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In this case it was Amazon reporting Fable jailbreak to government

ffmpeg has stated many many times that they don't care about bug or security reports

Linux doesn't need antivirus. It can't get malware.

Arch shipped a broken fontconfig package 10 days ago. The broken version is still the one offered.

I use npm 11.16.0 and it did this

npm warn allow-scripts Run `npm approve-scripts --allow-scripts-pending` to review, or `npm approve-scripts <pkg>` to allow.


All the Ai related companies use Macs.

Google photos will become one way sync only in august. You can upload to cloud, but no sync to pc.

uBlock Origin lite exists. And in couple years usage I see no difference from non lite version.

The author of both appears to disagree.

His opinion is irrelevant. User experience is all that matters.

As a developer I've often built "inferior" versions of products for specific user groups. The product worked perfectly for those users, they saw no difference. Yet, when asked, I'd maintain that it's inferior because <technical reasons>. And you know what? We are both right.


You are saying that the author's opinion doesn't matter your singular experience is the only reasonable benchmark which seems less defensible. For practical quality we should also consider future resistance against anti adblocking something that the author is able to do unlike a user who just notices it hasn't failed yet.

Consider manifest v3 has a fixed block list that can only be updated with the extension and only with permission of the browser.


The author of both extensions stated facts of user experience.[1] This included some users would not notice a difference.

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...


I have seen 3 people use iPhones in 18 years.

In 99% of cases it's auto deletion of cookies.

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