The first ten on today’s playlist:

Using the new Firefox a bit today. I like to torture myself and enrage myself I guess. The old versions of Firefox were like my SS, though less so over the years: powerful, capable, adroit.

The new version is like a Toyota Echo: designed to baby you, can’t do much, but you can look stupid doing it.

I’ve never been so angry for so long at someone who wasn’t a person as I am about what Mozilla is doing to Firefox, and how cavalier and hostile the organization is about the whole decision. The dev arrogance (though typical) is astounding.

They are digging their own grave, but alas that it harms me, too.

It makes me very angry that any other Democrat besides Hillary Clinton would’ve won the election easily over a chump like Trump. Now we have to live with four years of this shit, and morons like Kendzior and Drum going on about how Bernie Sanders and Russians sabotaged the coronation.

It turns out — as I’ve noted previously — that when you nominate one of the most disliked people in history for a high office (no matter what the reasons are for that dislike) that person tends to lose.

It was malpractice to do that — no matter why Hillary Clinton was disliked. You nominate who can win, not who “deserves” it or to defeat sexism.

Again: any other democrat including a dead carp, as long as it was a Democrat, could’ve won in 2016 over Trump.

Fuck all Clinton cheerleaders and those responsible for anything to do with her. You all gave us Trump and now you need to own it as it is your fault.

The French numbering system is terrible. Finally memorized it all to save time, but damn. It makes the English system look sane and sensible.

For instance, 98 in English: ninety eight.

In French: quatre-vingt-dix-huit

That is quatre-vingt: “four times twenty”; dix: “ten”; huit: “(plus) eight.”

So, yes, that’s how you represent 98 in French. Four times twenty and ten plus eight.

French numbers are like the Powershell of numericity.

After the AT&T fiber installer was done laying in the 1Gb symmetrical fiber connection to our place, we ran a speedtest on my main box. It produced near-gigabit results.

The installer said, “Yours is the only home setup I’ve actually seen where the customer has the right everything to get real gigabit, even though they order it anyway.”

I work in IT. What kind of idiot would I be if I order a gigabit line and couldn’t use it? The kind of idiot AT&T likes, probably.

Anyway, I’d order 10Gb if they’d sell it to me. (Though I’d have to upgrade a few things then.)