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I assume GP was referring to mercaptan, or similar. i.e. Something with a distinctive bad smell.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanethiol


On 14 March a root certificate (the resource used to prove an add-on was approved by Mozilla) will expire, meaning Firefox users on versions older than 128 (or ESR 115) will not be able to use their add-ons. We want developers to be aware of this in case some of your users are on older versions of Firefox that may be impacted.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/03/10/root-certificate-...

This link has more useful information - but the short answer is to update Firefox or switch to the latest ESR 115 if you're on an OS that isn't supported by the latest versions.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/root-certificate-expira...


> We want developers to be aware of this in case some of your users are on older versions of Firefox that may be impacted.

And yet the error doesn't say anything even remotely close to that, blaming the add-on instead.

I found this thread when my add-ons suddenly stopped working without warning and without explanation. The help page didn't mention it either.


Agreed. Frankly stinks of a dark pattern.


thanks!


Nobody said anything about providing a public API.

Just provide a DB dump to this one guy.


Yes, that's how it's described in this talk transcript:

https://asciiwwdc.com/2017/sessions/715

Let’s say for simplification we have three metadata regions that report all the entirety of what the file system might be tracking, things like file names, time stamps, where the blocks actually live on disk, and that we also have two regions labeled file data, and if you recall during the conversion process the goal is to only replace the metadata and not touch the file data.

We want that to stay exactly where it is as if nothing had happened to it.

So the first thing that we’re going to do is identify exactly where the metadata is, and as we’re walking through it we’ll start writing it into the free space of the HFS+ volume.

And what this gives us is crash protection and the ability to recover in the event that conversion doesn’t actually succeed.

Now the metadata is identified.

We’ll then start to write it out to disk, and at this point, if we were doing a dry-run conversion, we’d end here.

If we’re completing the process, we will write the new superblock on top of the old one, and now we have an APFS volume.


In 1995 around 1 in 3 US homes had a computer.


Yeah in Canada it looks like about 28% of homes had a personal computer in 1995, according to Stats Canada: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/56f0004m/2005012/c-g/c1-...


Dang did say this was on the todo list.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40958364

Like others in the thread, the first time I looked at my list of flagged submissions, there were 20+ just random things on there that I had obviously just fat-fingered on mobile.


Personally, I would have, since it refers to the Referer header it seems like it should follow the same spelling.

It would be like CSS having a "color" attribute, but then doing something like "default-colour".


Exactly, a Referer on the web is its own thing now. Referrer should be considered a typo if you’re referring to the Referer header.


They are paving a way to release a third spelling in the next update :p


If they just spelled it Refera, they could save another byte.


Reefa


It’s actually more like CSS having a “colr” attribute and then doing something like “default-color”.


I think that depends on whether or not you consider 'color' to be the correct spelling? :)


Guess you're not British then :)


TV Pickup aka the Half Time Kettle Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup


If I say "no auto-playing videos" then I mean No Auto-Playing Videos.

I don't expect you or my browser to start second guessing that with "oh, but probably it's OK on this site...?"

I do recall a Firefox discussion about how they can't 100% block videoes because there will always be another way - eg do animated gifs count, or javascript that shows a rapid sequence of images - but just because it can't be perfect doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.


According to Wikipedia, no.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_ranks_of_the_United_K...

There were ranks of Lieutenant and Detective Lieutenant, but only in Scotland and only until about 1950.


I'd guess that Lem used lieutenant rank from citizens' militia (which was back then the police force in Polish People's Republic), not knowing about rank changes in the UK - it was replaced by chief inspector as you linked. goodreads.com uses "Lt. Gregory" in book summary so it's not a translation issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_inspector#United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant#United_Kingdom_and_...


But the rank doesn't appear to have ever been used in Scotland yard or the MET, which might have lead to why it was used incorrectly.


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