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Just two days after releasing Firefox 72, Mozilla has issued an update to patch a critical zero-day flaw. I'm a little disappointed it didn't come with a new icon
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What is it with these f***ing "let's be minimalist in useful stuff and bloat everything with useless cr@p" "modern" web-page designers?
I have an instance of FF on this machine, so I check its version number, then search on "firefox", click the link to the download page, and am immediately told the version number of the latest release...
... NOT!
I have clicked every link on that page (except the download link, obviously), and not one of them reveals the latest version number!
Are they completely f***ing stupid, or what?
More to the point, do I trust people who are that stupid to look after my security when I'm interweb surfing?
I think not.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I have clicked every link on that page (except the download link, obviously), and not one of them reveals the latest version number!
It's on Browsers -> Firefox Browser for Desktop -> Release Notes[^]
As of today, it resolves to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0.1/releasenotes/
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Astronomers have used the NASA Hubble Space Telescope to determine that the universe is expanding faster than expected. Because everyone else is trying to get away from us
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Par for this particular course.
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The only thing expanding faster is US healthcare premiums.
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Microsoft says that drivers requiring approval will no longer be released during and around Windows 10 feature update rollouts and Patch Tuesdays (Monthly Quality and Security updates issued on the second Tuesday of each month). Random driver updates are never a problem, are they?
"Recently when a driver update is released alongside OS updates, it has resulted in a poor experience and significantly impacted end-users," Microsoft stated.
Ya think?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Recently when a driver update is released alongside OS updates, it has resulted in a poor experience and significantly impacted end-users," Microsoft stated. Ignoring the bad grammar (which you expect from uneducated people, so never mind), it ain't just the drivers that have "resulted in a poor experience and significantly impacted end-users".
Note that, for once, the verb "impacted" was used correctly -- it means "crushed", or "squeezed the life out of".
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Rust keeps getting hotter. Here are a few of the top reasons. Because oxidation is an exothermic reaction?
(ba dum pump!)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because oxidation is an exothermic reaction? Please don't steal my replies before I post them!
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I'll stick with C#. Gold doesn't oxidize.
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Sonos showed Google its tech years ago without realizing they would compete. Sounds like sour grapes
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Certainly doesn't smell like team spirit.
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Ongoing .NET Framework support for F/OSS libraries may quickly start evaporating, and this should be a consideration in migration planning. The Framework is falling! The Framework is falling1111oneoneone!
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In other news, C still works just fine, ta very much, and even wins awards.
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When the portability analyzer[^] returns a bunch of top level problems over classes like System.Web.Mvc.Controller and System.Web.HttpRequest as non-supported and with the recommended changes column empty I can immediately tell that no one as MS gives an about being able to port existing projects forward. Throwing your hands up on System.BadIdea.No.Really.Dont.Use.This or System.Obscure.Telemetry.Says.Only.Five.People.Ever.Used.This is one thing; but classes that're ubiquitous is one of the most widely used types of applications build are something else entirely.
Since Agile delivery makes hiding spending a large chunk of time doing a major rewrite impossible I'm pretty sure my current project is going to be on 4.x until/unless MS forces the issue by EOLing .net framework entire.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: classes like System.Web.Mvc.Controller and System.Web.HttpRequest as non-supported
But I thought we could still write MVC apps with .Net Core! Last I checked, MVC still uses controllers.
What a crock of sh|t.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: Dan Neely wrote: classes like System.Web.Mvc.Controller and System.Web.HttpRequest as non-supported
But I thought we could still write MVC apps with .Net Core! Last I checked, MVC still uses controllers.
Yeah, my assumption would be that the two classes I singled out for being facepalmingly called out with no recommendation of how to fix probably would be relatively easy to fix in a port (and have a well documented howto guide if the answer isn't just updating the file to using New.Namespace.Controller ). But if you can't give porting advice for some of the most commonly used classes shows that what they've put together for an upgrade advice tool is as you said
#realJSOP wrote: a crock of sh|t.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
modified 9-Jan-20 13:05pm.
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I would say that's a problem with the portability analyzer.
System.Web.Mvc.Controller becomes Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Controller
System.Web.HttpRequest becomes System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessage
Since the portablity analyzer's docs were written on 9/2019 and the api analyzer's docs were written on 4/2019 I suspect the code for both analyzers was "finalized" way before the above were available.
I haven't had any problems converting my .Net Framework web code to .Net core. To be sure, some things had to be reworked, or redesigned, but it's all doable. And in the end it was better, IMNSVHO.
Further, the mantra is to target .Net Standard (which supposedly is an "API surface") if you want to have your code compile once but run on .Net Core, Mono, .Net Framework. Haven't had the need to do that yet, so don't know if it really works or not.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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both of those classes appear to have been available since .net core 1.0 several years before the portability analyzer was documented. It being a massive cluster of failure means I can't easily determine what will need non-trivial amounts of work to get ported or estimate how long the conversion will take.
I don't want to get a few days in clear all the low hanging fruit and then discover I have multiple major blockers that will need a few weeks of rewriting first, and either end up with a port branch that lives for months before being a hellish merge or having to deal with a customer frustrated because we're not delivering any new features they want.
It's an educational product, so ideally this would be something done over the summer break. However we've already got one pending change that's going to eat a decent chunk of it to refactor/test/debug changing a major assumption in the initial design that the customer wants changed. Last year we spent most of the summer working on stuff like that; and past experience makes me suspect there'll be a lot more of it coming this year.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Good luck. I agree it's a major fuster-cluck on MS's part.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Barring MS EOLing .net framework or .net framework apps on IIS I'm not expecting to be able to migrate anytime soon.
After about 2 years We're only just adding the last of the features in the legacy rails and flash versions of the site (along with a bunch of new shiny things they wanted more than the last of the legacy system); if I'm lucky another year or two might let us catch up with the presumed backlog of not yet shared with us shiny things on the customers want list.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The final steps are being made in the Google v. Oracle copyright case, which will put the fate of programming in the hands of the Supreme Court. As all software decisions have been made in the past
The court's decisions on 'Spaces v Tabs' and 'vi v emacs' echo throughout history
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The courts are the goto guys, obviously.
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