Anyone self hosting Firefox Sync? I have questions.
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 1w ago 100%

    I also wish to setup but this doesn’t look like the official repo 😕

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  • Why self host a password manager?
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 2w ago 100%

    I access my Vaultwarden server via Cloudflared tunnel while I'm away from home network.

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  • Your Most Frustrating Configuration Experience?
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 2w ago 80%
    1. Setting up Nvidia runtime for rootless Docker containers in Linux.

    2. Resolving port :53 conflict between AdGuardHome (rootless) docker container and Systemd-Resolved.

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  • Unauthenticated RCE vs all GNU/Linux systems to be fully disclosed in 2 weeks with no working fix yet
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 4w ago 100%

    More important question is - how this nitter instance is still working!!

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  • themarkup.org

    > A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector >Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn.

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    The poll is over, and the result is clear:
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 1mo ago 100%

    What Firefox provides here:

    A connector to LLM providers.
    Accelerators (context menu options).
    

    From a coding perspective, this should ideally be a very lightweight functionality.

    This feature is very analogous to options to add a search engine, and also to provide accelerators via context menu.

    While it can be done via third-party or Official Mozilla add-ons, but (to me) it still makes sense to have it part of the product.

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  • The poll is over, and the result is clear:
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 1mo ago 100%

    If you're using a VPN at the OS or browser level, just like any other traffic, your query to the LLM service will be routed via the VPN. That VPN could be any VPN of your choice - Firefox VPN, Mullvad, or Proton etc.

    The only problem is that most LLMs require a profile/login to work with. In such cases, using a VPN will be useless, as the LLM server will know who you are.

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  • The poll is over, and the result is clear:
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 1mo ago 100%

    It's just a plain integration with 3rd-party or self-hosted LLM service.

    I'm not sure if Mozilla will make money from this feature in any way.

    Have you read anything about it anywhere?

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    What Linux distro surprised you the most?
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 1mo ago 100%

    Arch Wiki

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  • The poll is over, and the result is clear:
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 1mo ago 83%

    It's just an integration with LLM services and not AI baked-in the browser code. You can even self-host any such service (Ollama) and integrate Firefox with it. That will make sure your query is not leaving your network.

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    RustDesk: I Found This Open-Source TeamViewer Alternative Impressive!
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 1mo ago 100%

    Rustdesk controversy

    The whole discussion on that pull request is extremely sketchy, IMO.

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  • linux
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    #163 Public Transit · This Week in GNOME
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 2mo ago 100%

    Tuba is now added to Gnome Circle. That's a good news.

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  • Mozilla Has Been Suspiciously Silent About Google And Manifest V3
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 2mo ago 100%

    It’s about their FakeSpot subsidiary.

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/review-checker-review-quality#w_protect-your-privacy

    Protect your privacy Firefox is committed to empowering you with information about review reliability while respecting your privacy. We use Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) for Review Checker. When Review Checker is turned on, we use information about the products you visit on Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart to analyze the reviews, but by using OHTTP we ensure Mozilla cannot link you or your device to the products you have viewed. OHTTP uses encryption and a third party intermediary server to offer a technical guarantee that this is the case: all Mozilla learns from this network request is that someone, somewhere, looked at a given product.

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  • Mozilla Has Been Suspiciously Silent About Google And Manifest V3
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 2mo ago 100%

    Also not what I said.

    Source: 2022 Hey look, years ago. And your other page was 2018.

    Mozilla started selling private data to advertising companies in 2023

    (Assuming this is about Pocket) Is it too much to expect from you to know the difference between aggregated non-PII data vs PII data?

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  • Mozilla Has Been Suspiciously Silent About Google And Manifest V3
  • KarnaSubarna KarnaSubarna 2mo ago 100%

    Yes, like publishing a new article every day just to prove their commitment to end-users' privacy.

    Incremental updates to articles, hosted literally on home page, with details of newer privacy features is so old school.

    Got it. Thanks for the clarification.

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  • www.theverge.com

    >A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a ruling that could portend big changes for the company, but we yet don’t know how big, and we might not for years. >Mehta declared on Monday that Google was liable for violating antitrust laws, vindicating the Department of Justice and a coalition of states that sued the tech giant in 2020. The next step — deciding on remedies for its illegal conduct — begins next month. Both parties must submit a proposed schedule for remedy proceedings by September 4th and then appear at a status conference on September 6th.

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    www.phoronix.com

    >For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with this GNOME Shell merge request for being able to disable X11 support too.

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    9to5linux.com

    >To get started with the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 24.04, check out the official documentation. ***One thing to keep in mind if you’re an NVIDIA GPU user is that the real-time Ubuntu kernel does not support the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers***.

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