WTF Bites
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
it saves open tabs if you're one of those tab hoarding weirdos.
Yes, it does (except Private Browsing windows), although it's optional and (I think) not the default. But it's a pretty easy setting to find and change.
I switched from Chrome to FF because it was taking Chrome forever to open and load all the tabs. FF lazy-loads them, so it starts up quicker. However, I think I've hit the limit where even it starts too slowly.
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And yet from the same page, it's apparently better than even Holy Firefox the Protector of Your Private Life:
Yeah I saw that part, but a study that claims that groups Firefox and Chrome together on the "phone-home" criterion sounds very dubious to me. There aren't many things in Firefox that phone home, and they can be disabled. Chrome, on the other hand, is a browser made by a company whose profit comes from tracking their users.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
although it's optional and (I think) not the default.
No, it's not. Because obviously every browser wants you to have that browser's home page as your default.
But it's a pretty easy setting to find and change.
Yes.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
There aren't many things in Firefox that phone home, and they can be disabled.
Yes. The shitty thing is they are enabled by default.
Especially this one:
(Thank you for making me go to that page - evidently I had forgotten to toggle that on this machine)
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@Benjamin-Hall I see you're using the same parsing / validation as Apple .
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@dcon I was wondering, "? I don't remember that setting." But I just checked, and I guess I unchecked every "Allow Firefox to ..." setting without necessarily paying much attention. Allow Firefox to display the #)^$*(#$ web page, and bugger off with everything else.
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WTF of my day: So, at another forum people were discussing the Lane Assistent of my ID.3 (and I'm talking about the specific implementation for this model, mind!). From hearing them wailing, you might get the impression that this is an error-prone mess which goes wrong every other second and requires Herculean effort to override.
Meanwhile, I have been driving a bit with my new toy, on a regular Autobahn, through some road works on the Autobahn (which had the accompanying orange lane markers over the regular white ones), on streets with flaked out lane markers, on a narrow overland street with no markers.
And guess what? There were a few issues, yes, but none I could not override on the spot and mostly related to the speed limit detector. I even actively sought out situations for the Lane Assistant to engage (like letting myself drift a bit off course) but found the "nudge" to be very manageable.
The crybabies were having none of that, of course. They'd have to deactivate the system manually every time they started the car!
Of course, pointing out that their insurance companies would have a field day if they ever were in an accident and the company found out that they actively deactivated the assistant - no, they could not understand that argument. Usual head in the sand stuff.
But then one intelligent dude decided to simply tape over the cameras regulating the Lane Assistant. He argued that the radar still worked, after all.
He kind of did not comprehend that these cameras also controlled other assistants. Like the Emergency Braking Assistant.
Y'know, the one which makes an emergency brake when a person walks in front of your car. Asshat.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Or maybe it's time to try Brave.
If you don't like browsers doing things besides your back, Brave is definitely not a browser for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controversies
And yet from the same page, it's apparently better than even Holy Firefox the Protector of Your Private Life:
( just click the link above and scroll down)
Never trust a study that
you didn't fake yourselfputs Chrome in the mid-range when it comes to privacy.E:
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@Rhywden so you got to figure out how to productize around the user, either by distracting them, keeping them unaware, or passively or actively preventing tampering. The solution is probably carbon disulfide.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
it saves open tabs if you're one of those tab hoarding weirdos.
Not me, I only have 90 tabs
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
it saves open tabs if you're one of those tab hoarding weirdos.
Not me, I only have 90 tabs
I've relaunched recently, so I only have 7 on my "work" machine!
Shit, that's going to turn orange next week, isn't it...
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Trying to work with S3. In the console, you don't (can't) select region:
In the code to make the client:
Fuckers.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Trying to work with S3. In the console, you don't (can't) select region:
Yet it clearly shows there are regions.
Also, IIRC our other team is working with Azure for development because it's cheaper, but AWS for production because they have datacenters in all the required regions that mandate personal data of their citizens to be stored in their jurisdictions. Which means they need a way to control the regions—they may be using some other AWS service than S3 though.
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a way to control the regions
Yeah, region management sucks in aws compared to Azure. It's really stupid how easy it is to accidentally loss shit because you're not paying attention to some text at the top right.
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@Zerosquare: I had no idea that JS was a birth control method.
Have you tried having an extended conversation with a woman about JS? It's pretty effective.
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@Tsaukpaetra Yeah S3 region management is pretty ropy. It's because they started out with one data centre, so for Legacy Reasons everything defaults to us-east-1 - which is a pain if you don't want stuff to be hosted there.
You also have to specify region when creating new buckets, and there's nothing to stop you setting that differently for different buckets on the same account. But then if you make requests to fetch content and specify the wrong bucket, it gets upset. I think on Azure it's linked to the account? (Not sure, we do use Azure here but the vast majority of our effort is S3.)
They mostly fixed it now, but they had issues where the Region enum in their Java API didn't actually match the regions they supported, either. And some of the regions didn't have descriptive text so you'd end up with a dropdown like ["US East", "us-east-2", "Europe (Ireland)", "eu-east-1"].
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@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
I think on Azure it's linked to the account? (Not sure, we do use Azure here but the vast majority of our effort is S3.)
Yes, as long as by “account” you mean a “storage account”—the word is a bit ambiguous.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Yeah, region management sucks in aws compared to Azure. It's really stupid how easy it is to accidentally loss
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how easy it is to accidentally
I'm pretty sure you did that on purpose though.
