> We also download over four parallel connections where possible.

I hope you can turn that off. It fragments the file and puts unnecessary load on the server.

You never used a download manager like DownThemAll or GetBot back in the day?

As far as fragmentation goes, I think both Firefox and Chrome derivatives figure out the final file size in advance, pre-allocate a temporary file that long and put data in it as it arrives. Completing the download is a rename operation or a no-op.

GetRight was a fucking lifesaver when I was stuck on a 28.8k dial up connection that loved to drop at the worst possible time.

I haven't thought of that name in decades, but you're right, it really was. :-)

GetRight, then DownThemAll, and now, Multithreaded Download Manager:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multithreaded...

Speed Download on early OS X releases was a lifesaver back when I was still on 56k dialup. Its multiplexing was the only way I could get decent speeds half the time (browsers would often drift down to single digits) and being able to resume when connections were dropped (at least when servers supported it).

> unnecessary load

In some situations it's the only way to get a decent download speed.

Disk fragmentation isn't a thing for ssd's

It's still a thing.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast24/presentation/jun

PureDarwin doesn't work on any of the M-series machines, and according to the Github commit log, hasn't been updated since 2024.

> What happens when any AI lab in the world stops caring about this?

They never cared.

Mozilla has had a lot of funding over the years. They wasted most of it on useless side-projects. If, instead, they had saved up into a foundation, they could have been financially independent like a decade ago. Do not try to pay for Firefox; they'll just waste that too.

C++ has pointers to members.

https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/pointer

Ideally, the documentation changes would have been merged together with the code changes.

In practice, Zig has very poor documentation overall.

The documentation is the most 0.x piece of Zig. It will come but it will take time.

Or use the addon Old Reddit Redirect, which still works as of 2026-08-27.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

That stopped working for me on my mobile firefox (but not on my desktop) literally yesterday. It's pretty clear they're doing some kind of A/B testing.

There is a browser addon https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect to view Old Reddit without an account.

A workaround that will surely be patched in the next site update.

Models aren't source. You can't read them.

Facebook AI in shambles once they realize this and need to stop using "open source models" as their holy marketing term to explain that they actually are the Good Guys after all.

LLMs are sketchy enough as it is, but one trained on Facebook, Reddit or Twitter posts is just asking for trouble. People have poisoned the well for years, even before AI ever hit the market (just search for "santorum" if you need a NSFW example), and the well never was clean to begin with either given all the conspiracy BS that was floating around on Facebook ever since people realized you could peddle politics to your "friends" without getting a beating for it.