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You won’t know if you’ll get a 404 until you make a network request. How many of those can you make per second? Hundreds? Thousands? Let’s be very generous and say millions. That m…

Not quite. We are saying that adding `not_available_before: 2026`, or similar, ‘right away’ is usually not a good thing; therefore anything that helps with doing that is not someth…

It is what they meant by ‘tracking’, which is what you’ve asked about.

I mean, sometime along the way you’re going to have something that consumes the data (otherwise, why bother keeping it in the first place), and that something will have certain exp…

It still does the same thing, but now in a non-general, distro-specific way. Hundreds of distributions customize their software like that: for example, I believe it is actually mor…

I agree, but still think it might be considered reasonable not to want to rebrand in some cases—like patching Cargo to try and check with the package manager first when installing …

Unfortunatelly, neither. Main problem with his surname is the ‘ś’ (proper spelling is ‘Kościuszko’), which doesn’t appear in English at all. The closest equivalent I can think of i…

> Yeah, so like the other poster your point reduces to "I trust Fedora to build Mozilla code more than I trust Mozilla to build Mozilla code". Which is nonsensical. I don’t think i…

I don’t think restricting the changes to default settings is enough, you can still do quite a lot of malicious or just plain annoying things with that—for example, I didn’t change …

The one that is remotely done for you, without any action on your part. Typically, a user has to click the installer or use package manager or something to get the update, it’s the…

No, not with the _regular_ update. Only with the _remote_ update, which is a part of what makes SaaS SaaS.

Changing a default setting _remotely_. That is a huge field of possibilities, from not SaaS-y at all to very SaaS-y. Like for example you could make it so the script to be run when…

`app.normandy.enabled` has a default setting of `true`, at least on my machine, so yeah, it’s now opt-out.

I guess the application changing it’s behaviour remotely, as is the case with Normandy, can be somewhat reasonably considered SaaS.

Yes, sort of. The change is made to _default_ configs, so if you changed something, it won’t touch it. And while I get that changes to that can be annoying, I also find them necess…

> Then you're not disagreeing with me, because those functions pass my test as I demonstrated above. Yeah. I must have misunderstood your definition of ‘obvious’—I though you meant…

There’s nearly a limitless amount of standard and well-defined functions with a single usage, like those. There’s hardly a point in implementing them in the standard library and C+…

> include only elements that have a somewhat settled, "obvious", lowest-common-denominator semantics Can you, from the top of your head, tell me what irregular modified cylindrical…

Corporations aren’t people, thus are incapable of making any decisions. People run corporations and these people make decisions. And they make them, as most of us do, with their ow…

> Obviously, but that's because businesses act unethically -- ie, for private profit over public good. I don’t find that unethical. What’s more, I do it all the time—for example, r…

I don’t know… I’d rather say that learning curve is more of a journey from ‘I can write code’ through ‘I can write code that compiles’, ‘I can write code that works’, ‘I can write …