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@topspin I did, but I think @Tsaukpaetra didn't mean to
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@topspin I did, but I think @Tsaukpaetra didn't mean to
S and E are very close to the keyboard spacing so it apparently assumed loss was better than lose in this case.
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@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
Have you tried having an extended conversation with a woman about JS?
I wouldn't know. I never succeeded in having conversations with wo... I mean, conversations about JS.
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Somebody does not like having competition.
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@PleegWat Some time ago, Google realized that if there keep being obnoxious ads everywhere, then users will install adblockers (and switch to firefox because of that) and user who starts using adblocker will never uninstall or turn it off again. So they started killing the too flashy or too resource intensive ones themselves.
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@PleegWat Some time ago, Google realized that if there keep being obnoxious ads everywhere, then users will install adblockers (and switch to firefox because of that) and user who starts using adblocker will never uninstall or turn it off again. So they started killing the too flashy or too resource intensive ones themselves.
They just put the definition of too flashy or too resource heavy far above where I put it. I liked the way Google did ads when they were new. Small text ads to the side that were actually relevant to the searches you did. Then they went the Alta vista route.
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They just put the definition of too flashy or too resource heavy far above where I put it.
I can't really tell. I am firmly in the group who have ÎĽBlock Origin installed everywhere, including mobile Firefox, and do not intend to uninstall it.
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They just put the definition of too flashy or too resource heavy far above where I put it.
I can't really tell. I am firmly in the group who have ÎĽBlock Origin installed everywhere, including mobile Firefox, and do not intend to uninstall it.
I use ghostery, and also an ad filter in my router. I think I also put some trackers in the naughty filter in the router but it's been a few years since I set it up so
I've been thinking about switching browser to the ghostery browser.
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@PleegWat Some time ago, Google realized that if there keep being obnoxious ads everywhere, then users will install adblockers (and switch to firefox because of that) and user who starts using adblocker will never uninstall or turn it off again. So they started killing the too flashy or too resource intensive ones themselves.
They just put the definition of too flashy or too resource heavy far above where I put it.
I put it at 0.
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Clicked a link from a text message, Firefox launches as expected but shows this message asking me to set it as the default browser.
That's odd, as not only should Firefox be the default but it's just launched by default.
I go to settings...
Thanks, Firefox.
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I use ghostery, and also an ad filter in my router
I also use the
hosts
file.
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@PleegWat Some time ago, Google realized that if there keep being obnoxious ads everywhere, then users will install adblockers (and switch to firefox because of that) and user who starts using adblocker will never uninstall or turn it off again. So they started killing the too flashy or too resource intensive ones themselves.
The main reason I have ad blocker is YouTube.
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I am firmly in the group who have ÎĽBlock Origin installed everywhere
That's years old. You should upgrade to uBlock Origin. Works much better.
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Either you misread @Bulb's post, or there's something I don't get.
Edit:
uBlock was initially named "μBlock" but the name was later changed to "uBlock" to avoid confusion as to how the Greek letter 'µ' (Mu/Micro) in "µBlock" should be pronounced.
Just ry it is, then.
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@Zerosquare Inb4 another version gets forked called uβlock Origin
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@hungrier Is that pronounced "u Block Origin" or "u Beta lock Origin?"
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@Zecc One the first way, one the second. The pronunciation is the only way to tell them apart
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@Zecc And 'Beta' should be pronounced closer to 'better'.
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@dcon In Modern Greek, β is pronounced /v/, so more like 'veeta'. An actual /b/ sound is spelled μπ.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@dcon In Modern Greek, β is pronounced /v/, so more like 'veeta'.
Apparently the change happened before the Cyrillic alphabet.
Anyway; when I saw "uĂźlock Origin", my first thought was something about NSFW.
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@hungrier Is that pronounced "u Block Origin" or "u Beta lock Origin?"
Ussock Origin.
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@Zerosquare 0.000003141592...
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier Is that pronounced "u Block Origin" or "u Beta lock Origin?"
Ussock Origin.
Can confirm, EA Origin sucks.
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OK, it's very likely been already posted in some other topic(s), but I have something to ask.
@Polygeekery: what did OVH do to piss you off that much?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
it's very likely been already posted in some other topic(s)
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier Is that pronounced "u Block Origin" or "u Beta lock Origin?"
Ussock Origin.
Can confirm, EA Origin sucks.
In other news, every time I leave Ass Creed Origins, the Start Menu becomes tiny. Like someone zoomed out all the way.
Fortunately I've found it becomes normal if I drag the taskbar elsewhere and back.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I'm not sure when the pronunciation changed, but it was quite a while ago, probably before 500 AD
While the change was not fully reflected in Latin, it was some time during the raise of Rome, so probably BC.
Interestingly b, used to transcribe β, continued to be read as b in all Latin-writing languages, ph, used to transcribe φ, shifted to f like φ, and th, used to transcribe θ, kept the th pronunciation in romance languages, but English pronunciation matches the modern θ.
@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
Apparently the change happened before the Cyrillic alphabet.
By about a millennium, yes. Cyril and Methodius lived in 9th century AD.
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English pronunciation matches the modern θ.
Is that unvoiced, as in “three”, or voiced, as in “then”?
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@dkf I wasn't sure, but it is unvoiced. After all, θ is used for the unvoiced variant in IPA. And TIL δ is voiced th (there the IPA symbol is slightly different but similar ð).