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afeuersteinon Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time

Can you elaborate on what was wrong with your cellular connection?

afeuersteinon MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems

Yeah, I loughed out loud when I read that line. Mission accomplished, I guess?

afeuersteinon Could a Paper Plane Thrown from the ISS Survive the Flight?

You are missing the potential energy.

afeuersteinon Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

I found this to be a good read, and I can only recommend at least skimming it through.

afeuersteinon Firefox 120 to Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks

Then it sounds like Firefox has the "restart page" to mitigate this exact edge case. Better than having undefined behavior like that imo.

As I get it from other comments, this is not a problem with the built-in updater (as on Windows). On linux, when updating via package manager, you should now this can be an issue with any program. Yes, most programs survive running while being updated, but for a complicated piece of software (like a browser) this behavior is understandable.

See the Arch wiki for updating on Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Restart_...

afeuersteinon Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

I don't think anyone has the need to check such a message for grammar or spelling mistakes. Even then, I would not rely on a LLM to accurately track this "evolution of language".

afeuersteinon Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA

> Won't this also forbid virus scanners that quarantine files?

Yes. If I really _want_ to execute malware on my device, I should be allowed to do so by disabling the antivirus or disregarding a warning.

> I don't think it's reasonable to expect any manufacturer to uphold a warranty if making unlimited changes to the system is permitted

It is very reasonable and already the rule of law in "sane" jurisdictions, that manufacturer and mandated warranties are not touched by unrelated, reversable modifications to both hard- and software.