It's just a shittier version of Theranos.

FTFY.

This was an economic choice. Icons are multi-lingual, meaning manufacturers didn't have to create dashboards with knobs labeled in dozens of different languages.

I think you've brushed really close to the real issue here.

The question isn't "Why is Firefox losing users?" The real question is "Why does anyone masochistically keep using Firefox when the devs are so arrogantly and willfully contemptuous of their core clientele?" The answer is singular: Firefox is not spyware. The Mozilla team knows they can do anything they want as long as they don't start sending our browsing habits elsewhere. We're literally a captive audience because we absolutely refuse to use a browser that feeds our data to a corporation, we demand privacy- and security-focused plugins (like NoScript), we need it to be open source so we can verify it's not violating our trust, and there just aren't any good browser options left.

What makes it particularly galling is that we know they ignore their own data. Look at Pocket. How many clients use it? Let's be generous and say 5%. (Alternate answer: the inverse of how many consider it spyware.) How many clients want them to leave the UI alone? Let's be meager and say 30-50%. They must know how much we hate what they do and yet they still prioritize the stupidest new ideas in favor of listening to their users.

That said, I bailed on Firefox back when the Waterfox fork came along. For years the add-ons were the only place to restore functionality critical for safe browsing that Mozilla had inexplicably cut, such as the status bar. But Mozilla's gonna Moz, and so they killed off the old XPI add-on interface; in classic Mozilla fashion they built the new add-on interface such that it was impossible to re-add those functions with new plugins. Giving up the classic add-ons was never a good option, so when Waterfox came out it was "jump ship!" So far, Alex has done a great job of merging in patches from Firefox that address security vulnerabilities, but that's a lot of work and I don't know how long he can keep it up.

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If they won't boot Alex Jones for inciting an armed simpleton to enter a pizza place demanding to search the basement for Hillary's secret child sex trafficking ring, they sure as hell won't boot Trump for anything.

"Focusing on users' needs" is not what the OSM Foundation does. OSM simply hosts map data in a database. That's it. Their only software is an API into that database, plus a web viewer and a couple of web-based map editors.

OSM does not make a mobile app, or routing software, or host a traffic conditions database. They didn't even write the rendering libraries that turn the map data into the image tiles you see on their own site! They use a renderer called mapnik. All those tools that exist today were built by independent third parties.Some are open source, while others are commercial.

The field is wide open for a Waze-like company to come along and use the OSM data as their map source. A couple have even been tried; I understand there's a fairly popular one in use in Germany.

Minnesota has always had pronounced extremes of weather, from -60F (-51C) to +114F (+45C). And this wasn't simply a single ten year rise in averages - the temps have been steadily rising since my childhood (several decades ago), back when we were Zone 2B. I was just noting that the last decade has not only continued the rise; but the old extremes no longer contain the current temperature range. Given that our average annual temperature has been rising by an average of 0.776F per decade, it's not all that surprising.

Also, we should be taking into account that plant hardiness zones aren't defined by the average temperature, but by the coldest minimum temperature experienced during a winter. It's those periods of extremes that kill off the non-hardy plants and animals, and that give the native plants the chance to outlast the invaders.

This has long been a concern of mine. Our area used to be in agricultural "Zone 2", meaning we'd usually experience a few day snap of -22F winter weather. This killed off a wide variety of non-native pests, such as those that arrived here on trucks and railcars from warmer clones during the summers. After a decade of record warm winters, we've been re-classified as Zone 4 and the transient beasts never die off now. So we've now got emerald ash borers; gypsy moths; new wasps, bees, and ants; and various roaches and snakes we've never had to deal with before, They're killing vast numbers of native trees and plants.

Reread the summary above. The card numbers weren't on an "internet facing database." They were taken by malware implanted in their cash registers.

I take many similar precautions, but not all. (I have some utilities on my iPhone and will purchase on my credit card through it, but i don't do banking on it.)

One thing I also do is distrust certain certificates; generally those I recognize as having been issued by countries run by despots. For example, I'll personally never have a need to a secure connection to any site in Turkey. So why should I trust their national issuer, when their government could theoretically abuse it to issue certs valid for any domain name? While widespread issuance of fraudulent certificates would certainly result in their removal from the browser and OS trusted root certificate lists, if they abuse their power to issue very specifically targeted certificates for spying purposes, they probably wouldn't get caught.

Just because Turkey convinced Mozilla or Microsoft to trust their issuers, doesn't mean I have to.

The nice thing is that the cops are buying license packages, so there is a supervisor - the company licensing the tool is counting every phone decrypted. Once the cops open 300 phones, they have to pony up for the next batch of phones. This means they're limited by money: they won't open a phone unless there's a reasonable expectation that it'll pay off. That will significantly slow down the "let's snoop on every phone" approach.

The FBI is mostly whining because they want on-line real-time undetectable wiretapping. Cracking open a locked phone is no different than gaining a warrant and taking the phone in the first place - the suspect is aware that his phone has been taken (or is dead), and it usually happens only after a serious crime has been committed and the suspect has been identified. I have no problem with police using tools to examine evidence after a crime has been committed.

But demanding flawed cryptographic algorithms, on the other hand, permit drift-net trawling of everyone's phones. Did you text someone about the weapon or the assassination plot? These crimes can now be thwarted before the victims are injured -- look, our pre-crime unit saves lives! But the drift-nets don't discriminate, and gather information about misdemeanor or non-criminal activity, too: small drug sales, shoplifting, or in the case of the Cheetohead-in-charge, researching climate change, donating to Hillary, or badmouthing Putin.

If anything, the current administration is so corrupt that the FBI themselves should be putting on the brakes, saying "no, we don't even want the tools to exist since you're just going to use them to ask us to further violate the Constitution for you."

This is how a priest justifies the existence of a religion, not how a scientist describes a fact.

Come back to us when you actually have positive results, not some phony belief.

Not until I can block everything that leaks out, like I do with NoScript today. I don't know when that might be, but if it isn't soon, I'll have to switch to Pale Moon.

Privacy and script blocking are far more important to me than speed or stability.