[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Those forks aren't maintaining Firefox itself, just their own modifications. If a bug is found in Firefox, the LibreWolf team don't have to fix it themselves, they can wait for Mozilla to do it, and incorporate the fix once it materialises. There are forks that diverge further, but they either get quickly abandoned after their creator realises how much of a headache maintenance will be, or they're left with gaping security holes.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

When the internet was becoming a world-changing technology, there weren't thirty years of websites to keep working and malware to protect from, web standards were far simpler, and a much higher proportion of users were enthusiasts who were excited by anything they could get and didn't mind if things were rough around the edges. Similarly, two brothers could make the world's first aircraft that flew under its own power, and yet with the combined might of everyone working for Boeing, people are worried about airliner doors falling off and an eight-day space trip has become an eight-month one. Mature technologies need a lot more effort to build and maintain than emerging ones.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

UX isn't universal. What intuitively clicks for one person might be unusable for someone else. Good UX is adequate for as many people as possible, but it can't be perfect for everyone at once when some people work best with large labelled buttons with big, clear icons that have to go into submenus to fit on the screen, and other people prefer lots of small buttons whose purpose and location they've memorised which all fit on screen at once to save them needing to click into submenus.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

Maintaining a web browser in the 2020s is an expensive thing to do. You need full time employees who specialise in all the systems that make up a browser, and can't leave security-critical parts like ensuring the integrity of the JavaScript sandbox to volunteer hobbyists. It's far from the only thing Mozilla spend money on, so if they need to mage cost savings, it won't necessarily stop them being able to maintain Firefox, but another organisation picking it up if they do stop isn't likely.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

If you're doing things properly, you'll know your Microsoft account password or have it in a password manager (and maybe have other account recovery options available like getting a password reset email etc.), and have a separate password for the PC you're locked out of, which would be the thing you'd forgotten. If someone isn't computer-literate, it's totally plausible that they'd forget both passwords, have no password manager, and not have set up a recovery email address, and they'd lose all their data if they couldn't get into their machine.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Yep, I've since looked it up, and it's apparently the most malleable metal, with Silver coming second. To be fair, Lead is pretty malleable, too, and you can leave bite marks in it if you put it in your mouth.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

A lot of the comments are making the assumption that the buttons are telling the truth about being different sizes, but I've flushed plenty of toilets where both buttons do a full flush. If you can't tell the difference after experimenting, it might just be broken or cheap tat.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You can bite into lead. ~~You can't bite into gold, silver and bronze. That's why it used to be a test for fake coins. If the chips are bite marks, the metal's really low grade.~~ Biting into Gold and Silver is even easier.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago

Typically Windows applications bundle all their dependencies, so Chocolatey, WinGet and Scoop are all more like installing a Flatpak or AppImage than a package from a distro's system package manager. They're all listed in one place, yes, but so's everything on FlatHub.

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[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 63 points 5 months ago

If the AI had any actual I, it might point out that the most recent Halloween Document was from twenty years ago, and Microsoft's attitudes have changed in that time. After all, they make a lot of money from renting out Linux VMs through Azure, so it'd be silly for them to hate their revenue stream.

I'd be unsurprised if it's just set up to abandon the conversation if accused of lying, rather than defending its position.

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I've got a 3D printed project, and went over it with a couple of airbrushed coats of a 50/50 mix of Tamiya X-35 (their alcohol-based acrylic semi-gloss) and Mr Color Levelling Thinner. As far as I can tell, it looks good so far, but now the room next to the one I sprayed in smells of solvent a few hours later, despite extractor fans running. I knew the lacquer thinner was nasty, so bought a respirator, and haven't been in the room with the model without it (hence only knowing that the next room stinks), but would like to know when I won't need it anymore. The best I've been able to find with Google is the ten-minute touch-dry time, but I'm assuming the VOCs will take longer to be entirely gone.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 95 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sometimes the curtains are blue because the artist likes blue.

Sometimes the curtains are blue because the artist's childhood bedroom had blue curtains and they subconsciously remind the artist of some aspect of their youth, but they've no idea that's why they wanted to draw blue curtains as they were replaced with blinds when they were pretty young, and they've forgotten about having had blue curtains, so if asked, would say they just liked blue.

