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Its just an excuse people use to keep using thier beloved shiny brand.

We did it before. Thanks to Firefox we broke the IE6 monopoly even on Windows.

How did that happen, anyway? Tabs? What's the next killer feature after tabs? Maybe sync?

Adblock, I would have thought. And Google can't compete in this space, by their very nature.

This is the message that Firefox needs to push: Hate ads? Use Firefox.


Considering that Firefox by itself doesn't block anything without extensions, that seemingly less than 10% of users use extensions and that tgere5are already quite a few snappier browsers that block ads by default...

Haven't all the major browsers had sync for ages? I've been using Firefox's built-in sync for so long I don't even remember what it was like without it.

The footprint is a cost problem once. They don't need power, computers, or technicians to come out and maintain the equipment constantly.

>The footprint is a cost problem once.

Land can approximately be converted to a recurring cost via rents.


The advantages aren't "theoretical." It's 100% proven that they're safer, cheaper over the long term, and flow more traffic than a red light.

At the minimum, stop using goddamn email addresses for the login.

Then you don't need to automate it, and you can just manually solve the captcha and log in.

Excuse me? Why does Tesla need to be involved at all? Take the title to the DMV and transfer it.


Because the easiest way to boost profitability is to ignore laws and user rights via technologically constructed workarounds.


Yeah I don't feel bad for Microsoft, but I don't feel bad for people who keep paying them for it either. This has been going on forever now. Nothing will happen until people start leaving. I don't honestly understand why so much shit is on GitHub when there are so many alternatives, anyways. It's fucking git! Can't people do or try anything different, ever?


People are on GitHub because it's the cool thing to do, and there is no concept of anything else that could matter.


Wait, I just used the tracking the other day and generated a GPX from it. It also drew me an elevation map and gave me some other info about the trip. Is there some other tracking that it can't do?


I stand corrected, CoMaps can do tracking. It was introduced in Organic Maps a couple of years ago, but I was already using OpenTracks, so I never switched away from it.


What, all 6 people who work at the datacenter?


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