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Well that depends, the camera app is generally accessible on locked phones, so the question is, can the camera app make use of USB-connected cameras, and if so is there any restriction on accessing such cameras in locked mode (like there is a restriction on accessing past photos).

>(I'm unclear whether or not those components, which have surely been continually developed since then, have been backported into Servo)

I believe the article makes clear that they have.

>Servo main dependencies (SpiderMonkey, Stylo and WebRender) have been upgraded

Don't worry, Amazon screws authors directly too when they self-publish, by using the cudgel of Kindle Unlimited to choke possible competition in ebook sales.

https://bsky.app/profile/glynnstewart.com/post/3leu7lzvy622g

Shame the link isn't to https://www.nintendo.com/successor/ so it would attempt to pick a video with the most appropriate date format.

They announced a direct on 2nd April.

The "it's" to which that sentence is referring is the previously mentioned "xiaohongshu, or "little red book"".

It's very much not backwards compatible, that's why they are doing it in an Edition.

Spidermonkey just follows Firefox version numbering, so far as I know, and the linked bugs in the article seem to have landed in a mix of the 132 and 133 milestones, so you'll have to wait a couple of release cycles for the full effect.

The patch: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/d2a21d94...

There's also https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/ffR... , if that would count

Without n-gate around anymore there's literally no one who can

Ah, I assume this is linking to the Mastodon post advertising the article instead of the actual article due to jwz.org's response to requests with HN in the Referer header?

Chrome forked from Webkit, which forked from KHTML, which apparently dates from 4th November 1998, so Chrome's base is 25 years and 7 months old tomorrow.

"Damning with faint praise" is hardly a secret code.

Yeah this is my experience with DeepL as well. It might (sometimes) do better than Google Translate with lone sentences, but give it a few paragraphs and it'll entirely ignore some, and other times it starts repetitively rambling about stuff not even in the original text, quite frequently cars/houses/money.

Nice to see this getting some push and attention. I still remember seeing Mats Palmgren (seemingly?) single-handedly proposing/speccing and implementing this in Firefox a few years ago. Glad it hasn't just died because it was a Mozilla proposal/experiment (with proper experimental stage), instead of something Google just dumps on the web fait accompli.

I mean you can't really compare them since git doesn't even _have_ branches as Mercurial understands them. git's branches would perhaps better be called twigs in comparison. git's lightweight branches better map to Mercurial's topics or bookmarks, though neither perfectly. And Mercurial has even lighter weight branches since you can just make a new head by committing without having to name anything, and it won't yell at you about a detached head like git will.

I think you'd enjoy Alastair Reynolds' sci-fi stories, particularly the short story "Glacial" in the "Galactic North" collection.

Interesting if morbid bit of serendipity that that should occur during the age of 27 when the 27 club also exists.

If someone from Ferrous sees this, I'd advise putting the price in English punctuation when writing the article in English. It's a needless stumbling block having the comma and period in the wrong place.

>Or why a house in Owls Green, a village of about 20 houses near Ipswich, would be numbered 2820 (cute).

For those who aren't native British/English-speaking, this is presumably a cute reference to the village's name of *Owls* Green, since at least in the UK the onomatopoeia for one of an owl's sounds is "too-wit too-woo", to which "two-eight two-oh" is similar sounding.

I've always preferred "The Full Article", in contrast to reading _only_ the headline.

Unless I've gone blinder the author seems to have put no thought towards what sort of childhoods might be had by those whose parents had had them purely for monetary gain.

Perhaps this is a satirical post?

Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers, I believe. A coining of jwz's.

Invoked for the tendency to do rewrites instead of maintaining and bug fixing, since rewrites are more "interesting".

WHATWG only picked up the abandoned HTML torch when W3C went off into fantasy land with XHTML 2.0. W3C was still and always relevant for CSS.

Meanwhile Java(ECMA)Script bucking the trend by getting its failure out of the way at 4.

Depends on the device and software. At least on my phone's Firefox browser a long-press of a link will bring up a menu that includes the URL (though it can run into space constraints for long URLs).

Huh. When I read that I assumed Blink referred to the <blink> tag, but reading again you might actually be right that it means Google's browser engine. Truly anachronistic indeed.

Firefox Android (and iOS it seems?) actually supports autofill for other apps, one just needs to enable it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-...

(I've used it quite successfully when it was in a separate app called Lockwise)