The Official Status Thread
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston Only 9 major and 13 patch releases since 7 August. They don't make release notes for previous major releases easy to find, though.
Firefox 100 was released in April 2022.
Firefox 126 beta 1 was released in April 2024.That's 26 major version releases in 24 months, which is insane.
In all fairness, Google started it. Mozilla used to have normal version numbers and only incremented the major version number when it actually meant something.
Then Google came along and just made everything a major release, so Mozilla had no choice. If Firefox was on version 30 and Chrome is 124, it makes Firefox seem outdated.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Cloud is doing cloudy things still. Wonder if the powers that be will figure out we don't always like rain forever...
Not sure if literal clouds and rain, or metaphorical IT clouds and rain.
We're in Arizona, do you see any clouds that are raining here?
I had not been paying any attention to weather in Arizona, but since you asked, radar shows some rain in western New Mexico, near the Arizona border, but none in Arizona. However, I lived there for a while, so I know you do get thunderstorms from time to time.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Cloud is doing cloudy things still. Wonder if the powers that be will figure out we don't always like rain forever...
Not sure if literal clouds and rain, or metaphorical IT clouds and rain.
We're in Arizona, do you see any clouds that are raining here?
I had not been paying any attention to weather in Arizona, but since you asked, radar shows some rain in western New Mexico, near the Arizona border, but none in Arizona. However, I lived there for a while, so I know you do get thunderstorms from time to time.
Not anymore. #globalwarming
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Speaking of DDF, I have a strange one going on right now:
That's a package coming from China. Nothing strange so far, but here's what Canada Post thinks:
HowTF is it going to get here by end of day today if it hasn't left China yet?
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@clippy summarize this conversation
: Your father was a hamster and your mother stank of elderberries.
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Status: Having a great day. Captcha is now broken in my version of Firefox. Just spins and spins and spins.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
Then Google came along and just made everything a major release, so Mozilla had no choice.
They could have chosen to be better instead of becoming part of the problem.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
If Firefox was on version 30 and Chrome is 124, it makes Firefox seem outdated.
I wonder what's the relative amount of people who on the one hand pay enough attention to compare version numbers, but on the other hand are unaware enough to think the numbers actually mean something across different programs.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Then Google came along and just made everything a major release, so Mozilla had no choice. If Firefox was on version 30 and Chrome is 124, it makes Firefox seem outdated.
No. Firefox on version 6 and Chrome on version 25 makes Firefox look outdated, for a split second to a half-brain who never would’ve installed Firefox anyway. Firefox version 8 and Chrome version 124 makes Firefox look normal and Chrome look retarded.
They’d have just needed to push through for a year or so.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
HowTF is it going to get here by end of day today if it hasn't left China yet?
Who said anything about end of day today?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Speaking of DDF, I have a strange one going on right now:
That's a package coming from China. Nothing strange so far, but here's what Canada Post thinks:
HowTF is it going to get here by end of day today if it hasn't left China yet?Delivery by SR-71.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
They’d have just needed to push through for a year or so.
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
They could have chosen to be better instead of becoming part of the problem.
I agree. But they didn't. And here we are.
I still don't understand the point of the Version Number Inflation, where every few weeks you bump up the major version number and excitedly announce A NEW VERSION..
Is it: (a) You're lying and didn't actually make major changes, but you feel the need to claim that you did. Maybe it's one of those Raymond Chen things, "Somebody got a bonus for that".
Or: (b) You really are making major changes every 4 weeks, which in my opinion is even worse. The web browser is a solved problem. Stop fucking with it.
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@Gern_Blaanston or c) you have no clue what actually has been changed since when or if that's worth a major version increase or just a minor one, so you just increase the major number on every change.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
If Firefox was on version 30 and Chrome is 124, it makes Firefox seem outdated.
I wonder what's the relative amount of people who on the one hand pay enough attention to compare version numbers, but on the other hand are unaware enough to think the numbers actually mean something across different programs.
The answer is, sadly, more than enough to make this make some sort of tragic sense.
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@ixvedeusi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston or c) you have no clue what actually has been changed since when or if that's worth a major version increase or just a minor one, so you just increase the major number on every change.
Meanwhile, Discord over here wants me to install version 227.0 of its app.
No, that’s not a typo.
No, I have no idea what changed since last week either in version 226. Or 225, etc.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
HowTF is it going to get here by end of day today if it hasn't left China yet?
Who said anything about end of day today?
The part where it says "Today by end of day" seems particularly suggestive
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@hungrier Today it says Monday May 6 by end of day, which still seems extremely optimistic.
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@hungrier is Monday a bank holiday/national holiday where you are?
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@Arantor No, but typically things coming from China take a bit of time to clear customs. And before that, they have to leave the country of origin, which according to the Chinese tracking hasn't happened yet
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Who said anything about end of day today?
The part where it says "Today by end of day" seems particularly suggestive
Somehow I completely missed the word/line "Today".
