In addition to the predisposed hatred, one has to enjoy the delicious irony of Microsoft being on the receiving end of abuse from another entity that has dominance over some part of the tech economy. So in besides the usual Microsoft hate, this is a genuine case of karma being a bitch.
The Firefox guys are much less deserving of such treatment.
This image is a cropped version of the last 360-degree panorama taken by the Opportunity rover's panoramic camera from May 13 through June 10, 2018. The view is presented in false color to make some differences between materials easier to see.
Him endorsing sticking with DST is the first time I start doubting that it is a good idea. It's like an exercise regimen recommended by a sloth: suddenly and inexplicably it sounds terrible, even if you've been doing it all your life.
Let me just say that I love Thunderbird and I use it and recommend it wherever I can. It does exactly what I want and need from a graphical IMAP client, is rock solid, good safety track record. E-mail has been a stable protocol for decades, so it's natural the the software that deals with it is mature and doesn't require rapid releases. The little niceties mentioned in the linked article are good to have, but ultimately Thunderbird was already a great open source offering.
Big thank you to the team.
W3C standards can be deprecated.
In this case, the "Shadow DOM v0" is just that. The new version, supported by 10% more of current browsers, is "Shadow DOM v1". v1 was released in 2016, so rolling out a new feature in 2018 against a deprecated and less supported API seems like a bad move from Google.
There is a difference. Since you obviously don't run a site with user-generated content, let me try an analogy to demonstrate the nature of the change.
Before FOSTA, if your house was messy, your friends wouldn't visit you as often and you have less fun. After FOSTA, your friends wouldn't visit you so often, you have less fun, and the you can be criminally charged and go to jail. This of course hits small-to-midscale sites that cannot afford 24-7 moderators and a dedicated legal department. My advice to these sites operating in the USA is this: move. Do it yesterday.
I'm very grateful to the Firefox project and its contributors for their dedication to bringing us a fast and modern browser to act not only as a useful product, but as an essential counterweight to corporate hegemony over the www. Switching to 57 was a bit of pain as I had to find replacements to many of my beloved extensions, but it was worth it for the speed upgrade and smaller memory footprint. I'm glad they are keeping on the path of optimization and bringing more technologies that I can use both as an end user and as a web developer.
* I understand that sites can still run ads and make money without the use of massive spying organizations. They can make their own ads.
I understand that you never tried to operate a website in your life. I was with you until this piece of self-centered ****.
Most sites specialize in one thing, whether it's selling ceiling fans, reporting local news or sharing pictures of sloths. That's what they are good at. Getting additional personnel who are qualified at managing and selling ads for the site is prohibitively expensive and difficult. This is why online ad agencies exist. They are the middlemen who specialize in the buying and selling of ads.
It's easy for you to point a finger at site operators and say, "you are lazy, you sell out to those 'massive spy organizations', so much shame on you". Guess what: they are just trying to provide a service to you and perhaps make a living.
Full disclosure: I run sites as a hobby, they aren't ad-supported, but I can empathize with someone who needs the ad money to keep their operation going.
Similar story here. I used UW IMAP server and migrated to Dovecot when support for it was dropped by Debian. I tried Cyrus briefly. I don't remember what the exact issues were, I recall not being able to tweak the configuration to mimic UW's operation closely enough. Don't cite me on this, first because I'm completely unciteworthy and second because this happened years ago and my memories of it have faded some.
I love IMAP and use it exclusively for my e-mail servers. I can connect with multiple clients on multiple devices, organize my folders and keep my inbox tidy. Well as tidy as inboxes get with developers.
Similar story: yahoo did the same thing with the yahoo messenger protocol last September. Up until then I was using pidgin to chat on yahoo. After September I just quit using yahoo. So long and thanks for all the fish.
I've been using GraphicsMagick ever since debian switched to that package for better compatibility. I have been very happy with it; it is fast, versatile and, as I learned to day, more secure. Some of my users e-mailed me to warn me of the ImageMagick vulnerability, It's good that I could sleep through this one.
On a related note, not sanitizing incoming filenames is just bad security practice. It's the very first thing I do to any uploaded file.
