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New comment by pebble in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

pebble — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:13:18 +0000

I can back up their first point a tiny bit with regards to canvas. The primary product of our company is heavily canvas-based so I’ve always noticed that canvas on Firefox on macs is slower than on Chrome but it used to be in the 2-3x range and nowadays is more in the 1.5x range. They’ve made great improvements and I’ve never noted anything close to 5-10x slowdowns.

On Windows Firefox and Chrome canvas has performed equally well at least for the past ten years. Got no data for linux tho.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:42:40 +0000

I would say it's more likely that the hours and wages are the problem.

A few grumpy delivery workers aside, most people in Estonia are nice in general. You should come visit :)

I don't know where you are but consider that the reasons your postal workers are pissed of may go deeper than simply being government employed. Could it be your state-owned services are being managed in way that makes their workers unhappy because they are run by people who think that government services even need to be profitable in the first place?

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:26:20 +0000

Sure, because that's not all it means. "It's just business" is the excuse people tell themselves to justify the things they do.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:21:13 +0000

Less efficient or less profitable? Also I'm gonna need to see some references for those claims in your last paragraph.

Funnily enough it's the couriers working for the private companies that I see looking more and more dead inside recently.

So, yknow, anecdote for an anecdote.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:14:30 +0000

I admit I could've probably used more words but when someone says "it's just business" that is a clear example of how the particular flavor of capitalism we live under has enabled and indeed encourages brushing away any moral and ethical qualms as "it's just business" and as you say, it was quite interesting to see how many people immediately jumped to dictionaries, communism, and whatever else the moment capitalism was criticized.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:01:39 +0000

Sure, as a theory capitalism is just a free market but I obviously mean capitalism as it exists today and shapes our entire world. And socialism has it's own can of worms, sure.

But what I was responding to in particular with my original comment was the parent commenters claim that "It’s just business" and that engaging in capitalism means you must inherently engage in the practices the OP was complaining about.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:49:40 +0000

Well all the things OP complained about are inherently caused by capitalism but I think it’s probably possible to engage in capitalism in a way that is cognizant of those issues and actively trying to avoid them instead of treating them as eh that’s just how business is done

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:34:15 +0000

Not to sound like a hippie but we could just try to be a bit kinder to each other and not put money as the single most important thing above all else. You can run a business to make money AND do it in a way that leaves our world in a slightly better state than you found it.

It’s not a black and white choice of either we jump hardcore into capitalism or all the other way into socialism.

Similarly to OP I work at a company that has a certain set of core values and the moment they have changed irreversibly I am gone out the door.

New comment by pebble in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

pebble — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:15:02 +0000

I grew up in ESSR or as it was known locally ENSV. Replying to any criticism of capitalism with an immediate “so you want communism” without even a stopover in complaining about socialism is quite something.

New comment by pebble in "Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18"

pebble — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:37:56 +0000

No, it's more like the architect has a cousin who is like "I totally got this bro" and builds the building for them.

New comment by pebble in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"

pebble — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:12:51 +0000

I'm curious how the CCTV would have prevented the bike theft?

New comment by pebble in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

pebble — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:44:20 +0000

I am not comparing flies to tables.

New comment by pebble in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

pebble — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:30:58 +0000

Do you apologize to table corners when you bump into them?

New comment by pebble in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

pebble — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:48:29 +0000

Better Ruby core than Ruby Central but still leaves me wondering what the hell happened and slightly sours me on the whole ecosystem.

New comment by pebble in "Docker Hub Is Down"

pebble — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:51:37 +0000

This is the way tho this can lead to fun moments like I was just setting up a new cluster and couldn't figure out why I was having problems pulling images when the other clusters were pulling just fine.

Took me a while to think of checking the docker hub status page.

New comment by pebble in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

pebble — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:22:32 +0000

The left-leaning ones usually don't call for the eradication of certain peoples.

New comment by pebble in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

pebble — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:45:35 +0000

No, the struggle is fully manufactured by this rug pull. If I had known this was going to happen when I was setting up my infra I could've used any number of other alternatives, including just building them myself, at little to no extra effort. Now I have to waste time migrating off of these.

New comment by pebble in "The Rise of Whatever"

pebble — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:55:27 +0000

> and the stuff we make is genuine

hmmm

New comment by pebble in "US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis"

pebble — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:39:48 +0000

With all the maintenance and other hassles? No thanks.

New comment by pebble in "I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)"

pebble — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:44:26 +0000

It's more about scale than tenancy. Not many SaaS companies offer such an option in the first place but it is typical that the in-house product is the priority and the architectural decisions are made with that in mind firstly, and self-hosting second if at all.

For example Sentry requires ClickHouse, Postgres, Kafka, and Redis presumably because they were the right tools for their needs and either they have the resources to operate them all or the money to buy the managed options from vendors.

Also, the main concern people have with hosting Sentry is the sheer number of containers required but most of them are just consumers for different Kafka queues which again is presumably this way because Sentry ops prefers it this way, whether it be for fine tuning the scaling of each one or whatever the reason.

What makes sense for a SaaS company rarely translates to sensible for self-hosting.