rhelmer

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by rhelmer 3mo ago
I suspect they are both more familiar with client-side rendering, and also thinking of things being able to share components, reuse existing libraries, and so on. So re-implementing everything with vanilla HTML and forms feels like reinvent
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by rhelmer 3y ago
Nice work! I've enjoyed playing this game in the past, and have been working on porting various apps to wasm lately. Coincidentally, this is one I was looking into porting when I found this post.
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by rhelmer 4y ago
Anyone used this and could compare/contrast with web-ext https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext ?
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by rhelmer 8y ago
I worked on the Firefox integration (per the article) if anyone has specific questions. If you want more detail on Prio itself, I'd suggest http://blog.ezyang.com/2017/03/prio-private-robust-and-scala... as a
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by rhelmer 8y ago
Part of the threat model is that individual orgs can be compelled in various ways to turn over individual user data, and having different orgs holding their own private keys helps to mitigate this.
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by rhelmer 8y ago
As bad (and deserved) as their reputation is for helping well-meaning users to create a big mess, spreadsheet software provides an incredibly intuitive UI to put in front of users that have the domain knowledge but not necessarily direct so
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by rhelmer 8y ago
Ah, missed that. Cool.
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by rhelmer 8y ago
This is only being served to Release channel users currently (per the bug in the extension ID, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487578 ) ESR users are on a separate channel.
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by rhelmer 8y ago
Would you mind pasting your `about:support` somewhere (github gist, pastebin, etc) and linking it here?
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by rhelmer 8y ago
The intent was to express publicly, and then send an update that reflected this. Would it feel less "[sneaked] in" if this were a core feature in Firefox?
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by rhelmer 8y ago
If you are seeing something different please let me know!
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by rhelmer 8y ago
If I am understanding correctly, these are two separate things: - https://my.mixtape.moe/sjlprj.jpg - this is whether data is reported to mozilla servers - https://my.mixtape.moe/sflqrh.jpg - this is
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by rhelmer 8y ago
This was actually discussed on HN previously, with a link to the text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17797003
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by rhelmer 8y ago
In case anyone is curious why this works, Firefox switched to a new extensions API which tries to stay compatible with the one Chrome uses: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions
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by rhelmer 8y ago
I just tried and appears to work OK (Firefox 61.0.1, macOS)... since it's unsigned I loaded it as a temporary add-on in about:debugging plibither8, would you mind adding instructions to load this into Firefox in your README as well as
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by rhelmer 8y ago
Huh! I wouldn't expect that at all... here are some easy things to try: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-many-c... If it is still happening after you try those, use https://per
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by rhelmer 9y ago
Ah, ok. That's interesting too! There's interest in wasm-land about having "non-web embeddings", which wouldn't assume things like JS APIs exist at all. I think in that sort of world, you could probably find nicer A
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by rhelmer 9y ago
> Easier implementation is the goal. There are currently only four companies working on a web implementation. Easier implementation of a browser? You might find it interesting to see what Servo has chosen to implement and what they have
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by rhelmer 9y ago
You could probably do this now as a standalone Node app, if you want more explicit control over which APIs are available and where code can be run from. The browser is indeed quite complex (and not just because of the massive historical bag
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by rhelmer 9y ago
https://mycroft.ai might be a viable option - I believe they are planning to use Mozilla's speech recognition work too.
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by rhelmer 9y ago
One problem is the risk of self-selection bias.
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by rhelmer 9y ago
While I agree that reading source code is quite useful and informative, it really is no substitute for reverse engineering and inspecting on actual hardware. It's quite easy to be mislead by source code, especially if you're tryin
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by rhelmer 9y ago
> I'm not sure why content creators are feeling the need to go multi-media I was around for BBSes and the early public internet, and I do appreciate text interfaces... that said, I've always felt there was something quite magic
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by rhelmer 9y ago
This post suddenly reminded me of Resolver Systems, who made a Python/.Net spreadsheet back in the '00s: http://www.prweb.com/releases/spreadsheet/competition/prweb1... I thought it was a good idea
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by rhelmer 9y ago
This use case is interesting to me too. I looked into this a few months ago and found that there is a page on non-web embeddings: http://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/
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by rhelmer 9y ago
Yes, it was announced in https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/07/29/extension-signing...
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by rhelmer 9y ago
In the book "A Small Matter of Programming"[0] (1993), Bonnie A. Nardi makes the case that there are really only two successful end user programming systems - spreadsheets and CAD. I think that's just as true today, at least
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by rhelmer 9y ago
Well the context in this case (per the article) is the workplace, and the article appears to focus on the US, to disambiguate the laws and norms expected.
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by rhelmer 9y ago
At work?
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by rhelmer 9y ago
Catcalling just seems like a bad example... I can't think of a situation where that seems appropriate? I'm really not seeing why any of this belongs in the workplace. Why not bars, or if you're not the nightlife type, dating

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