because windows has no concept of an executable bit, so a rename could make it runnable? or a benign looking program has a built-in interpreter run code from external file?

> windows has no concept of an executable bit

Sure it does. Execution is a permission you can set in the security tab.

> a rename could make it runnable

This is more likely why.

> because windows has no concept of an executable bit, so a rename could make it runnable

This much I understand - but why can something so tightly integrated into the OS not instead intercept a file rename event and scan at that point?

I seem to be lacking sufficient information as to what specifically about Windows necessitates scanning everything on the filesystem when macOS and the various common Linux distros seem to do fine without it. It's not as if Windows is the only OS with interpreters, either.

uninformed guess: every commit is a version bump, every push to master is a major version bump?

I think the site probably just died because it couldn't handle HN storming in to all the chats ;p

haha! I think there may be an issue around me switching from gzip to brotli compression for some browsers, but I'm not 100% sure if that's the issue. I will investigate, thank you!

they are LARGELY useful... they do what they say on the tin, at least unless you visit some super agressive site which uses anti-adblock, but, then again you can conf up an anti-anti-adblock ;)

more the fault of the site devs for not using css media queries, or svg ;p

Does getting in the club assume you have a low resolution screen?

SVG only works in a few places.

I imagine it should be pretty easy with javascript to set up dummy images, and replace them... probably also doable in pure css, just make them a block element or something, with a set size...

You don't have to imagine everything. Normally the lazy-loaded image should be seeded with transparent SVG that as the same dimension. It's a solved problem.

I miss lowsrc. It had a point.

Wasn't this what progressive jpeg was invented for?

I especially hate the way gnu utils treat character groups like [:alnum:] which, if you have utf8 version of a locale, matches characters in ANY unicode language set... so if you, say, grep for numbers in /dev/urandom with a shell script, you can end up with, say, some characters that are technically numbers but in a totally different language, say, arabic, or hebrew...

well, gnome creates folders in whatever language you installed with, tho it can translate the file manager's sidebar items, I think... so a change of locale means you'd still have the old dir left, and show as old name everywhere except the special shortcuts

I've never had any such problems in my life with FF... not even when opening over a thousand tabs (of course not all active at the same time, lol)... sux they removed actually useful extention format, but otherwise it's great, even if it's only on google's and cloudflare's life support, pretty much...

Tragically I installed it recently on mac and it "froze up" after awhile. Chrome never freezes for me. I like FF but dislike instability. Maybe it's just me...

My experience across several devices is that Firefox's performance is much better on Linux and much worse on macOS. Not sure why.