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iapark··on The Seattle Public Library is reducing maximum digital holds
From Wikipedia:

“Furthermore, they argued that the Internet Archive was not abiding by CDL, as it had acknowledged that its partner libraries were not always withdrawing their physical copies from their shelves.”

Are you sure no one argued they weren’t lending more books than they had? Specifically during the pandemic it is true that just kind of decided that it was probably the case that there were plenty of library books not being distributed (note books they didn’t own) so it was ok to loan basically as many copies as they wanted

iapark··on Movement of pilot's seat a focus of probe into Latam Boeing flight, report says
Well if you’re holding a yoke and the seat moves forward you’re likely to push on the yoke
iapark··on Movement of pilot's seat a focus of probe into Latam Boeing flight, report says
I read this as being caused mechanical, aka the seat moves abruptly forward causing the pilot who wasn’t expecting it to push hard on the yoke which tells the plane to dive. The point of the investigation now then is why did the seat move?
iapark··on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections
I found this video illuminating. The name is confusing because these aren’t plug style doors. They can open out like they did here without passing through components https://youtu.be/maLBGFYl9_o?si=Km8qfkEv2YLHDY2G
iapark··on Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer
I wish there were better wrappers for it too. One of the projects I'm still quite proud of that I made as a student was a react wrapper around PDF.js used here https://boardbook.kent.edu/ (though since they no longer seem to be using it I guess it will probably go dead at some point), but the fact there wasn't really a good open source one and as you say the docs were pretty lacking. My favorite discovery was that the performance was much worse unless I registered a particular scroll listener. It's been years now so I only vaguely remember, but I think registering a listener for `wheel` would cause scroll events to be treated as blocking and this made the whole scrolling experience less janky.