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Post by xena »

doodlesdev wrote: post #307
xena wrote: post #300

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I'll investigate fixing that. Where can I download Fennec?

Thank you xena, you can download it from FDroid here https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ You might also just download normal Firefox as the behavior is the same when it comes to rendering.

I'll do what I can. I fear the problem will boil down to not having control of CSS in reader mode (which is understandable, really) and I may need to admit how my CDN serves the sticker files to serve lower quality assets. I hope it's a simple fix. Gonna do the fix live on Twitch tomorrow: https://twitch.tv/princessxen

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #419
bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #418

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I thought safe rust did prevent race conditions by preventing simultaneous write access to data except behind a Mutex or similar guard.

That's a memory safety issue that caused by a race condition. Rust prevents memory safety issues, but not race conditions. The race condition in one of the CVEs is in the filesystem, not in sudo.

Ah, thanks

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Post by xena »

epakai wrote: post #185
xena wrote: post #133

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Thanks! That's exactly the point of it! I'm going to be working on the CSS this weekend on stream (the images being so big for longer conversations take up too much screen real estate), but in general the idea is to have a combination of the Socratic method of dialogue based teaching combined with a few consistently written characters; not to mention it helps move out parentheticals to break up giant walls of text. I…

The dialog could probably use some left/right padding or an alternate font to indicate it's not part of the main text. Initially I found it a bit unclear, and also hard to skim the article.

I'm gonna give it a lot of love this weekend. Sorry it's not the best. I'm quite terrible at CSS.

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Post by msla »

xena wrote: post #133
brundolf wrote: post #121

Some people probably hate it, but I really enjoy the conversational format of these posts. Very novel and interesting way to bounce around a topic

Thanks! That's exactly the point of it! I'm going to be working on the CSS this weekend on stream (the images being so big for longer conversations take up too much screen real estate), but in general the idea is to have a combination of the Socratic method of dialogue based teaching combined with a few consistently written characters; not to mention it helps move out parentheticals to break up giant walls of text. I…

I just have to say: May you one day end up on a system nobody uses, and watch as your environment dies so other people can have "nice things".

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Post by sverona »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #366
recuter wrote: post #239

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The damage is done, they are alas, already triggered.

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you mean this in good faith, even though I don’t think you do. What is the damage, and how doesn’t the site owner explaining how to consume their site without furries address it?

Absolutely not in good faith. Nobody has unironically said "triggered" in about ten years.

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Post by sverona »

NotYourLawyer wrote: post #191
eyelidlessness wrote: post #173

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I think the website is excellent, and it’s a joy every time I see Xe’s posts here or anywhere. If you don’t like the way it’s presented, but you do sincerely want more information on the topic it presents, there is a vast (world wide!) web full of information. Surely you’ll have better luck finding it if you look for it rather, than spending that time trashing something that isn’t your cup of tea.

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It's much too late for that, friend. We're everywhere --- in your libraries, your coffee shops, your orange sites. Save yourself lest you join our number. :p

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Post by still_grokking »

chungy wrote: post #305
Gare wrote: post #299

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Shouldn't normalization functions handle that?

Yes, now see if any random service actually uses said functions...

If Unicode weren't broken it wouldn't need any "normalization functions".

And no, I don't have anything better to propose at the moment. Unicode is a mess, but currently without realistic alternatives.

Still I would like to live long enough to see that we finally manage to create some proper text format without all kinds of crazy gotchas and deficiencies.

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Post by Vecr »

I think there's a security problem with this command. The command does not verify it's called as [xn--ts9h], it really needs to verify args[0] equals the name of the command, otherwise you could call it though a link or mapping, etc. The article states that the name is important for security, so I'm submitting this bug as critical.

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Post by still_grokking »

remram wrote: post #272
pxc wrote: post #218

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When do any of those programs ask you for your password? I've never had any of them ask for my Unix password, ever. Is that just a macOS thing with self-updaters?

I'm using Ubuntu/KDE/Plasma. "Discover" is the GUI app that prompts you to install system updates, and will ask for your password when you do (to run apt/dpkg as root). Discord doesn't directly ask for my password, it downloads a .deb from somewhere and opens it, and I get prompted for my password then. Not much different IMHO.

I'm using Debian(Testing)/KDE/Plasma. (What was the point here?)

I don't have any "Discover" installed as it's not needed for anything. There's aptitude…

Regarding Discord: Discord is a virus. I try to avoid it. (And since you can't register without getting naked and showing the virus your telephone number it's not difficult to avoid ;-)).

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