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If you keep the browser ultra modular, I think it can work. You need to have one component for layout, one for css, one for the DOM, and you can use external libraries for media playback, javascript, networking, and so on.

I think a decent layout or CSS library would be useful outside of a web browser, too.

Then I would also only focus on the subset of websites that are "documents", not "apps". If I could decide, HTML6 would have two profiles: one ultra restricted (maybe no legacy stuff and no cross site scripting) for "documents", and one where you can do all kinds of crazy stuff like "web USB" for "apps". That's not going to happen because Google and Apple like the "open" web as complex and messy as it is, because it gives them total control as you know. But it doesn't stop a browser vendor from building a browser with two engines - your own engine for the majority of documents and chromium for webapps.
Someone just reported that it looks like a load balancer issue. Presumably, if that's the case it can also be fixed without user action: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c17
> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

This seems to be the opposite of "open" to me.
It's free monetarily to me, which is what I care about. I use lots of things by Google like Gmail, Maps, Android etc that it is immaterial to me that Photos is also made by Google.
On other hand I find it annoying that the start page of Firefox has box I always think of as search, but it is also address bar. While address bar is already at top. So I search some filename just for it to try to access it...
Do you really remember your million lifes? Even if so, wouldn't you be astonished by how million times it happened and still there is something new every time? Still it's not the same and there are different experiences all the time? This is not about emotions, this is about realizing what is there in front of us every moment.
Wasn't there some big hooha about "no taxation without representation"?

Channel Islands and Isle of Man are just about completely independent from the UK apart from their external relations/defence - own laws/taxes etc. and no tax is paid to/from the UK.
> What happened to us, as a society, that creates the expectation that a thing should be monetized?

The assumption that this person is not privileged, and therefore, needs money? I mean if I had made something that could have generate a sustainable income, but chosen not to do so, and go to work to be a slave instead, there gotta be a good reason.
Mozilla already gave up on everyone, just look at this mess. No wonder Firefox is in decline and has given up on privacy.

You might as well use Brave. Which that is a good choice.
Updates on the bug:

> We have other services with the same type of load balancer in front of it and we currently suspect it is an HTTP/3 load balancing problem.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c17

> Our current suspicion is that Google Cloud Load Balancer (or a similar CloudFlare service) that fronts one of our own servers got an update that triggers an existing HTTP3 bug. Telemetry was first implicated because it's one of the first services a normal Firefox configuration will connect first, but presumably the bug will trigger with any other connection to such a server. Our current plan is to disable HTTP3 to mitigate until we can locate the exact bug in the networking stack.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c21
Having lots of corporations involved in something doesn't protect the direction it goes in. Corporate interests could easily, for example, try to start adding in closed source blobs or providing support for people doing so. In fact, when Linus is gone, they probably will.

Software projects do seem to benefit from having firm voices empowered to say "no". Committees are incapable of doing that. Sooner or later they end up stuffed with friendly people who compromise their way to yes. That isn't an unacceptable outcome, but it'll be a different and probably worse project when that happens.

I suppose there are counterexamples - like Debian. But they have some very interesting social traditions and they don't let just anyone in to the club.
I only had to do a hard restart (force quit it, as others point out, just closing the window causes FF to hang). After restarting, everything seems to work fine.

EDIT: my FF version is 91.5.0esr (64-bit) on MacOS.

Many of my colleagues had the same issue today, and they all report that just restarting FF fixes the problem (one restarted the computer itself).
Sorry, but my traffic isn't supposed to go through anybody's centralized load balancer, least of all one operated by parties with whom I do not have a relationship on the basis of the delivery of some service.

That's not how this works. HTTP/3 support is optional as far as I'm concerned and plenty of websites that I tested with do not support it and still failed due to this issue.

Absolutely unacceptable.
That's just it, it's stuff you learn in computer science, then forget about because you don't use it in your day job.

Your day job is writing CRUD services. That's the job.

Our tech interview - ~8 hour take-home assignment, it was well-paid consultancy - asked people to basically demonstrate they could write a CRUD service. It had reading XML, some business logic / calculations, a REST/JSON API and a front-end.

Ten years later, I'm still working with that basic model. I mean sure, it's been broken up here and there by a different tech stack (Angular instead of React, Go instead of Java, native iOS instead of web) but the basics are still the same.

I haven't had to invert a graph or do a depth / breadth first search since college. The most algorithmic thing I do is implement a comparator function for sorting.
Same here. Meanwhile I've been using Tor.
I feel PostgreSQL should push that as a benefit of their system. I read your comment and said "Where have you been all my life?"

