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I'm not sure what you mean by a memory protocol, what is that?


Sometimes they are called memorandum for the record.

Send yourself an email with your recollection of the incident and print a copy that you do not keep at work. If there is a problem later, you’ll have documentation of your contemporaneous thoughts that can be used to corroborate yourself.

It’s good practice whenever something significant happens.


Perhaps OP means to jot down some notes, with dates and times to remember what happened and when should this arise again.


As far as I am aware. I was not given the individual's name for "privacy reasons". I was explicitly told it was someone under me, but that could be anyone of 20-some odd people.


You are a project manager. You have no one under you.


A lot of project managers like to pretend that they are real managers. Some of them might even believe that developers are their reports.


If he has no direct, on my past jobs, project managers were also expect to keep the head cooler than engs because they were facilitators and mediators.


Thank you all for the recommendations, definitely leaning towards IceCat mobile. I'll be playing around with it tonight.


I've updated my mobile Firefox and they still don't work. It kills me this has not been a priority for Mozilla, it shouldn't be this hard to browse the web.


If updating didn't work I would file a bug report with Mozilla. This is the first incident I've heard of around the cert debacle where updating didn't correct the issue so what you're experiencing could be a bug.

I use Firefox Focus most of the time instead of the full blown Firefox, and its so stripped down that it doesn't support addons (and so wasn't affected by the cert issue). In fact it doesn't even really support tabs. It does help me not have a trillion tabs open and focus on one thing at a time. Depending on your browser needs it's a good, albeit totally different, experience.


ups... i missed we were talking about Firefox for android!

Still, latest version is fixed.

If you want you may try the VERY experimental version of Firefox Preview ( https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/mozilla/firefox-fenix )


yeah... that's really weird!!! v66.0.4 fixed that (there's a 66.0.5 on windows)!

You can try to fix it from about:support, but beware that it might delete some preferences, logins and other things like that...

by the way, you also have GNU IceCat Mobile -> Firefox minus proprietary things plus security measures ( https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ )


Mozilla has been on the downward spiral over the last several years. They took something (i.e. Firefox) that wasn't broken and "fixed" it until it was, first by killing off XPCOM and then suffering through the misadventures of such bastard products as Firefox OS. The folks at Mozilla should really stick to what their good at and focus on an all around open source browser that people will actually WANT to use.


Mozilla killed XPCOM because it was actively preventing improving Firefox. In particular, Firefox could finally go multiprocess, and other improvements of the Quantum project are slowly being incorporated.


A lot of people don't view that (or other changes) as improvement. I personally hate multi-process browsers because they eat RAM like nothing else. In my browser of choice I normally run 200-500 active tabs and I stay under ~3 GB of ram usage. With a multi-process browser that'd be impossible.


I don't know if you've forgotten, but under that old use case (hundreds of tabs in one process), Firefox would bog down further and further as background tabs stole more and more main thread time, eventually only a restart of the browser would restore it to usability.

In 2019, I still use hundreds of tabs - and Firefox handles it with grace. RAM is there to be used, and this is the perfect use for it.


That doesn’t make money which kinda is required to work on Firefox.


I thought they made money by sending searches to Google. A browser that people want to use means more searches and so more money to keep working on the browser. Childish stuff like TV show references, and this certificate issue, means less users, less searches, less money.


They've been attempting to diversify their income for ages. A lot of people have issues with Firefox being substantially reliant on Google.


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> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Not this shit again.

It was a private email service. The complaint was that the private email service also happens to be used by Antifa members. Which is unsurprising.

This is like complaining that they shouldn't give money to the Tor project because it gets used by unsavory people, too.


Anti-fascist fascists?


Just curious, do you think enough subject matter experts (e.g. Data Scientists, AI researches) would volunteer in the event of a national emergency or is patriotism not a viable motivator as the authors suggest?


Actual doogiePIM user here: I've been using this app for the the last four months and it really does do everything Chris promises it does - its amazingly stable and adaptable for being developed by one talented individual. Hardly a day goes by I don't discover a new feature which has helped me migrate certain workflows into one, local platform allowing me to replace Word, Google Calendar, and Mint to name just a few (I keep everything on my Surface with occasional backups off site).

While doogiePIM is billed as a personal information manager (PIM) I actually use it more as a Personal Knowledge Manager (PKM), which is especially conducive due to the built in Chromium browser, so I don't have to keep switching between multiple apps like Chrome (which I no longer trust), Notion, or some other Productivity program. Talking with the OP he is extremely responsive and open to suggestions that would make doogiePIM more functional and customizable.

As a longtime HN lurker I've noticed that for years individuals have longed for a centrally managed information program and I feel strongly that this is the only one that fits that bill:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806950

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8270759

It was actually this topic that exposed me to HN in the first place.

I am not in any way affiliated with the OP but I am a believer in that the program delivers. That and the fact that it's a local app gives me peace of mind.


I can deal with bad management/leadership, which I'm sure all of us have experienced at one time or another. The law of averages dictates we will work for someone who sucks at some point in our careers.

Even worse than bad/toxic management to me is No management or leadership. The worse job I ever had involved managers who couldn't make even the simplest of decisions or provide even minute guidance. I worked as a high level project manager who executed on different projects across the organization. I would bring back facts and figures to support the objectives of the organization and usually have three to five recommendations for consideration just to be told "they would get back to me". Weeks would pass with no direction and my team would then be subject to abuse from other stakeholders on why we weren't doing our jobs.

If I tried to take initiative to keep the org moving I'd be hanged by our senior management, so it was a Catch 22 situation. Ultimately I made the decision that the best thing I could do was protect the members of the team by siloing our operations as much as possible while they struggled to do their jobs with as little outside interference as possible.

Bad managers can be mitigated by sometimes playing their game to you and your team's advantage, keeping certain actors at arms length, or "feeding the beast" to simply be left alone. No leadership is the worst because it's the equivalent of not just being on a rudderless ship lost at sea but with everyone on said ship sick and expected to build the rest of the ship after it's already left the dock.

[Update due to grammatical issue]


Not my creation but I'm a believer and an active user. Been seeking such a product since this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806950) a few years back.


Amen to that. I'm a card carrying liberal who left New York State for many of the same reasons.

Shameless plug for relocating to Texas: I really love looking at my pay stubs every two weeks and seeing "0" for money paid in state taxes. It really does make you Wonder why they even bother leaving the field on it.


You can make an argument that Texas is more liberal than New York.

In which state can a working class person afford a home?

Most "blue states" have major housing affordability problems. Given that economic equality is a major tenet of liberalism this should be considered a crisis and an embarrassment.


Proud 1st time home buyer in Houston :). I could barely afford my rent in NY. And that was with a room mate!


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