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> I think most people would interpret “scanning your computer” as breaking out of the confines the browser and gathering information from the computer itself.

Yes, but I also think that most people would interpret "Getting a full list of all the Chrome extensions you have installed" as a meaningful escape/violation of the browser's privacy sandbox. The fact that there's no getAllExtensions API is deliberate. The fact that you can work around this with scanning for extension IDs is not something most people know about, and the Chrome developers patched it when it became common. So I don't think describing it as something everybody would expect is totally fine and normal for browsers to allow is correct.

The post in question had early empirical data comparing bug reports from Node, Bun and Deno. It wasn't the main focus of the article, and I would love to see a deeper dive, but it showed that Bun had almost 8x the amount of "crash" or "segfault" bug reports on Github as Deno, despite having almost the same amount of total issues created. (4% of bug reports for Deno are crashes, 26% of bug reports for Bun are crashes).

This matches my experience with the runtimes in question—I tried Bun out for a very small project and ran into 3 distinct crashes, often in very simple parts of the code like command line processing. Obviously not every crash / null-pointer dereference is a memory safety issue, but I think most people would agree that Zig does not seem to make bug-free software easier to write.

There was an article about Zig on the front page just a few hours ago that attracted many "Why do I need memory safety?" comments. The fact that new languages like Zig aren't taking memory safety as a foundational design goal should be evidence enough that many people are still skeptical about its value

Thanks, so are both the Postgres and Scylla versions maintained in terms of new features?

I wasn't aware that AppView v1 was open source, and the most recent info I'm aware of on the topic is https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q, https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2961 and https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-archit..., and everything I've heard about Bluesky was that open source appview is "still coming".

How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now) — alice.bsky.sh

by Alice · 3 min read

Note that all of this reflects design decisions on Bluesky's closed-source "AppView" server—any federated servers interacting with Bluesky would need to construct their own timelines, and do not get the benefit of the work described here.