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Re:AMA: Bill Gates on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:24PM (#19249079)
Some kind of personal anecdote or something that is even remotely specific instead of that generic comment that looks like something that was written by the same people who write apologies for Facebook.
Re:AMA: Bill Gates on Monday February 25, 2019 @02:49PM (#19248753)
I don't know if they are platitudes but they just sound like some generic PR drivel. Take from that what you will.
>Firefox treats scripts running from bookmarklets as being scripts that are directly on the page. This means that unless you list `script-src: unsafe-inline`, your CSP policy can disable the user's ability to use bookmarklets. This is the single instance where a site owner has control over the user agent without the user having ultimate veto powers.

about:config -> security.csp.enable -> false

I assume any extension that consists solely of any combination of \x00 and \x20 is to be understood as "no extension"
THANK YOU for this, I will definitely check it out. The pricing of most email platforms, including FastMail, is simply ridiculous. And if you complain they'll tell you that, well, all other platforms cost rougly the same! It's basically an oligopoly.
Re:CSS-Powered 3D Engine (2014) on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:31PM (#19241057)
The problem with Edge is that they wrapped the engine, which was great, inside a UWP app, which are known to be stupidly ugly and stupidly sluggish. That's what killed it. Had they chosen Win32, it wouldn't have died. But I guess we will never know.
Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:24PM (#19241022)
Honestly I don't know what you expected. There's no other way it could've ended. Voice, file uploads, etc are expensive.

Don't fall in love with services. (Or with people ;P)

Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) on Sunday February 24, 2019 @02:37PM (#19240147)
>many users have bouncers that will sit in the channel the whole time

Then I know they're reading.

>and you have no idea who might be saving logs or where they might be publishing them

If I'm in a room with you nothing stops you from telling others what I've told you.

Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) on Sunday February 24, 2019 @02:30PM (#19240121)
No history is a feature. I like knowing that, like in real life, only people who are present can read what I'm saying.
Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) on Sunday February 24, 2019 @12:18PM (#19239423)
By judging all the strings in the client frontend, their help website, and my interactions with the support team, Discord is being run by some rather immature people.
Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) on Sunday February 24, 2019 @10:29AM (#19238896)
Discord has low footprint? It's usually the application that consumes most RAM of my system (if we ignore the browser) and consumes an steady 1-2% of CPU even when in the systray.

And it is, of course, closed source, so no way to use an alternative client. I wish I could use an IRC gateway for it, that would be cool (I very, very rarely use the voice chat)

Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) on Sunday February 24, 2019 @08:36AM (#19238484)
>By far the best messaging user experience on desktop there is.

No offence but that's like your opinion.

Coming from IRC and TeamSpeak, to me Discord is unnecessarily bloated and full of analytics.

>I used Slack / Skype / Hangouts / WhatsApp / Messenger / etc. before

Yeah, explains it. :P