And sometimes the curtains are blue because the artist wanted a blue background for space curtains, but didn't have enough time to add the stars, planets, spaceships and aliens.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

If we're having thonk, we need angery.

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Edit 1: I'm attaching the image again. If there's still no photo, blame Jerboa and not the alcohol I've consumed.

Edit 3: edit 2 is gone. However, an imgur link should now be here!

Edit 4: I promise the photo of some plugs does not contain erotic material (unless you have very specific and abnormal fetishes). I can't find the button to tell that to imgur, though. You can blame that on the alcohol.

Edit 5: s/done/some/g

Edit 6: I regret mentioning the dartboard, which was a safe distance below these sockets, and seems to be distracting people from the fact that one's the wrong way up. I've now replaced the imgur link with a direct upload now I'm back on my desktop the next day.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/383055

Scroll to Update Three for a description of what turned out to be the problem, and potential solutions on Lemmy.world's end.

When I visit lemmy.world in either Firefox or Chrome, go to the log in page, enter my credentials, and press the Login button, it changes to a spinner and spins forever. No error is logged to the browser console when I press the button.

On the other hand, when using Jerboa on my phone, I can vote, comment and post just fine. That makes me think it's not an issue with this account.

I was briefly able to log in on my desktop a few days ago, but don't think I did anything differently when it worked.

Update

I tried again with my username lowercased, and with the password copied and pasted instead of autofilled, and it worked despite not working a few seconds earlier when I tried it the usual way. I'm going to log out and see which of the two things it was that made the difference.

Update Two

Copying and pasting the password while leaving the username with mixed case also let me in, so it's somehow related to the password manager autofill.

Update Three

I figured it out. I generated a password longer than lemmy.world's password length limit. When creating the account, it appears to have truncated it to sixty characters. When using the password manager to autofill Jerboa, it's also truncated it to sixty characters. When copying and pasting the password from the password manager manually, it truncated it to sixty characters, too. However, the browser extension autofill managed to include the extra characters, too, so the data in the textbox wasn't correct.

In case an admin or Lemmy developer sees this, I'd recommend:

  • Not limiting the password length. It should be hashed and salted anyway, so it doesn't increase storage requirements if it's huge.
  • Giving feedback when creating an account with a too-long password that it's invalid for being too long instead of simply truncating it. Ideally, the password requirements would be displayed before you'd entered the password, too.
  • As mentioned by one of the commenters, giving feedback when an incorrect password is entered.
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When I visit lemmy.world in either Firefox or Chrome, go to the log in page, enter my credentials, and press the Login button, it changes to a spinner and spins forever. No error is logged to the browser console when I press the button.

On the other hand, when using Jerboa on my phone, I can vote, comment and post just fine. That makes me think it's not an issue with this account.

I was briefly able to log in on my desktop a few days ago, but don't think I did anything differently when it worked.

Update

I tried again with my username lowercased, and with the password copied and pasted instead of autofilled, and it worked despite not working a few seconds earlier when I tried it the usual way. I'm going to log out and see which of the two things it was that made the difference.

Update Two

Copying and pasting the password while leaving the username with mixed case also let me in, so it's somehow related to the password manager autofill.

Update Three

I figured it out. I generated a password longer than lemmy.world's password length limit. When creating the account, it appears to have truncated it to sixty characters. When using the password manager to autofill Jerboa, it's also truncated it to sixty characters. When copying and pasting the password from the password manager manually, it truncated it to sixty characters, too. However, the browser extension autofill managed to include the extra characters, too, so the data in the textbox wasn't correct.

In case an admin or Lemmy developer sees this, I'd recommend:

  • Not limiting the password length. It should be hashed and salted anyway, so it doesn't increase storage requirements if it's huge.
  • Giving feedback when creating an account with a too-long password that it's invalid for being too long instead of simply truncating it. Ideally, the password requirements would be displayed before you'd entered the password, too.
  • As mentioned by one of the commenters, giving feedback when an incorrect password is entered.
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