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February 21, 2022

Is Firefox OK? – OSnews

The decline and potential demise of Firefox is a massive problem that everybody seems to be kind of tiptoeing around, too afraid to acknowledge that if Firefox were indeed to disappear, we’d be royally screwed. We’d end up right back where we started 20 years ago, with Chrome being the new IE6, but with the big difference that Chrome isn’t bad enough yet for people to care.

Aside from Firefox, there really isn’t any browser out there that takes Linux seriously, and this is a big problem. Chrome is a disaster on Linux [...] Things like the Gnome Browser or KDE’s Falkon can barely be taken seriously, and on top of that, are based on Apple’s WebKit, which isn’t a great position to be in either – and that’s it. There’s nothing else.

Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair - YouTube
The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed! | Programming.Guide

Key Takeaways

  • Stack Overflow snippets can be buggy, even if they have thousands of upvotes.
  • Test all edge cases, especially for code copied from Stack Overflow.
  • Floating-point arithmetic is hard.
  • Do include proper attribution when copying code. Someone might just call you out on it.

Here is why in this example

Pourquoi ne pas utiliser plusieurs fois le même mot de passe ?
  1. Comment sont enregistrés les mots de passes
    1.1 Hashs
    1.2 Fuites des bases de données
  2. Conséquences d'un mot de passe qui a fuité si il est réutilisé sur d'autres comptes
  3. Conclure sur la pertinence des gestionnaires de mots de passe donc