"Still using strings with fixed limits like you're a C programmer in the 80s? Use PostgreSQL."
Can confirm. I've set up a filter for amazon recruiters and haven't looked at it since. I don't find them worthwhile to respond.
But you don’t need to park your car right next to the shop you’re visiting.

You could park your car near a metro stop, or train station on the edge of the city and use public transport to complete your journey.

That way city dwellers don’t need to sacrifice huge amounts of space for cars they don’t use, along with dealing with the consequences of urban heat islands. And you don’t need to spend you life sat in traffic because there will never be enough roads in major cities for everyone to travel by car.
Hah just saw this after reinstalling Firefox from zero (that worked to solve the problem actually - needed to bring the old profile still)
LastPass risking a €20M GDPR fine due to unresolved bugs
Sorry if I assume too much, but I think you'd be thinking quite differently if you had to consider buying your first home on the French riviera now, on something like a 60.000-100.000 euro pre-tax salary.
Something I've always been curious about is how energy relates to black hole formation with regards to Schwarzschild radius and the early universe. How did the early universe not collapse into one giant black hole? Are mass-energy and density the only factors affecting formation or does the type of energy have an effect? For example, suppose I have a mass more than sufficient to collapse into a black hole. Now suppose that the mass is split in half and each half has a very high momentum energy directly away from the other half. Do they fly apart or does the momentum energy simply increase the mass-energy of the black hole?
And because of that everybody else has to do the same. Seems to be very understanding and tolerant approach.
On my corporate Linux, both Firefox and Chromium (which is likely the same as Edge nowadays, I guess) are affected.
Wow, they made The Button as well? That's amazing. They have considerable talent for going viral, it seems.
Only worth it if these founders are the smartest people you've ever met, and you think you'll learn a lot more with them than with your current team

Leaving FAANG is a reversible door, so you can always go back, but don't quit just because the founders are recruiting you. They need to win you over big-time

Also make sure you're paid right. Here's a database of startup salary & equity: topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database/
Multi-Account Containers are really the only remaining feature that keeps me from switching to Chrome. Obviously this won't happen in Chrome though :/
Interesting, it first hit me while I was browsing Youtube. I have been noticing aborted/stalled connections specifically on Youtube over the last week or so. I bet you they have http3 going. After upgrading to 96 today was the first time I got all new connections blocked.
I mean, the dynamic of people acting as watchdogs and the community bundling together can be noticed in a lot of villages over the world, I think. Of course, the special thing about the Favelas and Mafia-controlled areas is the violence and fear.

But that's just a speculation from me.
I had a take-home assignment not long ago for some... dodgy recruitment-consultancy-disguised-as-training company. It was the exact same assignment as my previous employer used ten years ago. Ended up just showing and talking about my current project, which is basically the same thing.
Sounds like a lot of work for moving lightly-formatted text files around. Also, essentially no-one wants it. What people want (whether they know it or not) is the latest shiny to keep themselves distracted.
And you will rarely even earn $100k.

Like I live in a European capital and am just below $100k after almost 8 years of experience.

We're just colonised by massive US corporations which ship the profits back to the US (and avoid as much tax as they can!).
Have a Germany anecdote.

>Healthcare

That's definitely a you problem, the US is the outlier here.

>30 paid holidays

24. Based on 6 day workweek. So 20. More is optional.

>Unions, Paid overtime

Rarely are there Unions specifically for the IT department.
Employers here like "Vertrauensarbeitszeit", which means count your own hours, which usually ends up with you doing more (unpaid) work.

>weekends and calls off work come extra

Also very much depends on the job, many people do it without asking for compensation. In one place just being on call got me a good extra 20% salary, in another they refused to pay for it and now it's "non-mandatory" - but they know someone will likely still pick up the phone.

>Retirement

Biggest scam in history. I get the need for such a programm, but I'll be getting maybe 10% of what I put in out. Fuck being a millennial I guess.

>Flex Time

Already said. Mostly a negative because your performance review will check if your projects, planned with way too little time, will be completed. At least that's the case in development teams. I stick to platform teams for this reason.
This is probably true for many other industries. Organisation experience / knowledge is very important in being effective in a role. When looking at productivity, organisations tend to overpay new starters (a new starter is often a net loss, particular in a skill based role) and underpay those who've been with the organisation for several years.
Of course, people have to live, so you can't pay a new starter next to nothing with the promise of huge increases after 6 months.
The only thing that worked for me was:
- Hit Ctrl + Shift + Del (TIL this exists) -- which will open the "Clear Recent History" dialog
- Select under the down "Time range to clear": "Everything"
- Select at least "Cache" and "Offline Website Data"
Yeah, but then your car might as well have a "start" button, keys aren't necessarily.

