Firefox Sync adds official PostgreSQL support
The Sync Storage team has landed official PostgreSQL support for Firefox Sync.
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Wil Clouser's personal blog. Opinions are my own.
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Keith Burgan’s Interactive Forms
Within “interactive entertainment”, we can divide things into four forms – patterns of design that, in theory, work in a certain way. Toy: Systems that have no prescribed goals Puzzle: Prescribes a goal Contest: Allows measurement, play session is limited Strategy Game: Obfuscates measurement, incomplete information requires ambiguous decision-making
Jailbreak a Nixplay W10P Photo Frame
I own an older Nixplay W10P frame from 2023 which, despite having gigabytes of free space, will no longer accept new photos due to recent mandatory changes in the Nixplay’s terms of service. I’m not opposed to a company charging for services but their reasoning of “rising storage and bandwidth costs” is unconvincing given both have declined significantly in recent years. It’s reasonable to…
Bowser in his Koopa Clown Car
I learned this was called a Koopa Clown Car while searching for “bowser in his teacup”. About 20” tall.
Mozilla Accounts password hashing upgrades
We’ve recently finished two significant changes to how Mozilla Accounts handles password hashes which will improve security and increase flexibility around changing emails. The changes are entirely transparent to end-users and are applied automatically when someone logs in.
PyFxA 0.7.9 Released
We released PyFxA 0.7.9 last week (pypi). This added:
Using Borg on TrueNAS
I installed TrueNAS a couple months ago to try out ZFS. It has some simple backup options built-in but I didn’t see any encrypted options. Since I use Borg elsewhere I thought this was a good opportunity to figure out how to put it on TrueNAS. TrueNAS is based on Debian, but relying on direct package installations isn’t recommended so I needed another option.
Nyan Cat
Nyan Cat! A classic internet meme. I made this to put over a window. About 30” long and 6” tall.
Mario and Link
All of these are cut with a laser and painted with acrylics.
Retiring BrowserID on Mozilla Accounts
The tl;dr here is that Mozilla Accounts is turning off SyncStorage BrowserID support and it probably doesn’t affect you at all.