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Notices by Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com), page 8
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It's never easy holding yourself to a higher standard and it becomes tempting to give yourself an out to let those standards lapse, but that's not making quality software.
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If you're making good software, you'll provide support for all things that interface with it reasonably. Β If you're making bad software, you'll find any excuse to deny support, because your tools or your knowledge is insufficient to the task at hand.
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@lnxw48a1 With any clothing you're paying three figures or more for, you're paying for one of two things: complicated technical materials (usually in military and some trades wear, where for instance you have ripstop clothing or stuff meant to protect from electrical flashes), or youre paying for a designer to put their name on something and rip you off.
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@bob @alana@the.giant.horse I have dealt with a great number of different professional standards associations in my time, having worn a lot of hats, and while some are better than others none of them are really satisfactory.
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@bob @alana@the.giant.horse If we consider something made by the W3C to be legitimate, we already have problems.
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@falgn0n The telemetry system does a lot of data gathering on exactly how you're using the browser. It might be that which slows down vanilla Firefox.
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@ed1conf @mwlucas @diodelass It's also inaccessible to anyone using a browser which restricts javascript or using a mobile phone on the web interface, but who cares about accessibility?
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@devnull Computer Rise by Place D'Orleans has a lot of bits and bobs like that but I dont know what theyd have in stock specifically.
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@bob @sohkamyung What's dubious about a remote backdoor into your system that allows them to change anything about your installation, and presumably anything else in your computer if it's running elevated, at the whim of an unknown remove user?
This is just another iteration of IME
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@bob Except this technology is out there an exists, but most companies aren't using it and refuse to because it involves additional infrastructure. Β I've been helping a friend recently with a semi-retail-and-also-online-store startup and he was asking me what the difference between two payment providers which had very disparate rates was ... the more expensive one was using an actual secure-ish system, the cheapy one was using the PCI standard stuff that isn't securing shit.
The PCI standards are basically predicated on the fact that usually its regarded as cheaper for a company to pay out a fraud claim on unauthorised transactions than it is to try to prevent them. Β Most of the stuff around it (verified by visa and the mastercard equivalent) for example, is security theatre. Β Or more like, just normal theatre, since security isn't involved.
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@bob @dansup@mastodon.social Yeah they're dumping ostatus because fuck the old fediverse. Β Embrace, extend, extinguish.
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@alpacaherder I don't currently participate or contribute to any projects, but if I was, a CoC is an obstacle if you're not firmly within the same background and viewpoints as the majority of the project's contributors. I'm not going to fit anybody's little box, so I don't try.
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Lets continue to use the protocols pushed by the same people who pushed datamining, wide block instance lists and of course the European social score system that says that it is not at all like the Chinese social score system , I'm sure that's the way to follow.
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I feel like someone stabbed me in the gut several times.
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@bob @sohkamyung They really don't want things like Normandy becoming a major story, and it hasn't now, has it?
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@rw @rw@shitposter.club SPC doesn't seem to be federating well lately.
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@mangeurdenuage @jeremiah Why are people that are doing this kind of thing using one of the most heavily-surveillanced platforms on the planet, is what I want to know. Β I can only assume they are dumb.
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If it has a code of conduct beyond "don't be a dick" then it isn't worth my emotional bandwidth.
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@bob @sohkamyung A considerable amount of Mozilla's PR budget goes towards suppressing stories about the telemetry and downplaying said, so I wouldn't hold your breath.
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