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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • One of the two browsers in existence does something shitty and everybody switches to the other. Wait a little while and the other does evil shit and everyone switches back.

    Remember when Chromium did the WEI thing?

    And when Firefox added a full-screen ad for the movie Turning Red?

    Firefox and Chromium are both FOSS, but it seems that isn’t enough. Hopefully it’s different for Lady Bird.








  • I can definitely see a lot of good applications for this way of doing things.

    It does seem like I often run across “error handling” code that literally just catches a bunch of different exception types and throws a new exception with the same content from the caught error just reworded, adding literally zero helpful information in the process.

    It’s definitely the case that sometimes the exact sort of crash you’d get if you didn’t handle errors is exactly the best sort of exception output the program could do given its particular use case and target audience. Or at least it might be best to let the error be handled much further away in the call stack.