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Signal has now adopted a cryptocurrency (with ties to Moxie Marlinspike, the Signal founder) for mobile payments: https://amycastor.com/2021/04/07/signal-adopts-mobilecoin-a-crypto-project-linked-to-its-own-creator-moxie-marlinspike/ This looks like a scheme to make money for Marlinspike: he most li...

I just updated AutoHotKey again, but their "official" source says March 10th, literally a day ahead, should I still go by that? (I went with the 9th, this time.) Probably a timezone difference. I'm at UTC+2 and your post was only nine minutes before midnight at my timezone. At higher UTC offsets it...

It appears Firefox team has gone to great lengths to remove all options to quickly restart the browser, something that I use(d) a lot on my daily web explorations (caused by the massive amount of memory it uses -- I usually see it hovering way up of the 1GB mark -- which a times turns even the best...

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Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:36 am

EDIT: Oh crap I messed up, I edited the "Release Date" to when the update, and maybe should have left it as the original date...?

Release data field is supposed to mean the date when the update was released by the developer.

So if you downloaded the Firefox source code and then compiled it yourself, it would not have telemetry and branding? I looked on the Firefox build and build FAQ page, no info there: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/windows_build.html https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/De...

Very interesting -- I was under the impression that Visual Studio Code was open source, which is not the case. VSCode is open source. The only difference is that Microsoft's official builds have the telemetry and branding. (If you consider VSCode closed source by this rationale, then Firefox wouldn...

Interesting. I actually had a RECYCLER folder in one partition in my external drive. The folder's edit timestamp was August 16, 2010. I removed it just now.

Also, a bit of an update on this from LWN with the suggestion by multiple distro maintainers will move away from Chromium . Key quote: Many of us run free software — and avoid proprietary software — because we want to remain in control of our systems. Free software can be counted on to not disappea...

Regardless, I fully agree with Andrew that we'll need community help on this one. I'm trying to setup something more automatic to check for updates but I'll keep that process open so anyone can use it to update entries if they're so inclined. How about WebVersions ? It's outright meant for that pur...

Are there any active LibreOffice Portable users on the site? I use X-LibreOffice. I doubt your crashes would be related to differences between LO Portable and X-LO. It's possible something in your configuration causes those crashes. You could try backing up your config, then deleting like half of t...

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Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:12 am

@SYSTEM: is there any reason for that beyond personal preference?

Not really.

I've never seen that COMSPEC function before or understood it as necessary. I've always liked how straightforward Windows batch files are -- what a weird addition. Not trying to be pedantic, but %COMSPEC% is a system variable* that always points to CMD.exe. As different systems go, I have found it ...

It also makes me wonder what this site will look like in a decade and how people will look back on our contribution to freeware. I think we do have some influence. Recently I saw someone recommend Universal Extractor 2 in a Discord server that has nothing to do with freeware. In early days of UE2, ...

Interesting piece comparing what separates Vivaldi from regular Chrome : What do you mean "regular Chrome"? Vivaldi is not Chrome or a Chrome shell. It has fully custom UI, not derived from Chrome's. And with its focus on features and customizability, Vivaldi is clearly its own thing rather than me...

The SQL query actually includes a lot of other stuff, including pagination, ordering, scoring etc. which are built up along various stages, cumulating into a single SQL query. Isn't it better to leave those to the frontend? No, doing pagination and scoring in the front end is slow since it requires...