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"Failing hard" and "severe dysfunction" probably aren't the most realistic ways of describing it. The situation isn't good, but it also isn't bad enough for terms such as those to …

> They do (and any service basically). You don't want to run a large-scale service without having some way for your users to self-reset their passwords. I don't buy that. There are…

When I last tried to sign up, they requested a phone number, I assume as some sort of an attempt to make it harder for spammers to sign up. I don't think they have any legitimate r…

It was the extension signing that caused me to move on. I had written several small, but useful, extensions for my own personal use. I knew they were harmless, yet Firefox made it …

I think the "Why?" section's conclusions are off the mark. It basically blames Google's advertising of Chrome for Firefox's decline, and even goes so far as to say "Firefox’s decli…

The big problem I have with having conversations on Twitter is that I wasn't even able to sign up for a Twitter account the last time I tried. It wanted me to provide a phone numbe…

The thing I dislike is how such languages try to abstract away the filesystem representation of packages/modules/libraries/etc. The conventions and resolution approaches that are n…

> If somebody can get React Native to run on PostmarketOS, then we could start building up an ecosystem of non-walled-garden apps that are compatible with iOS and Android! What lea…

> Does it strike anybody as strange that an operating system is getting worse over time rather than better? I somewhat expect it, as we've seen desktop OSes come to be influenced b…

I wouldn't consider Servo to be "quite good", at least in its present state. The Browser.html UI is quite minimal, in the sense that it really doesn't do much at all. It's basicall…

It can't help that Google hasn't released a phone comparable in spirit to the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 phones. We're talking about phones that have a practical size, reaso…

I don't know if it's still like this, but when I last tried to create a Twitter account it required a phone number and some kind of verification by phone. That's something I refuse…

When people say that they want to "remove Pocket from Firefox", they don't mean just hiding a toolbar button or disabling it using about:config. They don't want it there at all, in…

It's a similar situation for me. I've used Firefox for a long time, and it currently gives me the least-worst experience of the major browsers. That's probably the only reason I st…

We should be careful when comparing the growth or package counts of CPAN and npm. While conceptually similar, they're still very different from one another. A lot of the npm growth…

I think you may have misinterpreted what was meant by the "Most certainly use Python3 for any new projects." sentence. I don't think it's using "Most certainly" in the sense of "Mo…

MySQL's lack of CTEs is particularly annoying. Even SQLite has supported them for some time now! I've seen this cause MySQL query authors to use various workarounds that end up imp…

Why do you reject the documentation? It has exactly what you're asking for: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/different-rep... It describes the various methods that ar…

Funnily enough, Facebook is one of the sites where I've seen these non-technical users have to use the dev tools to make the site usable again! I think it was a login prompt overla…

The dev tools can be very useful to average users, even if they don't use them the same way that developers might. For example, I know several non-technical users who use the built…

Except that around 90% or more of the time I find myself having to open PDFs using a real native PDF reader because pdf.js is too slow, or it improperly renders the PDF, or it won'…

What's the likelihood of actually seeing a change?

It's not involved, but it's also not obvious to many users.