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  • "Supplise!"

    Its from this dumb racist joke I heard as a kid:

    An Italian, a Scotsman, and a Chinese guy are hired at a construction site.

    The foreman points out a huge pile of sand and says to the Italian, "You're in charge of sweeping."

    To the Scotsman he says, "You're in charge of shovelling."

    And to the Chinese man he says, "You're in charge of supplies."

    So the foreman goes away for a couple of hours and when he returns, the pile of sand is untouched. He asks the Italian, "Why didn't you sweep any of it?"

    He replies "I no hava no broom, you saida to the Chinese guy that he wasa ina charge of supplies, but he hasa disappeared and I no coulda finda him nowhere."

    The foreman turns to the Scotsman and says, "And you, I thought I told you to shovel this pile."

    He replied, "Aye, ye did lad, bit ah couldnae git masel' a shuvl! Ye left thon wee Chinese mannie in chairge of supplies, bit ah couldnae fin' him onywhar."

    The foreman is really pissed off now and storms off towards the pile of sand to look for the Chinese guy. As he approaches the mound, the Chinese guy leaps out from behind the sand and yells…

    "SUPPLISE!"

    30 years later my partner and mother of my 2 children is Asian. Despite her best efforts her English is not great. We are a bilingual household, and this type of silly mis-spoken word thing comes up a lot.

    Every time I read the word "supplies", like yesterday my printer alerted me that I need to order supplies, I have a little chuckle imagining an Asian guy jumping out and surprising me.

    Its lame. Its based on a racist stereotype. I dont make fun of people with language difficulties. But I will always find this joke worth a chuckle.

  • Websites that magically work when you change UA.

  • Wow. Did you manage to navigate to a web site like a big boy? I better get the stickers out.

  • Yes, but we also have to function in a world that is hostile to people who value privacy.

    Like at some point i want to just be able to live without defending this nebulous intangible ideal.

  • Define soft fork

  • Sure but if devs don't test sites in Firefox then very they don't support Firefox.

  • This is very well documented, and a very common experience.

    They were talking about exactly this on late night linux podcast just last week.

  • LOL

    Got some examples?

  • I'm not talking about sites that claim not to support FF. I'm talking about sites that have broken features when visited in FF.

    • my uni's LMS
    • my bank
    • the popular accounting software I use at work
    • the other accounting software I use at work
    • the time tracking software we use
    • google maps
    • accommodation booking site

    that's just the stuff I can remember for the moment.

  • Me.

    I use ungoogled chromium and librewolf, all day every day.

    Loada of sites just dont work in FF.

  • All the FF forks are the same. Soft forks.

  • Ah, well that still work?

    I use ungoogled chromium... but I assumed ublock would stop working like all the others.

  • FF support is getting worse and worse though.

    Barely any of the sites I use for work support FF.

    Laugh all you want but shit is a bit fucked.

    Ladybird is our last best hope and its barely a glimmer.

  • Ah yes, my favourite threat.

    I can imagine the infants crying, women wailing in the street, and much gnashing of teeth.

  • I dislike this turd as much as the next guy but honestly, the newspaper shouldn't have published and it's fair enough he sent a cease and desist notice.

    If it were AOC's private information being published in this way you'd be outraged.

    A cease and desist says stop fucking around or I'll take legal action.

    Everyone has emailed the wrong thing to the wrong person before.

    If someone sends you something by mistake then if you're unable to disregard it completely then the bare minimum standard is to contact them or their representative and ensure they're aware.

  • Do we know how the employees feel about this?

    I imagine that some may have been ambivalent when Trump added his name, but others would have been outraged.

  • My enquiry was to see whether I could provide business details instead of confirming my identity.

    The eligibility criteria is either an Australian resident individual or an Australian company.

    They said I could transfer to a company but it costs $200.

    I was trying to get them to tell me whether that was their fee or the regulator auda. Support didnt comprehend the question.

  • I'm just old enough to get cranky about silly things that aren't important to other people I guess.