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HTTP/2 is not HTTPS-only, the browsers implementations may be.

https://http2.github.io/faq/#does-http2-require-encryption


it's HTTPS-only in all browsers that support it. http://caniuse.com/#feat=http2


You mean like Apple taking the name of a primeur business ?


> They handle taxes in all sorts of countries in different states.

And they handle it so poorly that you have to write them to get a proper invoice in order to recover your VAT.

If your customer buy your application through the app store, they ask "you" an invoice with VAT, and you have to tell them to contact Apple, that's so unprofessional. For a 30% cut, they could clearly put a download link or include a PDF in the sent email.


So this guy was jailed because he coded an advertising platform and a video hosting service. I know Mega was on a thin shady line, but what has he done wrong to be jailed in USA ?


The UK has a law called "Joint Criminal Enterprise" which is oft critiqued[0]. In America, this same concept is a de-facto legal and social standard to apply "Guilty by Association" wherever it can.

So, in the USA, it can be (incorrectly) argued - by very, very high powered RIAA legal team - that this was aiding and abetting.[1] It's absolutely wrong, but this is the legal world we live in as developers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_purpose

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiding_and_abetting


All right, in fact, I think the law you explained is even fair and needed to prosecute some "Joint Criminal Enterprise". But in this specific case, how could it be "incorrectly" argued, "absolutely wrong" and not dismissed by a judge. I mean, how can you trust the justice if only the poor chap is the one going to jail. Yeah, I'm naive, I know.


For me, it's all about the details, and I just can't come back to Firefox for silly reasons, even if I appreciate their stance on privacy.

The tabs shape is repulsing me, I know that's a strong feeling and I can't explain it. The disymetrical back and forward buttons bothers me as well. I can't find how to whitelist domains accepting cookies in Firefox. Switching profiles is much easier with chrome. I'm used to chrome developper tools.

I don't like neither safari neither MS edge.

If it wasn't for the missing onenote extension, maybe I'd be using opera. Again, all about the details.


Isn't this something that could be fixed with an extension?

A quick google (heh) brought me to the FXChrome add-on [0]. 100k+ users.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/


The Dev Edition has a different tab shape. You can deny cookies by default and then add exceptions in the cookie manager.


I use this dark theme with rectangular tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ft-deepdark/


I'm not sure as there's no description, so I'll ask. That's the desktop version, not the server one ?


Ummm I assumed it was the server one, perhaps I'm mistaken. Ubuntu/*64 have typically been headless.


Great. You just inspired another european privacy law where website will be forced to ask you to read the terms before processing reading. What it will achieve is users will be annoyed and install a termblock extension to their browser, I mean kind of defensive software.


There are other options that lawmakers have.


As the primary goal is to listen to the music, I do really appreciate the fact that the webpage stops its graphics animations when it loses the focus.

It is great to improve my focus as I am not disturbed by my waving cpu meter.

Great work, love it.


Thanks a ton!


Would appreciate a checkbox so I could disable the CPU-saturating visualization without having to hide the page.


In France, it depends where you live, in some area people do it up to 4-5 times. It can be quite disturbing, even for a french :)


Is that the French version of an awkwardly long handshake?


> hm, someone should make a simple web app that gathers names and styles of fonts and provides a zip w/ pre-generated CSS

I used http://www.localfont.com to retrieve the Open Sans font I was previously using from google font. Maybe that's the kind of webapp you are looking for.


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