they did it based on popularity
Bollocks. It's got barely 10% of the users of the #5 app (Noscript), and about 1% of the #1 (ABP). It doesn't show up until the 4th page when sorted by popularity (#64).
Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing made simple—all your Internet needs in one application.
Not quite sure that passes his criteria "B" - might be smaller than Firefox, size-wise (not that that's a terribly high bar to clear at this point), but that's 5 full applications of "bloat" as a web browser replacement.
As much evidence as there is of this mass of "user feedback" asking them to integrate a shitty data-mining add-on into the browser core.
The one good thing that came out of this whole debacle was that someone on r/linux posted about Wallabag.
I love self-hosted knockoffs.
How's its extension support? That's what killed Palemoon for me.
Unfortunately, Australis in Firefox has creamed Palemoon's extension support (and the whole user agent debacle on Palemoon's side didn't help things, either).
I'm kind of hoping that Firefox extension authors would react to the whole "signing" BS the way a bunch of big Minecraft modders did to the EULA enforcement change and Microsoft buyout. Otherwise, it looks like neither one will be fit for use for much longer.
Don't forget GIMP.
They do it because it's feedback they received from a large number of users.
Yeah, and that check that Read It Later, Inc handed over had nothing to do with it.
Wow, I expected the Xbone to be better kitted than that. I guess they spent too much time trying to make it into a Telescreen engine.
That, and you see way too many ideas boiling down to "$EXISTING_SOCIAL_MEDIA for $OTHER_DOMAIN"
"Tinder for Jobs" is particularly horrifying...
I'm trying to think in what twisted world you think this is right and OK.
The one where reality takes place. If it was something we wanted to spend our time doing, they wouldn't have to give us money in return.
Hey, you're preaching to the choir here.
Actually, this conversation has prompted me to order an R9 280 upgrade, finally. Crossing my fingers that it doesn't suck (I haven't gone with ATI in almost 2 decades, but thought I'd give it a try now that I run Linux in VM)
Gotcha. So it's "brilliant" as long as he keeps on the deadbeat path. Makes sense now.
I could give up what had become my vocation (in my case, being a writer) and take a job that I didn’t want in order to repay the huge debt I had accumulated in college and graduate school.
Oh, gods, the horror! Taking a job you don't want so you can live? The poor, wretched victim!
I thought this guy was yet another "B.A. in basket weaving" millenial from this whinging. Color me gobsmacked: he was born in the fucking 50s.
Being able to perform on-par with current-gen consoles isn't "putting them to shame" or "blowing them out of the water", though.
The real bitch of the whole PC gaming/GPU scene is that it's a complete PITA to figure out how two cards compare. It's made shopping for an upgrade rather arduous the past few weeks.
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission
