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> I always take these vendor reports with a massive grain of salt. It’s a classic case of comparing apples to vendor-marketing oranges. A headline screaming about an 84% miss rate sounds like a systemic collapse until...

I've seen this before in the ip blocklist space... if you're layering up firewall rules, you're bound to see the higher priority layers more often.

That doesn't mean the other layers suck, security isn't always an A or B situation...

On the other hand, I don't know how I feel about how GSB is implemented... you're telling google every website you go to, but chances are the site already has google analytics or SSO...


i thought it was checks against a local list of hashes? with frequent updates

this is how Firefox does it. can't speak for the rest.


470k crashes in a week? Considering how low their market share is, that would suggest every install crashes several times a day... I gotta call bs.

470k crashes / week

67k crashes / day

claim: "Given # of installs is X; every install must be crashing several times a day"

We'll translate that to: "every install crashes 5 times a day"

67k crashes day / 5 crashes / install

12k installs

Your claim is there's 12k firefox users? Lol


Based on what data? According to their reporting they have around 200 Million monthly users, which seems compatible with 470k crashes a week? See <https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity>

2% worldwide? https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

Granted, they're probably just as accurate as netcraft. /shrug


The nuance here is of cause that there are a bunch of people using multiple browsers. Also I mean there are a lot of people using browsers on the world

If 10% of firefox users are also iOS users, which is not unlikely, then those people get double-counted. In my case I probably use my phone and tablet for at least 50% of my web traffic, not counting youtube, which also skews things.

For my part I'm not sure I recall a crash having daily driven firefox in quite some time. I'd suspect that the large number of bit errors might be driven by a small number of poor hardware clients.

Wouldn't it be more likely the faulty machines are crashing pretty often.

While it wouldn't prevent the issue they described, I prefer to pull, rather than push. My thinking is, if you pull, you're still connected. If you push, as soon as the push finishes, you're locked out.

I'd be willing to bet that the government didn't want to run it anymore, so they asked pelmorex...

pelmorex probably said "pay me", and the government said "well I guess we'll just shut it down"...


Not a ham, or else I probably would have seen it sooner.


> giving agents access to logs (dev or prod) tightens the debug flow substantially.

Unless the agent doesn't know what it's doing... I've caught Gemini stuck in an edit-debug loop making the same 3-4 mistakes over and over again for like an hour, only to take the code over to Claude and get the correct result in 2-3 cycles (like 5-10 minutes)... I can't really blame Gemini for that too much though, what I have it working on isn't documented very well, which is why I wanted the help in the first place...


That's a little creepier than the time I got an email from someone trying to push a new crypto coin to me because I contributed to OSS.

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