creating?
14 votes -
Hong Kong protesters are using apps to avoid restaurants they suspect are pro-China
10 votes -
The performance advancements of the Radeon open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers over 2019
8 votes -
What we know about you when you click on this article—Vox has a pretty typical privacy policy. That doesn’t make it great.
11 votes -
AirPods Pro Bluetooth audio latency analysis
7 votes -
The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy
8 votes -
Cloudflare: First Half 2019 Transparency Report and an Update on a Warrant Canary
18 votes -
Part 1 of an investigation into a network of fake Facebook accounts with AI-generated profile photos, being used to promote TheBL.com
17 votes -
"Mapping Imaginary Cities" by Mouse Reeve
4 votes -
One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
15 votes -
What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy and found that automakers collect data through hundreds of sensors and an always-on Internet connection
22 votes -
This Page is Designed to Last
23 votes -
What simple features would you want in a new browser?
So, I'm planning on building yet another browser (based on Firefox, since we already have too much Chromium forks around) I'm intending to target the people worried about their privacy, but aren't...
So, I'm planning on building yet another browser (based on Firefox, since we already have too much Chromium forks around)
I'm intending to target the people worried about their privacy, but aren't technical enough to dabble with about:config tweaks and deal with any site breakages.
So, for this project, I'm planning on doing the following modifications to Firefox:
- Tweaked by default to get a balance between increased privacy, and less site breakage
- Tweaks include cutting any "background" communication with Mozilla (while I trust them, some people might not) and Google (safe browsing, geolocation)
- Maybe, possibly, an "advanced privacy settings" menu for more privacy settings in exchange for site breakage?
- Integrated ad blocker (Decided on uBlock Origin, maybe adding Nano Defender to bypass any nag screens)
- Maybe a way to "pretend" to be a Chromium browser, since some sites require that nowadays (More user agent complexity, yay!)
So, this is where this thread comes in. What would you guys want in a (Gecko-based) browser, that I can provide?
I am definitely not planning any substantial under-the-hood changes, since that would
a) make maintaining it a pain
b) be way out of my skill level.I am only looking for stuff that can be applied with some simple source code patches, or an integrated extension, as I will not "fork" the entire FF source. This project is essentially a rebranded patchset. (Also allows for faster updates!)
ps: Please be realistic, and remember that this is a one man thing. I can not make any substantial changes, like bringing XUL add-ons back, if you know what those are.
pps: If you can, and are willing to help with anything, let me know and I'll put up a repo online :)
ppps: Please let me know if I've made a mistake while creating this topic.
15 votes - Tweaked by default to get a balance between increased privacy, and less site breakage
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"Link in bio": it seems like a harmless phrase, but it represents a strategy of controlling users and keeping them away from the open web
15 votes -
How oppo ended up making realme become the 7th largest phone brand globally in a year
4 votes -
NIST study evaluates effects of race, age, sex on face recognition software - Findings included that many algorithms had false positive rates 10 to 100 times higher for non-Caucasians
7 votes -
The real trouble with Silicon Valley: The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world
9 votes -
Facebook is working on its own OS that could reduce its reliance on Android
7 votes -
Google's dangerous monopoly-based foreign policy
8 votes -
YouTube star PewDiePie has announced he is taking a break from the platform, saying he is "feeling very tired"
24 votes -
Microbrowsers are everywhere
10 votes -
Google leadership set 2023 as deadline to beat Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud business
6 votes -
Ponzi schemes, private yachts, and a missing $250 million in crypto: The strange tale of Quadriga and its founder's mysterious death
8 votes -
How tracking pixels work
13 votes -
LogMeIn (owner of LastPass, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, OpenVoice and join.me) is being acquired by private equity firms for $4.3 billion
23 votes -
We only hire the trendiest
18 votes -
“Join Reddit to keep reading” - an account is now required to read comment threads on the mobile website
54 votes