"out of proportion to SSL/TLS’s place in our business" is an insane comparison. They are saying they care so little about SSL/TLS to begin with that it's not fair.
It would be like me practicing surgery 1 hour a week and saying "well surgery only has a very small place in my 80-hour work week" in response to flagrant failure of medical care.
You're reading it the wrong way, I think. Their certificate business is so small, 1% of revenue, that it's not worth trying to rescue it after the amount of attention it has been getting. It simply wouldn't be profitable.
The more telling thing to me is that they explain that THEIR core business is unaffected, but they don't explain that they fucked up so badly that everyone else had to step in and actively update their trust chains to work around eMudhra to avoid putting every single internet user at risk.
Quite frankly I doubt they understand how massively they've screwed up, or they are trying to hide it to avoid absorbing any blame for the fallout.
Weakened only in the personnel sense. In terms of industrialization for war and acquisition of modern warfare tactics, we have made them considerably stronger.
Nope. Russians have improved in some areas (experience), but they lost a tremendous amount of war materiel, and the economy suffered significant damage.
As I remember it, Chrome was way faster than Firefox, but I was in high school and probably stupid. Firefox wouldn't catch up to Chrome until Quantum, which was amazing when it first dropped, but now Firefox is slow again.
No, Chrome was way faster than Firefox. You were not wrong. It grew right alongside HTML5, and Chrome put a lot of effort into V8. Firefox was definitely better than IE or Safari, but Chrome could do everything that Firefox did without the memory usage that Firefox had. It's funny how memory usage is now abysmal on Chrome, too.
Currently I am feeling this too but only for one site, GitHub. Which is where is spend most time during the day...
Quite sad, I don't know if it's GitHub's fault or not but Firefox needs to figure out what's going wrong here soon or people like me may be literally forced to Chromium.
I've tried Chrome too on that wave of hype, including on some pretty slow machines. Like the Eee PC, and for a few months, not few hours btw. It wasn't perceptibly faster than Firefox, at it had its own slowdowns, just a bit differently. For example as I remember, Chrome often rendered a page visibly faster than FF, but it was actually unusable and frozen static "image" of sorts for a few brief moments, and only then it become active. FF had a slower time rendering, but at all times it was not frozen statically, just some elements were loading. Things like that. In the end, I returned to FF not because Google had some bad rep back then, but purely because Firefox was better and more pleasant to use. I'm still baffled how that "FF - slow!" campaign worked out eventually.
Yes, they were both much of a muchness when taken as a whole, though some people definitely did find that one or the other was notably faster for their typical workloads.
But Chrome won the vast bulk of its market share not because it was technically better in every way, but because they spent much more on marketing at the exact time IE entered terminal decline.
I rather like the MAHA messaging, particularly when they claim that Europe has safer food standards and we have to catch. It disappoints me that RFK Jr might just be either corrupt or a useful idiot to chemical companies.
The person you are responded to is offering a very reasonable line of thought that you yourself might not disagree with (seeing as you didn’t even respond to the point): “EU has better regulations, we should follow those”.
And you’re response, like many others here, is basically “you’re dumb”
That type of bad faith divisiveness will keep us locked into a political tension that continues to allow charlatans to gain power by taking advantage of desperate people.
Most people are good, and most people want the same basic things (good economy, fair pay, peace, good outcomes for their family and children). It would be wonderful for people to focus more on these commonalities and the divisive bullshit media feeds us to keep us angry.
It’s wonderful that people are generally good and want good things, but it would be better if people gave more deference to the opinions of scientists and experts in the field, rather than politicians and influencers with no relevant experience but who say things that agree with what they already want to believe.
I too want good things, and I am perpetually frustrated by those who actively work against those outcomes. You don’t get a gold star for good intentions when you actively contribute to the opposite.
When GP directly got what they asked for—even when they didn’t realize it—they immediately assumed that the answer must simply be that RFK is corrupt and in the pockets of evil people rather than the more straightforward but uncomfortable answer that would require self reflection.
Listen, I agree with you. But brow beating people and making them feel like idiot is how you build an angry group of reactionaries that end up voting Trump or some other corrosive figure into office.
Basically people just ought to be nicer to eachother and understand that, anyone of us or them can be misinformed. Very get people are actively trying to lie or knowingly do the wrong thing. So giving people a little grace and not making them feel like idiots is the way.
But yes, I know that’s can be exhausting as fuck after over a decade of madness. But that’s to only way out, the make the country stop hating eachother.
Any one of us can be misinformed. But learning that you backed the wrong horse needs to be an opportunity for self-reflection and reassessment rather than “it couldn’t be me that was wrong, the horse must have been corrupt”.
If you voted for a candidate and you realize afterward it was a mistake—regardless of the reason—the path forward is to figure out why your picker was wrong, not to write it off as the fault of the guy you picked.
Being wrong is human. Being wrong and using that to self-correct is noble. Being wrong and digging your heels in or looking for others to blame is shameful.
You’re right that acknowledging a mistake and correcting is the right and noble path, but my approach of compassion, understanding, and common ground is the only way that leads to that outcome. When instead you brow beat them and call them dumb, they always double down. Then points of difference turn into anger, which turns into hatred.
At some point each of us have to take the personally responsibility to stop getting high off the fumes of our own self righteousness.
To be clear, I never called them dumb or brow-beated. I suggested prioritizing the opinions of scientists and field experts over those of politicians with convincing messaging and I noted that what we’re seeing today is the expected outcome of putting cranks like RFK into positions of power.
What I said might have been firm and to the point, but it was certainly gentle.
I’m not sure what exactly you expect someone to say if “Why don’t you try X instead of Y, if you are surprised and disappointed by the outcome of Y?” is considered too hard for someone to handle.
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