Lots of cars let you take out the keys when the ignition is in "armed" state for this reason exactly. No need to leave the keys in the ignition while you aren't there.
Unpredictable schedules is nothing to do with holiday work; that can be planned and agreed in advance, with suitable pay, and people will happily do it. What really grinds people's gears is "on demand / zero hours" scheduling: you have to ring up an hour before your shift starts to check whether it's actually going to start or been moved again.

With predictable scheduling you can work two part-time jobs. With zero-hour contracts, you can't (because they may whimsically decide to schedule conflicting shifts for you). And you can't budget because you have no idea how much you're going to be paid.

Retail and hospitality were infested with this nonsense, and as soon as workers have other options they quit it.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c21 telemetry is not the only service affected, it's advisable to disable http3 entirely as a workaround for now
Give it some time. That's exactly what I did first thing this morning, then it worked again for 20 minutes, then it broke again. And then I couldn't get it to work at all until I saw this message.
Because it's in beta.

Once self driving is a thing the government should make the cars do a billion mile driving test in a simulation they design, with all possible crazy things happening
I'd wait a bit for the postmortem; I don't think there's reason to conclude at this time that your traffic is going through someone's centralised load balancer. Another update says that the load balancer issue triggered a bug in Firefox, so presumably fixing the load balancer issue will prevent that bug from being triggered, and then the bug can be fixed separately after: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c21

But mostly: I have no real idea what's going on, so I'm awaiting the postmortem.
Show HN: TUS Protocol Implementation in Rust
They are the amd to my intel, their inability to overthrow me, completes monopoly-me.
Aaaand another bunch of users lost to Chrome ...

I've only spoken with 2 other people and they were not as lucky as me to have read about the fix on this very comment page, so they were "forced" to use Chrome/ium to be able to access the web. Not sure they will switch back to Firefox.

I am surely not switching to Chromium based browsers, but it is time again for me to consider switching to Icecat or so instead after what happened today.
Wow. So it's free if he shut down the site last week?

Crazy how good your solution is. No, bandwidth is far from free.
I was studying hard at Uni. This meant my internship applications were poor and despite a few interviews, I never got one. Disappointed, I accepted this.

Then out of the blue I got an invite to an internship interview at a local very reputable firm, and ended up getting the job. I never applied for it. Eventually I asked how it happened. The guy running the department looked up (public) exam results and invited top X% in my STEM subject, me among them.

Was much better than what I’d get at a corporate graduate puppy mill.
The linked article is about “the 1793 meeting of Lord George Macartney and the Qianlong emperor, an infamous embassy in the history of East-West relations.”

If anyone is interested in learning more about that diplomatic mission, the official two-volume account, published in 1797, is fascinating [1, 2]. The full title is An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China: including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary; together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India company's service, to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe; taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Sir Erasmus Gower, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy. The accompanying volume of plates is at [3].

Thank you again, Internet Archive.

[1] https://archive.org/details/authenticaccount01stau/page/n5/m...

[2] https://archive.org/details/authenticaccount02stau/page/n7/m...

[3] https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008481562/page/n9/mode/...
This is fascinating but how accurate is this? Because Ping-Ke Shih is credited with the lines related to the rtw89 driver, but looking at their github repo[1] I see no such name in the contributors.

Did Ping-Ke just merge the driver and get credited for it? Or are they behind the lwfinger account?

Hard to tell but I'd like to buy them a beer or two for that driver, my laptop thanks them.

Also interesting to see a fellow Swede Johan Almbladh in the top 5. Apparently this guy is the founder of AnyFi that are trying to deploy Wifi towers in Indonesia. Looking at some of his commits he also works with the Loongson CPU architecture that came out of China many years ago. For a while Richard Stallman was using a laptop with one of those CPUs.

1. https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89
Firefox has been pretty unstable for me too recently, just now I had to kill several "GeckoMain" processes that kept churning even after I closed the browser. There also seems to be a memory-/performance leak that leads to the browser getting slower and slower the longer it is open, so once per day I have to close and re-open it, which fixes the issue.

I really try hard to like Firefox but it keeps falling behind. For certain tasks like debugging web applications I already resort to Chrome because the debug tools in Firefox are painfully slow in comparison. I guess FF developers have too beefy laptops and don't notice this, on my "old" T460p it makes the browser more and more unusable though. Same goes for opening "expensive" web apps like Slack or video conferencing tools, performance greatly degrades.
This thread is about heat islands and wasted space in cities.
I think the real issue is that changing the companies always gave bigger raise in pay than staying in the company for most of the folks. Most were not changing jobs due to multiple factors like relations, not having to change house, comfort, good office, free food etc. Now this all factors have reduced a lot that staying in current company is looking even worse option. So till employers are able to retain using other means like interesting work or that employers are able to give 20-30% raise each year(which is pretty hard) the time people stay in the same company will low.
Yes, but I'm talking about this: https://serverfault.com/a/937808
Bryson's America: Why would you walk?

