rockdoe

40 ms·

451.
by rockdoe 11y ago
Your argument could be used against pretty much any of the tightenings up wrt. HTTPS certs that have been done for the last few years. "We used to be able to do whatever and be marked a secure and now we actually have to do security ri
452.
by rockdoe 11y ago
>"Backup your firefox profile" is an unbelievably short-sighted suggestion - am I supposed to keep transporting a Firefox profile around forever? Yes? It's like asking whether you should keep your homedir or Windows Roamin
453.
by rockdoe 11y ago
Huh? You can't put an IP into a DNS entry but you can put them into an IP entry.
454.
by rockdoe 11y ago
The cert includes a wildcard for *.google, which Firefox rejects because it's a wildcard on a top level domain. I can't really tell who's right here from the specs. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id
455.
by rockdoe 11y ago
PGP absolutely supports multiple recipients. As the other reply says, the (small) symmetric key is encrypted separately with the public key of every recipient.
456.
by rockdoe 11y ago
When did having my own data stored in regular files become "strange"? I meant your wording was strange. I had to reread it several times to understand what you meant, and I think the parent poster also didn't understand wha
457.
by rockdoe 11y ago
The web platform wants to have powerful features that are dangerous and/or easy to abuse, but haven't found a good way to allow them safely. The same problem exists on native.
458.
by rockdoe 11y ago
Might require MSE support (Firefox Nightly) or something.
459.
by rockdoe 11y ago
I think he's saying "local file access" in a very strange way, i.e. he wants out of the browser sandbox.
460.
by rockdoe 11y ago
pdfjs is great. but every 3rd scientific paper I read tends to be somewhat broken (missing diagrams/images) or sometimes fails to render completely. Do you report these? It's been ages since I saw a PDF that pdf.js misrendered.
461.
by rockdoe 11y ago
So all the content was downloaded at the same time as Firefox itself, and showing them doesn't make any requests to external servers...? Not necessarily at the same time as the download of the browser, but yes, the tile matching is d
462.
by rockdoe 11y ago
You mean the guys that torpedoed DNT and are sabotaging WebRTC standardization?
463.
by rockdoe 11y ago
Compression support needs to be rewritten, RAID5/6 support is extremely new and likely still quite buggy, quota support was just rewritten, in general an unexpected powerdown will dump you in a recovery shell because replay-from-journa
464.
by rockdoe 11y ago
You can follow the btrfs mailinglists to see the stream of people coming in that hit a case where btrfs can't recover by itself. I've hit one myself that required a btrfs-zero-log "fix", but I'm not running Ubuntu.
465.
by rockdoe 11y ago
ext4 is actually one of the fastest, if not the fastest filesystem for most common hardware and workloads and has few workloads where it does badly. Source: most benchmarks involving Linux filesystems
466.
by rockdoe 11y ago
btrfs also hasn't even reached alpha level stability yet. An unexpected powerdown often means "restore from backups" at this point.
467.
by rockdoe 11y ago
You missed the point what "coupling" means. Chrome runs on Android but also runs elsewhere. Same for Firefox.
468.
by rockdoe 11y ago
uBlock is barely 10 months old. AdBlock Plus has been maintained for 9 years. You might have an argument in 9 years. Right now it's just wishful thinking that developer time is free.
469.
by rockdoe 11y ago
Because we understand that having a revenue model leads to software that is maintained and developed more actively, and that taking money to do so does not mean the authors suddenly forget about their goals?
470.
by rockdoe 11y ago
It's just a recompile of Firefox for Android with Adblock Plus installed by default and I presume some changes in branding. (Edit: Actually they explicitly say this in the "technical details" post that is linked)
471.
by rockdoe 11y ago
Oh thanks, I read the correction the wrong way around.
472.
by rockdoe 11y ago
This doesn't actually go into the "implement" part. It just describes the syntax. The implementation is very hard and why it wasn't in Postgresql until now.
473.
by rockdoe 11y ago
It's a bit strange this was published while the vulnerability isn't patched for the majority of users out there. Browsers vendors don't tend to lag security fixes, so why no responsible disclosure? Or is this just not really
474.
by rockdoe 11y ago
I think having to reboot the server periodically (as well as the problems that prompted me to find how Google is running theirs) is evidence enough to argue against "<that> perforce handles huge repos very nicely".
475.
by rockdoe 11y ago
I find it curious you were corrected. I think I observed Google employees contributing to improved Mercurial scaling, which also hints in that direction?
476.
by rockdoe 11y ago
You worded that a bit strangely but it's fair to say the daycare worker made a willing career choice that involved taking care of kids all day everyday and is likely to enjoy it a lot and consider him/herself to be fairly skilled
477.
by rockdoe 11y ago
There's an older paper/blog from a Google admin describing the set of scripts they use to periodically reboot their Perforce servers. That should tell you how well Perforce handles huge repos, and I imagine it's not gotten be
478.
by rockdoe 11y ago
Those add-ons are things you install yourself on top of the browser. What does that have to do with Firefox's privacy? Nothing. Random software installed from the Internet can be harmful, who'd have thought!
479.
by rockdoe 12y ago
Presenting modal dialogs to the users on first run is considered terrible UX design with a high bounce rate. The way you state it, you'd have to ask the user to verify every single setting in your app. That is problematic. Making money
480.
by rockdoe 12y ago
Then he can switch it after having read the release notes pointing it out? The behind the back part was unwarranted, so the only thing that's remaining really is "I preferred the previous default" which doesn't quite jiv

More ›