As you sit down to write your new web browser from scratch, you will have to decide on your implementation language. That should, of course, be JavaScript, because all proper Lisp systems are self-hosting.
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Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now. -
Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.Everybody, right now:
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pocket full of fingernail clippings.Why I Built My Own Digital Signage System, Part the Nth:
I just got some take-out from one of my favorite local lunch spots. Which one? For the last ~5 years it has been named "NO CONNECTION TO TEAMVIEWER SERVER, Proxy settings / Retry / Cancel".
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Dear Lazyweb, at what temperature should I be concerned that a Pi 4 is too hot?Dear Lazyweb, at what temperature should I be concerned that a Pi 4 is too hot? There is here-say that the NIC is qualified to 70°C and the CPU to 85°C, but what does this mean in practice? Am I likely to see malfunctions at 71°C, or are the error bars wide enough that another 10°C doesn't matter?
(As per 'vcgencmd measure_temp'.)
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Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.@deathkitten You can't have nice things because there are no nice things. Nice things were officially deprecated in 2005 and have now reached the end of long-term support.
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Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.AS HAS BEEN FORTOLD BY PROPHECY:
This thread has now descended into the noise-parade of people asking, "But what other browsers are there??" followed by responses of, "Here are 5 sketchy forks of it that get no development and that nobody uses".
We've already covered all of this ad nauseam in the Previouslies, just a couple months ago. How about reading those instead of covering all that ground again?
You Will Not Be Saved.
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Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.@mauve You already did, their titled is "Overpaid CEO". If you click the link, there is also full-throated support from "Overpaid President".
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Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.
tl;dr: "LOL get fucked"
They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way....
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If you have ever used Uber Eats, you can't sue Uber when they crash one of their cars into you.If you have ever used Uber Eats, you can't sue Uber when they crash one of their cars into you.
Uber beats crash victims' attempt to try case in court instead of arbitration: A married couple can't sue Uber over severe injuries they suffered in a 2022...
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My taxonomy is the best.My taxonomy is the best.
I will not be taking any questions.
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The title gives away the plot, but this is a very good, long, detailed summary about the entire Wordpress/WP Engine fiasco of the past week from every angle: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt@mathowie I think that if current events have taught us anything, it's that people who have more money than they can possibly every spend make some weird-ass decisions.
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pocket full of fingernail clippings.Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pocket full of fingernail clippings.
It was time to do some upgrades on the club's flyer screens. In the past, I had done that by ssh-ing in to each; turning off "Overlay"; rebooting; doing an update; turning on...
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Dear Lazyweb, I have some Nixie tubes that are suffering from cathode poisoning.Just ordered some USSR-manufactured vacuum tubes, that are being shipped from Ukraine.
Time is a flat circle.
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"Maybe Later" Intensifies.This machine's user is set to auto-log-in. Screen saver, display sleep, power saving: all set to never, as they always have been.
And with macOS 15, about every 12 hours, it locks the screen. AND unmounts the external drives!!
Since it's going to take me a while to downgrade this motherfucker, if anyone can tell me how to make it stop doing either or both of these things, that would be great.
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"Maybe Later" Intensifies.Great news, everybody! It's *not possible* to downgrade from macOS 15 to macOS 14 without burning a thumb drive and being physically present. Apple can fuck directly off into the Sun with this bullshit.
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Embedding perl and ffmpeg in a macOS app.Lazyweb: I am attempting to compile a static, embeddable/redistributable binary of ffmpeg, on macOS.
"configure --enable-static --disable-shared" gives me a binary that is still linking against random crap it found in /opt/local/lib. How do I make it stop doing that?
The answer is not --extra-cflags="-nostdinc -ibuiltininc" --extra-ldflags="-nostdlib -ibuiltininc" ("Compiler lacks C11 support")
"Delete that stuff from /opt/local" is also not an option.
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"Maybe Later" Intensifies.@ajn142 Fuck that entirely. This paternalistic "won't someone think of the children" crap does not change the fact that to run my business, I require a general purpose computer that does what I tell it to and nothing else.
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"Maybe Later" Intensifies."Maybe Later" Intensifies.
I can already see that I'm going to regret having upgraded one of my machines to macOS 15. Has anyone figured out how to make this dark-pattern patronizing bullshit permanently take "yes" for an answer?
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Embedding perl and ffmpeg in a macOS app.Embedding perl and ffmpeg in a macOS app.
I was pondering converting THE CYBERIZER to a macOS app so that it would be usable by non-combatants who cannot command-line. It is a long but straightforward perl script that invokes command-line ffmpeg to...
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I am seriously considering blocking ALL new follows from mastodon.social for a while, because I've blocked/reported two or three porn spammers and two SEO/marketing spammer followers so far this morning and it's getting tedious.@cstross Management of followers for large-follower-count people is a big failing. I made some suggestions which I'm sure will go ignored: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29899
Since then, in self-defense, I wrote a script that mails me a daily digest of new followers, including their bio and most-recent post. That makes reporting the spammers take, like, one minute per morning.
If only this was built in.