st3fan

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   by st3fan 3y ago

   Nope you are making up stories.
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   by st3fan 3y ago

   Other people may remember this differently. Some things are a bit of a blur. My brain selectively blocks some of this - It was basically an exhausting two/three year crunch to rewrite Fennec as a modern Android app.
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   by st3fan 3y ago

   I managed the team that did a lot of the integration of web extension support in Fenix, the new Firefox for Android. We were all on the brink of burnout. There was too much work. Unrealistic deadlines. And high expectations. So we decided t
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   by st3fan 3y ago

   Yup that is also a great way. Just send a message ID and fetch the actual content in the notification extension that can pre process incoming notifications.
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   by st3fan 3y ago

   We implemented APNS encryption for Firefox iOS without much trouble. Keys are negotiated out of band and message decryption is done in a Notification extension that allows you to pre process incoming notifications. Did not need any special
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   by st3fan 3y ago

   This. It was also 100% clear that 32 bit was going to end at one point. Apple was extremely clear about that and provided all the tools and documentation to help developers make the transition.
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   by st3fan 3y ago

   Type hints everywhere?
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   by st3fan 3y ago

   And security
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   by st3fan 3y ago

   Check out https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources
10. 250.▲
    by st3fan 3y ago

    There is a bug in the test. The string is specified as having length of 16 but only 8 bytes are given?
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    > The one you choose to run can be better than the current one you are forced to use and thus your attack surface has decreased because you are not using the worse ones. you seem to think that webkit is the worse one here and that having
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    also on by default on 17.0.3. i definitely did not change this.
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    AOLServer (NaviServer) was awesome.
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    Firefox profiles are not a user exposed feature. If you want to use multiple profiles at the same time then you have to use the command line to manually start multiple Firefox processes. I hate to admit it but Chromes profiles are far super
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    This was fun to read but also .. I'm so happy I don't have to touch C anymore.
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    No but there are 875382 unofficial ones
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    Why not simply post a .el file that people can load or copy paste into their existing config?
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    # Do not automatically upgrade anything export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK=1
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    This is the "Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network" at work, who have been at it since the 90s, fighting all kinds of vaccines with conspiracy nonsense. This scary COVID-19 article is no different. It is an opinion piece of a an
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    > Jira has much better UX Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    You don't have to translate them. Just stick `#!/usr/bin/env bash` on top. It is totally fine to use fish as your "terminal shell" and default to Bash for scripting for things like automation, etc. I've be
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    So does Emacs. Excellent way to inspect things that zip. Like Java jar files. You can also edit.
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    > Storm and Semenov in fact knew that they were helping hackers and fraudsters conceal the fruits of their crimes.” Let me fix that for you … Storm and Semenov in fact knew that they were helping criminals conceal the fruits of their cri
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    > I just went through this process. Got autorejected after the personality/IQ test thing. My essay was 13 pages. Same! 30 years of experience. Technical and management. I applied to two roles and both auto rejected. I had contact wi
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    Nope. Not correct.
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    > All it takes is for the person responsible for the Mozilla deal to be replaced by someone who hates anti-white wokeness That you write this utter nonsense tells more about you than about Mozilla ... shows your true colors. Wow.
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    Wait what? "spare money lying around?" that is a complete misunderstanding of how this works. You make it sound as if that money is some kind of "donation". THat Google is doing Mozilla a _favour_ here. But nothing could
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    What the hell is this? Has HackerNews now turned into a site where ACTUALLY GENERATING GREAT REVENUE WITH YOUR PRODUCT IS FROWNED UPON!? I don't understand this comment at all. Is making money a bad thing now? I thought that was the wh
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    "$30,000 to “MC Technical Inc.” in 2021. Who are they? Well, they don’t have a website, that’s for sure. The business registry listing is about the only thing of the company that seems to exist. The listed address is someone’s house.&q
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    by st3fan 3y ago

    "Why does Mozilla continue to take donations if it doesn’t need them?" Because raising money is literally what non profits do as their primary means of income. They cannot just "take" money from the "cash cow",