>I'LL TELL you this, but you'll have to promise that it will go no further. Not long after we moved here we had the people next door round for dinner and - I swear this is true - they drove.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/bryson-s-am...
Mmm.. I think it’s unlikely.
London salaries at the top of the scale are not that far from the equivalent US.
In Europe I don’t think it is the case, depending on your definition of close obviously.
Ami go home.

We should build up our own European industry like we had with Linux, MySQL and Nokia, etc.
I don't know you, but I believe sometimes you just have to force a change, energy or not. Better to do something than live miserable, even if you don't know if it will be any better.
Also on Mac. I reinstalled it and now it works.
Spending a couple of months for a guaranteed 100k raise would be great. Spending those months for a tiny chance of that raise would not.
> Reader mode

Pretty sure they meant Pocket when referring to a “bookmark reader”.
So far FSD beta has killed 0 people, and other FSD software has killed 1 person. So they seem to be ahead.
It's the local managers who intentionally mess with the employees, whether it's out of malice or desire to hit corporate profitability targets. And yes zero-hour scheduling and last-minute shift cancellation probably ought to be illegal.
I've used the UK verify service, and it was pretty horrible then. Only country I've seen do it somewhat well is Singapore, with Singpass.
Thanks, this has worked!
> Our current suspicion is that Google Cloud Load Balancer (or a similar CloudFlare service) that fronts one of our own servers got an update that triggers an existing HTTP3 bug.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c21
Maybe, just maybe, once Mozilla fails people and organizations will finally understand what terrible mistake they made by giving total control over the web to Google. Maybe this could be the beginning of a new project, managed by an institution with clear aims and no Mozilla-Foundation-style bullshit.

Remember the early days of Firefox? It crashed often, it was slow, but we had great expectations ad supported it. It wasn't easy to use it at all. At some point it made a breakthrough and installing Firefox was the first thing to do on a fresh install of any machine. People don't remember or know these times and take the web browser for granted. But now that Google has long left their original "Don't be evil" mantra and all tech is focused around the web, having an open, neutral browser is more important than ever. I wish people - including the ones at Mozilla - appreciated this fact more.
An annual London travel card is £2,568, and that only lets you travel around London. So why should be instead force people to buy something more expensive and less useful than a car?
It's not happening to me with Firefox 95.0.1 on Ubuntu 20.04. I'm disabling http3 anyway. Re-enabling it when Mozilla will explain what's going on.

Edit: reading further comments it occurred to me that maybe I'm not affected because I'm not sending any data to Mozilla so I don't hit their HTTP3 load balancer.
I _just_ fixed a problem here with Firefox which didn't load _any_ sites when I fired up my computer this morning.
It just hung and restarting didn't help.
What I did to solve it was to navigate to about:serviceworkers and unregister everything there. Now it's back to normal again.
> I would like to make fun of politicians and write about how they are doing things wrong.

> [..]

> It is really sad, that the law is this silly and basically antagonistic towards blogging and not wanting every perv on the net to know, where I live or how to give me a call.

Not saying you would write anything bad but what's fun to one can be libel or hate speech to another. "It was just a joke, dude" shouldn't fly. That's one of the reasons some of these laws are in place. Of course it runs the gamut between an healthy democracy with free speech and an authoritarian and controlling state.

With that being said I am curious about lawyers out there just waiting. Do they have anything to win or any legs to stand on if what you wrote doesn't concern them and no clients is asking them to write a letter to you ? What's the situation like in practice ?
>"Covid and WFH opened up a world of possibility for talent sourcing and cost reduction"

I was doing remote work and hiring remote subcontractors for 20 years already. No need for COVID ;)
> That's roughly how people used to use Unix .plan files, with finger being a convenient way to check out what someone else was up to.

I wanted to mention Carmack's .plan but I thought it's too old for blockchain...
You're commenting in a discussion about changing the infrastructure to be less car centric so that more people can live without having a car.
1. The average car occupancy is 1.5 persons per vehicle.

2. The total parking area in NYC adds up to TWELVE Central Parks.

3. Cars are a leading cause of death by accident in the world.

4. Driving a car for 1 hour reduces your life expectancy by 20 minutes.

5. They emit toxic fumes and greenhouse gases.

6. Car tires shed microplastics, which might be even more harmful than the toxic fumes they emit.

7. This article.

Now please tell me, what tolerance do these glorified killing machines deserve?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c19 current info is that it's not just telemetry that can trigger this HTTP/3 bug, it just happens to be the first/most common service that users' browsers will connect to