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_o-O-o_ | 6 years ago | on: How to Build Firefox

Does anyone know if it's possible to do a 'reproducible build' of mainline Firefox so we can be sure their official releases are actually based on legit Mozilla code and not tampered copies with hidden nasties baked in?

_o-O-o_ | 6 years ago | on: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

What a slippery slope. I imagine a future when the entire URL itself has disappeared and we live in some sort of Google-controlled walled garden environment, like what they're trying to do with AMP[0]. Some sites only work with WWW prefixed as the APEX DNS record is misconfigured and points to nothing. I've even seen some sites point to `0.0.0.0' but had a CNAME record for WWW and I could then view the site.

[0] https://developers.google.com/amp/

_o-O-o_ | 6 years ago | on: Being Bored Is Good

From: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

> 3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.

> Hackers (and creative people in general) should never be bored or have to drudge at stupid repetitive work, because when this happens it means they aren't doing what only they can do — solve new problems. This wastefulness hurts everybody. Therefore boredom and drudgery are not just unpleasant but actually evil.

> To behave like a hacker, you have to believe this enough to want to automate away the boring bits as much as possible, not just for yourself but for everybody else (especially other hackers).

> (There is one apparent exception to this. Hackers will sometimes do things that may seem repetitive or boring to an observer as a mind-clearing exercise, or in order to acquire a skill or have some particular kind of experience you can't have otherwise. But this is by choice — nobody who can think should ever be forced into a situation that bores them.)

_o-O-o_ | 6 years ago | on: Refrigerator Death

> Around the world, manufacture of latch refrigerators has been replaced by that of ones with magnet-closing doors.

And amen to that

_o-O-o_ | 6 years ago | on: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

There's even more ways you could twist the original:

- Jack of all trades and master of one

- Jack of all trades and master of all

- Master of all trades and jack of none

- Jack of all trades and master of some

_o-O-o_ | 6 years ago | on: The Dark Side of Dark Mode

I especially love the way you can create a dark-mode CSS stylesheet with something as simple as:

    @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {

    }
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