I've been using Firefox since pre-1 beta - and though I hate how the internal politics of the company have gone as of late I never switched to Chrome. Recently, since Brave now supports Chrome extensions, I've started installing that instead of Chromium for things I occasionally need to use like Hangouts.

Aside from being a privacy/tracking nightmare Chrome has never appealed to me. Now that it's expanded into this weird application platform it also causes problems. I've seen it grab audio devices and not release them, turn on the webcam despite having no reason to even have access to it, and worst off it started implementing its own printing framework which ignores the OS printing facilities and scans the network for printers. This is all behaviour I absolutely do not want in a browser.

I went to a speciality school where we had a class called "Creation". It went through different methods of thinking to try and come up with new solutions, and it had sections on how the education system basically forces students into specific patterns. For example, one lesson the teacher drew five shapes on a board, a triangle labelled with an A, a square labelled with a B, a crescent labelled with a C and a circle labelld with a D - and the question was "which shape is different" - with many students picking a single specific shape. The answer was of course that they are all different - but standardized education had taught us that there is one correct answer that we must identify. To invent, one must think in a way that others have not thought before, so this Creation class had both "de-programming" sections and sections to teach brainstorming and combining ideas etc.

I hate to say it, but in a standardized education, I fear the implementation would not be like the Creation course I took, but rather it would somehow be standardized; essentially defeating the purpose.

I almost exclusively use Linux and not even I'm buying that one. Windows with WSL offers way more than a crippled Linux distro with web apps (that can run on Windows anyway...) and Android Apps on the desktop (can't imagine a single Android app I would find appealing as a desktop app...).

Sorry, if your only "advantage" is being able to run Android apps but you also have to deal with a crippled Linux experience how is that more appealing than getting a Windows notebook and installing a decent Linux distro on it/dual booting *for the same price*.

This comment basically sums it up completely. You can call it a "community driven" or whatever BS term you want but at the end of the day it's not an impartial committee or an unaffiliated individual controlling things - it's Google. Go, Swift, and to a slightly lesser degree Java are languages that are in all practicality the product of a specific corporation, and if you think otherwise you're a fool.

Snaps are horribly incompatible with a variety of things - specifically they almost universally have issues with IMEs (input method editors) and I need them because I use a CJK language. They also have a variety of weird permission issues because Snap uses its own permission model, and performance issues because they don't use native shared libraries (or sometimes they do, sometimes they don't). It's an interesting idea, but as it is native packaging is universally a better option for any and every reason possible.

I think you're confusing Chromium and WebKit. Chromium is OSS but it's still very much Google controlled and tightly integrated with Google services.

I'm not going to name names, but there were several key "Makers" at the beginning who basically sabotaged the movement by essentially crowdsourcing ideas, turning them into a product, then selling them off and in the process completely closing off all OSS channels that supported the initial development of the product and drove a community to it. The philosophy of "If you can't open it, you don't own it." was basically thrown away as soon as it was convenient. That also fragmented and eventually scared off most of the core community.

There's also the fact many "makers" were raised up just because they were "different" or "unique" rather than for their skill. Two particular individuals have maintained prominent despite being relatively low in skill level and have consistently been hostile to the community when this has been pointed out.

Add on to that strange social justice tints and politicisation of maker communities and events, multiple instances of mismanagement of funds, and individuals specifically looking to utilize the community for some ulterior motive like pushing an agenda - and you have a lot of genuine "makers" who have just disassociated with the movement and are disenfranchised with the Make branded media and events.

There's several factors here - one is probably her passport, which is linked to a database with biometric markers that can be checked against. The other is probably when she bought her tickets - there was likely a note in the EULA/purchase contract which she ignored. Opting out of this isn't going to erase your information from a government database - it's just going to take you longer to get through the line to get onto your plane.

I don't like it either, but I have to admit it has proven convenient.

I've gotten Google as much out of my life as I possibly can. No way I'm going to buy a car that's literally integrated with Google as a "feature".

So the CEO of a big company that intends to use Huawei gear instead of spending the money on developing their own/waiting for more trustworthy but possibly more exepnsive alternatives from other places is whining that "it will take more time"? How about worrying about your customers and their information privacy before you worry about your wallet - f*ck you Vodafone.

Agreed. If you're doing almost anything involving modern systems you end up having to know a bunch of languages just to interact with different parts of the system. EG any modern web framework you need to know at least JavaScript as well as the base language of the framework (Rails/Ruby, Django/Python, Play/Java...).

I code regularly in Ruby, C++, and pure C but I end up having to know Java, JavaScript and Lua to maintain other parts of the systems I'm working on. Aside from that we have tools written in Python, so I need to know that too. That's 7 that I [have to] use regularly and know well - now as for languages I know but don't use regularly.... probably like 30+? If we get to count DSLs and flavours of Assembler and varieties of SQL then that number could be much larger.

I absolutely agree with that. There's tons of other axis that could be mapped against, such as "traditionalism" and "religiosity". But then again I personally can't stand those questionnaires that try to map your political alignment on multiple spectra because I always have some sort of exception to a bunch of the questions. I also hate the generalizations of "Conservative" and "Liberal" because I can't think of a single person I've ever met who I could actually cleanly categorize in one of them without exception... and that's not even taking into consideration of the fact that the term "liberal" now seems to mean something different depending on what news network you prefer.

End rant: the only reason I brought it up in the first place was to clear up aversion to or preference for taxation isn't a left-right issue. So in context I think the political compass is "good enough" for this discussion.

It's not my personal graph, it's the fundamental graph used to represent the relationship of different political ideologies to each-other. If you don't even know this then you probably shouldn't be discussing politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Suggesting all taxation is evil is a libertarian standpoint (anti-authoritarian). A centrist would believe in moderate taxation with specific conditions, and consequently would scrutinize the allocation of fund from those taxes as the parent does.

> Either taxes are evil or they aren't.
This is not a binary. Taxes don't have to be categorized as "evil" or "good" at all.

> Everything else is simply discussing the proper role of government which is a different topic.
1. The government requires funds to run, and taxation is the primary source of those funds in most types of liberalist societies. Perhaps you are basing your arguments on illiberal societies such as socialist and communist ones which run industry though the government and use the profits from those industries as economic support [rather than from taxes]?
2. I would categorize utilization of government funds [derived from taxes or otherwise] as a critical role of government.

The political positioning on taxation is the Y axis [Libertarian/Authoritarian] of the political spectrum, not the X axis. Anarchism is extreme left libertarian, there is also centrist libertarian and "ancap" extreme right libertarian.

But none of that is particularly important, as parents argument is on the allocation of funds from tax collection, not on the collection of taxes in and of itself - meaning parent could very well be a pure centrist.

She wasn't even supposed to have the job. She literally chased out the chosen next-in-line CEO Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript) by getting a bunch of her SJW staff to physically keep him out of the building and threaten him. Look it up *and note how a lot of news didn't cover it at all*. There's a personal account from him floating around too.

Here's hoping Brave development progresses to the point we can all just forget about FireFox and Mozilla at some point in the near future.