-The permissions that pushbullet needed originally where a bit overaching.
-We never knew which was the offending one.
-Reading the original article it crossed my mind that some of the permissions the extension asked could be used for marketing (I'm not implying that they were used for that), and maybe google just didn't wanted extension developers to have a cut on that.
-I really don't like how this marketplaces have made big companies gatekeepers for market share.
This is great, I'm reading the heavily commented linux kernel source code and I was wondering how much can be done in the boot sector (other than call a more sophisticated boot loader) kudos!
I once was eating peanuts in a park and throwing some to nearby squirrels, I saw a small crow picking some I looked him in the eye and threw one at him, aimed to land about half a meter in front of him, he immediately understood what I was doing and flew towards me, caught the peanut in mid air and flew away.
They can't even exist (IMO), adiabatic quantum computing relies on the (huge) assumption that the world is not discreet, I subscribe to Gerard 'T Hooft's theory that the world is in fact a cellular automata; this means that we'll be seeing more and more "breakthroughs" (this is not the first, remember?) that will not translate into technology until someone smart enough comes and tells everybody that they are chasing a pipe dream caused by the lack of a good interpretation of what actually happens with the things Schrödinger's gives a distribution for.
Just wanna point out that notepad is the worst fucking text editor in the entire world, it does a lot of sneaky things with encoding and line endings and alters files without the need of the save command. No wonder why MS wanted to hide the damn thing.
Is kinda frightening that this doesn't get any more discussion here, because it means that the people that get the news here (developers, it staff or at least technical savvy users) aren't really concerned about the points he raises, even though they are very important in today's world.
Really? I run Raspbian, Windows and FreeBSD on my home on different machines for different purposes, and though all three have their weaknesses, they are much better than they were two decades ago.
This looks a little unfair to 2000's Linux fanboys (which of course included me): The well maintained, comprehensive, tested list of software, mirrors and checksums that Debian had and inspired other distros to emulate were a godsend compared to downloading a code tar file and hunt dependencies manually (when not modifying code yourself), you were always free to use other channels, but other channels were just usually worst; all other points seem to have similar nuances, from a user point of view situation is similar but is actually a real problem out of scope of developers (Linux) vs. Apple just being jerks.