WWW: Fediverse, Curl, WWW, and Firefox
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Fediverse Account Portability And Blocking
What happens to the people who blocked and muted you?
I ran an extremely scientific poll on Mastodon: [...]
Yeah... No one knows and there's no real consensus.
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curl 8.2.0
the 220th release [...]
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HTTP has become the default, universal communication protocol
Back when I wrote about how the mere 'presence' of a URL on a web server wasn't a good signal, I casually mentioned that you were more likely to have everything answered with a HTTP 200 status on things that weren't really 'web servers' as such, but which were just using HTTP. You might ask why you'd use HTTP if you weren't a web server, and the answer is straightforward and widely known: HTTP has become the de facto default communication protocol. Today, if you need to create a system where you pull some information from something or push some information to something, you're most likely to use HTTP for this purpose. In the process, the software may be coded in such a way that it provides a default answer to nearly everything.
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One of the top crashers on Firefox 115 is Windows malware interfering with Firefox in a particular way. Bonus: Windows “Security” FAIL, Linux Web Browsing.
Roy notes that some of these crap patches for Windows bugs (bugs IN WINDOWS) cause Firefox to malfunction on Linux and jam up.
Also notes that Mozilla hires “Mac heads instead of software developers.”.
But it’s so much worse than that. They fired 250 people who were working on Gecko and redirected others to develop adware and spyware and nag screens under a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Supervisor.