stuartd

I don’t see that in the parent comment, though, to which my misguided reply has been heavily downvoted? I guess I need to learn more about this. Edit: or just stay out of it.

Ok sorry, please forgive my misunderstanding, it sounds like you’re saying Cloudflare is a ‘malicious DNS resolver’, but I guess I’m wrong there as well? I opted into DoH when it became available in Nightly (though not in the US), am I being a mug here?

You’re seemingly pushing you own agenda here?

As the article itself says:

> Are other approaches feasible? For example, Firefox’s captive portal test uses delegated namespace probe queries, directing them away from the root servers towards the browser’s infrastructure.

If someone finds an answer which helps them and so upvotes it, why should the reward depend on the age of the question?

Please excuse my lame pun:

> foc-u-lus

> Things that we do not worry about anymore: Javascript, controllers, CORS, JSON, HTTP status codes, API documentation, 3rd party dependencies.

That's a good looking list of things not to worry about. Especially CORS, the bane of my life.. the fact it's pre-flight has caused me so many problems in my (tiny) UI responsibility.

I know it’s a feature, but even sites which allow you to set a timezone (eg Slack) still displayed times incorrectly. It was a tradeoff I was not prepared to make.

I used privacy.resistFingerprinting until I realized that was the reason websites were displaying times incorrectly, as they receive the default timezone value of UTC - [0] - and I couldn't find a way around it.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330890

> you have to be able to hold very large completely abstract systems in your brain. That's a different skill/aptitude than, for example, holding all the working parts of an internal combustion engine in your mind.

Is it really different though? “Why isn’t this engine working?” [traces through combustion path to find problem] doesn’t require ‘holding all the steps in you mind’ but it does require knowing them and how they interact, whereas “how do I make this engine more efficient?” does require a mental model of the whole engine and how the parts interact?

These seem broadly to me as analogous to respectively maintenance programming and systems development.

Edit: I think the part I don’t understand is why you think the abstract system (the code) is qualitatively different from the concrete system (the engine).

> I can usually come up with working code to do whatever I've ever wanted to do

Been working as a programmer for 25 years, and I’ve never read (or considered reading, or felt the need to read) a book on data structures or algorithms.

Also, I’ve seen plenty of people who are employed as programmers who simply cannot come up with working code. I don’t see how you can write working code without problem-solving skills, as by definition you’re solving a problem by writing working code..?

(I don’t really have a point, sorry, this just resonated with me)

If anyone's interested, Raymond Chen did a series of posts on the idiosyncranies of the Itanium processor, starting here: [0]

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150727-00/?p=90...

Mac OS has never said to me "hey, you're using Firefox, are you sure you wouldn't like to use Safari instead"? And I hope and trust it never will.

> Is your code less functional and more imperative style due to Rust?

I would imagine so. Rust doesn't support tail call optimization, and variables are immutable only by default.

[flippant]

Even Christ stumbled

Don’t know where you got ‘riots all over the world’ from, Mr Throwaway? And you seem to be saying that ‘prior convictions’ excuse this appalling act? Again - for shame.

I personally dislike all Serif fonts, but TNR most of all. Too much Windows, probably (I also loathe Arial)

8,000 miles away, give or take, and not Europe. And you don’t know why? For shame.

https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1267327498339127298?...

This was the first song that came to mind when I read the article :)

I’m an opt-in donor, always have been. And I think this change is good, albeit poorly communicated.

Some ammunition for those who disagree - organlegging!

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=337

.. and (as Michael explains on the book) it’s literal meaning in Martian is “drink”, or in other words “to make part of yourself”. It used to really annoy me when people used it to mean “understand”, but I’ve got over that now.

Landfill costs (understandably) vary between countries. Got a lot of empty space? Cheap. Crowded? Not cheap at all.

Not sure why this tagged ‘Assange Trial’ as that only gets a tangential mention. The author is writing that he has been excluded from the Alex Salmond trial.

The best argument I heard against this was - if you ban them, you just drive them underground. Where there can (by definition) be no regulation.

Agreed. I have no idea what the author is referring to here. Every version of FF seems to have better tracking prevention, though Mozilla do advertise the services they provide. Which I don’t find unreasonable - as those services are otherwise not discoverable.

Regarding ‘mandatory plugins’ I presume this is referring to the OpenH264 codec and Widevine CDM?

UK reader here. “Continue reading this article

Register with an email address”..

Loved those interviews. Thank you.

Oh, this takes me back a long time. I kept a game of Progress Quest open for far longer than I should have.

Don’t forget to chip in a few bucks to the author (if you can afford it) though

The ultimate irony of DNT was that trackers could use the header as browser fingerprinting data..