To be fair that practically seems like a nonissue compared to the inverse.

What do you mean? There are extensions for blocking autoplay HTML5 media same as flash...

They don't work reliably (some things still autoplay), and sometimes they break the media entirely or don't discriminate between things you actually want to autoplay. For example, the one I currently have installed also blocks "gifv" files from autoplaying in the browser, even though there's no play button to click on. Every time I click on a reddit link that turns out to be a gifv file on imgur, it stays frozen on the first frame and I have to click on "view image", manually change the url to "gif", and reload it. As others here have mentioned, they also tend to break youtube in odd ways. It feels like there are a million little annoyances like that. Back in the "flash era", click-to-play was effortless.

When you right click on the gifv, there should be an option to "Show Controls", which allows you to start/pause/etc it.

Holy crap, that's really helpful. Thank you!

But from the user perspective... how was I ever supposed to guess that?

FYI the exact wording depends on the browser, but all HTML5 video elements will have that context menu option. And other options like "Copy URL", "Loop", etc. depending on the browser.

Of course some websites like youtube override the context menu event to prevent that from showing.

While it is hardly a discoverable feature, you can override custom context menus (at least in Firefox) by holding SHIFT and clicking.

Many thanks. I wonder how many other features I'm missing out on..

There is actually no such thing as a gifv "file format". gifv is just a html page with an embedded webm or mp4 file that hides the standard controls and loops automatically.

Yeah that does sound annoying. Have you tried contacting the extension maker? Perhaps they can add that to the list of fixes/features on their next update?

>FTE

Fuck The Engineers

"Cost to the end user $10-200/year"

What? How have you not heard of Let's Encrypt by now?

There are some issues that are still prevent using their certificates in production¹. For example this one prevents Windows XP clients (not just IE, but anything that uses system X.509 libraries) from connecting: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues/1660.

Still there's WoSign (free for everyone) and StartSSL (free for non-commercial use).

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¹) Only where 3-5% of more obscure clients still matter.

The quote isn't really meant to imply your direct manager specifically.

It can easily be your managers manager, a vp/director or even upper management as a whole.

The last of which sounds like the case in your situation.

Cheaper to hire actual human computers at that point.

How many humans can do a floating point operation in a single second? And do them 24/7 without error?

I agree, thankfully Wayland is well on its way. GDM uses it by default as of 3.16 and the Gnome DE just needs a --session=-gnome-wayland parameter.

It has actually gotten to the point where it's stable enough for daily use now.

> It has actually gotten to the point where it's stable enough for daily use now.

Really? What about X11 compatibility?

Eval? Code as as string, parse, analyze, etc. Then code gen the JS you need into a string. Eval the string.

Tried to edit my other comment but accidentally deleted it.

So I just skimmed over the ruling here:

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/77E3D4B7...

and you're right (if you're getting at what I think you're getting at).

The argument is that expense sharing is compensation, but it is allowed under the FARs in specific circumstance. Difference here being that the combination of holding out on a public website and receiving compensation via expense sharing put it in common carrier land.

Which does seem to make sense under current rules.

Np. And right. I hated to be pedantic but outright dismissing the fact that there are exceptions to the compensation rule is wrong.

edit: wording

You don't need rich friends/family. People charter small aircraft all the time.

The difference is those operations comply with applicable regulations while this doesn't.