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zsims··on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
We're already there. 4% Firefox market share may as well be zero. What is the current recourse for Chrome pushing a monoculture? I don't think it matters today what Firefox does or objects to.
zsims··on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
Some of the reasons for why it's not used as a base were discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29900496
zsims··on Twenty years of C# with Anders Hejlsberg [audio]
All the Win32 component libraries, WPF, Entity Framework + extensions. There's oodles of these packages on nuget
zsims··on React – The Missing Parts
Interesting ideas! However many of these would make reasoning about React and state a lot more difficult. Especially if the component tree can have root elements swapped out but keep children.

Feels like we're trending back to two way binding

zsims··on CVE-2022-0329 and the problems with automated vulnerability management
But the author fixed it? https://github.com/delgan/loguru/commit/4b0070a4f30cbf6d5e12...

Obviously there was something the library could "do better." I think the root of this issue is trying to squeeze absolutely everything into CVSS

zsims··on NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads
Spammer is a polite definition. His background is in marketing, the business he links brandscale[.]com is broken/abandoned. How long until we see these packages used as trojan horses? Or sold to third parties?
zsims··on Ask HN: Which software should exist, but doesn't?
Isn't this literally https://protonmail.com/ ?
zsims··on Cloudflare on the edge
Isn't this expected? The "real world" is heavily regulated but the internet is open and free (not always in a good way).

It makes it really difficult to deal with crime, cyber warfare, and illicit content. We need "something."

zsims··on Show HN: Aidmin – Web-based database GUI
> In order for Aidmin to help you manage your database, we require that you share your database credentials with us.

Woah. This is a huge red flag for any company or enterprise.

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