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Question is more like "why wouldn't this be possible"


>If you need an employee to produce a continuous task log, they aren't producing value

Uh? This is not some kind of engineering job. An employee of mcdonalds who's not flipping burgers is indeed not producing any value.


If they have %10-%20 of their time to keep a log, that's a deadweight imposed cost on their performance, which will only be a function of the %80 remainder.

You can get data on mean time between burgers from the point of sale system or add a sensor to the burger storage unit, just like you can get data on feature cadence from Jira.

Beyond a certain point, management is parasitic to capital. That point is very low.


>You don't need cookie banners; they're only mandatory when you want to track your users

So they are mandatory, since all websites NEED advertising revenue and analytics to function.


No, some websites can just sell a product or serve some business function, and don't need tracking at all, yet usually have it anyway.


The one you're at right now seems to be doing fine without ad revenue.


analytics are fine as long as you use GDPR compliant anonymision of the users data. But it’s easier to just ask permission.

You can also run ad’s asking as you are not using targeted ad (which you are allowed to use if you ask for permission)

There are invasive ways of asking for such permission. Sites that do full take overs of the site or persistent bars that follow you around are just trying to annoy the user into clicking agree.


Or they could, you know, not destroy your settings when you update by hand.


It's to be expected that running the installer will give you a fresh install of Firefox.

You can still manually update by hitting "About Firefox" in your menu, which will keep your settings as-is.


No it's not... Program files and settings are stored in two completely different folders... Even uninstalling a program shouldn't remove your settings unless it asks you first.


Well, yes, it will keep your Firefox profile and its related settings. It's only the about:config settings that will be reset, which I think is a sane default.


You realize this isnt true anymore right?

If you disable update via policy (which is the only way you can do it now that about:config method is removed), then going to "About Firefox" doesnt give you any options regarding updating.

Check your facts.


I did check them. I set my settings to "Check for updates but let you choose to install them." via the about:config method, which is the setting I assumed they were referring to.

I could still update from 72.0.0 to 72.0.1 from the About Firefox menu item, and from the about:preferences#general page. I'm running Mac OSX Catalina.

That said, Firefox is definitely doing what they can to make users keep auto updates on. I do think there should be a way to manually update if you've disabled both auto-updates and their update checks, without requiring the user running the installer, forcing you to toggle one of those settings off again.


Ramón and Cajal, two great thinkers.


If this was a joke, it's a pretty good one


It's probably one of the most widely known jokes in Spain.


I've yet to see a legit unicode domain, and my country doesn't speak English as a first language.

To tell you the truth IDN domains feel like a failure, a gimmick. Their biggest market probably was meant to be countries that don't use the Latin alphabet, and they've failed spectacularly.

If you use Firefox, for your own security, set network.IDN_show_punycode to true.


There are a few in Roman-lettered Europe, but they're not exactly common. Many are redirects to an ASCII domain.

They seem to be used in Russia a little more, especially with the .рф TLD[1], although many are still just redirects.

I have no idea what the text means, but these sites look reasonable: https://www.xn--80aicstx0byb.xn--p1ai/ http://xn--j1abth1c.xn--p1ai/ https://xn--d1ai6ai.xn--p1ai/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.%D1%80%D1%84

(HN seems to have translated these to Punycode, presumably a quick security measure without respect for non-ASCII languages.)


it used to be possible to block this with a patched dnsmasq that allows setting a regex, but the fork is not maintained and merging the patches to upstream is also not much fun.

so I hacked something together that uses the linux kernel NFQUEUE: https://github.com/DyslexicAtheist/nfq

this way I have guarantee that these domains will never be resolved (which is what I want :))


You can completely disable animations in accessibility settings.


Do you mean "Reduce Motion" under Display?


Don't have an iphone handy but I think so. There are lots of options there to explore, there's also one to increase contrast and another to make buttons more evident. There's some cool stuff there in accessibility options


Ah, when "Mac" was mentioned I assume we were talking about MacOS, not iOS.


There is still a slow cross fade animation.


The default browser on Windows sucks and when you get online and go to Google you get an ad to download Chrome. That sorta makes it the default.


Until I read cwkoss' comment right now I had always assumed someone came to the pizza joint and started firing rounds at people. I admit I'm not American so I never cared enough to look up what "opened fire" meant here, but I think it's evident what people will think of when they read that expression. Hint: not someone shooting a closet's lock once to open it.


It was multiple shots, and he pointed the gun at employees first. See my other comment for references.


That's what it sounds like sometimes. "Fires caused by climate change".


It's because no one wants to have these philosophical arguments about whether making an issue significantly "worse" constitutes causation.

Regardless of the side you fall on, making something significantly worse is still a problem to be solved.


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