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@Meyerweb is it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1996509 ?

doesn't sound quite right, but we don't know why some people see 1996509 and others don't. yours might be similarly mysterious.

I assume you tried the obvious diagnostic culprits: disabling tracking protection and add-ons to see if they are involved

1996509 - Facebook is stuck on its splash screen and doesn't proceed to load. Same thing is happening to Threads.

REOPENED (nobody) in Web Compatibility - Site Reports. Last updated 2026-03-25.

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Dan Veditz 3d ago

@davidho
was the plan to throw yours in the bin, give you a refurbished one, and tell you it was yours all fixed up?

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Dan Veditz Mar 14

@peterbrown @dalias @mattblaze

These days we tend to say "March fourteenth" and our US written dates reflect that (3/14). In Olde Tymes we said "fourth of July" and the UK written form (4/7) reflects that. I'm not sure which changed first, though I suspect speech.

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Dan Veditz Mar 14

@mattblaze
Europeans can keep waiting for April 31 to happen

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Dan Veditz Mar 11

@lritter @eltonfc

fair point. in English those items use the imperative followed by "..." (an incomplete command?). An infinitive would make sense in that context and I could imagine a "To Print" or similar menu, but I've never seen one. The English form used is imperative.

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Dan Veditz Mar 11

@eltonfc
before GUI we had a "command line interface" where you quite literally gave the computer "commands". How could they be anything other than imperative?

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Dan Veditz Mar 8

@thomasareed
the app killer on my Samsung is more aggressive than the old "havent used it in a while" one. they learn your usage patterns, and if you don't use an app much they will shut it down, even background notifications, relatively soon after you switch to another app. I had this problem with Signal, for instance, because most of my friends don't use it so I didn't get messages often.

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Dan Veditz Mar 8

@thomasareed
check you phone app settings. on my Samsung android apps are "optimized" by default, and if you don't use an app much the os puts it to sleep to save battery. not sure if that's a Samsung thing or general android. some of my communication apps I've had to explicitly set to unoptimized or "never sleeping" or I would miss notifications

I don't know if there's an equivalent problem on iPhones.

Dan Veditz Mar 8

mhoye Mar 8

It's worth thinking of app stores in general - and Google's upcoming Android mandatory developer registry process - as threats to national sovereignty as well as individual software freedoms.

If the orange madman can mandate on a whim that ICC judges be digitally unpersoned from American-controlled systems, people should be thinking really, really carefully about whether or not the same thing can happen to, say, their electrical grid.

https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/116194021058394545

Ciara (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I deactivated Google Play on my phone. The electricity company app was the first to be bricked. 'You must update.' I wrote to them: ’I don’t have Google or Apple. Where else can I update the app?’ Nowhere else, they replied. I wrote (politely) back: ’I can’t use your app any more then. It’s an odd requirement to make of your customers. A Norlys customer can only access all Norlys services if they are also a customer of one of two specific private for-profit US companies.’ #DanmarkSkifter

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Dan Veditz Feb 28

mhoye Feb 28

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.