mook

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by mook 6y ago
I tried Atom for ten minutes and then gave up on it because it made undesirable whitespace changes by default. Doing code formatting is fine; doing code formatting on lines from a checkout that I didn't change is bad. Yes, the file sho
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by mook 6y ago
I think a large part is that the first-party documentation is pretty bad. My only exposure to the Android toolchain has been writing my own toy application, and it's just sad that the docs are terrible. Things like "this thing th
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by mook 6y ago
With WSL2 being a full(-ish) VM, running Android on a Linux base might be interesting (especially when using a Linux host, see the other anbox comment). Not sure how to deal with macOS though. And yeah, as of Android Studio 3.x (was waitin
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by mook 6y ago
git replace¹ should be able to do it; otherwise, grafts² work too. ¹ https://git-scm.com/docs/git-replace ² https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GraftPoint
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by mook 6y ago
My understanding is that extension support got bumped high in priority after the unrelated extension breakage (due to an expiring certificate) in the old Firefox for Android. When that happened their rating in the Play store positively tank
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by mook 6y ago
I believe WebKit source and issue management is on webkit.org; not being on GitHub seems to make sense to me, as (according to Wikipedia) WebKit was released three years before GitHub was founded. This is the Apple release, not KHTML existi
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by mook 6y ago
Wasn't WebKit LGPL (because of the KHTML heritage)? I was under the impression that, for commercial usage, Gecko (with MPL) was more friendly. Either can be made to work, of course.
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by mook 6y ago
Firejail, mentioned elsewhere in the thread, should do that correctly. Personally though I've been doing docker (substitute with systemd-nspawn or whatever you like) with xpra; not sure it's as secure, but it should block acciden
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by mook 6y ago
In my opinion, there _is_ a moral issue. Not in that they collect this information for fraud prevention; that seems like a reasonable use for that data. It's in not having informed consent, in not having a clear document describing wha
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by mook 7y ago
> Full native apps are absolute svelte in comparison. Unfortunately, going by current trends… it will be a full native app wrapping a browser containing a web page trying to look like native UI.
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by mook 7y ago
That sounds vaguely like Google Glass; I wonder if a comeback would be on the horizon now that voice assistants are more widespread.
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by mook 7y ago
I assume that was a reference to pocket (which was an extension that they shipped as a baked-in feature around the acquisition).
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by mook 7y ago
That sounds like a USDS† position. My understanding is that they do things that way due to unstable budgets, because their pay is out of whack compared to the rest of the government (because pay at an equivalent position outside of the gove
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by mook 7y ago
The IoT stuff also needs to communicate with other trusted machines (so that they can be controlled, e.g. turning on/off the lights or watching the videos from the cameras); putting them all on a vLAN would prevent that from working, t
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by mook 7y ago
(replying to the pre-edit comment, as I think that can be insightful) I do agree that open office looks a lot less depressing than a cubicle farm; being able to see a large area tends to be more pleasing than lots of obstructions. However,
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by mook 7y ago
> I think your argument would be more valid if systemd weren't establishing stable dbus interfaces, and instead were inventing all sorts of snowflake, constantly changing interfaces, but that simply isn't the case. This didn&#x
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by mook 7y ago
> Plus, history has taught us that retrofitting generics to existing languages with their ecosystems can be difficult and painful (see Java and to some extend C++). I believe that C# also had retrofitted generics, but the reputation ther
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by mook 7y ago
Unfortunately this is a problem that's mostly a result of the browser vendors (who are in control of the validation/UI), and can't be fixed by Netgear / etc. They've decided that security trumps usability. I suspect
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by mook 7y ago
Unfortunately historically there was a history of Mozilla not being a very stable platform to develop on top of (though I have no idea if Chromium was worse). There had been at least two separate embedding APIs that have been abandoned (the
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by mook 7y ago
Let's Encrypt only works on public domains that happen to not route externally. I can never (or at least, should never) get LE certificates for *.pikachu.local, but that's a perfectly valid hostname for a local machine.
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by mook 7y ago
By having the subdomain, they're endorsed (possibly transitively) by whoever runs python.org. If they want to _not_ endorse whatever PyPA is doing, they need to not supply the subdomain.
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by mook 7y ago
> Typing emoji is as simple as double-clicking on the character you want from the pane that pops down from the menu bar. … Which means getting your hands off the keyboard. That is why I don't like being forced to type emoji; it requ
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by mook 7y ago
Thank you! This does seem to work intermittently (at least, it didn't work when this text box was empty, but started working once I typed in some text). I guess I'll have to file that in my head as "works inconsistently"
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by mook 7y ago
Firefox on Android ( / Preview) is generally terrible with input handling anyway. I still haven't figured out a way to paste into a textbox without removing existing text — long press is required to show the menu, but also selects
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by mook 7y ago
> There is a big upset coming in the UX world as we converge toward a generalized implementation of the "diff & patch" pattern which underlies Git, React, compiler optimization, scene rendering, and query optimization. I th
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by mook 7y ago
Candy Crush is published by King (which is apparently owned by Activision now?), and has always gave an impression of being slightly sleazy. I don't mind the OneDrive and Office ads as much (though I still turn them off).
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by mook 7y ago
LWN has an article on drgn that might be useful: https://lwn.net/Articles/789641/
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by mook 7y ago
I think it was more for code maintainability; they started feeling like any change they made would affect some popular add-on or other. Which was probably true, and I feel was an advantage for using Firefox…
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by mook 7y ago
> No, it's because the hardware manufacturers won't upstream their drivers. All they have to do is send the code licensed under GPLv2 and it will be updated and maintained. You probably know this, but that's most definitel
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by mook 7y ago
The answer is probably something like "that dialog came from necko, because we didn't put in a good way to propagate blocking prompts back up from the network layer in a way that identifies which tab wants the request". If ex

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