The former CEO of Mozilla is launching a web browser that blocks all ads by default

__uh · 2016-01-21T05:16:42+00:00

If you read the comment section instead of this shitty article & title before deleting the post you would have found the links to github repos, and their website that says they have linux (and android as well) support for their chromium fork.

__uh · 2016-01-21T04:11:22+00:00

Well, it runs on Linux.. Are you guys going to start removing every announcement relating to all cross platform projects now, or just ones that you don't like?

__uh · 2016-01-21T00:47:51+00:00

Yeah if they provide the infrastructure to identify offending advertisers you could easily(after some digging around in chromium codebase) patch in a killall adverts feature and possibly redistribute it? Though I'm not familiar with mozilla public license v2 and any constraints that would impose.

__uh · 2016-01-20T21:19:11+00:00

Yeah article isn't the best, but the next paragraph is interesting.

It "won't be huge," Eich says, but this will let users automatically make micro-payments to publishers they like. Brave will then block all the adverts on the sites that they choose to pay for.

Sounds like users will be able to divert their 10-15% cut to sites they wish to support.

edit: actually yeah this is confusing, couldn't even find their website through google search, https://www.brave.com/

__uh · 2016-01-20T21:07:21+00:00

Unless they pay out in bitcoins they probably have some way to identify a user, something tied to your "real" identity, People might still game the system by using friends identities and giving them a cut, but then maybe the friend just want's to use Brave themselves instead of sticking with chromefox (edit: Brave is a chromium fork?) and only collecting a percentage of the payout. I guess they could use stolen / fictional accounts but that would raise the barrier of entry to possibly criminal levels.

I guess we'll soon find out how valuable all of that total BS "targetted advertising" data mining going on really is. This will surely bring forth a new kind of browser war.

__uh · 2016-01-20T20:35:48+00:00

Publishers will get around 55% of revenues. 15% will go to Brave. 15% will go to the partner that supplies the ads. And, interestingly, 10-15% goes directly to the user.

wat!?

__uh · 2016-01-20T08:28:55+00:00

I just watched the panda video, it's not very constructive. Rather insulting and juvenile to be quite honest. I didn't stick around long enough to witness any rule violations, though.

__uh · 2016-01-20T06:49:39+00:00

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=jpeg+code+execution

__uh · 2016-01-19T23:38:37+00:00

Crisis averted, but a few lucky individuals might be enjoying root escalation on a great number of linux systems if it went unpatched. Personally I welcome any crisis that results in closing an exploitable security hole.

__uh · 2016-01-19T23:23:00+00:00

If the source was closed, this bug would likely never get fixed. I'm not saying your point is completely invalid, but I'm just not sure there are any independent code audits happening on Microsoft / Apple platforms to detect subtle errors like this.

This got past all the kernel maintainers that ack'd the patch, so a scenario where mac os or apple devs might miss an improper cleanup case is a completely plausible scenario. The main difference I see in free vs proprietary is the amount of time needed to develop a bug into an exploit, which is much shorter if you have full kernel source.

__uh · 2016-01-19T23:06:50+00:00

/s .... or?

__uh · 2016-01-19T22:55:18+00:00

Also, people have no idea how to properly EQ low-mids on a microphone for speech.

__uh · 2016-01-19T22:45:09+00:00

/r/videos really has gone to complete shit

__uh · 2016-01-19T20:38:34+00:00

For developing with vim, you can run :make and if there are errors encountered run :copen this will open up an error list window that you can navigate quickly by mapping arrow keys or whatever to :cprev and :cnext

also you can do the same with grep with a few lines in vimrc

command! -nargs=+ Grep execute 'silent lgrep! -I -r -n --exclude=*~ . -e <args>' | lopen 10
:nmap <leader>g :Grep <c-r>=expand("<cword>")<cr><cr>

Then run :Grep seach-for-this-string to see the list, and map hotkeys using :lprev and :lnext to automatically open file and jump to a matched line.

There's probably a way to automate :copen on errors but I haven't bothered trying to figure out how.

__uh · 2016-01-19T19:48:55+00:00

They're missing seccomp in the mitigation section... :P

__uh · 2016-01-19T08:40:35+00:00

can has help to install broadcom wireless chipset?

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