I just watched Hit Man, which claims there aren’t any such thing as hit men in real life - clearly that’s not the case!

“Commentator posts hot take, demonstrating a massive lack of empathy to people doing a stressful and important job.”

I guess some people might go with f-s-tayb, but I wouldn’t necessary recognise what they were saying.

Yes, I still have it showing up in Windows/Android, and phone numbers show their cost per minute.

I have a load of credit on there still (got tricked by them deactivating my credit and topped up unnecessarily). I still use it for international calls at least once a month, I hope this news story is overblown.

The docs say what they do and don’t do - and they don’t do that. Just actually read through them for yourself, you don’t have to be a lawyer.

This is just a bit of corporate box-ticking, but the pitchfork brigade has read 2 + 2 and is now screaming about 5s.

https://archive.ph/EszIB

In the advertising bit they say what data they use and it’s all broad stuff like device type and location, as well as aggregate data on how many people click on the ads. Of course, you can just disable this, which surely most people do - tbh I forgot there was even this “sponsored content” there at all (it was added a while ago I think).

They don’t say that your browsing habits, interactions or communications are used for anything besides doing what’s required to actually do what you asked.

Yes, Mozilla does some AI, like the in-browser, privacy-respecting language translation. If you use the same feature in Chrome, the text is submitted to a Google server, but in Firefox it never leaves your browser. I don’t see how this could be spun to count against Firefox/Mozilla.

The Privacy Notice doesn’t say anything problematic at all, why is everyone acting like Mozilla is going to be feeding every keystroke into a database/AI? It’s just saying that they’re allowed use your inputs to browse to the sites you’ve asked for, and to give the form data/uploads/mic/whatever to the sites you’re using.

A few words cherry picked from the middle of a sentence isn’t how legal stuff works.

I HATE those sites where popups come up when you are halfway reading something.

Agreed, if I did want to sign up it would be when I’ve finished, not when I’m trying to read your own bloody content. I often sign up using their own domain with something like sales@ or something ruder. Petty, but it’s a small vent. and if one person stops because of it I can die happy.

It’s how everyone who’s anyone does code reviews!

I think it’s probably a mix of criticising a joke for its accuracy, and the fact that it’s in a single paragraph so it’s a huge wall of text.

I assume these numbers change you for the pleasure of being on hold - wouldn’t it be illegal to artificially add 15 minutes of wasted time onto the bill?

This while thing feels like a Onion article.

Turbo Pascal was my first real programming language, and Delphi was pretty pleasant to use for GUI programs as I recall.

I’d never even heard of Lazarus, I might have to try it for a nostalgia trip.

Lots of the industrial programming languages are very different to “normal”/“proper” programming languages, and I can see them being localised.

For example, this is (PLC programming language) Ladder Logic code:

It works great and the config is simple. It doesn’t handle triggering things from those keypresses, but you’ve probably already got something running that does that.

I happily use Helix for Rust, etc projects, and as a general editor. I switch back to VSCode for TypeScript/Svelte projects because the plugins make it more productive for me. I do miss the editing experience and need to check if there’s a VSCode plugin that lets me not confuse my muscle memory.

Helix was the thing that finally made me remap my caps lock key to esc.

I just had mine arrive yesterday!

I have one of these

I’m using ch57x-keyboard-tool to configure it, because I don’t fancy running some random closed-source Chinese code (the manual links to a file on Google Drive). It also means I can move over my config when I switch to Linux.

I have two keys for switching between headphones and speakers, and some set up for shortcuts I forget (like ctrl-shift-e for the network monitor in Firefox). One key types “hello” just because I can.

I’ve got the large knob controlling volume, and I can click it to toggle mute. The other two are currently set to scroll, but I don’t need that as my mouse has better ergonomics for scrolling.

I still have plenty of unused keys and it’s got three layers so I won’t be running out in the foreseeable future.

The Phoronix comments are notoriously toxic - I went to the article mostly to witness the incoherent rage in the comments and wasn’t too disappointed.