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> So, if no one reports the bug, how do you expect the bug to get fixed?

Maybe they should learn how to test software properly instead of squandering their money on nonsense features nobody asked for.

Thanks for confirming I'm not crazy.

Maybe I wasn't clear - this bug affects me personally, it's not some random tale I read in a forum. No, it doesn't affect the site or page rendering at all. Only the Firefox-native dialogs - like the bookmarks dialog and the hamburger menu - are affected. The bug is likely in XUL. Unfortunately I am too busy to dig through Bugzilla, make an account, etc. only for the bug to be ignored for years like the others...

Just ChromeOS? Firefox on Mac sucks.

Here is one example: Firefox's tracking of the mouse cursor is broken, and often (yes, it's inconsistent) applies a vector translation so when trying to click something like a button or menu, the cursor needs to be about 100 x-y pixels away from the target. Only Firefox native UI is affected. These are My_First_Program.app tier bugs that should not exist in mature, 20 year old software.

Phoenix 0.1 didn't have this many beginner bugs. Mozilla has lost its way and only continues to exist because Google funds them to be a paper tiger competitor. Opera sold out to the Chinese. Microsoft gave up and now simps Google. Apple only supports their own platform. What is left?

It persists because incompetently-managed cities and their sycophants need a convenient scapegoat for why they can't properly clean roads in the winter.

Why stop there? Why do we wash cars or vacuum floors at all if they will get dirty again?

Monthly car wash subscriptions are pretty popular in winter climates.

Corrosion takes time. It doesn't bore holes into metal on contact. It's road salt not the blood from Alien.

By those living in the delusion that the US will be 100% EV production in the next few years when the charging infrastructure is woefully inadequate. No one is questioning EV drivetrains but there are very real logistical and electrical supply issues that are being ignored.

California can barely keep the lights on as it is. This doesn't even scratch the surface that most are not the privileged few with at-home charging.

Toyota bet the farm on mature hybrid and ICE tech and got dismissed as some legacy boomer company for doing so.

Time will tell but I'm willing to bet they were right.

This is a frequent trope employed in places with comically inept snow preparedness - like the Pacific Northwest - ignoring the existence of automatic carwashes. With how many persistently dirty Subaru Outbacks I've seen on the 5 I question if they know this alien technology exists.

> The number of failures you can have on-prem is insane. Hardware can fail for all kinds of reasons (you must know this)

Cloud vendors are not immune from hardware failure. What do you think their underlying infrastructure runs on, some magical contraption made from Lego bricks, Swiss chocolate, and positive vibes?

It's the same hardware, prone to the same failures. You've just outsourced worrying about it.

AWS hires the same cretins that inhabit every other IT department, they just usually happen to be more technically capable. That doesn't make them any more or less trustworthy or reliable.

> you never hear about security probems (incidents or exposure) in the platforms

Except that one time...

https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2023/04/how-a-...

Debian's partitioner is really buggy and a major pain point for me. Won't support a backup EFI partition, creating and booting from RAID volumes is really tricky, many other issues. Issues that are resolved or nonexistent in RedHat, Ubuntu, and even Windows. I've had it create unbootable GRUB configurations many times - it only tells you at the very end.

I now make the partitions beforehand in fdisk then choose them in the installer. Which for some bizarre reason is not included in the install image; you have to boot into rescue for that.

Pepperidge Farm remembers running Internet Explorer on SPARC Solaris until it was committed to the dustbin of computing history.

Better or worse than OpenBSD and its ridiculous baker's dozen partitions and mount points? You know __for your protection__ meanwhile they fill up if you install more than a few packages or heaven forbid build a custom kernel when 80% of /home and /var is free and you realize you're screwed and have to start all over.

All hug boxes are doomed to failure. This is just the latest iteration.

What good will inspecting the factory do? Sounds like a design issue with the pills. They should be questioning some chemist in an office, not observing low caste peasants pouring pill juice into machinery and declaring it all good.

Educated people tend to overestimate their abilities outside their domain. We've all known someone with an "I can do anything" complex. Anyone can do anything... poorly. He likely deluded himself into believing he already outsmarted the cops so why even bother. Having two degrees doesn't make one a competent plumber, electrician, or in this case, criminal.

Maybe they're smart enough to realize a MILLION CDs stacked floor to ceiling occupy the space of a restroom handicapped stall. An amount of trash so inconsequential it's not even worth discussing, and delusional to think it's remotely a problem.

Yes, datacenter(s) and the global Internet backbones are worse for the environment than a single dumpster's worth of trash per year.

No, the parent has it right. This practice has gone on for decades, with most rock music of the 60s (Beatles, Beach Boys come to mind) having the mono mix as the definitive version with artist input, and the stereo mix thrown together by a lone engineer in an afternoon after the fact.

If everyone is using the same low quality Chinese internal mechanism, why would customers pay top dollar for a boutique device when you can get an equivalent unit for $30?

It brings to mind Tom Hanks on SNL in the 90s as the Israeli shopkeeper saying his knockoff products all have 'Sony guts'.

Little plastic discs are killing the Earth but building massive datacenters which require continuous power, cooling, and other resources, not to mention all the intermediate network transport - whether or not they're being used, all for the sake of convenience - is little impact?

A CD requires no power sitting on your shelf unplayed. The same as cups and dishes sitting in a cupboard. If the threat to the environment is as real as you say, consider pouring food directly into your hands.

Is the plan to make a new app every 5-10 years when the old one crashes and burns for the same reasons? Surely the VC money will run out at some point.

From my limited research, most new Bluesky users are ecstatic they have regained the ability to gang-report and tattle on people they don't like again.

Taken at face value, I find this forum is far more unpleasant, and far less inclusive, than a bunch of high school nerds trying to shock each other with naughty words. They're not trying to outsmart each other for fake internet points.

Was she grinding code on the clone app, or simply telling other folks what to build? To quantify experience, it requires accompanying detail.

Why would you voluntarily use an OS that installs BIOS updates (broken or not) without consent? It's egregious even if the timing wasn't inconvenient.

The only evidence we have is a single anecdote on Mastodon sparse on details and nothing you said can be validated.

For all we know, the failure was in his employer's proxy server and the corrupt file was cached.

Let's not wait for facts though, proceed immediately to the crucifixion of Dell.

With everyone quick on the trigger to throw someone under the bus, imagine being a coworker in such a toxic environment.

You have no evidence of that not happening. It could be corruption after the fact or failure during replication.

The armchair wolves already smell blood and are assigning blame before a postmortem has even begun.

Maybe it was file system corruption, who knows?

"Dell is posting unsigned update executables" is a loaded statement that implies this was intentional. Dell has been signing updates since before most infosec engineers were in middle school ogling cheerleaders. It's alarmist and highly unlikely this was intentional.