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Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium)

posted by janrinok on Saturday June 27 2015, @09:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the did-not-want dept.

"gewg_" writes:

El Reg reports

New Chromium builds will no longer download/install the Hotword Shared Module and will automatically remove the module on startup if it was previously installed.

A closed-source and binary-only kernel module caused a fair fuss when it was found inveigling its way into the very much open-source Chromium.

Thanking the community for their attention and input on the issue, one of the project developers told the issues ticket thread that "as of the newly-landed r335874, Chromium builds, by default, will not download this module at all."

[...] An additional developer update regarding Hotword explains that "Builds of Google Chrome will still download this module by default. It will not be activated unless the user explicitly flips a preference to do so."

Related: Google Drops Binary Code into Chromium for Linux

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by isostatic on Sunday June 28 2015, @06:05AM

    by isostatic (365) on Sunday June 28 2015, @06:05AM (#202358) Journal

    fucking quitting the stupid alliterative headlines.

    Alliteration articulates an artistic and alacritous approach aimed at annotating and arranging alphabetic accoutrements as alarmingly affective alignments. Alliteration allows aspiring authors abilities above average approaches. Alliterative adroitness accentuates accomplishments (an appealing aspect appalling artistic arrangements attempt abominably). Allowing additional anterior alphanumerics, although adumbrating aesthetic accuracy, affords abortive artistic acuity. Ancient alliterations affirm archeological assertions accrediting archaic artistic alliterative ascendancy. Albeit acutely arduous, alliteration affects antonymous allegory, an absolute actualization alluding asomatous abstruse anima.

    (http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Alliteration)

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday June 28 2015, @09:16AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday June 28 2015, @09:16AM (#202381) Journal

    arranging alphabetic accoutrements as alarmingly affective alignments.

    effective, not affective? But that would spoil the illiteration.

    Alliteration allows aspiring authors abilities above average approaches.

    Sentence fragment? what is the main verb? Rest is alright, although the ante-penultimate sentence is a bit wordy.

    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday June 28 2015, @12:01PM

      by isostatic (365) on Sunday June 28 2015, @12:01PM (#202405) Journal

      effective, not affective? But that would spoil the illiteration.

      The mood disturbance is what's so alarming