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But it's not a higher barrier to entry – you can read and respond freely. It's a higher barrier to having a good experience, which I can't think of many successful examples of to be honest.

It’s a shame you can’t collapse commits when merging a branch - generally see a the single commit for the merge, but can expand to view the commits that were collapsed if you ever need a fine grain review in the future.

XR has been the future since sci fi movies in the 80s. It doesn’t mean it’s the near future (price, USP, funding model, any consumer desire to adopt).

I think the biggest one for me is less a case of it being missing, more Chrome's implementation being better, and that's the Timeline tab. Firefox not only doesn't implement it natively (redirecting you to a web app at `profiler.firefox.com`), it also lacks screenshots, dropped/rendered/frame durations.

Overall, it also seems less accessible to me. It may well be that it's much more powerful in some respects, but I've never got my head around it enough to work that out.

I do very much rate its Memory Tree Map view, though. Big advantage over Chrome for rapid debugging of where memory goes.

None tops the all time greatest online response – "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR"

Probably as much as a US based company can. I didn't see any US social media giants getting any real punishment for what they got up to between 2007-17.

In fact, given the general distrust of China in the West in international politics, feels like national governments are more likely to respond to any emerging harms than they did with Facebook.

Still find it incredible the green/blue bubble thing in the US isn’t a joke.

Autoplay on page load, no. But you’re going to severely limit the web experiences available to Safari users (and probably in turn the number of people who use Safari) if you don’t allow some way of getting reasonable consent to auto play media after page load.

Currently most solutions are to load a number of empty audio buffers when the user first clicks and repurpose those for auto playing content later.

If a user has visited a multimedia focused web site (eg: online catwalk show), why not allow them to opt in for that session rather than force them to have a cut down experience?

That doesn’t solve the issue of passwordless login, though, which is the fact not everyone has access to their email on every device at all times.

Need to check something attached to a work email (hello Slack) but purposefully not got work email set up on your personal device? Good luck

I love them to an extent. There should be some sort of request API available for temporarily disabling the more stringent media restrictions for a session.

I worked on a media heavy fashion site a few years ago and dealing with Safari not allowing you to dynamically add new audio/video elements with auto play (or to auto play at all in low battery mode) was a real headache. By default it’s great, just offer the option to get permission for experiences that require it.

To be fair, the first Sims also went in for a lot of flack for its expansion pack money making.

Isn't the feature opt-in?

That's just not true, it's a going concern for anyone working on online projects in Europe. It's come up for me personally in discussions with every client on every project for the last 4 years now. We're even at the point where major companies are being fined for misteps:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/15/facebook-2018-breaches-dpc...

The noises out of government have been that this will happen for a few years now, at least from the perspective of an EU citizen. They should have been preparing.

That quote is about Brize Norton Royal Air Force base in Oxfordshire, not Luton.

I actually thought Math.max was faster in modern Chrome than a ternary.

This might shock you but none of those things need ID in most EU countries.

A relative lived sensibly and modestly her whole life. Three years before retirement the Northern Rock collapse happened in the UK and she lost her entire pension. Even in the 'developed' world, don't be sure any sort of pension will be there.

Dunno, but also don't really care when the actual life quality, health and happiness of the workers at said countries are generally better.

I can imagine an incredibly rare situation where I need to use a payphone, it once happened to me.

I also know that I don't know any phone numbers but my own from memory.

It was making a lot of revenue and even got a (for the time) huge buyout offer. Lowtax being a mangosteen addict with a deeply troubled personal life who couldn't be bothered to take advantage of any of these opportunities/organise an effective was the main issue.

I mean, they're not.

Am I mad or is the Firefox “what’s new page” the same every version? The CSS Grid tool has been in there for years now.

I find it hard to believe the devs behind Gov.uk were genuinely considering hard coding all URLs and headings in to FE JS. Surely their mind went to the “window.location” + throttle scroll function solution/“better but not suitable Intersection Observer” options first?

Glad they settled on those either way, because adding 200kb of uncompressed URLs and heading text for tracking is madness.

Anything is better than meow meow, but it was still fun in 2009.

It's incredibly common.

I mean, from the look of it, most of them are stood in queues doing nothing.

Seems to be broken on iOS. Tap the button and a square appears, but nothing else.

I realise you're trying to help, but this is still not right. The top result for "quotes don't give": https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/never-give-up

Does not contain: "quotes don't give" "quotes dont give"

Nor does the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

Yes, as someone pointed out, there are tokenized versions down at the bottom, but that exact string does not exist.

So first of all it's just not true.

Second of all, if your consumers are all complaining the results do not match what they are searching, it might make more sense to listen. Adding quotations marks like that to find an exact string should be a huge red flag that the user is only interested in that string – why then would "it's in an offscreen meta tag of a cached version of the actual site" be anything other than a bad result?

With passwords disabled and just using key authentication, is there a big risk of just doing a straight port 22 ssh?

Genuine question, my knowledge of server security is low-to-middle.