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Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site

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You would have to be looking for it:

Note that the warning appears in the Extensions popup rather than on the Extensions icon, so you wouldn't know that StopTheMadness was disabled on YouTube unless you opened the popup (or unless you saw the autoplaying videos on YouTube that StopTheMadness would otherwise stop.)

What happens, though, if you pin the extensions to the toolbar for easy access to their settings?

It turns out that when you pin an extension to the toolbar, it no longer appears in the Extensions popup! Consequently, the quarantined domains warning no longer appears in the Extensions popup either. In fact, there's no longer an Extensions popup: clicking the Extensions toolbar icon simply opens the about:addons page, which doesn't show the quarantined domains warning anywhere.

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Reddit Refugees on Lemmy, how are you guys liking lemmy so far?

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Yes, posting and interacting is essential to help our communities grow. I used to only lurk but have been trying to post more on here.

A big sore spot is that youtube videos and text posts can’t open in-line on the front page.

I see a book icon under posts that does this when browsing through my instance's website. Most of the mobile apps are early in development and may not have this feature yet though.

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How do we feel about posting memes to this community?

I share your conclusion that pretty much any cyberpunk related content is good to have here. I have appreciated your contributions, by the way.

Regular posting and commenting is what makes for a good community so I think that anyone reading this should try to help contribute to grow our community (and any other community of your interest too) without worrying too much about having the perfect content to share.

That said, if you do want my opinion:

My main concern is that I would not like to see this community dominated by a single type of content such as memes or images. That's fine for communities that are focused on such content but I think that variety would be ideal here.

Memes, humorous images, and otherwise non-serious stuff are okay in small amounts and preferably when it is somewhat new and original. However, I also find that there are several that are so thoroughly played out that I'm sick of seeing those pop up again and again too.

So far I've been pleased to see that this community hasn't yet been filled up with what I consider to be generic, uninspired cyberpunk images - the kind of artwork that it feels like I have seen it over and over even when it is new. Don't take this to mean I don't appreciate good cyberpunk art though.

Sharing music you enjoy is fine with me even if it is something that is always subjective.

Also I think that random "have you guys seen [popular thing]?" posts always have the potential to spark new and interesting discussions so I would never discourage those. I would like to see more discussions.

Recommendations, reviews, news, discussions, art, games, videos, and anything else relevant are all great to see too.

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Ferrocene - ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 Qualified Rust Compiler

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One of the founders of Ferrous Systems has answered some questions about it on Hacker News. See here and here.

The spec they created for the certification process is open source. There is some "tiny" amount of the patches that aren't public but it sounds like it is essentially a recent stable release of Rust because the other major changes have been contributed upstream. It's not clear if they definitely plan to eventually release the rest of thier changes as open source or not but they will consider it.

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First commercially available 'smart guns' are available for sale in the US

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In addition to fast and reliable authentication in an emergency, the other issue smart gun manufacturers need to pay attention to is how secure they are. For example, here is a video showing a security researcher thoroughly defeating a different type of smart gun with methods that allow unauthorized firing and even preventing the owner from firing.

Still it's interesting to see the tech develop from science fiction to something real.

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