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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • I saw/heard an interesting take from a YouTube the other day.

    They argued that forks are killing Firefox. Everyone using a fork doesn’t get counted in firefox’s numbers, they don’t see all the Linux user or people turning off AI features because we turned telemetry off. They only see the telemetry of the windows users that use the AI features everyday.

    On one hand fuck Firefox’s current direction and the forks are great. On the other hand, maybe we should all use Firefox for some casual stuff just to keep the numbers up??? Keep shopping and banking stuff to the privacy respecting browsers, but the random Wikipedia rabbit holes can happen in Firefox.




  • I had one professor that couldn’t comprehend why so few students had bought the book for day 1 of class. He was shocked to learn that other professors would require a book and never actually use it.

    Another one actually checked for the book at the beginning of the semester as a graded assignment and proceeded to never mention it again. When a girl asked about it mid-semster, he said it was “supplemental reading” we were supposed to do on our own time. She went off on his ass, reminding him the book cost $300 and all that.












  • And the fix is a firmware update not a total recall? So its either buggy overcomplicated software or the update tweaked things to reduce the power draw so you got less machine power than what you were advertised.

    Which honestly for a washer machine is pretty cool they can fix that sort of issue without the hassle of replacing the big machine, but if only these kinds of major safety issues could be figured out in pre-production.