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  • My understanding is iOS requires all browsers to use web kit.

    Yes, but... - anyway, what exactly would a different rendering engine improve for your experience?

    how are you watching YouTube without ads?

    Vinegar exists.

  • Watching YouTube without ads, my own browser with an adblocker…

    Both are well possible on an iPhone.

  • Android is primarily sponsored and advertised by Google, which is basically the world's largest advertising company that also happens to have an IT department.

    iOS is exclusively sponsored and advertised by Apple, which is basically a large IT company that makes most of its money with rather expensive hardware.

    One of those is a wiser choice if you care about your privacy.

  • nvi, I guess.

  • WordPerfect is still quite awesome, given that it has Reveal Codes. However, the older I am, the more I grow to like WordStar (and its free clone).

  • I did. TinyMCE is still less comfy to use in my opinion. Of course, that’s probably a matter of taste. Also, I wonder when Automattic will stop supporting it.

  • How would a hacker even notice the difference between a Linux server and.a Linux desktop? Those are the same thing.

  • Gee, I wonder whether it's possible to have zero-day exploits on Linux and 7-Zip.

  • It depends. The RAR5 format used by newer WinRAR versions (the "old" one is still supported just well) can have smaller archives than 7z, but the opposite is also true. Still, yes, WinRAR is in my experience faster and more stable.

    (Note that "as small as possible" is not usually the most relevant point. The best compression is currently reached with the ZPAQ format, but using it with maximum compression settings is painfully slow.)

  • I even own legitimate Total Commander and mIRC licenses!

  • Also true. I was probably too impatient when I bought a WinRAR license over night. But now I have it and I use it. :-)

  • I have. The point is that there is no software without vulnerabilities.

  • It's been only two months. Do not assume that app development is a weekend job.

  • I use WinRAR (as a switch from 7-Zip) because it works well enough, is fast and stable and has good compression. For me, switching to another Windows archiver would have no merit.

  • In some countries, that might be the case. However, in Germany (where I live), there is no way to have something "not copyrighted". The author holds the copyright unless explicitly licensed. (Here's where the CC0 comes in handy, but the CC licenses weren't made for software...)

    Our § 29 UrhG explicitly denies the possibility to give up your copyright before your death. Austria has similar laws. So no, nothing is "public domain" in Germany.

    (edit:) See also this discussion on Hacker News for broader details.

  • The problem with Public Domain is that it does not exist in most jurisdictions. There is no "Public Domain" in (edit: at least parts of) the EU, for example.