Chris Siebenmann

Since it seems it may matter these days, I'm on the Fediverse at @cks@mastodon.social aka @cks" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@cks

@ZlatanRad I'm not much present here. The Fediverse is a better place to reach me, using the information in my pinned tweet or from my blog's sidebar.

So apparently @Dell Canada's business side are now awfully close to spammers, sending unwanted marketing email to my work address with the usual '10 days to maybe remove your address' claimed 'opt-out' stuff. I can't say I'm surprised but I am disappointed.

My Firefox 'docking a browser window into a tab will lose it on restart' issue goes back much further than I thought. at least to Firefox 105. (Mozregression is being unhelpful and its downloads are extremely slow or non-functional right now, so I can't tell precisely.)

In Firefox 107 (and possibly earlier), if you convert a browser window into a tab in another window, quit Firefox, and restart, you lose the window-to-tab tab. It doesn't even make it into the session store. Nngh. Data loss irritates me a lot. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?i…

Looks like I discovered a fun Firefox (Nightly?) bug: with 'open previous tabs & etc' on, open two separate windows, dock one window into the other as a second tab, quit, and restart. Only one of the two (or more) tabs will be there on restart. Great way to lose tabs, oops.

It would be nice if 'mozregression --good 106 --bad 107' actually used Firefox 106' for the start point (and 107 for the end point). It would make finding this bug easier. Assuming it's the same bug.

@thegrugq Would the damaged Iranian steel plant incidents count as cyber terrorism (ignoring the likely state action aspect of it), or something else? I guess it's more terrorism via cyber than cyber-terrorism, although it was apparently (cyber) filmed for propaganda purposes too.

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@palecur It's a fine building and my memories are that inside it's nothing like you'd expect from the outside. (I may bike past it on the regular and work at the same university, but sadly I rarely have reason to actually go in.)

@jefposk Yep. The text/plain is a straight copy/duplicate of the HTML in the text/html from what I can see. (I did not extract both and diff them because I am not that dedicated.)

@thatcks You mean they're putting HTML in the text/plain part? JAIL. JAIL FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.

I give a special award to everyone who sends multipart/alternative email where the text/plain and text/html versions are identical. That's not what *alternative* means. Just send HTML-only email.

My reaction to the free hoodie that my employer has just gifted us is 'this will come in handy when our offices are under-heated'. It even has hand-warming pockets. (It really is free, our salaries are completely fixed by things far beyond our control.)

@EnronAdvocate DM is away. Thank you.

Of course there is no 'abuse[at]sharepoint.com' so that you can't report that someone is hosting a phish spam landing site on them and spamming your users. Because Microsoft.

I wonder how Intel onboard graphics compares to AMD onboard graphics in current CPUs, for both performance and Linux open source support. (Yes, I'm thinking about getting a new system. No, I don't like it, hardware is a pain.)

@dannykopping Yeah. But I suspect they have numbers that say it increases engagement (and I can see why), and it is nice from a user perspective. Maybe (ideally) they needed a lot of the support infrastructure for other reasons already.

@thatcks I wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze on this one. Such a minor feature, and likely requires some fancy tricks to get it to work efficiently.

Twitter hidden complexity: in web twitter, have you seen the like/RT/reply count increase live, as you watch? It's scary to think what it must take to do that across hundreds of thousands of people using web twitter and <X> tweets being interacted with all the time.

@palecur @dmofengineering Naturally the typical PE shop has no specific expertise in an industry, but they sure do have a lot of MBAs who know all of the business school rules and who've read Jack Welch.

@palecur @dmofengineering I think the 'leveraged buyouts' sort of private equity. Buy an old public company, strip it to the bones to make it look good, charge it giant consulting fees, flog it off back to public markets, profit all the way. (Happened to Marvel Comics, I think?)

Because PE really understands global scale services 🙄. The last time I worked with PE I did a full day deep dive on every part of our stack. They literally didn’t know what to do with our engineering depth, asked one question about anti-virus, and left. We got the money.