I’m also not a fan of Slack, but it doesn’t break new things every week while also putting ads in your face, so that’s a plus.

Teams is also only communication.

Slack isn’t great, but at least a few years ago it was much, much better than Teams

Yes, it is. No, the delays on Youtube don’t come from the performance of the adblocking code, so you won’t notice many differences. But more efficient adblocking is good for everyone - noticeably more so on devices with batteries, but still helpful for everyone.

Well yes, but have you also considered that line must go up?

Not righteous at all, bro :(

What a fucking piece of shit.

I have to admit, every time a story like this comes out, it makes me distrust any other large company all the more. When this whole thing first started, I already expected the publisher to be lying. Looks like the pattern holds true!

No, you couldn’t.

Homomorphic Encryption is a well-known field of research in cryptography. Honestly, if you are capable of understanding the proofs, you don’t need them to be listed on Wikipedia.

Unlikely, browser vendors are very careful adding such APIs, and MS doesn’t have the pull Google does.

A simple fix is, of course, not to use Edge.

The browser version shouldn’t be able to access this info.

AFAIU you can’t determine whether the state on the other side has been collapsed. All you can say with certainty is the state on the other side after you have collapsed yours.

Instead, it’ll just see wages increase more quickly than prices for a period afterwards to restore buying power.

Good one!

Not the only downside - some MS developed extensions, e.g. their Python integration, have to be patched to work with VSCodium: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1641

Yeah, they really added DRM.

This happened quite often for various UI settings etc. Often there were technical reasons for removing the option (e.g. rewrites where they dropped features with low usage), but it is a real thing.

I switched to LibreWolf when the privacy policy fiasco happened a while ago. It’s funny how every few weeks Mozilla manages to demonstrate why I won’t switch back.

The new CEO has also already lost me with this gem:

He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.

Even taking the statement at face value, it’s unacceptable for it to just “feel off-mission”. It should be a clear “no, never” instead of some wishy-washy answer.

But reading between the lines, such a statement is not just an off-the-cuff remark, but at best a threat to their users, and at worst a way to gauge the blowback of such a decision. They must have already taken it seriously enough to come up with the $150 million.

If I had to put up a number, I’d guess there’s a 25+% chance that Firefox will drop Manifest V2 in the next few years.

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What is Pete Davidson doing to that poor soul?

Then please explain to me one simple thing - how do you implement sanctions when they can be circumvented by setting up a single company?

No, it’s not new or strange. It’s a normal component of sanctions, and it’s fundamentally how they’re implemented. Otherwise you could circumvent them by setting up two companies.

It becomes impossible to predict which companies and services may be suddenly impacted.

It’s pretty easy to predict. Do you do business with a sanctioned country? Then you’ll be impacted. Easy enough.

I’m all for the EU sanctions against Russia, and consequences for those entities breaching them. But Microsoft didn’t breach the sanctions, and should be used as a tool to punish those that do.

Are you under the impression that Microsoft is being punished in any way? They aren’t, they’re simply not allowed to do business with companies acting against sanctions if they want to keep doing business in the EU.

I don’t know why you’re acting like this is such a strange thing.

Nayara supplies & operates in a sanctioned country. The EU doesn’t want companies supplying companies that do so. If Microsoft wants to keep operating in the EU, they aren’t allowed to keep supplying companies that do so.