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by rectang 1y ago
I've been a Firefox user since it launched (and a Netscape Navigator user before that). In addition to Desktop, I use Firefox on iOS with my 3-year old iPad Pro, which of late exhibits the same sluggishness that you describe after a w
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by rectang 1y ago
Is PaulHoule filing tickets with other browser vendors? Is the point to target Mozilla, or to actually make a difference in accessibility?
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by rectang 1y ago
It goes beyond tongue-in-cheek if he's actually filing tickets and forcing engineers to spend their time responding.
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by rectang 1y ago
So is the appearance of any modal window something that justifies filing tickets with Firefox? It doesn't sound like that's PaulHoule's motivation anyway — he knows that these tickets are not going to be fixed, just closed —
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by rectang 1y ago
Some people really really hate Mozilla. But this is the first time I can recall seeing someone deliberately consuming Mozilla's resources and undermining the project, rather than arguing against it.
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Easter Island's statues 'walked' – and physics backs it up(binghamton.edu)
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by rectang 1y ago
That may brick it for its intended use, but nothing's stopping a botnet from repurposing it.
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by rectang 1y ago
Many of the companies that sold these devices have already bitten the dust, so they aren't even around to fix anything.
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by rectang 1y ago
So they get to ship a dangerous device that harms innocent third parties because they cut corners, but we’re supposed to reward them by doing the work to secure the devices they couldn’t be bothered with?
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by rectang 1y ago
> “The problem is, even if those infected IoT devices are rebooted and cleaned up, they will still get re-compromised by something else generally within minutes of being plugged back in.” In the year 2025, we should understand that suc
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by rectang 1y ago
Is it advantageous to be someone who supports IPv6 on a day like today?
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by rectang 1y ago
Amending the Constitution to fix such holes is impractical when it would require the approval of states whose hold on perpetual minority rule would be threatened. So then we're looking at a constitutional convention. Can you imagine o
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by rectang 1y ago
To cite one example: aggressive gerrymandering has required a response in the form of California Prop 50. I'm hoping that we can all find our way to competitive districts together, rather than permanently sorting into districts that a
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by rectang 1y ago
It is tempting, given the success that kingly political approaches have seen of late, to adopt those strategies: to fight "your tyrant" with "my tyrant", and to fight your untruth with my untruth, eschewing skepticism.
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by rectang 1y ago
Yeah, unwrapping a Result in Rust can often be done via a single character, the chainable `?` operator. That’s not the only issue, though: Java also shunts both checked and unchecked exceptions through the same mechanism, conflating them. I
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by rectang 1y ago
The point of avoiding invisible control flow is not to identify the type of the error, but to identify all locations in the code where recoverable errors may occur. > One persons panic may just be another error case for someone else. W
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by rectang 1y ago
Invisible control flow is common to all implementations of unchecked exceptions (Java, C#, C++, Python, Ruby, etc). It means that any code, anywhere, at any time, can throw an exception which may represent a recoverable error. People are u
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by rectang 1y ago
Idealized checked exceptions are isomorphic to Rust's `Result` type, which is great. Java's implementation of checked exceptions has some issues, though. * "Invisible control flow", where you can't tell from the cal
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by rectang 1y ago
> The problem open-source [...] has never overcome is accountability . There are lots of organizations that provide a throat-to-choke-as-a-service, e.g. Red Hat.
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by rectang 1y ago
In my experience, those get downvoted or flagged (they also aren't in line with the guidelines). Let alone shallow dismissals, even good Reddit-esque short, pithy jokes often get downvoted, because a discussion thread where everybod
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by rectang 1y ago
From the Hacker News Guidelines: "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by rectang 1y ago
"Eat your own dog slop" isn't bad practice, though. Some people in the organization will experience the limitations and some will learn — although there are bound to be people elsewhere in the organization who have a vested i
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by rectang 1y ago
Although I’m good enough at it, like you I hate this kind of debugging experience, and try hard to avoid putting myself in a position where I have to do it. It’s not fun for me at all. I also don’t like many puzzle games, like Sudoku, beca
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by rectang 1y ago
And factor the cost in time, effort and risk of mistaken analysis into the cost of what the contract offers. Many times, it just isn’t worth it.
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by rectang 1y ago
Which search and AI services reliably discard logs? It's my understanding that if you configure your Google account correctly, logged-in searches will be discarded. However, I'm less certain about whether Google retains data for
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by rectang 1y ago
> I've always done my best to search from a browser context that isn't logged in as a result. It isn't sufficient to avoid being logged in — you have to ensure that the search strings alone, grouped by IP address or some
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by rectang 1y ago
I think it’s important to distinguish between human leadership and the capitalist entities they work within. I’ve worked for multiple small businesses, led by wonderful humans, which ran out of money. When those businesses went under, it t
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by rectang 1y ago
On the surface that sounds reasonable, but when you consider that subscribers and settings (notifications, security, privacy, search, archival…) have to be managed per channel rather than per “folder”, it quickly becomes unmanageable. And i
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by rectang 1y ago
Notify on start of new thread or @mention is the sweet spot. But there are always people who insist on having their entire conversation at the top level of the channel rather than in a thread, so everybody gets notified for every message (u
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by rectang 1y ago
I disagree. The tendency towards self justification is a universal human trait. Even if some may overcome that tendency, it is still qualifies as “human nature”. This is germane because while labor and capital may perceive each other as t

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