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366559 – Brotli Accept-Encoding/Content-Encoding
- jgrahamc 11y agoIf you are interested in testing Brotli on the web the CloudFlare test server for HTTP/2 and IPv6 also does Brotli compression. https://http2.cloudflare.com/ https://http2.cloudflare.com/ And the NGINX module that does it has been open sourced: https://github.com/cloudflare/ngx_brotli_module https://github.com/cloudflare/ngx_brotli_module
- DiabloD3 11y agoYes! I can't wait for the module to be merged upstream into nginx so I can use it.
- mahouse 11y agoPeople upset by the "bro" word. Peak Mozilla.
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- reitanqild 11y agoI think they are smart to sidestep it right away. That said I think the current trend of limiting not just insults but whatever can possibly be construed as an insult by anyone, -that might not be a smart move in the long run. Especially as some people seems very good at getting insulted.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoThe "current trend" (although this is by no means new) isn't about insults per se. It doesn't really matter if someone is insulted.
- jug5 11y agoPeak idiocy so far, but given the extreme "feminism" that is taking ahold of the industry this is just the beginning.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoWhy shouldn't they be? Words can have unfortunate connotations. When you name something, you try to avoid such things.
- DonHopkins 11y agoThat's exactly the point of Tim Minchin's song about the power of the language of prejudice, about a word with a terrible history of being used to abuse, oppress and subdue: just six seemingly harmless letter arranged in a way to form a word with more power than the pieces of metal that are forged to make swords: a couple of G's, an R and an E, a I and an N... [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
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- DonHopkins 11y agoThanks for the spoiler! Do you really think there's anyone here on Hacker News who wouldn't get the joke without needing you to explain it to them? The point the song makes is relevant to the conversation, and the song's well worth listening to even after you spoiled the surprise, if not just for Tim's facial expressions. I posted the link because I believe his humor is a relevant path to enlightenment, not just an end to itself.
- reitanqild 11y agoThanks for the spoiler! Do you really think there's anyone here on Hacker News who wouldn't get the joke without needing you to explain it to them? Just to point out your own prejudice, not everyone here is a native English speaker.
- DonHopkins 11y agoAre you suggesting it's good manners to reply to all the jokes on Hacker News and preemptively explain them for people who aren't native English speakers, and it's prejudiced to be against that? (That's a rhetorical joke. Please don't reply and explain it.)
- DonHopkins 11y agoLet's deal with the extreme sexism and misogyny that has always had a stranglehold on the entire world first, before whining about recent beginnings of extreme "feminism" in the computer industry, m'kay?
- reitanqild 11y agoNo. Disagree with the first part. At least where I live girls have had an advantage all the way through school at least since I was a kid which means at least more than two decades.
- DonHopkins 11y agoCare to reveal what planet you're from, or is there a reason you're coy about it?
- reitanqild 11y agoPlease keep this civil. I grew up somewhere in western Europe. Girls got(, and still get get) extra points when applying to schools there. This is not limited to subjects that have a overrepresentation of boys, it is like this at chemistry and nursery studies as well.
- DanBC 11y agoDo you realise how rude you sometimes are?
- DanBC 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action#Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action#Europe That shows a bunch of places where positive discrimination is not legal, and a few where it's tried, but none of them mention that it happens in universities. Did I miss it? Is Wikipedia missing something?
- reitanqild 11y agoWikipedia is missing something.
- teddyh 11y agoContext: The original suggested three-character file name extention name was “.bro”. From (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559#c147 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559#c147): “I received a series of 'bro' jokes in response to my posting about this new feature.” This proves that the name “bro” actually has significant meaning for many people, some of which find it a bad thing. This would be unnecessarily distracting, so it should simply be replaced with something like br, btl, bli or bti. Save your outrage for when the solution actually has a downside of any significance.
- yoodenvranx 11y ago> “I received a series of 'bro' jokes in response to my posting about this new feature.” But this is not the part why people are pissed. If this would be the only reason then everybody would be fine, but before your quote the guy wrote: > "bro" has a gender problem, even though the dual meaning is unintentional. It comes of misogynistic [...] And this reasoning is just tumblerlina-SRS-gamergate-outrage-bullshit. People are not pissed because of the change of the extension but by the ridiculous reason given in the bug report. They should have just stated that ".bro" might result in acceptance problems in large corporate culture and everybody would have understood this. But stating that .bro has a gender problem is just crazy.
- 0xcde4c3db 11y ago> Save your outrage for when the solution actually has a downside of any significance. In cases like this, much of the outrage stems not from dissatisfaction with any particular solution, but from people being offended that the concern was taken seriously at all.
- mcphage 11y ago> This proves that the name “bro” actually has significant meaning for many people, some of which find it a bad thing. No doubt the same people who snickered at the name of the Nintento Wii and Apple iPad.
- donatj 11y agoWhile I usually am peeved by this type of thing I think it's probably wise to avoid setting off stupid people if you can. That said, the commenters stereotyping of "bro"s as misogynist is offensive in and of itself. I know MANY bro's who treat women with respect. Stereotyping any group of people is hurtful and wrong.
- Mithaldu 11y agoEarlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10365480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10365480
- tzs 11y agoAlso https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364591
- cmkrnl 11y agoAs a Linux sysadmin in Norway... bro means bridge and br reminds me of brctl(8).
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoYes, "bro" could mean other things in different contexts. But that's irrelevant. It has unfortunate connotations in an IT context.
- reitanqild 11y agoEverything has unfortunate connotations in some context. If I wanted I could come up with a number of reasons to feel insulted but that's not my thing.
- jjaredsimpson 11y agoBeing professional means valuing conflict avoidance over issues of zero importance. The nickname of a tool doesn't matter, so minimizing potential conflicts makes sense.
- reitanqild 11y agoTotally agree and agree with renaming. Would wish certain other groups could agree with your ideas as well. "Those who have reason will have to use it..."
- JesperRavn 11y agoI agree. The intentionally prevocational logo (a Menorah) has put me off CLISP[0], I would guess many others too. [0] See the explanation at http://www.clisp.org/impnotes/faq.html#faq-menorah-why http://www.clisp.org/impnotes/faq.html#faq-menorah-why which starts off with "it's not political" and then provides multiple links to pro-Israeli websites.
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- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoWondering if this will fare better than gzip for my use case of compressing a Windows 95 disk image (http://win95.ajf.me/ http://win95.ajf.me/). Will have to try it out.
- evmar 11y agoRandom note about accept-encoding that might have been corrupted by my memory: at some point in the past wikipedia was blocking Googlebot due to it hammering their servers. Some debugging revealed that Googlebot's accept-encoding header was different than browsers and so it was missing the wikipedia cache. (Wikipedia heavily relies (relied?) upon a caching layer because their pages can take like two full seconds of CPU time to render otherwise.) The kinda awful fix was to add support for the compression variant nobody uses (deflate?) to Googlebot so that its accept-encoding header matched the common one. It would be ironic if adding this header to Firefox wrecked their page load performance for wikipedia!
- dtech 11y agoThis seems like a wikipedia problem that shouldn't be that hard to fix, not a Firefox problem.
- amluto 11y agoI'm not a compression expert at all, but I've read about ANS a few times lately, and I wonder whether an ANS variant of Brotli might be an even better choice.