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Well, this joke dates back to (at least) the dial-up days where {#`%${%&`+'${`%& NO CARRIER

> At some point someone optimizes the system to a global company-wide incrementing 128 bit counter.

Some UUID versions include time, so there's a bit of a counter in that.


> So yeah ... best of luck if you're a car factory worker in France or Germany.

If it makes you feel any better the Polish car factory worker will probably lose their job to a Chinese car factory worker.


> before Brexit - a decent number of polish people in the UK doing all types of work.

The comedian Omid Djalili (a Brit of Iranian descent) had a number of "Polish plumber" skits:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vppmzUZENfc

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8mjzu0Runo


> The book was never written for children […]

If this is the case you may wish to click on "edit" and correct Wikipedia:

> "The Adventures of Pinocchio. Story of a Puppet"), commonly shortened to Pinocchio, is an 1883 children's fantasy novel by Italian author Carlo Collodi. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio. He faces many perils and temptations, meets characters who teach him about life, and learns goodness before he achieves his heart's desire to become a real boy.

> The story was originally published in serial form as The Story of a Puppet (Italian: La storia di un burattino) in the Giornale per i bambini between 7 July 1881 and 25 January 1883, and was subsequently issued in book form in February 1883, with illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti. Since then, Pinocchio has been one of the most popular children's books and has been critically acclaimed.[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio

> Giornale per i bambini (Italian for 'Newspaper for children') was an Italian weekly periodical published in the 1880s by Tipografia dei Fratelli Bencini and later Tipografia Bodoniana.[1] It first appeared as an insert in Fanfulla della domenica in 1881,[2] and established as an independent publication later that year by Ferdinando Martini, who was also the periodical's first editor. The target audience was children between the ages of 6 and 12.[3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giornale_per_i_bambini


Presumably there are (implicit?) "sec-none" things, like [a] from the recently released 150.0.2 [b] which makes absolutely zero mention about "Security Impact" or "Severity" in the bug report, unlike [c], which is listed in the Mozilla weblog post [2].

Security things are mentioned in the Release Notes [b] pointing to a completely different document [d].

Perhaps sometimes a bug is 'just' a bug, and not a vulnerability.

[a] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2034980 ; "Can't highlight image scans in Firefox 150+"

[b] https://www.firefox.com/en-CA/firefox/150.0.2/releasenotes/

[c] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2024918

[d] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-4...


Perhaps, but if the exploit code is published folks can double-check that they implemented the mitigations properly.

If there's no PoC, how can you really be sure?


Also try:

     sudo sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3

> It’s a foreign concept for many of us who seek out the best product or deals for each purchase and will change brands in an instant if another company releases a better product.

Perhaps those folks found certain brands regularly have decent (enought) quality and stick with them, and/or they have a personal aesthetic that they've developed that may be 'limited' to certain brands.

Some folks also don't want to go through the effort of constantly/regularly (re-)evaluating things: they've found that Brand X gives them enough quality/value, and have stopped looking.


> Some folks also don't want to go through the effort of constantly/regularly (re-)evaluating things: they've found that Brand X gives them enough quality/value, and have stopped looking

This argument stops holding water when those same people start judging other people for not also using Brand X.


> Costco derives the majority of their revenue from the membership fee […]

Costco derives the majority of their profits from the membership fee:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco#Business_model


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