My own experience with youtube was the same as the OP. This was several years ago, and youtube has changed a lot since, but it looks like the more things change, the more they remain the same. I had a semi-popular channel, nothing spectacular, about 100,000 channel views and maybe a thousand subscribers. At the time it was not bad for a guy who just posted some of his own sports clips.
The entire channel was yanked one sunny day, without any explanation as to why and no recourse or way to appeal. The automated support was entirely useless. I could not get a hold of a human, or at least, an e-mail address. There were none to be found. Youtube, as it appeared at the time, was entirely ran on automatic. It is, on one hand, understandable for a site that receives several years worth of uploaded material each minute. On the other hand, it was a thoroughly frustrating experience as I have done absolutely nothing wrong. To this day I have no clue as to what happened, my best guess is that someone reported me for the evulz, and that was enough.
I tried again to rebuild my channel with new material. About 6 months later the same thing repeated, at which point I gave up and never registered again.
The moral of the story is: you have to be corporate big, or you have to self-host. Otherwise, you are always at risk.
That, and many others. Procedural generation is not new.
I did enjoy the article, though. It was well written, well illustrated and fun to read. I have recently written some 2D game code that was generating a different kind of dungeon (not rectangular rooms, more organic / cave like environment. That was a fun project.
An article doesn't have to be about the cutting edge latest smart phone to be interesting. (I admit to have very little interest in smart phone news. I might read some articles when the time comes to buy a new handset...)
QT is modular. This allows them to add features (you call it bloat, but I don't think it means what you think it means), and then it is up to application developers to pick and choose the modules that they want or need.
The demand for more features is omnipresent, and software developers can either choose to fulfil them one way or another, or lose their market share to someone else who does.
Using web technologies to embed rich content into your application is not unheard of. The Steam client comes to mind as an obvious example: most of their UI lives in a webkit container. We do it at the company I work for, because it allows us to release new client and server versions separately. (We have a good reason to do that, not going into details.)
The alternative is either to launch an external browser and display your application's content there, which is cumbersome and then you end up having to test your application with all the browsers in the world to make sure it's compatible. Yet another alternative is to use a non-webbased rich content widget; in this case you are likely to end up with something inferior AND with a smaller pool of experienced developers to hire from.
The article does not state which court it was and if the ruling is likely to be overturned, but it's great to see a sudden outbreak of common sense like this one.
I am happy to maintain my illusion of privacy as far into the 3rd millennium as possible..
You are making entirely valid, but irrelevant points. I've done all the things you mention. I didn't go into it because it is mostly irrelevant to the discussion at hand. I guess the only thing I disagree on is the "over" part of "oversimplification".
Oh. And thank you for not mentioning legacy Internet Explorers, I do appreciate that.:)
This is the way the world is going right now. HTML5 and JavaScript have become the new, universal runtime that everyone is trying to use to build their applications. It is extremely compelling too: you don't need to worry about deployment, supporting older versions, operating systems, etc. This, however, requires browsers to do a lot more than they did before. Sound and video input is just the tip of it. There's also the canvas, WebGL, WebSocket, tons of new CSS features.
Firefox can either choose to keep up with new features or lose 90% of its share to Chrome. I'm actually happy they going forward because part of HTML5's appeal is that it is multi-vendor and is not solely controlled by a corporation like Google or Apple. Yes, it is "bloat", as in, lots of new features that you personally might not be using today. But someday you, or your friend will come across a site that uses one of these new features and if the site says "Sorry, you are using a backwards browser, please try Chrome instead", we both know what will happen. (You of course will scoff and close the site, but 10 other people will switch for every lean browser snob out there.)
I find humanity's ability to eradicate previously deadly and epidemic diseases to be something to wonder at. Personally I rate this little wonder of the world higher than the Moon landing.
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In addition to the predisposed hatred, one has to enjoy the delicious irony of Microsoft being on the receiving end of abuse from another entity that has dominance over some part of the tech economy. So in besides the usual Microsoft hate, this is a genuine case of karma being a bitch.
The Firefox guys are much less deserving of such treatment.
It you want to see that last panorama photo in better resolution, try this link:
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn....
