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I know, that's exactly the point I'm trying to make.

Yesterday I drank a beer out in public - a perfectly legal and culturally/morally acceptable thing to do here in The Netherlands, but deemed wrong to such a degree that it is apparently punishable by death in Iran[1].

I have actively broken Iran's moral stance, societal norms, and laws/jurisprudence against public alcohol consumption from without their jurisdiction, and as being a person unbeholden to their societal norms in any way, shape, or form.

Do I obviously now have no expectation of privacy? Is it now okay for these peoples finding themselves to grievously offended by my actions to collect and publish my private data with damaging intent? Is it then doxxing? Am I really a bad person now? Or maybe it depends on the color of your glasses, maybe there exists an entire world outside of ones own cocoon?

[1]: https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/06/29/iran-quash-death-sentenc...

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So it is doxxing if the doxxed committed wrongdoings from the perspective of... the doxxer? Ideals, morality, alignment, goals and purpose are and have always been a static constant for all humankind. There is no pineapple pizza, it is a lie, for I don't like it, and therefore nobody else ever did either.

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Yes, I see what you mean, but if that's really the intent, then having only this font-family rule isn't sufficient. For that argument/reasoning to hold up, it would have to be accompanied by metrics adjustments to compensate for the massive differences between some of the listed fonts in these stacks.

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Oh you flatterer!

My top level comment was not a complaint at all, but rather a heads-up regarding the potentially unexpected or often misunderstood effects of applying these font stacks, accompanied by a practical example, and a personal recommendation with my reasoning.

Now, please, don't be so hostile. It's nasty and makes you come across as a lot more stupid than I believe you really are.

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It already works as intended. If the intent is to render a default system font, then let the system handle that by simply applying 'monospace'.

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These font stacks don't handle anything at all, they just throw a bunch of common typeface names at the wall and they can't even tell what sticks because it's so random. All the while, the user might have a prefered fallback font set that they prefer over any of the ones in the font stack - and even if that isn't the case, simply using 'monospace' as the only fallback will render the default monospace font anyway.

I disagree with the notion that common browser configuration options available for users to change through the main/general browser settings UI would in any way be esoteric. It is wholly irrelevant anyway.

The setting you mention has no effect in the case I outlined above - Even with "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above." enabled, the same results are observed.

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An example of something to keep in mind with this technique is that you might actually end up causing the browser to render a different font than either you or the user intended.

For a practical example:

Environment

  - Latest Firefox on Windows 10.
  - Manually installed fonts 'Cascadia Code' and 'JetBrains Mono NL'.
  - Firefox default 'monospace' font set to 'JetBrains Mono NL'.

Setting `font-family: monospace;` would end up rendering 'JetBrains Mono NL' - the user-configured default monospace font.

Setting `font-family: 'Cascadia Code', monospace;` would also render 'JetBrains Mono NL' - privacy features prevent pages from querying non-standard system fonts and this will also be reflected as a console warning message: 'Request for font "Cascadia Mono" blocked at visibility level 2 (requires 3)".'

Now, if you were to use he "Monospace Code" font stack listed on this page `font-family: ui-monospace, 'Cascadia Code', 'Source Code Pro', Menlo, Consolas, 'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace;`, you will render... Yup, 'Consolas'!

  1. `ui-monospace` - remains unsupported by Firefox which is lame (would also render 'Consolas').

  2. `Cascadia Code` - see above, access denied because it isn't natively available on Windows 10 (also, coding ligatures... more like illigatures, amirite?).

  3. `Source Code Pro` - skipped due to unavailability.

  4. `Menlo` - skipped due to unavailability.

  5. `Consolas` - next option in line, this one is available and is the one that will be chosen.

  6. `DejaVu Sans Mono`  - skipped, font already determined.

  7. `monospace` - skipped, font already determined.

These modern font stacks suck. Please, if you want to render font and it has to be something specific, then use an actual web font and simply fall back to the default 'monospace' which is controlled by the user.

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Here's a workaround, it's ridiculous and probably a bug (any Apple SEs in the audience please move along, nothing to see here) but it works:

- Open the "Audio MIDI Setup" app that comes pre-installed with the OS

- Bottom left plus icon > "Create Aggregate Device" and optionally name it

- Add your built-in microphone to this new device by dragging it from the sidebar to the left

- Open your sound settings, and select the aggregate device as your main sound input

After this it should no longer change the main input device when you connect something else.

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Nope, that's what the protected resources API is for.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/in...

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Nothing good has ever come from apps that required admin privileges to install for no obvious reason. They either abuse the rights, or end up with massive security holes that are completely neglected for months or longer.

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Don't think Italy is currently available for purchase on Amazon :)

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Windows is so far past that point now, could just as well pile these on too < edit: I'm actually positive about these tools, MS could do with a little less focus on consumer usecases I think.

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No need to apologise!

In this post's comment section alone many use the term "open source" but really mean to say "public-source", others use the two terms interchangeably even when they seem to be aware of the distinction, and then there are people who seem to think that by making your GitHub repo public it becomes OSD-spec "open source" and with that free to use.

It's just so confusing and easy to misinterpret each-others' true meaning.

Thanks for making me aware of the existence of that OSD OSS spec btw! Came across the (recovered) blog post where the term was first announced http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html.

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From the Copilot FAQ, notice there is no specific mention of the term "Open Source":

  > It has been trained on a selection of English language and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub.

Meaning GitHub might have also been sourcing from public source / source-available projects that were not OSS licensed at all.

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Ah right, I honestly did not know!

Still, if you come across some published source code that does not appear to be licensed and does not specifically define itself as being "Open Source" as defined by the "Open Source Initiative", copyright law applies and you're not allowed to just take it and use it.

GitHub specifically uses the words "source code from publicly available sources" when talking about what they used to train their model on.

As far as I'm aware public code repos aren't by default "Open Source" as defined by the "Open Source Initiative".

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Does that mean general copyright does not apply to unlicensed open source software? Do any legal precedents exist related to this?

I'm honestly curious now.

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But if there's no license, it's not the license that restricts but common copyright law.

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> If you make something open source, I can use your code to power my business

"Open source" isn't a license. You're not allowed to just use any open source software that doesn't contain a license by default.