[15:00] <jrwren> turns out that if a server isn't trying to output things to the client the client just stays connected.
[15:06] <cmaloney> I think there's a keep-alive for ssh
[15:06] <cmaloney> he said, thinking he was adding to the conversation
[15:47] <greg-g> :P
[15:55] <greg-g> last week I decided to install firefox from upstream (aka: copying a bin into my /opt) and now after some amount of time my cursor no longer reacts to hovering, as in, it doesn't go from pointer to hand when over a url. Not immediately but after a day or so. It's weird. A close/reopen of firefox fixes it but that's annoying.
[15:55] <greg-g> just randomly ranting here :)
[15:57] <greg-g> also, relatedly-sih: the topic of Chrome removing the ability of adblockers in future versions came up in our internal slack and we had one ex-googler and one ex-mozillian going back and forth about the technical reasons/limitations reasoning from very different points of view :)
[16:07] <cmaloney> https://decafbad.net/2022/10/05/plan-what-plan/
[16:07] <cmaloney> greg-g: That had to be fascinating
[17:54] <greg-g> (when I typed the cursor complaint earlier things were working well (I restarted my machine last night) but as of now it is now doing the stupid behavior again, sigh)
[17:54] <greg-g> and I'm not observant enough to know *exactly* when it stops working
[17:54] <greg-g> maaaybe due to a gnome-shell notification popup?
[17:55] <cmaloney> Sounds like some wayland shit
[17:56] <cmaloney> with its X server foo
[18:36] <jrwren> must be kinda weird to defend your previous employers bad decision making. I'm usually pretty quick to trash Canonical ;)
[18:36] <jrwren> Also quick to praise them.