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Cake day: December 6th, 2023

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  • I now know that it’s a Heisenbug:

    Some tabs in my still-running browser-instance fake downloading stuff:

    if I try downloading the same file multiple-times, instead of showing the

    filename(1).pdf

    ( the “(1)” part that FF applies, to prevent a filename-collision )

    doesn’t appear in those tabs, as it isn’t really saving the file in Downloads,

    but does appear when doing the same download in other tabs, tabs which are saving the files in Downloads.

    This means that something in the tab-instance code is being obliterated/broken, somehow,

    and it isn’t affecting all tabs.

    Obviously a coder familiar with the codebase would possibly be able to use that, as leverage, to dig-in & get the bug.

    The fact that the FF “Downloads” list isn’t being updated properly also is a clue ( the whole subsystem seems to be corrupted-code? )

    I don’t consider there to be any point in anybody bothering with this discussion, anymore, however,

    since it seems to require some ??whatever??, to activate the bug, and if it isn’t guaranteed to be always-appearing, then … what proof is there that it’s real, to anyone else?

    Why is it that it’s happening in some tabs, some of the time??

    Why is it happening at all?

    Since people just randomly trying to replicate the bug, & NOT seeing evidence, “proves” it isn’t real,

    therefore … everybody should just not bother considering it.

    Why waste effort.

    I’ve been forced to switch to Brave to get reliable-downloads, & I hate Brave.

    Cheers, people.

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  • This may all SEEM fine & dandy, but…

    The such ocean gyres, if I’m remembering what they’re called correctly, had a normal, established-for-millions-of-years kind-of-ecology in them…

    NOW, however, we’re forcing that this fungus become a dominant-player in them…

    WHAT DOES THAT FUNGUS DO TO THE OTHER ORGANISMS IN THAT ECOLOGY?


    ( people may remember some years ago when the Purple Loostrife we imported was killing all our North American marshes, turning them into thickets of woody stems/runners/etc, & each individual plant could put out 50,000 seeds per year…

    So, the Canadian Gov’t did test after test after test, & finally resolved that a … Chinese, iirc, ladybird bug ate the stuff, but didn’t eat any other plants…

    so, they imported them & let them loose…

    You know those new orange ladybird bugs?

    the ones that bite animals?

    Those are the ones, ttbomk.

    They don’t eat any other plants, other than purple loostrife, but their habit of biting us means that carnivorism is normal in them, and … how does that affect the ecology??

    You can’t just arbitrarily alter ecologies & responsibly expect them to remain functionally-balanced, & in-harmony: consequences tend to multiply each-other, & tipping-points do get crossed. )

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