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by hsivonen 9y ago
Not having an ad campaign is an extremely poor reason to refuse to ship EU-wide when they ship to Germany. The operator excuse is not valid in the EU. The EU is supposed to be a single market.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
That screenshot is from Netscape 6—a Gecko-based Netscape release without “Navigator” in the name. The mechanism mostly survives in Gecko today except for the Latin unification (previously split to Western, Central European, etc.).
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by hsivonen 9y ago
I did my first programming in HyperTalk, which I learned from the HyperCard 2.0 manual. Back then, software came with well-written paper manuals, and the translation quality (into Finnish in my case) was very good, too. I feel like Apple ma
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by hsivonen 9y ago
For hardware decoding to make sense, there needs to be a way to present the decoded frames in a way that doesn't involve a read-back and that works with the rest of the browser graphics pipeline. That's currently a problem on Linu
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by hsivonen 9y ago
In terms of network effects of ISA-specific optimizations, it's problematic that not only is the workstation so expensive but POWER8/9 cloud availability seems to be only for orgs that buy a lot of compute time. If you are a dev w
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by hsivonen 9y ago
A GitHub search suggests that Servo isn’t using encoding_rs.
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Since the “Secure World” just runs a different stack of memory-unsafe software, it’s not cool that Android’s UI characterizes TEE-based FDE key derivation as “hardware-based” “credential storage” giving the user the incorrect impression tha
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by hsivonen 9y ago
The proprietary DRM components come from Google, Microsoft and Apple.
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With Rust, a panic occurs right away when the fuzzer develops input that performs e.g. out of bounds access. With C, it's possible to go wrong a little but not enough to segfault or to go wrong enough that by accident the access looks
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by hsivonen 9y ago
It would be really nice if Travis had Linux-on-ARMv7 and Linux-on-aarch64 options on real ARM hardware. I wonder what the economics of Travis building such a thing on top of an existing ARM cloud offering like Scaleway would be.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Interesting. Back when I switched my Firefox builds from Core2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40 GHz + spinning disk + OS X to i7-950 @ 3.07GHz + SSD + Ubuntu, GUI responsiveness during Firefox build went from OK to bad. Canonical's support suggested g
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by hsivonen 9y ago
The object element in HTML 4 had some attributes that were pretty ActiveX-specific in practice , so in large part Microsoft got the HTML integration bits for ActiveX into the standard.
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> Netflix should just make a native app, like everyone else who needs drm do. The native app security model on desktop (i.e. can do anything) doesn't make the notion of letting streaming services run native apps look so great. Do yo
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by hsivonen 9y ago
A DRM solution could be implemented with disclosed source code (though it would be more difficult than with concealed source code) but the key thing a DRM implementation does is to attest that the user hasn't modified the implementatio
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by hsivonen 9y ago
The newer MOZ_ASSERT is fatal in debug builds. The non-fatal legacy NS_ASSERTION still exists and unit tests complain if the number of times it fires for a given test changes. So it's under control, but the Netscape-era assertions have
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Does Facebook now actually do RDFa-compliant processing for OGP? Back when OGP was introduced they didn't. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011Apr/006...
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Having security support for renamed testing would be more work than now but not the kind of work security support for stable is. Security support for stable involves backporting fixes. For a rolling release it would mean expedited pushes of
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by hsivonen 9y ago
> But what is wrong with stable in the first place ? * It's generally unpleasant for a user to know their problem has been fixed but they don't get access to the fix in a long time. * Users using old software when they don&#x27
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by hsivonen 9y ago
No, I haven't used unstable myself. But "have you spent the time evaluating it?" is beside the point. My point is that it would be positive to have a Debian release channel with fresh software with 1) explicit security suppor
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At the very least "unstable" has a name with a negative connotation. It has the air of it being the user's fault if you use it and stuff breaks. I don't know what the practical breakage situation is, so I don't know
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by hsivonen 9y ago
I have. From the FAQ ( https://backports.debian.org/FAQ/ ): "Q: Is there security support for packages from backports.debian.org?" "A: Unfortunately not. [...]"
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HEADLINE: Provide rolling compiler packages in stable DESCRIPTION: There are users who simultaneously want to get their infrastructural packages like compilers from their distro and want to build fresh upstream application releases from sou
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by hsivonen 9y ago
HEADLINE: Repurpose testing as a rolling release positioned for not-just-testing usage DESCRIPTION: There are users who'd like to use a non-corporate community distro but who don't need or want software to be as old as software in
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by hsivonen 9y ago
That's what I meant. Security support for testing seems to be documentedly behind stable and unstable.
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Does testing get timely security updates? Last I checked (quite a while ago), it explicitly did not.
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MS fonts have the embedding permission bit set, IIRC.
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> Sometimes I wonder why this is not said directly, probably because Semantic Web and RDF are passe now. It seems to me that on one hand JSON-LD wanted to bootstrap the network effects by bringing along people who were doing RDF both tec
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Thank you. I was looking for something that takes a potentially invalid buffer of UTF-8 and returns a guaranteed-valid buffer and failed to find a function like that. (And, indeed, Go is an interesting case due to its creators being the inv
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I think the general sentiment that things that aren’t on a huge growth curve aren’t relevant or worth doing is very unhealthy–especially for the purpose of drawing conclusions about what Mozilla should do. What should the conclusion have be

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