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
Delivery by SR-71.
That's actually going to take a while - since they're all retired...
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I have no idea what changed since last week either in version 226. Or 225, etc.
Yes you do. Time has elapsed.
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status Aw
Someone just sent a "Test" email to a company list of almost 1800 people. And people are replying "got it".
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@dcon Whatever you do, no jury of your peers will convict you.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon Whatever you do, no jury of your peers will convict you.
And now the "please stop replying" messages are rolling in.
And the reply of the day:
"I didn't get it?????"
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
Delivery by SR-71.
That's actually going to take a while - since they're all retired...
Ok then, the SR-91.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I have no idea what changed since last week either in version 226. Or 225, etc.
Yes you do. Time has elapsed.
Yes but I buttume they didn’t just update the version number and submit it to Apple for review.
I mean, that would be a highly amusing thing to troll Apple with but I figured something changed each release beyond just the weekly version number.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Aw
Someone just sent a "Test" email to a company list of almost 1800 people. And people are replying "got it".
Please remove me from this list.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Aw
Someone just sent a "Test" email to a company list of almost 1800 people. And people are replying "got it".
Please remove me from this list.
That one, surprisingly, hasn't happened. I did joke in our group's slack channel that I had an evil thought about that (bring down the server!). And then the "please stop" replies started. I have now muted that outlook tab, so - I'll delete the (nicely) grouped thread later this afternoon...
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@Zenith Well I guess it wasn't really Captcha. Just Firefox shitting the bed again. Restart through a force quit and rewind tabs to seven days ago (because reasons) but at least I can watch free streaming sites and checkout at Hasbro Pulse again.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Having a great day. Captcha is now broken in my version of Firefox. Just spins and spins and spins.
The script attempted to modify a div's background color using document.body.removeChild, but as the script was loaded in the HTML head, the DOM had not loaded yet and document.body was not available, causing the script error.
The fact this buggy code only ran depending on the browser user agent string — as shown by being able to reproduce it in Chrome/Edge with spoofed user string — is telling of... something. Piss poor browser detection at least.
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@Zecc easy, break it in Firefox and not “obviously” in Chrome, to push the idea that Firefox is broken and to go over to the dark side.
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This only happened because of insufficient testing before deployment. Google should have created automated tests for reCaptcha.
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@Zecc who’s to say they tested in Firefox? Or that if they did test in Firefox that this was the expected behaviour such that the tests didn’t fail because it was intended to break?
The days of “do no evil” are long gone.
(It is almost certainly Hanlon’s Razor at work here. But I can completely see intentional breakage happening to gradually erode trust.)
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
intentional breakage happening to gradually erode trust
Trust in Google? There's nothing left to erode.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
intentional breakage happening to gradually erode trust
Trust in Google? There's nothing left to erode.
Trust in Firefox of course. The same kind of shit-slinging as Microsoft does with its “hurr durr, Edge doesn’t use battery”.
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@topspin this, exactly.
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Status: I was considering ordering a mechanical keyboard colored like a Famicom controller. But I suspect the company is dead and this checkout page is a zombie.
I was thinking though. Do most companies make undesirable shit because they're stupid or is it a deliberate effort to make people unhappy?
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@Zenith don’t underestimate stupid.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Do most companies make undesirable shit because they're stupid or is it a deliberate effort to make people unhappy?
Yes.
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Steam Deck handles PS3 emulation surprisingly well.
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Status: Yea or nay? A contractor called to your house to do an estimate leaves without asking for contact information plans on ghosting you because they think you can't afford the work that you've requested an estimate for?
It's been ten days. I'm trying to decide if I should call them Monday or just go buy the materials to do the job myself.
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@Zenith Does the job involve any groundworks (moving soil around for foundations and so on)? If so, whatever you think your own estimate is for the cost, it's too low. Even if you know about that informal rule, it's still too low.
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@dkf It's a roughly 18ft x 12ft room in the basement where I need wood framing put up and a window replaced. Insulation would have to go up first and I thought maybe DriCore floor panels could go in at the same time. Basically half-finished and the only parts I'm really not confident about DIY are the framing and the window. It should be less than a week's work and I had $5K cash on hand. I could get a loan or pull another $20K from the bank if I had to. But I needed a ballpark estimate first (and didn't hint at how much money I had to not inflate the estimate).
If they're looking at median house prices being $500K and basing estimates on that, no, I can't afford it and will spend the $2K in materials and do it myself three times if I have to. But fuck have I had enough ghosting from Hinducruiters that I don't need that from a contractor.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier Today it says Monday May 6 by end of day, which still seems extremely optimistic.
That Monday May 6 occurs in 2030 AD. Or several years later.
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I never got into the God of War series, so I'm starting with the first one (remastered on PS3 emulator on Steam Deck).
So far, I find the combat fun but the platforming sections infuriating. Half the time the double jump just does not work and I fall to my death.