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Posted on 19-03-20, 09:48 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Posted by Screwtape
Sure, but I think 2016 is when people really started to think there might be a systemic problem and not just some unfortunate coincidences.

When people started NOTICING there was a problem is a different thing.


Anyway, this isn't the politics thread!

Every thread is the politics thread.


Today Firefox 66 was released, which means Firefox Nightly got bumped to version 68. For the first time in as long as I can remember, I actually found some regressions and filed bugs for them:

- browser.display.use_document_fonts=0 is not respected
- Tree Style Tab requires an extra click to do anything

Much to my (pleasant) surprise, both bugs got triaged, confirmed, and somebody found the exact commit that caused each regression within a couple of hours of my reporting them.

I'm still a bit annoyed that the regressions happened, but I'm pleased to get a response so quickly, and now I'm keen to see how long it takes the regressions to be fixed.

"WONTFIX Behavior as designed."

I have faith in Team Firefox.
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Lightest I saw was MS-DOS 7. Someone pulled out everything but the MS-DOS part of 9x and put it up as a standalone install.
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Posted on 19-03-20, 23:54 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Works fine on my datatab.
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Lightest I saw was MS-DOS 7. Someone pulled out everything but the MS-DOS part of 9x and put it up as a standalone install.

Any reason for this? Anything that requires 7?
I think just for a DOS with FAT32.

Most DOS apps don't care about the specific OS. They take over the hardware directly for most tasks.
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Posted on 19-03-21, 04:07 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by Kakashi
I thought about it and came to the conclusion; if you're dumb enough to commit a crime, you're dumb enough to live on the edge doing so. I think the law would be smart enough to disregard any argument involved with this case.
I took a simpler approach. People born on a leap day typically celebrate on 2/28 on short years.

That said, I respect the defense's dedication to their client that they'd run this argument up.
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Posted by Screwtape
There was an MS-DOS 8?

Apparently it was what Windows ME ran on. But it was kneecapped because it came with Windows ME.
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Posted by sureanem
Huh, apparently MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 are open-source. Pretty neat:
https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS

It does however beg the question of why they didn't open-source later versions. Are they worried about revealing bleeding-edge technologies such as extended and logical partitions, directory tree copying with XCOPY, support of hard disk partitions greater than 32 MiB, support of up to four MS-DOS primary partitions, and memory remapping with HIMEM.SYS?
They're saving something back in case this isn't enough to completely destroy Linux.

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Posted by sureanem
For instance, Edge gets swapped for Firefox
UUUGH.

I'm on record here and now as saying Edge is better than Firefox.
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Posted on 19-03-23, 04:01 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Posted by Screwtape
the GNU project gives out as many copies of Emacs as they can.

So you're saying the GNU project is evil?
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Posted by jimbo1qaz
Netsurf is a "lightweight browser" (though I haven't used it recently, and it's probably incompatible with much of the web).
So's Dillo.
If you REALLY wanna get light, there's Links2. That's as light as it gets while still rendering images.
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Posted by Nicholas Steel

What happens when you install a Cumulative Update for Windows 10? Does any of the removed stuff get reinstalled or is the update process smart enough to not do that?

They completely disabled Windows Update.

Or are you supposed to just never update your copy of Windows 10 and leave your system full of security holes and bugs?
That.
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Instead of speculating on how wildly illegal a derivative work of Windows 10 is, I read the EULA(horror!).


Aaaaand...


Restrictions. The device manufacturer or installer and Microsoft reserve all rights (such as rights under intellectual property laws) not expressly granted in this agreement. For example, this license does not give you any right to, and you may not:

...

(ii) publish, copy (other than the permitted backup copy), rent, lease, or lend the software;

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The license explicitly prohibits this, to the surprise of absolutely no one.


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Posted on 19-03-24, 08:01 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Trailer for a live-action Dora the Explorer film
Just... what.

Why is this a thing? Why does it seem surprisingly violent? And why does it look genuinely entertaining?
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Posted on 19-03-24, 11:09 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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According to the disturbingly-detailed Dora wiki that I had to visit to find out what the fuck a Swiper is, they updated her for the pre-teen set a few years back, in a short-lived cartoon series where she moved to the city and had adventures with her new city-friends. But not violent adventures involving kidnappings, and no one making fun of Dora for being different. Wholesome friendly cuddly adventures, just age 12 instead of 8.


I know more about Dora canon than I want to after this evening. I'm just sayin'.
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Posted by wertigon


AME won't get anywhere. It's a C&D lawsuit waiting to happen, since copyright law expressly forbids every redistribution and modification of Windows 10. You do not have a legal means of fixing the Windows telemetry.
Copyright law in the US explicitly allows modification for personal use. Just not distribution of those modifications.
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Right. These guys could post scripts to do the modifications, and instructions. But they can't legally just put up a new Windows distro.
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Posted on 19-03-25, 07:54 in Announcing the bsnes history kit
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Posted by Screwtape

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> it was archived for posterity and deleted from the database

Oooooh, is that what happened to it? That would be super fun to read through again.

It super-is! You can get the zip file from gitlab, or I believe tukuyomi's collection is back up again, so you can get it from there as well.

My nick on the ZBoard was Thristian ("Screwtape" was already taken), and apparently my first post was encouraging you to make your game database identify games by MD5 instead of CRC32. ;)




I was(and still am) Gil_Hamilton. My first post in that thread was ... laughing at the ATX1 power supply spec.
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Posted by sureanem
The issue remains firmly in the theoretical domain as long as you observe privacy best practices. In reality, there is no issue, only on paper.


It isn't theoretical. The expression is "you're only in trouble if you get caught", not "it's only illegal if you get caught".
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I think you are using a diffrent definition of theoretical than the rest of us.
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Theoretical in the sense that it is believed, but not proven. "Existing only in theory", to quote the dictionary(And using the common definition of theory instead of the scientific one, as this is not a scientific discussion).

The existence of a publicly-accessible code of law is proof of legality, and one of the major societal wins for the lower class is that there are no theoretically criminal acts.

The possiblity of getting caught is, similarly, a non-theoretical risk. It may be a minimal one if you are a good criminal, but it is still known to exist.

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