The infinity symbol doesn't bother me; what I don't like is that the information about the number of open tabs isn't available anywhere else. As a result, I have to run a script on the browser console on my desktop.
Also, I'm not sure if it's just my old iPhone X, but I've noticed that when I have 100+ tabs open, the app crashes more frequently.
In Brazil, we have PIX, a way to make instant transfers 24/7 that is always free for individuals. It was launched in Nov/2020 as last month alone it had 1.8B transactions on its network.
It's really ubiquitous right now, as you can pay pretty much anything using it.
And they recently launched the ability for trusted apps to start a Pix transaction. It'll open your banking app with the recipient and amount pre-filled, and all you have to do is authorise it.
They're working on an offline version now, we'll see... that'd be amazing.
All in all, I'll keep using credit cards for security (Pix transactions can't be disputed) and miles.
There's also a trend of kidnaping people in Brazil to force them to execute PIX transactions using their phones. It hasn't been exactly smooth sailing.
I'm not sure what he means by 'clearing' his fingerprint, but if you visit EFF[0], you can check if your fingerprint is at least random. I've only been able to achieve a random fingerprint on Brave browser. Even clearing all cookies/cache on your browser will not reset the fingerprint.
To prevent metric collection, you can't be logged in and you need your browser settings set to block cookies for YouTube.
[0] https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
The big ticket item is obviously that Fossil includes all the stuff that people constantly whine about being locked into Git{hub,lab} over, e.g. issues, as part of the tool rather than some external vendor-specific thing you have to worry about separately.
Also, as someone who really liked Monotone before git won, having your whole repo in a single file is just nice for the same ops-related reasons it’s refreshing to be able to download and run a self-contained binary rather than needing an installer or whatever.
I think the point is gecko is to blink, as firefox is to chromium. Sure, there are various browsers based on chromium out there, but they're not embedding blink. They're reskins of chromium with additional changes. How much more difficult is that compared to what goes into making iceweasel from firefox, I couldn't tell you.
But the "embedding gecko is hard, embedding chromium is easy" explanation certainly seems to be wrong, in terminology at least.
Solid worries me because the apps don't run on your server. That means Solid apps can do all kinds of bad things and your only recourse is to stop using it (if you even know about the badness). For the same reason, Solid's privacy expectations aren't really enforceable; apps could mine your data and you'd have no way of knowing and they could cache your data even after you withdraw permission.
