Your comment made me dig out my BHS, since i had not counted in Hebrew since my Masters 20 years ago. Biblical Hebrew also spells out numbers, but in a slightly mixed order of the 2 systems: six and forty thousand and five of hundreds (Num 1:21), nine and fifty thousand and three of hundreds ( 1:23 ).
i use orangepi prime boards in production as remote NIDS. i used Armbian (a great debian porting project that does what the maker should have done ) until orange released their Debian 10 img. I put an endurance rated sdcard in those pis and they run like the little pink bunny! Love these little orangepis. I have tried a handful of other boards ( beagle, raspberry, banana , have a whole stack. too many to remember) but the oranges are solid. On a lot of these little SoCs, you can use the raspberry pi gpio software since many of these boards follow the same gpio standard & plug in/out.
my first thought: they'll collect money from sites to disable adblockers and other ext. I gave up on Mozilla 5 or so years ago because they ARE sneaky about being corporate sellouts and anti privacy. At least the browsers i use now don't PRETEND to be privacy focused.
can't the browser download the webpage that contains code to scan 127.0.0.1 then forward the data back to the server? this would also bypass vpn protection.
Are you suggesting that as a bypass for Brave's protection or something? And you do understand that this is how browsers work in general, by downloading code, running, and forwarding data back to servers?
I believe Cyder was explaining his (and my) understanding of what this new Brave feature is trying to prevent. That is the kind of behavior that this feature is putting a stop to, localhost connections.
the real issue, is that when enough people consume a service, it becomes a 'utility', and you are penalized if you don't use it. As such, if a percentage of the population uses something, it should be regulated as a 'utility'. Copyright laws should reflect this also.
Most jobs I've seen (even outside of tech ) require familiarity with Windows and Office, ie. basic skills linked to one platform.
Google is used enough and thus influential enough, it should be classified a public utility and forced to comply with strict utility laws ( which requires government approval to modify prices ).
IANAL, but I'm sure there are layers that could contrive the social penalties of not using Google service.
People make this logical leap in their brains without recognizing it when they use a service for years and rely on it for their daily information, then turn on the high paid exec's who are trying to squeeze a dollar from every user. Red Hat, Reddit, Google, Microsoft, Comcast, all need reigning in because of their necessarily high required utility in civilization.
I agree. Eventually companies become so big that not using them is, in D&D terms, a -2 to all stats for your entire life.
I mean, in exchange for giving them so much money that its gravitational field warps all of democracy, can we not get a little customer service when needed?
mm i understand the argument, but looking at the other utilities around me, i think it has to be a last resort. we have way more options navigating this in the space of bits than we do of matter. monopolies sort of suck no matter how they’re owned or operated: rather to force the non-critical monopolies to break up than to immortalize them as utilities.
That's kind of backwards; Microsoft might have written the New Testament, but it was IBM's playbook originally. IBM was one of the original tech industry supervillains back when Microsoft was still just two college dropouts selling BASIC. In Apple's "1984" ad it was IBM who was the totalitarian empire; it was only later that Microsoft took the mantle from their former master.
used a phison 2tb nvme on windows 10 for a year before trying a Samsung nvme. Had pitiful performance from the phison (drop to 0MB/s on larger copies) , partly due to Windows no doubt. But the Samsung is so much better. I credit the Samsung controller. so yea, i heard of them ( name is clearly on the controller chip ) and then i bought better.
i gave up on firefox when i couldn't stop it from connecting to Google on a network device i was working on. Removing all the links from the advanced settings made it fail to start. That's when I realized how hypocritical they are. ( arm64 firefox-esr.) Even the latest chromium on arm64 connects to Google almost daily. i use epiphany-browser for that project now. no unwanted internet traffic from epiphany.
Yeah when my DNS went sporty I noticed Firefox got very slow to load even local ips and investigated.
Turns out it does two dozen queries on every start. Mostly to unknown Mozilla services but also a few from Google and others I couldn't identify (IP on either AWS or CloudFlare, likely just more Mozilla). And when it can't resolve those hosts it seems to continually retry every few seconds...
Before the apologists arrive, try it yourself. Disable all your add-ons and set your homepage to blank, close Firefox, start wireshark, start Firefox and watch the avalanche.
