I’d appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Cake day: November 3rd, 2023

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  • Signing certs should be expected to expire. Already-installed browser extensions signed by them should not, when the user doesn’t want them to.

    Doing it the right way would prevent, for one thing, any possible repeat of the problem they had a couple years ago when they simply forgot to renew the cert and one day everyone’s browsers unexpectedly stopped working with no way to fix them short of making a new build. The debate was had then, you can go back and read what was said. A thorough review was promised. Presumably Mozilla came came to the wrong conclusion and decided it would be best not to publicise it much.






  • Since you’re already on btrfs it’s probably better to actually use the features it has to expand your existing filesystem to cover both drives.

    But if you just want to mount it somewhere and not worry about figuring out anything complicated, what I did is mount my big new cheap disk at /home/bigdisk and then have symlinks pointing to it such as ~/Videos -> /home/bigdisk/Videos.







  • The .tar.xz format decompresses more than twice as fast as .tar.bz2, allowing you to get up and running in no time

    $ time tar xjf firefox-134.0b3.tar.bz2 
    
    real    0m9.045s
    user    0m8.839s
    sys     0m0.450s
    
    $ time tar xJf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz                                                
    
    real    0m4.903s
    user    0m4.677s
    sys     0m0.510s
    

    Nice! Presumably it’d be twice as fast if disk was infinitely fast or something. Unfortunately by testing this I’ve already used up a hundred times more time than I’ll ever save as a result of it.