Saturday, May 04
Daily News Stuff 4 May 2019
No They're Not Edition
No They're Not Edition
Tech News
- PC hard drive shipments expected to drop 50% in 2019. (AnandTech)
Sort of. This only counts internal hard drives, and the primary drive in most new PCs is a small SSD. External hard drive unit shipments are expected to drop by a couple of percentage points, but capacities are continuing to grow.
- Firefox says you didn't really want those extensions, did you? (Tech Crunch, hat tip Mauser)
Not DNS this time, but an expired certificate.
- Oracle killed Java.
Or at least, it's bleeding out on the battlefield.
- Git is distributed. What the hell are you idiots doing? (ZDNet)
I can't imagine how broken your environment must be if someone hacking your GitHub project causes a complete loss of your code.
- Avoid Jenkins. (ZDNet)
I ran into an article on the theoretical issues with Jenkins just recently (ITNext) and now we're looking at hundreds of plugins with security vulnerabilities. How do you even begin to audit that mess?
This is a problem with any application with a plugin architecture but no plugin security model. Coughwordpresscough.
Anime Opening of the Day
Merc Storia is (a) Bottle Fairy meets Pokemon, and (b) a third-tier anime you probably haven't even heard of, and yet it looks wonderful. Sure they take the shortcut of doing some backgrounds watercolour style with reduced detail, but they are wonderful watercolour style reduced detail backgrounds.
Don't know yet if the story is any good, but I'll give it a couple of episodes just because it's pretty to look at.
Update: Bottle Fairy meets Pokemon meets Kino's Journey.
Don't know yet if the story is any good, but I'll give it a couple of episodes just because it's pretty to look at.
Update: Bottle Fairy meets Pokemon meets Kino's Journey.
Disclaimer: Don't care, got paella.
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Finally got the Firefox update just now after switching to the new Gab Dissenter browser. Which has largely been working, but is missing some of the finer points of blocking that I had set up with NoScript and AdBlockPlus. For example, the Disqus portion of Instapundit doesn't work with the shield up, but you can't choose which things to let through.
Posted by: Mauser at Monday, May 06 2019 12:26 PM (Ix1l6)
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I found to get Disqus working I had to enable scripting on a few domains. I let my ad blocker (I use ublock origin) take care of the ads themselves.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, May 06 2019 02:13 PM (Iwkd4)
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I'm not interested in Torba's wares. So, I carried over for a couple of days with loading debugging xpi of ublock origin, until Fedora built an official 66.0.4.
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