On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:23 AM Christopher Browne via talk < [email protected]> wrote:
> https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/ > > Pretty interesting article on how Firefox has been evolving over the last > 15-ish years. > > I remember when Wrox Press asked me if I knew of anyone that knew about > XUL, because their "hype wagon" thought that XUL was the next big thing, > and they wanted a book on that. And it was, though after a fashion much > smaller than I expect Wrox was imagining. > > XUL and XPCOM (which is kinda like COM, which was Microsoft's fork of > DCE's DCOM, which was an extendible API system kinda like CORBA...) are now > being actively deprecated. A pain in the neck to anyone that had devoted a > lot of resources to XUL, but probably not something others care about > terribly much. > Not specifically XUL related but I find this quick read interesting. It seems that API <https://www.cequence.ai/blog/tales-from-the-front-lines-attackers-on-lockdown-focus-on-apis/>'s used for managing IoT endpoints are coming under ever increasing threat of attack from botnets during the pandemic and probably from now on. https://www.cequence.ai/blog/tales-from-the-front-lines-attackers-on-lockdown-focus-on-apis/ > > -- > When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the > question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Russell
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