How fucking shitty. It just proves that everything spez said about negotiating with developers in good faith was bullshit.

Wait what's happened in New York?

Because she's still a bourgeois Venezuelan ex-pat who wants the US to rescue her country from the nasty socialists. Back home, she's one of the whites but she's about to learn the hard way: Caracas white != Connecticut white.

Smart Linus dropping good natured zingers on Less Smart Linus was the tonic I didn't know I needed.

Séamas gave us of the funniest story threads I've ever read on that cursed site: https://threadreaderapp.com/...

Also an ex-cop.

These headlines just flow right into each other

like, what does he think we're all doing here in the first place

Give it up for Jimmy Carter

I don't think he's planning on worrying about polls ever again.

So noone told you death was gonna be this way

I remember when Netscape was abandoned and open-sourced as Mozilla, and it was huge and bloated as slow as hell. And out of that came a project to just pull out the browser part of Mozilla and make it super fast and as portable. I remember a series of early alphas, and even the name went through a few evolutions. First it was called Phoenix, then Firebird, briefly, until they realised Firebird was taken and changed it to Firefox. It had this shiny new Gecko rendering engine and its only rival was IE...5?

When I started my first dev job in 2006, Firefox was far and away the best browser to use because it had an extension that no other browser could match: Firebug. Firebug was the precursor to the standard F12 devtools that every browser now has and it was life-changing if you were a web developer. (Try imagine doing your job without it now.)

Then Chrome arrived and it was shiny and W3C compliant (yay!) and you could pull a tab off into a separate window (wow!) and every tab ran as a separate process (neat!) and Google wouldn't be evil for at least another decade. Back then, FF had memory leak problems and that drove a lot of us away.

And then Chrome pulled this ad surveillance shit and I was fucking out. I'm so glad that FF is still here.

I let myself be fully engulfed by the Google/Chrome/Android continuum and it's only recently that I realised just how much of myself I gave away and, while my personal data has long since been propagated to a million servers, I'd still like to try keep some of myself to myself.

My back hurts.

Whoof I absolutely could not get into nbcnews without disabling my ad blocker. Guess I'm not visiting them any more :/

Edit: thank goodness for autotldr! ❤️

Man, fuck that coworker. I'm sorry that happened to you.

The 2nd Amendment.

"I never thought the leopards would eat MY baby", sobs woman...

notes to self:

• no, that did not say "hornie"
• check system font settings on this computer
• maybe start a c/keming

Same. Shatner's reaction on the day and what he wrote later have never left me, but I doubt Bezos remembers a word of it.

I mean, it's almost the entire service and retail economy. Shout out to the driver of the truck that did the delivery to the supermarket of the turkey you'll poop out the next day. We owe everything to everyone.

Merry Christmas and may your next poop be a blessed one.

Discluded? Are you sure you don't mean excounted?