> While some users made use of the save-to-server feature, downloading and copying shots to clipboard have become far more popular options for our users.
[citation needed]
Whenever Mozilla makes a (usually user-hostile) decision they always claim to have heaps of data to back the decision.
If you raise an objection, they politely explain to you that their decisions makes a ton of sense, and that you are stupid for questioning them. If you had seen the data, you'd agree.
(Of course, they never publish any of that data, but that is entirely irrelevant for this conversation)
That's openness and transparency for you.
And the mindshare just keeps dropping and dropping...
Web development is such a pain because the standard is sub-par (decided by committee, so no surprises there) and the implementation is even worse (full of inter-vendor inconsistencies and missing features).
Frankly, last time I did web development, I felt tempted to just make the entire page one screen sized canvas and implement my own UI toolkit on it. That's bound to be more reliable (and probably faster) that the current state of affairs.
We don't tolerate houses collapsing out of nowhere, brakes failing over the course of normal usage and planes falling out of the sky during routine flights.
But for some reason, we HAVE TO tolerate software crapping itself once a year?
I don't accept this logic. This is just a sign of how sloppy the industry has become.
This is the reason your phone becomes obsolete after 2 years, whereas your car can continue to run after multiple decades of abuse.
Pretty much any device these days can run some form of standalone SSH software or, worst case scenario, a shell + openssh (heck, even Windows can do that these days).
Setting these up is fairly painless, and they are FAR more flexible than this solution, FAR more secure and the vast majority are open source - which is KINDA important when dealing with security.
Sorry for being blunt, but all I see here is a huge gaping security hole. The $5/month is just adding insult to injury.
> Sure, but e.g. on Debian /etc/systemd/system/sshd.service is 22 lines. The still-carried shellscript version is 162 lines, and that's before counting any of the per-distro shellscript libraries systemd removed the need for. That's a big reduction in complexity even if systemd didn't have any advantages over shellscript init, which it does.
And for that "simplicity" all you need is a daemon that depends on dbus, glibc and cgroups (IIRC), just to name a few - which makes it non-portable for anything that isn't Linux and non-usable for anything that doesn't want to depend on, say, glibc.
And if they got their way, dbus would have been shoved into the kernel (kdbus, bus1, or whatever they called it) - adding a bloated mess of an IPC mechanism into the kernel.
[citation needed]
> While some users made use of the save-to-server feature, downloading and copying shots to clipboard have become far more popular options for our users.
[citation needed]
Whenever Mozilla makes a (usually user-hostile) decision they always claim to have heaps of data to back the decision.
If you raise an objection, they politely explain to you that their decisions makes a ton of sense, and that you are stupid for questioning them. If you had seen the data, you'd agree.
(Of course, they never publish any of that data, but that is entirely irrelevant for this conversation)
That's openness and transparency for you.
And the mindshare just keeps dropping and dropping...