Were you actually alive back then? "Better service" is not generally a characteristic often associated with Ma Bell.

Did he actually support regulating it as a utility, or did he support that bullshit "hybrid" proposal that essentially leaves us where we are now, so we'll take our fake little cookie and STFU about it.

So if... nobody is offended by it then how, exactly, does that make it a problem?

Just for clarity, the bogus claims/"research" were vivisected, not the idiot making the video.

Anita Sarkeesian. 5th video, IIRC. Delightfully vivisected by Thunderf00t.

I asked a similar question a few weeks back. It seems that FreeBSD's "pkg-ng" still has a few rough edges but is coming along pretty nicely.

It's not proof, but if you look at the Init System general resolution thread on the mailing list, there's a loooong subthread where the logic behind the GR is appropriate under the debian constitution.

Hey, you never know. November is NaNoWriMo, after all...

Because a shitty iPhone game can only keep one relevant for so long, maybe.

They did. It did. That's what started this whole fucking circus.

If your definition of "credible" extends to some douchebag on an internet forum, you've got bigger problems then people saying nasty things to you on teh webz.

Yeah, that's what the real bummer of the whole thing is. PM was a godsend before, for just that reason. I'd have been through the roof if this story had been about Palemoon instead of Mozilla making a dev-focused browser. :D

It's not a question of blame (other than the author's soapboxing I mentioned earlier), just pragmatism. I'm just too old to be playing stupid "browser loyalty" games. I've got things to do, and in this case, both Fx and Palemoon get in the way of doing them: the former with its shitty, barely-usable UX garbage, and the latter by not supporting the tools I need. Since I can "kinda sorta" get around the former with "Classic Theme Restorer" and the like, and the latter I can't get around at all, Palemoon simply isn't fit to task anymore.

Yeah, I saw that SDC was fixed. Without firebug, though, it's still a no-go. Some of my other "nice to have but not dealbreaker" extensions are still "TBD" on that list, too (like Epub Reader). Honestly, screwing with the extensions just killed any real interest I had in the project. If it wasn't for the extensions, I would have switched to Opera or Chromium back before Palemoon was even a thing.

It's not that bad. I don't know what set of permissions you're using, or what your app even does, but a lot of things would just be rolled into testing you're already doing. Want to test if network access is denied? Do it while you're testing how your app behaves when the phone doesn't have a WIFI or 3G/4G signal (and if your app is one of those that refuses to start without a net connection, then just please ragequit)

99% of the problems apps have with permissions managers like that is just assuming data will be there instead of doing proper input checking (data from the system is still "input"). I remember back when an "android tablet" was basically a Nook Color with a modified phone rom on it, I came across some very nosy apps that shat themselves when they tried to get a phone number.

Never trust the client.