tatterdemalion @ tatterdemalion @programming.dev

Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialis

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I'm not claiming the Mozilla is anything like what they used to be, but the Firefox UX has not degraded in any noticeable way for me that would justify switching to a fork of Firefox.

You can disable it with two clicks and then never think about it again. Seems like a petty reason to completely switch browsers.

• So far it's just a tiny button in the bottom left corner that can be removed with two clicks. If it escalates then maybe I will worry.
• That's fair but at the same time, at least it's a funded OSS project?

I can agree that Firefox isn't always taking the perfectly moral stance on every issue, but I just don't yet see a deal breaker materializing in the browser itself.

How is Mozilla a pro ai slop company?

I still don't understand why people are recently switching away from Firefox. The telemetry thing seems totally overblown. The ads are absolutely minimal. It's great software.

Yeah so at worst you could get sued by some random reddit users that don't want their post history hosted on your site.

Given how little traction artists and authors have had with suing AI companies for blatant copyright infringement, I kinda doubt it would go anywhere.

Letter of the law is stupid. Repair the grass for like $50.

Someone explain the Rustacean failing to support MacOS.

Tbh I don't think even the most loved US president should be comfortable without some security. The country is so big, there is always some crazy person with a gun.

All I know is YouTube has more advanced ad delivery methods than DNS blocklists can filter, so you need client-level blocking. This only works if you use browser plugins or 3rd party client apps. YouTube's first party app will always have ads.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, this is just my understanding.

I think feminism is a perfectly appropriate word choice for the movement. The focus is on the fact that women are discriminated against, and that is a very specific scope of problems that need to be addressed. Calling it egalitarianism kinda loses the point and draws focus away from the actual problem. I.e. the movement is about solving problems, not about a hypothetical utopic end state. You could argue about what that utopia should look like forever, but the movement has already identified concrete issues that need to be addressed.

Anyone who nitpicks the word choice like in the comic is just not sympathetic to the issue and causing a distraction.

The "you don't even celebrate" felt pretty snarky to me. Like it even matters whether or not you celebrate the same holidays.

The snark is really not warranted. If you can't survive for a single holiday by yourself, you need to get your shit together.

Did you read the post? It ends with several critiques of Rust.

No the dollar membership would be too expensive.

It's such a weird poster. You can tell they photoshopped two separate photos of the actors together.

I guess I see what you mean if we want to get very technical about what a syntax extension is. But I think for the purpose of this discussion, it's reasonable to think of macro_rules! as a part of the Rust language. Practically speaking, it is syntax provided by the language team, not just users of the language who are free to extend the syntax by using macro_rules! to do so.

Enums are the best part of the Rust language IMO, so I'm not sure how you can view them as ugly. Having the choice to destructure something is fantastic. You generally aren't required to destructure every return value. Make sure you're using the ? operator as much as possible. If destructuring is getting in your way, it sounds like the code is not very idiomatic.

I can't really comment on your issue with nested if and match. Too much nesting is bad in any language; try extracting more functions and let bindings to make it more readable.

You can enable a clippy lint to deny .unwrap() if you're worried about it.

Sorry, I love Rust but I can't really agree with you here. They only showed a macro_rules! definition, which is definitely rust syntax. Lifetime annotations are relatively common.

I will concede that loop labels are incredibly rare though.