This image is a cropped version of the last 360-degree panorama taken by the Opportunity rover's panoramic camera from May 13 through June 10, 2018. The view is presented in false color to make some differences between materials easier to see.
Him endorsing sticking with DST is the first time I start doubting that it is a good idea. It's like an exercise regimen recommended by a sloth: suddenly and inexplicably it sounds terrible, even if you've been doing it all your life.
That is the more polite version of "you incompetent chumps make our searches easy and worthwhile. And we listened to a lot of System of a Dawn."
Let me just say that I love Thunderbird and I use it and recommend it wherever I can. It does exactly what I want and need from a graphical IMAP client, is rock solid, good safety track record. E-mail has been a stable protocol for decades, so it's natural the the software that deals with it is mature and doesn't require rapid releases. The little niceties mentioned in the linked article are good to have, but ultimately Thunderbird was already a great open source offering. Big thank you to the team.
W3C standards can be deprecated. In this case, the "Shadow DOM v0" is just that. The new version, supported by 10% more of current browsers, is "Shadow DOM v1". v1 was released in 2016, so rolling out a new feature in 2018 against a deprecated and less supported API seems like a bad move from Google.
There is a difference. Since you obviously don't run a site with user-generated content, let me try an analogy to demonstrate the nature of the change.
Before FOSTA, if your house was messy, your friends wouldn't visit you as often and you have less fun. After FOSTA, your friends wouldn't visit you so often, you have less fun, and the you can be criminally charged and go to jail. This of course hits small-to-midscale sites that cannot afford 24-7 moderators and a dedicated legal department. My advice to these sites operating in the USA is this: move. Do it yesterday.
I'm very grateful to the Firefox project and its contributors for their dedication to bringing us a fast and modern browser to act not only as a useful product, but as an essential counterweight to corporate hegemony over the www. Switching to 57 was a bit of pain as I had to find replacements to many of my beloved extensions, but it was worth it for the speed upgrade and smaller memory footprint. I'm glad they are keeping on the path of optimization and bringing more technologies that I can use both as an end user and as a web developer.
I'm really glad this sentiment didn't prevail when antibiotics were invented. I loathe leeches.
* I understand that sites can still run ads and make money without the use of massive spying organizations. They can make their own ads.
I understand that you never tried to operate a website in your life. I was with you until this piece of self-centered ****.
Most sites specialize in one thing, whether it's selling ceiling fans, reporting local news or sharing pictures of sloths. That's what they are good at. Getting additional personnel who are qualified at managing and selling ads for the site is prohibitively expensive and difficult. This is why online ad agencies exist. They are the middlemen who specialize in the buying and selling of ads.
It's easy for you to point a finger at site operators and say, "you are lazy, you sell out to those 'massive spy organizations', so much shame on you". Guess what: they are just trying to provide a service to you and perhaps make a living.
Full disclosure: I run sites as a hobby, they aren't ad-supported, but I can empathize with someone who needs the ad money to keep their operation going.
Similar story here. I used UW IMAP server and migrated to Dovecot when support for it was dropped by Debian. I tried Cyrus briefly. I don't remember what the exact issues were, I recall not being able to tweak the configuration to mimic UW's operation closely enough. Don't cite me on this, first because I'm completely unciteworthy and second because this happened years ago and my memories of it have faded some.
I love IMAP and use it exclusively for my e-mail servers. I can connect with multiple clients on multiple devices, organize my folders and keep my inbox tidy. Well as tidy as inboxes get with developers.
That was my initial reaction too.
Similar story: yahoo did the same thing with the yahoo messenger protocol last September. Up until then I was using pidgin to chat on yahoo. After September I just quit using yahoo. So long and thanks for all the fish.
I've been using GraphicsMagick ever since debian switched to that package for better compatibility. I have been very happy with it; it is fast, versatile and, as I learned to day, more secure. Some of my users e-mailed me to warn me of the ImageMagick vulnerability, It's good that I could sleep through this one.
On a related note, not sanitizing incoming filenames is just bad security practice. It's the very first thing I do to any uploaded file.
