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Comment WebExtention killed Chatzilla (Score 1) 112

Well as one of the killers of chatzilla was the lack of a file access method in the conversion to webextentions. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246236)

chroot and jails (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-build.html) arent a new concept.I don't know what kinda overhead is involved in having each extension or page have a root based on its own namespace, but it doesn't seem impossible. However I do see a couple of things to abuse, filling up the file system with junk accidentally or on purpose, and does the browser dispose of the jailed files on quit, tab closure, some other criteria?

Perhaps another alternative would be a filestore file, like a VM file. The app doesn't actually write to the file system it only commits to its own blob. I also wonder if this could be sufficiently done via the already built in DB engine, which IIRC FF uses SQLite.

Comment TW tried this on me once. (Score 4, Informative) 141

So my landlady died, and her son (my boss at the time) took over. And all I wanted to do was to change the billing name. TW tried to tell me i had to pony up like $60 for a (something), and then tried to claim it was a state law. Of course that was a full on lie and I called the NY PSC and they straightend that out. This suprises me not at all.

Comment Re:Whoa (Score 1) 513

This remains another step in the inevitable end of "MacOS" as its currently known.

Bringing a shared HW base to all lines of HW, along with a a integrated SW build base, and brinign iOS apps to the Mac Desktop https://appleinsider.com/artic...

Brings closer the drive of moving to what the future of iOS will be, as opposed to the MacOS is. By bringing iOS apps to the 'Desktop' OS, it allows those apps to encroach on the otherwise conceptually separate desktop environment. Donig so also open up the changing of those apps to work better on a 'desktop' environment which is to really begin to work the semantics of the 'mobile' in with the less touch oriented uses. As time goes on the apps will dual target, until the HW platforms become no long different and the semantics are all interchangeable.

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