smarnach

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by smarnach 2mo ago
American AI companies pirated hundreds of thousands of books, scraped the web against the express wish of site owners, extracted all public GitHub repositories without the explicit consent of code authors and distilled all of that informati
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by smarnach 4mo ago
Except for the M in LAMP.
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by smarnach 5mo ago
I did not come to any conclusion. I called out a baseless claim. A few pints about Ladybird: * It's an awesome project, and they appear to be pretty efficient. * Greenfield projects always move faster than big codebases that are 30 ye
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by smarnach 5mo ago
I wasn't able to reproduce the back button hijack. It never asks me for an email address, regardless of what I try.
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by smarnach 5mo ago
How did you come to the conclusion that 750 people is a lot to build a web browser? The Chrome-adjacent teams at Google are about 4,000 people, and that doesn't even include all the people at Google providing infrastructure (e.g. ser
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by smarnach 5mo ago
They are not entirely separate from Mozilla. The MZLA Technologies Corporation is a for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. They have access to some of Mozilla's common infrastructure, but are otherwise entirely funded by dona
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by smarnach 8mo ago
We get a statistically meaningful result about an upper bound of the incident rate. We get no statistically meaningful lower bound.
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by smarnach 8mo ago
Sure, but we shouldn't stretch the analogy too far. Die rolls are discrete events, while miles driven are continuous. We expect the number of sixes we get to follow a binomial distribution, while we expect the number of accidents to fo
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by smarnach 8mo ago
> we should default to the calculation of 2-4x the rate. No we should not. We should accept that we don't have any statistically meaningful number at all, since we only have a single incident. Let's assume we roll a standard di
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by smarnach 9mo ago
The distance from Earth to Mars is about 3 to 22 light minutes, not 20 to 90. That doesn't change anything about your point, except the capacity is lower.
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by smarnach 9mo ago
That's as far from being a general JS executing speed benchmark as it could be. It essentially just times the startup speed.
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by smarnach 10mo ago
The claim I responded to is that Bun is "at least twice as fast" as Deno. This sounds a lot more general than Bun being twice as fast in cherry-picked microbenchmarks. I wasn't able to find any benchmark that found meaningful
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by smarnach 10mo ago
I only claimed there is absolutely zero chance that Bun is twice as fast at executing general JavaScript as Deno. The example doesn't give any insight into the relative speeds of Bun and Deno, as fast as I can tell.
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by smarnach 10mo ago
Twice as fast at executing JavaScript? There's absolutely zero chance this is true. A JavaScript engine that's twice as fast as V8 in general doesn't exist. There may be 5 or 10 percent difference, but nothing really meaningf
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by smarnach 10mo ago
Are you using the Ubuntu Snap to train Firefox? If so, you can switch to the native Debian packages released directly by Mozilla. They don't do that sandboxing stuff, and they are a lot faster. I don't notice any speed difference
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by smarnach 1y ago
He also links a Wikipedia article stating that more than 60 percent of Londoners were born in Britain to prove his point that only a third of Londoners are "native Brits". That doesn't leave much room for interpretation.
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by smarnach 1y ago
Not even that. There's no rule in the GDPR to disclose the use of cookies. The regulation doesn't actually mention cookies at all, except maybe in an example. Instead, any data collection that's obviously required to do what
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by smarnach 1y ago
Similarly, the Rust query will include "trust", "antitrust", "frustration" and a bunch of other words
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by smarnach 2y ago
They are not complaining. You configured Google Search Console to notify you about problems that affect the search ranking of your site, and that's what they do. if you don't want to receive these messages, turn them off in Google
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by smarnach 2y ago
Can you substantiate this a bit more? Do you have a link?
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by smarnach 2y ago
It had a reusable orbiter, not a reusable first stage.
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by smarnach 2y ago
I've never seen that. can you give me an example search term?
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by smarnach 2y ago
Why do you think that this happens multiple times every day? Do you have any sources, or are you just making things up?
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by smarnach 2y ago
I think that's vastly overstating how bad it is. Maybe it's different if you are a German citizen. Just as an example, I never did anything other than signing the contract to get a job. I filled in a single form for each of my two
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by smarnach 3y ago
The link about the Google "data breach" appears to be about some tax companies being sued for using Google Analytics tracking pixels. Calling this a data breach may be a bit of a stretch.
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by smarnach 3y ago
You are correct that no browser is looking at CAA records, because it would be wrong to do so. CAA records don't retroactively revoke certificates that have already been issued. Their only purpose is for CAs to check them before issuin
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by smarnach 3y ago
CAA records only apply at the time a certificate is issued, and they only need to be considered by CAs. If the CAA record is changed later, all certificates that have already been issued continue to be valid, even if the new CAA record does
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by smarnach 3y ago
There definitely isn't a law mandating Javascript engines to follow the Ecmascript standard, which would be the equivalent of what's happening here.
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by smarnach 3y ago
Yes, I'm an employee of Mozilla Corporation, and I'm involved with Firefox backend services (some of which are also used by Thunderbird).
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by smarnach 3y ago
I'm still not sure what you want to express. The CEO of MZLA technologies is appointed by, and reports to the Mozilla board of directors. Of course the Mozilla Foundation has influence on the Thunderbird project. Moreover, the employee

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