My own experience with youtube was the same as the OP. This was several years ago, and youtube has changed a lot since, but it looks like the more things change, the more they remain the same. I had a semi-popular channel, nothing spectacular, about 100,000 channel views and maybe a thousand subscribers. At the time it was not bad for a guy who just posted some of his own sports clips.
The entire channel was yanked one sunny day, without any explanation as to why and no recourse or way to appeal. The automated support was entirely useless. I could not get a hold of a human, or at least, an e-mail address. There were none to be found. Youtube, as it appeared at the time, was entirely ran on automatic. It is, on one hand, understandable for a site that receives several years worth of uploaded material each minute. On the other hand, it was a thoroughly frustrating experience as I have done absolutely nothing wrong. To this day I have no clue as to what happened, my best guess is that someone reported me for the evulz, and that was enough.
I tried again to rebuild my channel with new material. About 6 months later the same thing repeated, at which point I gave up and never registered again.
The moral of the story is: you have to be corporate big, or you have to self-host. Otherwise, you are always at risk.
That, and many others. Procedural generation is not new.
I did enjoy the article, though. It was well written, well illustrated and fun to read. I have recently written some 2D game code that was generating a different kind of dungeon (not rectangular rooms, more organic / cave like environment. That was a fun project.
An article doesn't have to be about the cutting edge latest smart phone to be interesting. (I admit to have very little interest in smart phone news. I might read some articles when the time comes to buy a new handset...)
Why is that?
As a fellow daily Perl 5 user, I would be very interested to see your experience with Perl 6. Have you just "seen" it, or have you actually used it?
QT is modular. This allows them to add features (you call it bloat, but I don't think it means what you think it means), and then it is up to application developers to pick and choose the modules that they want or need.
The demand for more features is omnipresent, and software developers can either choose to fulfil them one way or another, or lose their market share to someone else who does.
Using web technologies to embed rich content into your application is not unheard of. The Steam client comes to mind as an obvious example: most of their UI lives in a webkit container. We do it at the company I work for, because it allows us to release new client and server versions separately. (We have a good reason to do that, not going into details.)
The alternative is either to launch an external browser and display your application's content there, which is cumbersome and then you end up having to test your application with all the browsers in the world to make sure it's compatible. Yet another alternative is to use a non-webbased rich content widget; in this case you are likely to end up with something inferior AND with a smaller pool of experienced developers to hire from.
The article does not state which court it was and if the ruling is likely to be overturned, but it's great to see a sudden outbreak of common sense like this one.
I am happy to maintain my illusion of privacy as far into the 3rd millennium as possible..
I shall replace you with a perl script!! A very simple one will do.. :)
You are making entirely valid, but irrelevant points. I've done all the things you mention. I didn't go into it because it is mostly irrelevant to the discussion at hand. I guess the only thing I disagree on is the "over" part of "oversimplification".
Oh. And thank you for not mentioning legacy Internet Explorers, I do appreciate that. :)
This is the way the world is going right now. HTML5 and JavaScript have become the new, universal runtime that everyone is trying to use to build their applications. It is extremely compelling too: you don't need to worry about deployment, supporting older versions, operating systems, etc. This, however, requires browsers to do a lot more than they did before. Sound and video input is just the tip of it. There's also the canvas, WebGL, WebSocket, tons of new CSS features.
Firefox can either choose to keep up with new features or lose 90% of its share to Chrome. I'm actually happy they going forward because part of HTML5's appeal is that it is multi-vendor and is not solely controlled by a corporation like Google or Apple. Yes, it is "bloat", as in, lots of new features that you personally might not be using today. But someday you, or your friend will come across a site that uses one of these new features and if the site says "Sorry, you are using a backwards browser, please try Chrome instead", we both know what will happen. (You of course will scoff and close the site, but 10 other people will switch for every lean browser snob out there.)
Point is, browsers are evolving. Deal with it.
When did "outside the USA" become "under a rock"? Did I miss a meeting?
The link in the article points to https://lists.debian.org/debia...
The correct link is https://lists.debian.org/debia...
Not that anyone here would ever rtfa.. :)
I find humanity's ability to eradicate previously deadly and epidemic diseases to be something to wonder at. Personally I rate this little wonder of the world higher than the Moon landing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_diseases