See https://expressjs.com/en/guide/behind-proxies.html for a fun read.

Switched to Firefox yesterday, I suggest you do the same.

That's a good reminder to update Firefox.

I tend to oscillate back and forth every few years gradually.

Lately not Chrome proper, there are some neat browser takes worth trying out like Vivaldi, Brave, Arc, etc that are Chromium based.

Are they still funded to the tune of a billion a year by Google so that Google can pretend they don't have a monopoly? Are they still intent on redefining as an ad company?

The google money isn't any great gotcha. It's wrong of them to have grown to be so dependant but so what? All it means is that some day the funded development will stop, just like all the forks are already.

Let them take google money for as long as it flows. You can switch to librewolf at any time if FF itself ever actually goes bad in any critical way. But there's not a lot of reason to do so until the minute that actually happens. Go ahead and take the funded work and updates as long as it exists.

When the billion began Chrome wasn't even a browser yet.

If you're going to switch you should switch to a better option. I've been using librewolf for years since Firefox doesn't have the best track record either.

Having moved from the EU (Germany) to the US there seems to be a LOT of these bad-faith skirtings of reasonable laws, especially in automotive (eg. license plate screens, window tint etc.) where lack of enforcement is abused and will eventually lead to the penaltization of the general public.

I moved from Ireland to the US and noticed the same. So many people in the US treat others as if they are NPCs. Rules only exist so that they can’t bother you, but the rules don’t apply to you. It is extremely frustrating!

USA is not a high-trust society, and has low-key corruption everywhere. EU, or at least big chunks of it, are much more high-trust and "spirit not letter of law" minded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie...

We're a nation of persecuted immigrants. Some of our ancestors were deeply religious, but others were just stubborn contrarians who resisted authority to spite their neighbors. Europe exported those difficult people to the States.

Apparently VC(1) so far, I'd assume there will be LTS support contracts and tailored enterprise features down the line; for the moment I'd assume it's just a bunch of talented devs fixing problems they've been tired off / see as long term existencial threats to the python ecosystems.

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/12rk41t/astral_next...

Plenty of videos around, default rethoric is to 'give them time, they said it would hurt at first' which sounds awfully close what people in abusive relationships would say now that I think about it.

It also sounds like delayed gratification.

Masochistic edging, perhaps.

There's a bug where it the game infinetely thinks I finished the round.

The censoring/redacting used here is insufficient, you can layer the censored text to recontruct sufficient text to identify the website.

Original title: `Is sending Factorio to your competitors' engineers a cost-effective means of sabotage? ` was too long.

Sorry but this is 12 lines of Lua code, what is the value proposition/use case here? I'm legitimately curious.

Honestly, not much.

I found it nice how it's possible to emulate switches in Lua with so little code, without the result looking too ugly. You may find this pattern useful. That's it.

The catch is that, unlike with normal switches or with a series of "if"s, there's a whole bunch of indirection added via functions, so it's not very efficient.

Perhaps LuaJIT can inline these functions, but I haven't tested it.

They were pretty much forced to do this slowly and gradually. There was a large amount of external pushback and some internal too (though money controls here).