I've seen some routers that will just silently redirect anything on port 53 to their own idea of the best dns server to use. That would probably "fix" this problem, but I always thought it was a little shady to redirect stuff like that. Makes troubleshooting problems difficult if you don't know it is happening.
I mean json might not be the best example since for a long time people would run json through a javascript engine to parse it but I can see your point.
I mean I disable javascript embedded in pdf and feel like it would have been better to not have that feature. It would spare people from the invoice.pdf email attachment viruses because most people had assumed pdf isn't going to be as bad as an exe.
calling it garbage seems kinda harsh, but I think they are moving more to using a javascript rendering method instead of xul. I remember reading about it a while back. I don't really like it either and one of the first updates from back then broke a lot of UI that had been working ok. I am not really sure what the problems are with working with xul though, but I think firefox moved off it a long time ago too. I feel like thunderbird's user base is more the type to want to use thunderbird because it runs like a local first desktop style app as an alternative to using a web interface to their email. At least that's what I like about it.
Sometimes its nice to have a history like that because then maybe you are thinking of trying the thing they tried that wouldn't work and it would save you some time trying it if you can tell from those commits that it didn't work.
This saved us a couple times. At least until I had time to add monitoring to their old system to track disk usage. It was also helpful to use a tool called ncdu. It helps you visualize where most disk space is getting used up to track down the problem.
I feel like its because other than the user, the people involved have a benefit to running native instead of as a webapp. The phone OS companies get their percent of apps developed in their stores and the app developers get better access to your data to resell. Apple in particular has been really hostile to webapps.
Here they show the debt increasing through the 90s but by less than most other decades. I don't know if it takes into account inflation though so maybe that would have made the debt have less value. Seems like they didn't use any of the surplus to pay off the debt.
Adobe added embedded javascript to pdfs. Its an option to turn it off but its enabled by default. I turned mine off a long time back and never notice any problems but I don't use a lot of pdfs with interactive forms.
It does seem like they have destroyed most of the competition. I was frustrated with the ad-blocking the other day and looking for a video but the whole first page of links was all youtube. I guess that's why they are starting to crack down on adblockers since people don't have as many other places to go now.
I mean I don't know if I would say the land is just abandoned. Some farmland that people let go back to forest can also have the trees harvested from it periodically so its still productive in another way. The land can still be valuable.
I always though something like ublock origin should be built in with a standard format for the block list rules so people could just use different rules lists if they wanted to.
It would be nice to have a feature for enable/disable javascript per site also.
They don't mention any extra costs for people to manage the on premise setup. I mean its probably still a savings for them but it seems weird to leave that out.
yeah, its pretty cool how most of these photos they were trying to take a picture of something else and the red sprites just happened to be in the right place because of a storm front moving in.