dblohm7

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by dblohm7 26d ago
> It's great they did this, but the Google that is today cannot be trusted with data of public value anymore. They never should have been trusted in the first place.
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by dblohm7 1mo ago
I agree! (Though you cannot call just any method asynchronously; the interface's IDL needs specific annotations and the underlying object needs to implement ICallFactory.)
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by dblohm7 2mo ago
Cancer is not the only complication...
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by dblohm7 2mo ago
There are projects such as Halide[1] that actually allow you to achieve performance without needing to resort to asm. [1] https://halide-lang.org/
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by dblohm7 2mo ago
They've been available natively on Nightly with some basic UI support since they were first implemented a decade ago. Some other pre-release builds have them too but it's been too long and I cannot remember which ones did or didn&
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by dblohm7 3mo ago
Ah, that explains why there is still NPAPI plugin support.
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by dblohm7 3mo ago
The modern native frontend APIs aren’t exactly lightweight themselves…
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by dblohm7 3mo ago
Yak shaving is only fun when you don't have managers who don't care about the circumstances breathing down your neck.
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by dblohm7 4mo ago
> Plus privacy.resistfingerprinting isn't enabled even when selecting "Strict" "Enhanced Privacy Protection" in the settings, great job there Mozilla. That pref is there for the Tor Browser.
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by dblohm7 4mo ago
The SpiderMonkey team always had t-shirts made up of these.
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by dblohm7 5mo ago
Respectfully to the American "this isn't that big a deal crowd": you're looking at it from the perspective that this is a commonplace occurrence in your country. IANAL but I have filed privacy complaints in the past at b
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by dblohm7 5mo ago
I mean, it's not really optional for Canadians _not_ to sign up for the list. It's the official list of electors. If you're a citizen, you're going to end up on the voter list one way or another.
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by dblohm7 5mo ago
I don't know whether is still does this, but 8-9 years ago I discovered that Acrobat overwrites the COM registry entries for Microsoft Active Accessibility (oleacc.dll) such that any application attempting to instantiate MSAA gets the
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by dblohm7 6mo ago
And if I may add a corollary: Measurement doesn't need to be held off until the end of the project! Start doing it as soon as you can!
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by dblohm7 6mo ago
I too learned this the hard way, via a supposedly concurrent priority queue that did quadratic-time work while holding a lock over the entire thing. I was told that "premature optimization is the root of all evil." Sorry, folks, b
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by dblohm7 6mo ago
Agreed. Nitpicking about indirection is definitely a "premature micro-optimization is the root of all evil" moment. When I worked on Firefox, we eventually had to remove a bunch of indirection (the interested can actually search b
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by dblohm7 7mo ago
Essentially, yeah, but of course you wouldn't want to use any Tailscale trademarks. Tailscale is engineered under the assumption that any client connected to our control plane could potentially differ from our canonical OSS codebase.
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by dblohm7 7mo ago
I really love VFX in the period between Star Wars and Jurassic Park. To me it will always be the "golden age" of VFX.
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by dblohm7 7mo ago
Essentially this: OSS operating systems get OSS GUIs.
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by dblohm7 7mo ago
(Tailscalar here) To be clear: it's only the GUIs that are closed source on selected platforms.
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by dblohm7 7mo ago
This is a terrible idea! _Maybe_, _maybe_ using only the documented APIs with only the documented parameters. Unfortunately it makes too many false assumptions about interoperability between Win32 and the underlying native API that aren&#x2
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by dblohm7 7mo ago
I'm not trying to troll here, asking seriously: are there any immediate-mode GUI APIs with good a11y?
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by dblohm7 7mo ago
> Well, it's not. It's barbaric and primitive. A warning is no justification. It's actually Singapore that turned me against the death penalty. I saw a photo on a news site one day showing a casket in Singapore, with some
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by dblohm7 7mo ago
Citation needed.
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by dblohm7 7mo ago
Similarly, I've seen this in enterprise IAM software, but again as data, not as code. Imagine a very large company that has a heterogeneous setup: say it has plain LDAP for *nix machines and AD for Windows. The IAM stuff has connectors
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by dblohm7 8mo ago
> For the desktop Mac, the base OS is essentially UNIX. It is much more secure by default than Microsoft Windows Citation needed.
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by dblohm7 8mo ago
https://dblohm7.ca
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by dblohm7 9mo ago
> If it gets taken seriously it would ship with an enable-AI button, not the other way round. Like the one described in the subsequent toot? > All AI features will also be opt-in. I think there are some grey areas in what 'opt-in
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by dblohm7 9mo ago
They do that for Thunderbird now.
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by dblohm7 9mo ago
> There is a market share costs that pocket had on Firefox. I don’t think you have any evidence of this.

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